Darklight SCREENING at PLATFORMA VIDEO FESTIVAL, ATHENS, GREECE: DECEMBER 2007
PLATFORMA - Urban Culture Co. is a not-for-profit organisation based in Athens, Greece, dedicated to the promotion of Greek and foreign artists' work as well as to the organisation of events and actions promoting urban culture.
PLATFORMA VIDEO7 is an annual independent film festival hosting two competition sections, a series of film tributes and parallel events. It is held in Athens (GR) on 7-12 December 2007. Deadline for applications expires on 30 September 2007.
Click here to see a list of the films or here to visit the festival website.
Darklight participates in dcsape animation night : November 2007
dSCAPE is an annual three-day creative showcase organised by Wired Sussex, which is part of the Brighton Digital Festival. Now in its fifth year the event attracts 300+ attendees and participants to three evening events which showcase creative talent in Brighton and beyond.
The dSCAPE aim and ethos is to provide an inclusive and friendly environment for new and established animators, interactive and graphic designers, game developers and digital media and arts students to share their passion and expertise.
The dSCAPE/07 Animation Night will bring together Irish and English animators to showcase their work and discuss the socio-political influences that have informed its inception and development. This will include reflection on current economic prosperity in both the UK and more dramatically in Ireland, cultural issues such as religious conflict, immigration as well as the historic context in the British and Irish cultures of animation as artistic expression.
Darklight Director Nicky Gogan travelled to the event with Eoghan Kidney and Matthew Talbot Kelly , to participate in the Animation night discussion and show work from leading Irish animators including Glenn Marshall, Zanita Films and Delicious 9.
Website: http://www.wiredsussex.com/events/0611/animation.asp
Darklight screening at Letterkenny Regional Cultural Centre: November 2007
The newly opened Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny played host to a short screening selection of work for young people throughout the month of November. Daily screenings of seven short pieces from the Darklight touring catalogue were shown as part of the Children's and Young People's events for 2007. Further information about Letterkenny's new art resource can be found here.
Darklight screening at Kilkenny Arts Festival: August 2007
Darklight is delighted to be collaborating with Kilkenny County Council
on this years Kilkenny Arts Festival .Nicky Gogan, Darklight Festival Director, will be participating in 'Re-Produced', a presentation of "wild, alternative experiences of
untamed, bizarre and curious art" at the festival alongside a screening
of a number of films from the Darklight Touring Programme.
Click here for a list of films being screened
Darklight SCREENING at ISAFF OPEN CINEMA FESTIVAL ST PETERSBERG , RUSSIA: AUGUST 2007
The International Short and Animation Film Festival OPEN CINEMA is a competitive festival of short films and animations. The festival was established by the INO "International Centre of Arts "BEREG" (Saint-Petersburg). The 3rd ISAFF OPEN CINEMA will take place in August, 2007.
ISAFF OPEN CINEMA is carried out with the support of the St. Petersburg government. The festival takes place annually in August on the beach of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Saint Petersburg (as well as at other places of St. Petersburg).
FESTIVAL OBJECTIVES
To unleash the high creative potential of the original short film, animation and various experiments within visual art.
To introduce an art house trend of the modern culture and original view on cinematography.
To investigate new tendencies within the short, animated and documentary film industry, to reveal new filmmakers’ names and to offer creative ideas.
To support Russian young cinematographers as well as to make a live dialogue with their foreign colleagues from around the world.
To help a new generation build up an appropriate outlook on the art and to extend its aesthetic perception.
FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
Festival Program consists of two parts:
1. LABORATORY OF DISCOVERIES – COMPETETIVE PROGRAM
2. PANORAMA – NON-COMPETETIVE INFORMATIONAL PROGRAM
Click here to see a list of the films, here for the open cinema presentation pdf, or here to visit the festival website.
Download Images from Touring Programme HERE http://www.darklight.ie/2007press/touring_images.zip
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