Darklight Festival brings some bright talent to Dublin

The Darklight Festival aims to enlighten Dubliners in a showcase of film, animation, art and technology. This year’s festival will take place in venues across the city from June 26-29.

Highlights of this year’s festival include an appearance from the festival’s special guest, actor, writer and filmmaker Crispin Hellion Glover. Glover will perform his Big Slide Show live and will also screen his directorial ventures, It is Fine. Everything is Fine! and What is It?

Another quirky feature of the festival is the creation of a documentary in 72 hours. Curator Lenny (Garage) Abrahamson and his posse hope to produce the closing night presentation, an experimental documentary portrait of Dublin, over the course of the festival itself.

And if 72 hours is too long to wait, Darklight also presents a 15 Second Film Festival Picture Palace, (the title takes longer to stumble over than the films themselves.) So what is it? It’s a custom-built, Art-Deco two-seater cinema and it will run quarter-minute movies from the likes of Roddy Doyle, Seamus McGarvey and Enda Hughes.

The festival will also include the work of Irish artist an filmmaker, Paddy Jolley who will give a public interview and premiere his newest work, Fall, in Meeting House Square. A workshop with actor Paddy Considine will be a focus of the weekend along with screenings of his own directorial debut, Dog Altogether and the Shane Meadows directed film, Dead Man Shoes.

Venues for the festival include Film Base, the Irish Film Institute and The Light House.

For more information and a full programme of events contact www.darklight.ie