DARKLIGHT DIGITAL FESTIVAL 2002

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THE DARKLIGHT DIGITAL FESTIVAL RETURNS in a new exciting venue

From Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd September 2002, Darklight Digital
Festival once again brings to Ireland the best in new digital cinema
and artworks.

Darklight screens short-films, documentaries, music videos, feature
films, and animations - innovative films that utilise digital
technology in their production. The Digital Hub sponsors Darklight 4.

Darklight 4 will take place in an exciting new city centre venue, the
former Lee's Cash n' Carry building on the corner of Thomas Street
and Crane Street, (neighbours to the Storehouse and Media Lab Europe,
and the Digital Hub)
There will be clear location markers on the day for those who are not
familiar with the site it is a ten minute walk from Dublin castle
/Dame Street.
For one weekend, this impressive space will be transformed into a
cinema and gallery: a perfect home for Darklight's eclectic and busy
series of events.

SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS OF DARKLIGHT 4 INCLUDE: a specially created
installation from DECAL, the WORLD PREMIERE of Glen Dimplex
Award-winning artist Paul Rowley's feature film AS LATHAIR, the
latest in cutting-edge digital art, short films and MOTION, a
selection of new music videos.
Darklight 4 will look at the theme of 'regeneration and new
generations', with it's CROSSING OVER programme, Rob Nilsson's SCHEME
6, a short programme of films produced and directed by NCAD and the
Educational Unit at the Department of Justice for Portlaoise
Prisoners, this programme will also look at work which deals with the
issues of immigration, and emigration out reach projects, there will
be an open forum discussion to tie in these ideas during the day.

DARKLIGHT 4: THE PROGRAMME

-OPENING EVENT: The festival will be launched by acclaimed Dublin
electronica duo DECAL, with FALKENS MAZE - a mixed media installation
created especially for Darklight 4.

-MEDIA LAB EUROPE (MLE): A selection of incredible new work from the
M.I.T. Media Lab programme, based in Dublin. Highlights include
Michael Lew's Office Voodoo (2002), an interactive sit-com where
viewers can manipulate the emotions of the protagonists using a
physical, graspable interface: voodoo dolls.
MLE will also feature installation work from Stefan Agamanolis and
Ben Piper, as well as IPO MADNESS, Jonah Brucker-Cohen's amazing
interactive, Internet connected domain-generating slot machine.

-NEW DIGITAL SHORTS: A diverse selection of the finest new short
films, from both home and abroad, utilising digital technology.
Highlights include THE RND# PROJECT (Random Number) by Richard
Fenwick, an ongoing series of short films that investigate and
question our hugely weird and wired reliance on, and for, technology.


-SCHEME 6: a new digital feature from Rob Nilsson, San Francisco
based film director and winner of both the Camera d'Or at Cannes (for
NORTHERN LIGHTS) and the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film
Festival (for HEAT AND SUNLIGHT). Nilsson is a pioneer of today's
digital revolution, and SCHEME 6 is the latest in his 9@Night film
series: a unique cycle of
street level dramatic feature films about the lives of 50 inner city
characters, utilising a cast that mixes homeless, inner city
residents with professional actors.

-CROSSING OVER, an insightful pick and mix of experimental digital
artists' work, commissioned between 1996-2001 for the annual Crossing
Over Micro- Festival of Digital Film Culture. This programme includes
work from Estonia, N. Ireland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Ireland,
Hungary, England, Scotland, USA, and Croatia.

-MOTION: a selection of contemporary graphic/music-led exploratory
films and music promos, offering international work from Warp (
creative review /www.warprecords.com/animate.) and Ninja Tunes
alongside new, emerging Irish collectives such as Del9 and Daddy.
MOTION will also showcase new work from acclaimed designer and online
artist Motomichi Nakamura.

-AS LATHAIR- ABSENT- World Premiere:
Shot in the deserts and cactus forests of Mexico, and four years in
the making,As Lathair is the first feature length work by Glen
Dimplex Award winning artist Paul Rowley. Based loosely on the
Western, the film takes the genre and breaks it apart, presenting a
series of broken fragments, stories aligned closely to the seemingly
random order of dreams. The haunting soundtrack and hypnotic movement
of the images pulls us through a world unlike any other in
cinema,where nothing can be explained, but everything makes sense.

For full programme details please go to www.darklight-filmfestival.com

For press please e-mail [email protected]

or call Rachel O'Connor at 086 839 47 97

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