The Art of Loss

Skibbereen Arts Festival

Film screening, followed by discussion between director Carmel Winters and Siobhán McSweeney

Skibbereen Town Hall

Skibbereen Arts Festival 2025

Arts in the Heart of West Cork.
10  days of the best homegrown and international talent in the beautiful town of Skibbereen in west Cork.

The Art of Loss is a wholly original interspecies meditation on bereavement.Film maker and playwright Carmel Winters joins their dog pack in re-imagining the death of their mother and their dog not as the end, but as the beginning of new ways of seeing and being with each other, through death and beyond.The film maker shot the film every day for three years, returning to the same landmarks time and time again as a kind of pilgrimage in pack mind. The footage was connected to a 27 minute swoop through liminal time, in which eterninty seems to pass through now as this queer and quirky family ingeniously use the arts of performance, playwriting and film to sniff out the meaning - and humour - in loss.Director Carmel Winters will participate in a post-screening discussion about the themes of The Art of Loss with actress and presenter Siobhán McSweeney (<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_Girls" title="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry_Girls" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Derry Girls</a>, The Great Pottery Throw Down).All proceeds from this event will be donated to West Cork Animal Welfare Group.

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