Building a Practice in Artist Film: session for students/ emerging artists

aemi (Artists’ & Experimental Moving Image) is an Irish organisation that supports film artists and presents screenings.

We put this event together to give upcoming and recent graduates who work with the moving image, experimental film, animation and VR.

ABOUT THIS EVENT

A morning online event for graduating students on film courses and visual art courses with moving image strands across the country. We are delighted that The Arts Council and film artists Myrid Carten and Frank Sweeney will join aemi to look at approaches to artist filmmaking as a professional practice, introducing funding and support options is available after graduation. People will have the opportunity to learn and ask questions about funding opportunities and supports in Ireland for film artists.

BREAKDOWN OF SESSIONS

10:00 – 11:00 Presentation by The Arts Council

aemi Co-Directors Alice Butler and Daniel Fitzpatrick will introduce Fionnuala Sweeney and Audrey Keane from The Arts Council who will talk through the various awards offered to emerging artists through category of Film

11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 – 12:15 Presentations by film artists Myrid Carten and Frank Sweeney

Both Myrid Carten and Frank Sweeney have received film funding from The Arts Council in the past, and their work has screened at international film festivals and has been presented within exhibitions. The two film artists will give first-hand accounts of what it’s like to build a career in artist/ experimental film after finishing college or university. The two artists will discuss and contrast their experiences so far, and offer ideas and suggestions around how to approach a career in this area

12:15 – 13:00 Follow-up conversation with aemi

aemi will speak about what we do as film programmers, and how aemi supports film artists

If you have any questions about this event, please contact info@aemi.ie

BIOGRAPHIES

Myrid Carten is an Irish filmmaker who makes films for cinema exhibition and galleries. Her work has been broadcast and screened internationally. She’s received commissions and funding from the BFI, NI Screen, Elephant Trust, Stuart Croft Foundation, and Screen Ireland. Her debut feature was selected for Screen Ireland’s ‘The Voice’ 2020 and won the DocsIE Pitch Award in 2019. Her work has been supported by the Temple Bar Gallery & Studios Project Studio Award, aemi Commission Award, Fire Station Artist Studios Digital Media Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, and The Arts Council of Ireland. She was a recipient of the Arts Council of Ireland’s Next Generation Artist Award 2018-19. Mother’s Tank Station are currently exhibiting her first solo show in Ireland ‘Preta: Hungry Ghost’. Her work will also be shown in 2022 at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Glebe Gallery, and Lismore Castle. Myrid’s work is the Arts Council of Northern Ireland Collection and The Arts Council of Ireland Collection.

Frank Sweeney is an artist with a research-based practice, using found materials to approach questions of collective memory, experience and identity through film and sound. Recent work includes ‘People enjoy my company’ (Transmediale Berlin 2021, IMMA 2021-22, Cork International Film Fest 2021, BFI Southbank 2022) and Made Ground (Temple Bar Gallery+Studios 2021), purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2020.

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