This film screened 26th July 2016.

We are delighted that Michael Hill, assistant curator at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, will introduce this screening

Partly adapted from a 1947 Paul Bowles short story called A Distant Episode and shot on a 16mm Bolex camera, the new film from English artist and experimental filmmaker Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness) begins in documentary form before veering off into more mythical and hallucinatory territory. Opening in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains on the fraught set of Spanish filmmaker Oliver Laxe’s forthcoming 
Las Mimosas, The Sky Trembles moves in a radically different direction when Laxe himself wanders off into the desert, presumably out of frustration, only to be seized upon by a group of Reguibat nomads.

This film is one part of a larger commission by Artangel. To read more about the project, visit www.artangel.org.uk/project/ the-sky-trembles. AEMI – Supporting and Exhibiting Artists’ and Experimental Moving Image. www.aemi.ie