Irish Film Institute -IFI & IMMA: SCREENINGS + DISCUSSION WITH STAN DOUGLAS

IFI & IMMA: SCREENINGS + DISCUSSION WITH STAN DOUGLAS

Director: Stan Douglas, Alan Schneider

Film, Alan Schneider, 20 minutes, U.S.A., 1965, Black and White, Digibeta; Video, Stan Douglas, 18 minutes, France, 2007, Colour, sound, D-Cinema


This event took place on Wednesday 3rd June 2015.

Stan Douglas (Canadian photographer and filmmaker) and Walter D. Asmus (German theatre/film director and collaborator with Samuel Beckett) will consider Beckett’s influence on cinema in a discussion moderated by exhibition curator Seamus Kealy (Director, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria).

The event will begin with a screening of Film (1965), Beckett’s only screenplay and featuring a central performance from Buster Keaton, followed by Stan Douglas’ Video (2007), which pays homage to Beckett’s Film.

This event is presented in collaboration with IMMA on the occasion of the exhibition Stan Douglas: Mise en Scène running at IMMA from June 5th to September 20th 2015, see www.imma.ie for further exhibition details.

 

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