Film Programme 5: Boundless
Saturday 8 November, 2pm
Tickets €8/€6
THE ONGOING PROCESS OF TRYING TO MAKE SENSE
2023 | Germany | 15:00
Director / Choreographer: Martin Klukas
Composer / Sound: Martin Klukas – Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.23 Appassionata, Op.57 (ONE SINGLE NOTE)
The film is filled with metaphors with subtle commentary on life, nature as a role model, the power of paper, and the absurdity of winning by simply spinning a wheel. In the end, I leave you with a piece of myself, encouraging reflection on how I perceive, create or simply exist.
KRYLA
2024 | Ukraine | 06:00
Director / Choreographer: Anastasiia Lapko
Composer / Sound: Roman Vyshyvanov
KRYLA (a poem by Lina Kostenko, read by Bohdan Stupka) captures the modern Ukrainian perspective on war beyond its borders. It highlights the role of Ukrainians abroad in the ongoing struggle, not just as observers, but as active participants in preserving and sharing their culture, stories, and identity. The piece serves as a powerful reminder that victory requires more than hope; it demands unity and action.
LET’S SPRAOI!
2024 | Ireland | 08:23
Director: Mia DiChiaro
Filmmaker: Kristian Mantalvanos
Choreographer: Mia DiChiaro with the students of St. Mary’s Primary, Nenagh
Composer / Sound: mankyy/Daithí MacCruitín
Dance / Production Company: Tipperary Dance
In Let’s Spraoi! a group of children embark on a vibrant dancing journey through lush gardens, a majestic castle, and sprawling field. Playfully they explore texture, sound, and the wonder of their surroundings, discovering the geometry of their bodies in harmony with nature and architecture of the castle central to their North Tipperary town of Nenagh.
SYNERGY
2024 | United Kingdom | 05:35
Director: Emilie Bouet Conran, Honor West
Choreographer: Emilie Bouet Conran
Director of Photography: Arnav Sharma
Composer / Sound: Leon Riley
College / University: Arts University Bournemouth
This short film explores identity and self-expression through the mediums of dance and fashion. We follow the journey of August, a gender-fluid person in their early twenties experiencing the mundanity of an urban, fast-paced environment. The amalgamation of the separate versions of themself, and the way they dance, represents a synergy – an extended metaphor for how identity is fluid and multi-faceted.
RE VERSE PREMIERE
2025 | Ireland | 13:00
Director: Naomhan Joyce
Choreographer: Naomhan Joyce, Kat Cooley
Composer / Sound: Cormac Byrne
“Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today…” – Hughes Mearns, Antigonish. A thrilling story exploring liminality and the uncanny. A man traverses a seemingly abandoned house, guided by an otherworldly presence. But to go forward, he must Reverse.
hOURS
2025 | Germany | 09:58
Director / Choreographer: Lisa Magnan
Director of Photography: Julien Penichost
Composer / Sound: Daniel Bucurescu
Dance / Production Company: Daniel Bucurescu & La Gradiva
Between March and June 2024 hOURS offered dance and music workshops for people aged 60+ in Lyon, as well as for young people in Hamburg, in order to accomplish artistic creations together. Opening hOURS artistically, the dance film is the culmination of a community-journey: It empowers non-professionals from both groups as performers (‘Les Sixties’) and sound artists (‘die Youngsters’).
NAVAL ODE (ODE MARÍTIMA)
2024 | Portugal | 06:00
Director: Fu Le
Choreographer: Magalie Lanriot, Roel Q Seeber
Composer / Sound: Olivier Lasson
The poem Naval Ode by Fernando Pessoa captures the movement of separation between the dock and the ship, and thus the distance – between the inside and the outside, between myself and the other. The text is embodied by a mysterious and suspended dance, imbued with nostalgic desire, which swells like a sail.