Motion graphics designer Peter Quinn showcases his favourite showreels of the last year.
Above: The reels of Latvian motion graphics house PANIC and Slovenian digital creative Nejc, aka Twisted Poly.
SEE THE REST: 11 of the best showreels from 2015 (motionographer)
What you may need to know:
1. A self-sufficient loner lives off a small plot of land in a time of starvation. His existence is threatened when two women seeking food and shelter discover his farm.
2. It’s Mad Max in a field up north.
3. This is writer/director Stephen Fingleton’s debut feature. He’s up for a BAFTA. Good for him.
4. Tonight, Matthew, I’m going to be Bono.
5. What happened to Mia Goth’s eyebrows?
6. Broadsheet prognosis: We’ve heard good things.
Release Date: February 12.
Sackville Street after the Easter Rising, one of the 1916 images exhibited at Photographers’ Gallery, London
“The exhibition reveals how photography (like Yeats’s poem) served as a weapon of propaganda for the nationalist cause, helping create heroes of the slain and mythologise what was a relatively minor event into one we’re commemorating 100 years on. ”
…The other problem is the rather partisan tone of the wall-texts: the sense of British wrong and Irish right pervades (the decision to paint some of the gallery walls shamrock-green hardly helping).
Hence we’re told that “Ireland’s economic fortunes had declined markedly” after the official Act of Union; that British conduct was frequently “draconian”; that Prime Minister, David Lloyd George “ignored a democratic mandate”, and so on.
…Which is a pity, as the last thing we need is any kind of blame game. If that were the case, one might stress in riposte that the rebels were bankrolled by Germany. But such an approach seems unnecessarily polemical at a time when reconciliation is the order of the day. Besides which, it denies the photographs the proper chance to speak for themselves.”
A two-star review for the Sean Sexton Easter Rising photo collection
Fight!
Easter Rising, The Photographers’ Gallery, review: ‘needs less blame’ (Telegraph)
Thanks Colm King
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTT5HYXf2M
Fail Army sez:
Always wear protection.
Previously: Trust Fails
Taoiseach Enda Kenny (centre) and economist Joseph Stiglitz (second right) at Davos
A boffin called Stiglitz has said,
That we’re almost out of the red,
After several years,
Of hunger and tears,
So he gave us a pat on the head.
John Moynes
(AP)
MORE to folly
Passport Control at Dublin Airport
Last month, on December 15, the Minister for Justice Francis Fitzgerald told the Dáil the following number of people, of certain nationalities, were refused permission to enter Ireland last year – and subsequently deported: Syrian 59; Afghan 139; Eritrean 11; and Iranian 44.
In addition, Ms Fitzgerald stated:
“I would advise the Deputy [Padraig Mac Lochlainn] that persons refused leave to land and who are subsequently removed from the State are returned to their point of embarkation, which in most cases is within the EU. I would point out in relation to the countries concerned that no commercial direct flights to Ireland are available from these countries.”
Further to this, the CEO of the Irish Refugee Council Sue Conlan has released a statement this evening, saying:
“It is unfortunate that the State refuses leave to land to nationals of these countries during the greatest refugee crisis since World War II. According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, 75% of Syrians and Eritreans require international protection, which suggests that the State potentially turned away some 50 refugees from its borders last year. Nationals of Afghanistan and Iran are also likely to be fleeing persecution. We regret that they were refused leave to land and not admitted to the State to have their protection needs assessed.”
“People are refused leave to land in closed rooms in airports. They are refused leave to land in circumstances where they have no access to lawyers or legal information, no clarity around their rights. An estimated 3,000 people [in total] were refused leave to land in Ireland last year, about the same number who applied for asylum. The Irish Refugee Council spoke with a very small number of those. What we heard concerns us. We call on the Minister to release the full details of refusals of leave to land not only of these nationalities but of all nationalities and to provide greater clarity around the process.”
Refusals of leave to land are alarming, says Irish Refugee Council (IRC)
Previously: Pawns In The Game
Mark Stedman/Rollingnews
A multi award-winning short by UK filmmaker Spencer Brown that tells the surreal tale (narrated in rhyme by the mighty Stephen Berkoff) of a boy who is born with the ability to record every instant of his life but can’t look back on any of it.
