Breathe.
Set among the Travelling community
Peter Brennan writes:
Our short film Breathe featuring John Connors (Love/Hate) has been selected by the British Film Institute and British Council to feature on BFI player as part of Five Films 4 Freedom, the world’s biggest online LGBT film festival.
Breathe will have its Irish premiere at the Dingle Film Festival on Friday March 18th [11am, St. James’ Church, Dingle, Co Kerry]…
Last October Caoimhe Butterly reported on working with refugees in Greece, Serbia, Croatia and Calais and the work she planned to do – specifically bringing a medical team out to Lesbos to help the people arriving on the island from Turkey.
Further to this, Caoimhe writes:
“For the past weeks, I’ve been editing a film of sorts – or vignettes- of those seeking refuge and lives of less precariousness. While in Lesvos the last time, we (myself and the great compañero Marcelo Biglia) interviewed folks from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan and some of those working in solidarity with them – lifeguards with Proactiva, self-organised camps and places of respite.
…Our emphasis was on not contributing any further to an often reductionist framing of those on the move – one that emphasises vulnerability but not strength, endurance, dignity and the fragile, precious hope of being able to re-build lives of safety and meaning.”
Previously: Giving Berth
Cathal Brennan writes:
In 1916 Number 10/11 O’Connell Street was the location of Reis’s Chambers, which housed, among other businesses, the Irish School of Wireless. During Easter Week the insurgents captured the building and began broadcasting news of the Rising to the world.
The insurgents’ plans to capture the wireless school was one of the most daring and far sighted acts in revolutionary warfare and became a starting point for all modern revolutions. Capture the local broadcasting facilities.
Roisín El Cherif – Kerosene
What you may need to know…
01. Dublin-based Galwegian Roisín El Cherif comes to the singer-songwriter fray from a multimedia background, including assistant director work on Brooklyn, Vikings, and others.
02. Her experience informs the video to single Kerosene, which she wrote, co-produced and directed with FailSafe Films.
03. The tune itself is a proposition seemingly made for bigger stages, which gives precedence to El Cherif’s voice, at once plaintive and possessed of certain presence.
04. Roisín is playing at King Kong Club in Dubland on April 5 and has a few live session vids upcoming via The OB Blog’s OBSessions series. Stay tuned to her various social media for more.
Verdict: Big, sweeping pop with an ambitious visual identity to match. Much here to love for fans of the singer-songwriter oeuvre.
Rescue foal Ziggy, in Laragh, Co Wicklow
‘sup?
Tracey writes:
On Saturday 27th February a pony was seen loose on Maoilin Hill, near Laragh [Co Wicklow]. Upon inspection it turned out that it was a foal presumed born late last year, maybe August /September.
But we were unable to get near him as he seems to not have been handled before, so we left out hay and feed in a hope that we could get its trust over a few days and catch it later, but sadly the foal got a fright and went off into the forest where we lost sight of him.
6 days later and a lot of lost sleep, he was seen again.
So I put together a group of people and two very quiet horses that he would follow and managed to get him to a yard where we could then get him in to a stable, which is where he is now.
We have named him Ziggy. We could really do with getting him a forever home, but failing that we would be interested in a sponsor, maybe a company like Glanbia, or Gain or such like so we can keep him ourselves without too much a financial burden.
Senator James Heffernan, of the Social Democrats
One evening in Temple Bar,
A Senator went for a jar,
And was found in a scene,
Where he shouldn’t have been,
Then got a lift in a cop car.
John Moynes
Rollingnews
What you may need to know:
1. SHIELD is in a state of crisis after failing to elect a Taoiseach. Life/art etc.
2. Here’s the first look at the new Spider-Man (Tom Holland). He’s 12 now. And his eyes move. Compelling stuff.
3. Sony/Marvel’s reboot of the reboot of Spider-Man (The Adequate Spider-Man? The Acceptable Spider-Man?) will arrive in 2017. Jon Watts is today’s director.
4. Holland is signed up for three movies. Don’t get too comfy in those tights, Tom.
5. Broadsheet prognosis: With great power comes crappy CGI.
Release Date: April 29.
(Mark writes about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
