Triskel is delighted to partner with Crawford Art Gallery to present Artists Film International 2026 (AFI) under the theme A Kind of Power.

Bringing together artists and partner organisations from across the globe, this year’s edition explores how systems of power shape the act of looking and the conditions under which we are seen.

This year Crawford Art Gallery selected artist Thaís Muniz to present her short film The Kite Ballet.

All films will be presented on a loop throughout the day. Free screenings, drop in, no booking required.

A public talk with Thaís Muniz and Dr Eve Olney with Dawn Williams, curator, Crawford Art Gallery, will take place on Thursday 27 August at 1pm.

The full line-up includes:

• Razia Akbari, selected by Center for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan in eXiLe e.V., (CCAA in EXiLe), Frankfurt, Germany
• Aqsa Arif, selected by Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland
• Alessandra Ferrini, selected by Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy
• Ira Goryainova, selected by argos centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium
• Kiyo Gutiérrez, selected by Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, USA
• Marte Hodne Haugen, selected by Tromsø Kunstforening,Tromsø, Norway
• Malik Irtiza, selected by Project 88, Mumbai, India
• Thaís Muniz, selected by Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland
• Ann Oren, selected by Video-Forum of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k), Berlin, Germany
• Amaal Said,selected by Forma, London and Focal Point, Southend, UK
• Mila Turajlić, selected by Cultural Centre of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
• Video News,selected by Sapieha Palace, branch of the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius, Lithuania

More information on the theme and AFI:

Since the advent of cinema, moving image practice has been tied to questions of perception and power. Early filmmakers imagined the camera as a form of mechanical vision capable of revealing the world objectively, yet cinema quickly exposed how vision remains shaped by the social and political structures that organise the gaze. Throughout the twentieth century, colonial image-making, propaganda, ethnographic film, and patriarchal modes of spectatorship produced and reinforced regimes that shaped how people, cultures, and histories were seen and understood. Far from disappearing, today these systems of visibility have been reconfigured within contemporary digital image cultures defined by circulation, algorithmic mediation, surveillance infrastructures, and the relentless production of visual information.

A Kind of Power brings together a selection of international artists whose films renegotiate the fraught legacies of representation and respond to the conditions under which people, histories, and territories are made visible. Many of the artists move beyond critique alone, to explore how moving-image might create new forms of relation, attention, and collective presence. While some works confront contemporary systems of visibility directly, others propose alternative ways of inhabiting and understanding the world through ritual, memory, reciprocity, and acts of witnessing.