Experimental Film Society

Tuesday 26 March 2013

Screenings Tuesday 26 March at 7:30pm

With an aim to bring together enthusiasts for experimental film/avant-garde cinema in Limerick, Ormston House Limerick has arranged an evening of screenings and discussion with the Dublin-based Experimental Film Society (EFS). Using the EFS as a case study, Ormston House hopes to facilitate the beginnings of a collective of like-minded artists, filmmakers and audiences in Limerick.

EFS will screen a 1½ hour programme of short films by its members followed by an open discussion with its founder Rouzbeh Rashidi and honorary member Maximilian Le Cain.

Experimental Film Society

Founded in Iran but now run from Ireland, EFS is an independent, not-for-profit entity that archives and promotes films and videos by a more than dozen filmmakers scattered across the globe; filmmakers whose works are distinguished by an uncompromising devotion to personal, experimental cinema.

There are no strictly defined rules governing EFS films, but most of them share some general characteristics: formally adventurous works made in complete creative freedom, often on very low budgets; an exploratory, non-script-based approach to filmmaking; abstract plots favouring the poetic immediacy of the interaction of sound and image over traditional storytelling: exploring the limits of cinema itself. EFS was founded and is run by Dublin-based Iranian filmmaker Rouzbeh Rashidi.

For more information on Experimental Film Society:

www.experimentalfilmsociety.com

For an interview with Rashidi discussing EFS in depth:

www.experimentalconversations.com/articles/969/experimental-film-society-rouzbeh-rashidi-in-conv/

List of the films

1_Away by Michael Higgins 5mins 2011 Ireland.

2_The Gardener by Michael Higgins 4mins 2010 Ireland.

3_Hotel by Michael Higgins 1mins 2010 Ireland.

4_Painting by Michael Higgins 5mins 2011 Ireland.

5_Horses by Esperanza Collado 2mins 2011 Spain.

6_Lights From An Old Town by Dean Kavanagh 17mins 2011 Ireland.

7_Homo Sapiens Project (29) by Rouzbeh Rashidi 12mins 2011 Ireland.