So you like short films...

These folks from the Filmmakers Network are organizing screenings on the 6th of March. The shorts program includes Aaron O'Reilly's 'Circus Porcelina' and Emmet Vincent's 'Before I Die', which have both screened at New Volta. If you're free on Saturday it would be great to see them supported at this event.

Following on from the success of the Galway Fringe Fleadh June 2009, FilmmakersNetwork.ie presents Dublin’s first Film Fringe Festival on 6th March 2010, the FilmmakersNetwork.ie Dublin Film Fringe.

The Dublin Film Fringe festival aims to focus on exciting new shorts from Irish filmmakers as well as showcasing classic or unseen shorts from established directors. The festival will take place in sites across the city and we aim to host talks by directors, as well films screened in unusual and diverse locations.

“The Dublin Film Fringe is an opportunity for audiences in the capital to see some of the best shorts from emerging Irish filmmakers,” says Jason Butler from FilmmakersNetwork.ie. “The theme of our mini-festival is ‘D.I.Y.’ We’ll showcase films and filmmakers that display the invention, ingenuity and raw energy required when working independently.”

FilmmakersNetwork.ie is an Irish networking space for people who want to make films. For everyone from novices to busy professionals, it’s a place to make contacts, share opinions, discuss movies, contribute ideas, discover talent, build creative relationships and make films. It’s a not-for-profit initiative and as Ireland’s largest filmmaking community currently boasts over 1500 active members.

March Poster

This months poster by Mr. Seamus Hanly

March Volta

In the line up this month...

Mashed Potatoes, a Retrospective Aprés Les

Helena Ní Chonchuir

Mashed Potatoes, a Retrospective is video piece inspired by a poem written by Leslie Cullinan. It is a humourous examination of the origin of an everyday staple food that has come from the ground, potatoes too forget their roots.

A Fishy Tale

Helena Ní Chonchuir

This video was part of my Graduate Show at NCAD 2007. It was chosen for ‘Launch’, an awards programme for recent graduates, curated by Mark Garry, and Four Gallery, Dublin.

Gears

Paul Dodd

Three small time career criminals who are fresh off a robbery are making their getaway. As the three make their way North both passengers, in a prearranged plan, turn on the driver in an attempt to getaway safely, ditch him and take the money.

Sabotage

Paul Dodd

Re-imagining of the classic beastie boys track sabotage. Started out a simple Halloween costume idea but we decided to make a video. There is a slight behind the scenes extra at the end where the actual Garda pulled us over in full 80's cop gear!

Bad Clamp

Sean Hunt

On an empty train carriage, barreling its way through a city at night, two seats clamps awake, and decide they've had enough of each other...

Blackness

Paudie Baggott

A girl finds herself, under unknown circumstances, in a pitch black room. Her dying mobile phone the only source of light. No coverage. No idea where she is. With a feeling that she's not alone.

Amanda's Tears

Diarmaid Hanly

A rousing experiment in silly looping. Tediously created to compliment a 3 year old piece of music that goes nowhere.

Library Historian

Seamus Hanly, James McDonnell,

Heber Hanly

A history show spoof telling the untold story of a great Roman hero.

Henry & Sunny

Fergal Rock

In a time of unprecedented economic depression, mass unemployment and civil unrest, one group has borne the brunt of society’s scorn – the clowns. Henry & Sunny is the bittersweet tale of Henry, an unemployed clown, in love with soap opera actress, Sunny Carmichael. He writes her letters daily yet fear of rejection prevents him from disclosing his return address. Sunny reciprocates Henry’s feelings but is tragically unable to reach him.

The Scanner

Gerard Lough

A science fiction short film with the energy and pace of a music video. An alien uses a strange device to scan an area in search of a hidden craft that will take him home.

The Stolen Wings

Gerard Lough

Fantasy film packed with in camera special effects and striking visuals. A babysitter makes up an elaborate fairytale to keep a little girl amused but is she all she seems?

February Poster

This months poster lovingly designed by Claire Duggan.

February Volta

The line-up this month:


Utter Contempt
Seamus Hanly

An insight into the in depth madness of cabin fever








Matrix Re Somethinged
Seamus Hanly

A superior interpretation of the 90s classic.








Film Jungle
Seamus Hanly

A previously unaired TV show segment.

Eoin's Fortune

Anthony McFadden & Dom Browne

A man wanders through a re-ocurring dream, a gameshow, a birth canal and a bowling alley full of bears.

Ode to Volta

Directed by Helena Ní Chonchuir

This video is about an imaginary meeting between Alessandro Volta and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly.The experiments being carried out by Volta and his contemporaries in the late 17 early 1800's, were the inspiration behind Mary Shelly's Frankenstein.

Boy's Don't Get Pregnant

Directed by Brian Dunster

Produced by Seamus Hanly

Dylan, a young boy imagines up being pregnant when his mother miscarries. Thinking he is helping by taking responsibility of the unborn child, Dylan causes tension within the family.

My Afternoon with Harold

Directed by Binne MacManamon

Produced by Jennifer Allen

A lonely man seizes his last chance
at happiness.

In This Winter Sun: A Community of Musicians

Directed by Sean Plunkett

A portrait of Kinvara, a small rural town in the west of Ireland which has become a haven for musicians from all over the world. This film analyses why musicians love Kinvara as well as the problems the town faces in modern Ireland.

The Chronoscope

Directed by Andrew Legge

Produced by Ben Keenan

When a female scientist from Ireland in the late 1930's invents a camera that can see back through time she sparks an international controversy and is kidnapped by the Third Reich who attempt to use her device to verify their race theories. After they condemn her to death she escapes using her ingenuity and disappears from history forever.

Dying on the Street

Luke Sweetman & Matt R. Nicastle

“Dying on the Street” is an eye opening glimpse into the desperate lives of homeless friends, Gary and John, trying to survive without shelter or understanding in Dublin, Winter 2006 as the Celtic Tiger roars by.

Totally Dublin Write Up

Here is a write up from Totally Dublin that we just discovered:

Cinephiles with short attention spans are in for a treat tonight, as the New Volta Film Club returns to the Bewley’s Café Theatre for their third installment. The monthly film sesh has been gathering fans and momentum since September, showcasing new and emerging talent in both film and animation. Among this month’s slew of up’n'comers, Finn Keenan takes his pile of arse drum-kit and ctrl-pastes it into something raucous, some muppets from Inchicore take the young Dublin social scene by storm, and Aaron O’ Reilly plays with the dark spaces created by sexual abuse and regret.

While there’s a definite student feel to some of the productions, that shouldn’t be taken as a by-word for a non-starter. The talent is self-evident, as is the imagination, energy and craftsmanship. Whatever these guys may lack in funding and its professional feel, they more than make up for it through their vibrant and reckless enthusiasm, both from the filmmakers themselves, and in the initiative of New Volta’s organizers. The night is billed as a three hour event, so unless there’s 50+ films for your eyeball enjoyment, you can expect a chance to shoot the breeze with emerging film makers and fans alike, with the ever glamorous allure of a sneaky can of Dutch.

December Volta

Fantabulous
Directed by Joasia Goldyn
Produced by Trisha Flood

Seán, a teenage cross dresser, transforms himself into a dazzling contestant of a dance show.



The Spiderman Three
Directed by Seamus Hanly

A homage to one of the worst things that ever happened. Starring Heber Hanly as the Spiderman.





Argh!
Directed by Séamus Hanly

A vibrant and fast paced video to the track 'Argh!' by Bored With Cereal.

http://www.myspace.com/boredwithcereal




彼の行った
Directed by Séamus Hanly

The trailer to a moving piece of japanese cinema that sadly never was.

(Japanese, No Subtitles)

Tog Mise Leat

Directed by Aaron O'Reilly

Produced by Brian Bourke

Late on Christmas Eve expecting to find Santa Claus in his living room Daithí makes a disturbing discovery and embarks on a remarkable journey to change the future.

Bando á Parte

Directed by Alessandra Cunha

Produced by Fernanda Parente

The film is a re-enactment of the famous Madison scene in Godard's Bande a Parte (1964). It is a new take on the scene which brings together the French New Wave and the Brazilian Bossa Nova. (Portugese, English Subtitles)

Swalk

Directed by Dan Powell

A man receives a letter from his girlfriend while in the middle of a major break-up. She packs her bags as he reads the letter and he decided to try catch her before she leaves. Will he meet her on time?