Exchange Dublin is a collaborative artspace, an extended tribe, a social experiment, and a bit of a laugh. We were established halfway through 2009, and have been open to the world since October, running a miscellany of groups and projects both within and beyond our walls. These range from visual art and installations (and outstallations), dance, comedy and drama, film, electronica and circuitbending, hardcore punk to hardcore crochet, and any mutant-mongrel genre-halfbreed that can be reasonably be called ‘art’.

 
In Interview Project’s mini-documentaries, filmmakers Austin Lynch and Jason S. sidle up to strangers and ask them piercing questions like “What were your dreams as a child?” and “When did you first experience death?”
For the 121-part online series, the pair logged 20,000 miles criss-crossing the United States over a 70-day stretch, searching for random people […]

 
A busy bank holiday weekend leaves me with little time to write any sort of original article for The Mutation, but just enough time to use my Mutation space to promote this summer’s filmmaking event: Mutant Shorts!
Aside from the annual Cork Film Festival, Cork has been left with little else to encourage short filmmaking, be […]

 
Having attended a screening of poetry films at the Triskel Arts Centre in Cork earlier this month, I was eager to read more about this new approach to short filmmaking. A ‘poetry film’ is a film created specifically around a certain poem. It is not enough to say that the film is “based on” a […]

 
Over the next few weeks, preparations will be underway for the first Fastnet Short Film Festival (www.fastnetshortfilmfestival.com) in Schull, Co. Cork, which runs from May 14th to 17th.
It is great to see a local festival dedicating itself solely to the art of the short film, a medium often overlooked at the larger fests, which depend […]

Now that a New Year has begun, lists of the must-see movies for 2009 are popping up all over the place and included in those are several upcoming animated films. The past few years have seen a slow turnaround in those films dominating the animated field. Disney, once the ruler of all things animation had, […]