TweetShare The mission of LOFI (The League of Independents) is to keep independent art & cinema alive within the community (the local community of New York City as well as the global community of independent artists). They recognise that in the 21st Century, technology has empowered people in an unprecedented way to make new kinds of [...]

TweetShare ‘The Departed’. I know most people have seen it before, so have I. But last night we settled down into the couch (‘in’ is the operative word) with ice cream (has to be good quality) and watched it again on Film 4. What a great film, thoroughly enjoyable and I would argue with anyone [...]

TweetShare I’ve been lying very low so far this week so much so that I have very little to talk about. So, in the absence of live music, theatre, art, festivals, rants and raves, etc I thought I’d encourage you to go out RIGHT NOW and rent, buy, get the French film ‘A Prophet’. A [...]

TweetShare I’ve been wanting to write something for a while now on the increasing number of 3D movies hitting our cinema screens, but found that I really needed to get my head around the 3D process and it’s advantages first. Unless you were living under a rock very far away, you could not have escaped [...]

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’.

TweetShare  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 [...]

TweetShare  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 [...]

TweetShare  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” [...]

TweetShare  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, [...]

TweetShare 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 [...]