JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY
JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
EXHIBITION
Joanna Hogg’s Archipelago (JDIFF 2011) was about
a well-to-do English family on a miserable holiday
in the Scilly Isles: her new film shifts its focus to the
capital. Exhibition is set almost entirely between the
walls and windows of a modernist dream house in a
leafy Victorian enclave. Living inside it are a couple
played by two first-time actors: Viv Albertine, a former
guitarist from the punk band The Slits, and the
conceptual artist Liam Gillick.
‘an impressively mature and crafted work’
The Hollywood Reporter
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 2.15pm / 101 minutes
Writer-director: Joanna Hogg 2013 UK
Cast: Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick, Tom Hiddleston
Their initials are D and H and both are artists who
work from home. But something in their past has
left both of them unquiet. It becomes clear that D is
agoraphobic, and she stands behind the Venetian
blinds in her underwear, toying with the idea of
being observed at her most vulnerable. She is
planning a performance art event, and Albertine
deftly sketches her arc from inhibition to exhibition,
leaving no sliver of her soul unbared.
Hogg’s film is alive with anxiety, with scenes that
rattle your nerves like stones in a tin. This is confident,
uncompromising work, with a ghostliness that plays
on your mind for days, and it cements Hogg’s place
at the forefront of new British cinema.
Robbie Collin
The Telegraph
VISITORS
Famous for the Qatsi trilogy of Koyaanisqatsi,
Powaqqatsi and Naqoyqatsi, names taken from the
Hopi language, director Godfrey Reggio has made
another exquisite visual poem in Visitors, his first film
in over a decade. If the Qatsi trilogy reflected on ideas
of balance, transformation, and war, Visitors asks a
very different question: who and what is a visitor
when we look around ourselves on this planet? Using
this idea as a metaphysical departure for his visual
reverie, Reggio takes us on a unique voyage into the
mysteries and wonders of the universe.
‘another dialogue-free juxtaposition of
visceral imagery, time-lapse photography
and mesmerizing Philip Glass music’ Variety
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 3.30pm / 87 minutes
Director: Godfrey Reggio 2013 US
Shot in dazzling black and white and projected in
highest-resolution 4K, the film proves once again
that Reggio is a visual genius, open to the magic
of experience, masterly at editing his images into
a work that calls upon its audiences to find their
own meaning in the piece. More akin to music
than narrative storytelling, Visitors creates moods
and tones, allowing each of us to explore potential
connections and associations. At times we enter
an almost dreamlike state – notably with Reggio’s
meditation on human hands, as expressive as faces,
interacting with technological tools that have been
removed from the frame. The effect is mesmerizing,
and Philip Glass’s score is a perfect complement.
Piers Handling
Toronto International Film Festival
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