Wednesday July 22 2026, 6:30pm Swift Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin Join us at the Swift Lecture Theatre for a special screening of The Tentmakers of Cairo – Sunnaa’ al-Kheyam fi al-Qahira by Kim Beamish, produced by Non’D’Script in 2015. Offering a deeper insight into the practice of those who collaborated with Nour […]
Reclaiming Nature is a public event that examines how art encourages us to reimagine our relationship with the natural world. Through a new artist commission by Marielle MacLeman, film screening by Aoife Desmond and panel discussion, the event brings together artworks that examine humans’ relationship to nature in the midst of environmental and ecological collapse. […]
The Douglas Hyde is delighted to share a new film, The Heart of Us, produced by participants in the Talk About Youth Project at St Andrew’s Resource Centre and artist Sophie Béhal. Developed through a series of stop-motion animation workshops led by Sophie, participants experimented with collage and animation to make moving image artworks. The […]
Presenting film screenings, new work, and a panel discussion, Living Conditions explored the built environment as both a symptom and product of the neoliberal systems we are conditioned to accept. This event was developed by Niamh Darling, Provost’s Fellow in Curating 2024 at The Douglas Hyde.
Unearthing Empire is a public event with artists’ film screenings, a talk and new commissions, taking place at The Douglas Hyde on Saturday 11 November, developed by Provost’s Fellow in Curating Aisling Clark. The event examines Ireland’s relationship to colonialism; occupying the position of the colonised, but also its role in upholding colonial structures at […]
Somewhere to Disappear Directed by Laure Flammarion and Arnaud Uyttenhove / 2010 / USA / 57 mins Thursday, August 11 at 5pm and Thursday, September 15 at 5pm A documentary that follows Alec Soth’s journeys around America and the people he encountered while making his Broken Manual project. www.somewheretodisappearthefilm.com Waking Life Directed by Richard […]
The Douglas Hyde, in association with aemi (Artists’ and Experimental Moving Image), present a programme of 16mm short-film screenings by Stan Brakhage and Carolee Schneemann: Cat’s Cradle (dir. Stan Brakhage, 1959, silent, 6 minutes) Fuses (dir. Carolee Schneemann, 1965, silent, 25 minutes) Plumb Line (dir. Carolee Schneemann, 1968-1972, with sound, 15 minutes) The films will […]
In an interview in 2014, Isabel Nolan stated that, “I’m interested in the ways that people are interested in the world – the ways that scientists, poets, philosophers, artists etc. find ways to interact with and activate the world”(1). On the occasion of her solo exhibition Calling on Gravity, Nolan has selected a screening of […]
After the major critical and box-office success of his 1972 thriller Deliverance, director John Boorman was given free reign on Zardoz, his subsequent personal project, which he also wrote and produced. Starring Sean Connery and Charlotte Rampling, it is an extraordinary example of a post apocalyptic sci-fi odyssey. After receiving wildly mixed reviews on its initial […]
