aemi 2023 touring programme: SÚITÚ

A new touring programme curated by aemi (Artists’ & Experimental Moving Image) featuring contemporary moving image works by Irish & international artists.

This event is funded by Black Hole Studio with help from Roscommon County Council

‘Súitú’ – an Irish language term pronounced Suet-two – signifies the sucking in-and-out sound made as the sea moves through stones at the shoreline, pulling them into water before rolling them back onto dry land. Evoking the elemental, the programme’s pacing picks up not just on the familiar ebbs and flow of the sea, but also the external forces that circumscribe contemporary lived experience. From inner psychological journeys to the phenomenological, the seven films in this programme together offer an emotional, embodied and sensory experience.

Featuring work by Fábio Andrade (Brazil), Susan Hughes (Northern Ireland), Morgan Quaintance (U.K.), Bárbara Lago (Argentina), Sofia Theodore-Pierce (U.S.A), Lisa Freeman (Ireland) and Holly Márie Parnell (Ireland), ‘Súitú’ is an aemi programme that forms connections between contemporary moving image work by Irish and international artists. aemi is touring ‘Súitú’ to venues nationally and internationally across 2023.

Film information

Fábio Andrade, Contorno/ Contour, 2021, Brazil, 10 minutes

“Open the leaves I will see my body turned into flower.” – Gabriel Joaquim dos Santos

Susan Hughes, Eyes Like Cats, 2022, Northern Ireland, 3 minutes

After an encounter with bioluminescent phosphorescence, a line of enquiry begins into how humans have made sense of mysterious natural occurrences throughout history.

Morgan Quaintance, A Human Certainty, 2021, United Kingdom, 20 minutes

The inevitability of separation, loss and death are explored through an introspectively written monologue and a selection of stills, moving images and written text.

Bárbara Lago, Yon, 2021, Argentina, 8 minutes

Using archive material from their childhood, Bárbara Lago re-programmes their childhood’s mythology and reflects on their body traversed by affections, fictions and the passing of time.

Sofia Theodore-Pierce, Other Tidal Effects, 2021, USA, 7 minutes

Catamenial seizures, tidal correspondences, a sonic EEG, and a lullaby in partial translation. Highlighting the seams with the darts. An exploration of epileptic rhythms and sensations through moving image practice.

“And there are other tidal effects, mysterious and intangible.” – Rachel Carson, The Edge of the Sea

Lisa Freeman, Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out, 2020, Ireland, 3 minutes

The work touches on things that are inflated: bills, lungs, bellies, airbags, egos.

Holly Márie Parnell, Cabbage, 2023, Ireland, 28 minutes

An intimate film made in collaboration with Parnell’s family, Cabbage looks at the complexities of bodily autonomy within an ableist paradigm. Through moments of reflection and observation, the film focuses on her brother’s writings using eye tracking technology, and her mother’s memories, to explore how we shape a sense of self under the pervasive weight of unspoken assumptions, categories and fixed definitions that get placed onto bodies. Dissecting layers of language, agency and power, the film is a subtle examination of how a human life is measured and valued.

Running time: 80 minutes

aemi is an Arts Council-funded organisation that supports and exhibits artist and experimental film. For more information visit www.aemi.ie

Image Credit: Sofia Theodore Pierce, Other Tidal Effects, 2021, USA, 16mm transferred to digital, 7 mins, image courtesy of the artist

‘Súitú’ is accompanied by a newly commissioned text by writer and film programmer Ruairí McCann, which is available to read here: https://aemi.ie/touring-programmes/2023-suitu/suitu-text/

aemi (Artists' & Experimental Moving Image), is a film organisation funded by The Arts Council. aemi supports artists and regularly screen artists' moving image and experimental films at venues across Ireland and internationally www.aemi.ie