Darklight Film Festival returns this year to Smithfield with a weekend packed with full of film screenings, visual art, live music, street games, workshops, discussions and hack jams. Darklight Reboot will also showcase new and exciting ways of making film, art and DIY culture. This year’s festival explores these ideas in four key strands: What’s Up Doc?, Digital Storytelling, Gamechangers and Short film.
Below is a brief synopsis of some events from the festival programme, which is also available in full here.
Friday 26 April:
Good Friday Event Hosted by Block T Cuarted by Darklight and Beatyard BYOB 8PM | Ticket €10 Featuring Buffalo Woman (Neil Watkins and Tim Donavan) and Tara McCormack
Saturday 27 April:
Forsyth & Pollard – Discussion with screening excerpts – 4PM Lighthouse Cinema | Ticket: €10 Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have been matchmaking contemporary visual art with film-making since way back in ’98. with their long time collaboration with Nick Cave culminating in the documentary 20,000 days On Earth, the pair visit darklight to discuss and showcase their finest work.
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness Screening followed by Q&A with Ben Russell 6.30pm | Cinemobile | Ticket: €10 Directors: Ben Russell and Ben Rivers An uncompromising, visually-stunning triptych examining attempted utopias from directors Ben Rivers and Ben Russell. We follow our wordless protagonist [Robert AA Lowe of Lichens] through the commune of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; alone as he travels through the beautiful and austere wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway.
Darklight Party 2014 10pm | Generator | Ticket: €15 (free for Season Ticket holders) You’ve earned a break. Come dry off your festival sweat at Smithfield’s Generator, with AV/DJ sets from disco doyens Forza Italo and post-punk pros Gib & Peter [Elastic Witch/Skinny Wolves] plus a special live soundtrack of horror classic Haxan from Earthslayer & The Abyss [Simon Bird, Turning Down Sex]. And yes: the first round is on us.
Sunday 27 April:
Elecktro Moskva – Screening 2pm | Light House Cinema | Ticket: €10 ‘Synths you been gone’. Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB’s huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain – and beyond.
Darklight : Reboot takes place from 24-27 April and shines a light on future-forward film as Dublin’s festival of independent creativity, running from 24-27 April 2014. This year’s festival sees Darklight reboot, return and relocate to Smithfield. This pioneering festival of independent creativity will transform Smithfield in to a nerve-centre of forward-thinking film, digital storytelling, street games, film screenings, hack jams, visual art, live music, collaborative workshops, discussions and unrivalled parties held across the district’s venues including the Light House Cinema, BlockT, Generator, Third Space and Smithfield Square. Tickets are on sale now at: entertainment.ie.
Ticket Information: Box Office: BlockT, 16 Haymarket, Smithfield, Dublin 7 | Opening hours: 24 27 April, 10am 7pm. Tickets Online: entertainment.ie/darklightfestival 
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Darklight Film Festival returns this year to Smithfield with a weekend packed with full of film screenings, visual art, live music, street games, workshops, discussions and hack jams. Darklight Reboot will also showcase new and exciting ways of making film, art and DIY culture. This year’s festival explores these ideas in four key strands: What’s Up Doc?, Digital Storytelling, Gamechangers and Short film.
Below is a brief synopsis of some events from the festival programme, which is also available in full here.
Friday 26 April:
Good Friday Event Hosted by Block T Cuarted by Darklight and Beatyard BYOB 8PM | Ticket €10 Featuring Buffalo Woman (Neil Watkins and Tim Donavan) and Tara McCormack
Saturday 27 April:
Forsyth & Pollard – Discussion with screening excerpts – 4PM Lighthouse Cinema | Ticket: €10 Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have been matchmaking contemporary visual art with film-making since way back in ’98. with their long time collaboration with Nick Cave culminating in the documentary 20,000 days On Earth, the pair visit darklight to discuss and showcase their finest work.
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness Screening followed by Q&A with Ben Russell 6.30pm | Cinemobile | Ticket: €10 Directors: Ben Russell and Ben Rivers An uncompromising, visually-stunning triptych examining attempted utopias from directors Ben Rivers and Ben Russell. We follow our wordless protagonist [Robert AA Lowe of Lichens] through the commune of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; alone as he travels through the beautiful and austere wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway.
Darklight Party 2014 10pm | Generator | Ticket: €15 (free for Season Ticket holders) You’ve earned a break. Come dry off your festival sweat at Smithfield’s Generator, with AV/DJ sets from disco doyens Forza Italo and post-punk pros Gib & Peter [Elastic Witch/Skinny Wolves] plus a special live soundtrack of horror classic Haxan from Earthslayer & The Abyss [Simon Bird, Turning Down Sex]. And yes: the first round is on us.
Sunday 27 April:
Elecktro Moskva – Screening 2pm | Light House Cinema | Ticket: €10 ‘Synths you been gone’. Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB’s huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain – and beyond.
Darklight : Reboot takes place from 24-27 April and shines a light on future-forward film as Dublin’s festival of independent creativity, running from 24-27 April 2014. This year’s festival sees Darklight reboot, return and relocate to Smithfield. This pioneering festival of independent creativity will transform Smithfield in to a nerve-centre of forward-thinking film, digital storytelling, street games, film screenings, hack jams, visual art, live music, collaborative workshops, discussions and unrivalled parties held across the district’s venues including the Light House Cinema, BlockT, Generator, Third Space and Smithfield Square. Tickets are on sale now at: entertainment.ie.
Ticket Information: Box Office: BlockT, 16 Haymarket, Smithfield, Dublin 7 | Opening hours: 24 27 April, 10am 7pm. Tickets Online: entertainment.ie/darklightfestival 
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