"Drifting Cities"
Michael Higgins. 70 min, ENG
Two actors play two lovers before meeting death in a car crash. They drift through muddled memories and moments in search of one another.
One of the festival’s special screenings will be the premiere of the new feature film by Michael Higgins (IE) which structure covers other film programs of the festival.
Found footage and photographs from the 70’s – 80’s Ireland and the US are used along with 16mm material and video in various formats shot by the artist himself, and finished digitally. The film is made in a distinctive manner, characteristic of the author, assembling different images in a joint story. A dramaturgy emerges, based on the spectator’s associative image-making experience and supplemented with the author’s very personal and poetic texts about lost love.
Michael Higgins is a photographer, filmmaker and installation artist best known for his analogue film work. Higgins is interested in using the filmmaking process to rupture the reality of the everyday, skewing documentary and fiction in order to highlight alternative ways of seeing and experiencing. Over the years his film and video works have been screened around the world including New York, Tehran, Berlin, Paris and London. In 2015 Higgins co-founded Open Night Cinema – a film studio and venue that is home to a series of expanded cinema events that incorporate sound art, film installations and improvised performance in response to place.
Ticket price - 4 EUR.
For students, pensioners and disabled people – 3 EUR.
