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Enjoy daily outdoor screenings on Living Canvas at IMMA Europe’s largest digital outdoor art screen presented at IMMA by IPUT Real Estate. Screenings include the Irish premier of Black Butterflies; the cult visual masterpiece Koyaanisqatsi and the award-winning animated film Flow, presented in partnership with the Dublin International Film Festival. All screenings are free to attend, no booking is required.

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Artist Screenings

Daily screenings will take place through the festival running from 10am – 5.30pm. Artists showing include,

Telu Von Flap – Off shoots/ALLDWF
Martina O’ Brien – Dagger Tooth
Tina Claffey – The Peatlands 
Simone Kessler – Something Falls Apart – 1 mm per decade
Aoife Desmond – A Boated Roof
Linda Schirmer (Interface Inagh) – Carrying Wood
Stijn Ank – Breath
Tanya de Paor- Is Sinne an Tréad (We are the Flock)
Denis Buckley – Outhere
Aoife Desmond – Sirius – Harbour’s Mouth
Una Walker – Tullyratty
Anna Korbut – Changing Landscapes
Zoë Uí Fhaolain Green – I mBliana (This Year)
Paul Hallahan – Sun, sun, sun

João Tudella  – Dinnseanchas
William Bock – Upland Lypsynching
Grace Wells – Wolf Medicine
Lisa Fingleton – Radical Art of Living
Lisa Fingleton – Monto Man
William Bock – Mirror Walk

 

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Feature Film programme

Black Butterflies
Directed by David Baute, 2024 
Fri 12 Sept, 6.30pm
Tanit, Valeria and Shaila are three women from very different parts of the world who face the same problem: climate change. They will lose everything because of global warming effects, and they will be forced to emigrate to survive. David Baute’s ambitious and deeply moving animated feature film, Black Butterflies, paints a vivid picture of the climate crisis and the very real lives it is already affecting, evoking the animation styles of the regions it depicts – the Caribbean, India and Kenya – to weave these three profound narratives together. 
Screened in collaboration with the Dublin International Film Festival

 

Flow
Directed by Gints Zilbalodis, 2024
Sat 13 Sept, 5.30pm
When a flood of biblical proportions washes its home away, a solitary cat must seek refuge with a motley crew of animals (including a dog, a capybara, a lemur, and a secretary bird), who gradually learn to get along in this endearing, one-of-a-kind animation.  

Wunderkind director Gints Zilbalodis has taken the animation world by storm with his beautifully crafted sophomore feature Flow, which has received a multitude of awards and nominations to date, the Academy Award for best animated feature, 2025.
Screened in collaboration with the Dublin International Film Festival

 

Koyaanisqatsi
Directed by Godfrey Reggio, 1982
Sun 14 Sept, 5.30pm
Drawing its title from the Hopi word meaning “life out of balance,” this renowned documentary reveals how humanity has grown apart from nature. Featuring extensive footage of natural landscapes and elemental forces, the film gives way to contrasting scenes of modern civilisation and technology. With its lack of narration and dialogue, the production makes its points solely through imagery and music, with many scenes either slowed down or sped up for dramatic effect.  

Directed by Godfrey Reggio with a now instantly recognisable score from Philip Glass, this cinematic rarity remains a striking meditation on progress, disconnection, and consequence. 
Screened in collaboration with the Dublin International Film Festival