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IMMA is delighted to host a screening and discussion event programmed by Lux Critical Forum Dublin. Artists and co-directors of the Critical Forum, Helena Gouveia Monteiro and Michelle Hall, will curate an hour-long screening programme with attendees invited to discuss together what they have seen afterwards. 

The screening includes a series of works that look at animals through a variety of lenses and narratives. These moving images of moving creatures explore modes of communication within and between species, including human, non-human, wild, domesticated, and captive. 

Critical Forum Dublin is a discussion group for artists, writers and curators who have an interest in experimental film and artists’ moving image. The emphasis is on consistent group discussion around specific moving image works, in a mutually supportive environment and in dialogue with other Critical Forum groups in Ireland and the UK. 

This event is open to both Critical Forum Members and the public. It is the first in-person gathering of the Forum since it moved online in 2020. 


Screening Programme

?O, Zoo! (The Making of a Fiction Film)’, Philip Hoffman, 1986, 23 min.

Dog of My Dreams, Roz Mortimer, 2002, 12 min.

Cat, Margaret Salmon, 2018, 3:20 min.

It was a lover and his lass, Stephen Sutcliffe, 2020, 0:50 min.

While Darwin Sleeps, Paul Bush, 2004, 5 min.


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Critical Forum Dublin is a discussion group for artists, writers and curators who have an interest in experimental film and artists’ moving image. The emphasis is on consistent group discussion around specific moving image works, in a mutually supportive environment and in dialogue with other Critical Forum groups in Ireland and the UK. 

Helena Gouveia Monteiro is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker from Portugal living and working in Dublin. She currently co-directs the LUX Critical Forum Dublin. Her work has been shown internationally in both cinema and gallery spaces and she is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and by Fingal County Council. The recent experimental short film “Purkyně’s Dusk” is distributed by Light Cone Paris and was screened at Oberhausen International Film Festival, in the Experimental Competition at Vila do Conde International Film Festival, and at Rencontres Cinéma et Vidéo de Nice in 2021. She is currently working on “Man of Aral” (Arts Council Film Project Award 2022). 

Michelle Hall is a Dublin based visual artist and co-director of LUX Critical Forum Dublin. Hall’s moving image works have been screened at various locations in Ireland and abroad including ONONO Gallery, Rotterdam, Arti & Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival at Edinburgh Filmhouse, and National Gallery Prague where her work was awarded the StartPoint Prize 2017. Hall graduated from the MA Art in the Contemporary World programme at NCAD in 2016 and completed her BA Fine Art at TUD in 2007. She was awarded the Arts Council Film Bursary in 2017 and 2020, and Visual Arts Agility Award in 2021. Her solo exhibition ‘(R)OARS’ is currently on show at Draíocht.