Ruslyk, the president's personal film director, tries to save the world while battling mental illness. During his one-day odyssey through the city of Minsk he encounters doctors, politicians, propagandists, artists, drunks and lowlifes.
To the accompaniment of the only extant recording of James Joyce reading from his own work, Donegan uses a clear cellophane hood and a pane of glass to create another of her "face paintings." The performance is intercut with the artist painting over her own image as it appears on a video monitor,...
This short documentary draws on the photographs of Robert French from the William Lawrence Collection held in the National Library. The photos illustrate the Dublin of 1904 which served as a backdrop to James Joyce’s Ulysses. The film traces Joyce’s childhood and adolescence, his meeting with...
The eleventh episode “Sirens” of the novel Ulysses by Irish author James Joyce, is readen by the voice of a machine. In this film, I used photographs I took before 2020 to imitate the sounds and voices described in the text. In the end, the dance of the manipulated body with animation comforted...
After a priest dies, the young boy he befriended struggles to know how to grieve in a world of suspicion. James Joyce's The Sisters, part of our 52 films in 52 weeks project, completed in 2013. This film was adapted from James Joyce's short story The Sisters, part of his Dubliners collection. All...
