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DORF is the second film in a continuing series that concentrates on the grounds of the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. It is informed by a practice that is rooted in contemporary visual art but which draws on documentary filmmaking strategies. The film points to the site a few months after the events of ’72. This was the transitional “ghost town” that existed before the more permanent residents moved in. The site is also shown at an unspecified but possibly contemporary time, when it is a place seemingly full of life. The film clips act as spacial and temporal coordinates that are assembled as a sequence of ordered pairs. Themes that interest me are evident, such as migration, residential space, and the absence of spectacle. A narrative is not explicitly dictated, instead it is allowed to be unpacked by the viewer. The persistence of material objects is brought into question.

Jamie Buckley (b.1980) is an Irish artist based in Munich. He completed an MFA in 2012 with First Class Honours at the University of Ulster, Belfast. In 2005 he completed a BA in Fine Art at the Limerick School of Art and Design with First Class Honours. His work was selected for “Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012” and was then shown as part of the Liverpool Biennial and at the ICA in London. His work was shown at Rencontres Internationales in Paris in December 2012 and in Berlin in June 2013. His work was selected for the Aesthetica Short Film Festival and longlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize.

The Belfast Exposed photography archive contains over half a million images produced by community groups, amateur and professional photographers over the past 30 years. It represents a valuable historical document recording political, cultural and social change in Northern Ireland over these 3 decades. Since 2001 Belfast Exposed have been commissioning artists to produce work using this archive as raw material, previous artists include Duncan Campbell and Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin. Three Short Films about Learning is a latest project to be commissioned in this series. The work juxtaposes a selection of images taken from the archive with excerpts from a lecture series outlining theories of social and environmental psychology. The lecture series is Introduction to Psychology by Paul Bloom, made available by Yale University through the free online learning platform Academic Earth. The archive imagery includes marches, masked gunmen at funerals, and paramilitary punishments. The rhythm of the speech varies throughout from carefully measured statements to free flowing thoughts, and the images are timed to mirror this rhythm.

Michael Hanna completed his MFA at the University of Ulster in 2012 and recently undertook residencies at the Millennium Court Arts Centre and Digital Art Studios, Belfast. He graduated with BA (Hons) in Sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art in 2009. Hanna was shortlisted for the Converse / Dazed Emerging Artist Award with the Whitechapel Gallery, London. He has been involved in exhibitions in the UK and internationally including Interplanetary Revolutions at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast and Instances of Agreement at the Kao Yuan Arts Centre in Taiwan. Most recently Hanna took part in Multiplicity - an exhibition curated by NURTUREart and shown across four galleries in New York. It was an international survey of artworks sharing an interest in the politics and poetic potential of contemporary urban environments.

A Guided Meditation on the Machines was our precursor to the ‘Wisdom 2.0’ event held at the Dublin European Headquarters of Google in Autumn 2014. Wisdom 2.0 is the premiere event for the promotion of corporate mindfulness. Welcome to the ghost realms of Buddhism-lite. ‘Be Here Now’ and ignore the past. ‘Be Here Now’ and never see your future. Every version of Empire needs a belief system to validate their rule. 
 From our rooftop vantage point we are guided on a meditation to help us spiritually contextualize the presence of the `stateless giants`: Google, Facebook, Twitter and more in our small Dublin town on the edges of Europe. We join together in meditation to trace the movement by these corporations of vast amounts of information and unseen capital through our bodies and
across the skies around us: 
 Feel the flow of data above the skies now. Karmic surge. 
Feel the search requests of one billion people pass overhead, as they filter into the Dublin gateway of knowledge. Be present with it now - the weight around your body of the whole world`s questioning 

A moving paper fantasy. Let the Sunshine in. Breathe. Meditate. Search inside yourself.

Caroline Campbell and Nina McGowan have been working since 2012 under the name of Loitering Theatre (which is also the name of their first work). Loitering Theatre have a broad base of research interests that reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their backgrounds in law, tech, landscape architecture, sculpture and film. Some principal current themes of their work are: network cultures, strange architectures, notions of the permitted, and sci-fi futures made real. Current projects seek to make the intangible of networks appear before the eye - a reversal of hypermodernity - where immaterial objects are given concrete value once more, but a value of their choosing. Along the way they examine notions of the private and public; and that which is permitted and assigned value by constructs of taste or the embedded systems, legal or otherwise, of networked capital. Loitering Theatre use Ireland`s unique position as a centre for cognitive capitalism as a springboard for critique of its emergent platforms. Their work has received mention in the New York Times, Vice Magazine, Rolling Stone, Wired Magazine and featured widely across Irish media on and offline. It has been given coverage by Anonymous and been the subject of censorship by the Irish police

Something New Under the Sun is the first narrative film by artist Gavin Murphy, and was the result of exhaustive research carried out over a 3-year period. It takes as its subject the IMCO building (a demolished modernist factory) and the lost work of its chief designer Oliver P. Bernard. The IMCO building was during its brief existence, a major landmark on Dublin’s south coast, yet it is all but forgotten today, and entirely undocumented. Similarly much of Bernard’s work has been demolished or replaced. In the film, anachronic image sequences are interleaved with intertextual narration, drawn from a multitude of sources, viewpoints and timeframes: Bernard’s life and work (including his dramatic survival of the sinking of the Luisitania in 1915); IMCO’s owners and various phases of the building and its demolition; the discovery of dry-cleaning; and the words of Henri de Saint-Simon, Blaise Pascal, and American author Lewis Mumford on time and the notion of ‘being out of date’. The film notes the parallel fates of the building’s architecture and the dry-cleaning machinery it housed – becoming technologically and stylistically obsolete – and the symbolic necessity of razing the present to make way for the future.

Gavin Murphy is a Dublin-based artist and curator. His research-based practice encompasses assemblage, writing, still photography and moving image, with an interest in the sculptural possibilities of cinematic structures and mise en scène. Murphy’s work has been exhibited in Irish Museum of Modern Art (Project Space), 2014; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2014; BOZAR, Center for Fine Arts, Brussels, 2013; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2012; Conical, Melbourne, 2009; and Colony, Birmingham, 2007. A monograph/research study, On Seeing Only Totally New Things, was published in 2013. His recent exhibition for the Sleepwalkers series at Dublin City Gallery is to be featured in an accompanying book published by Ridinghouse UK, to include texts by Chantal Mouffe, and Simon Critchley. He is the recipient of various Arts Council awards, and residencies at Fire Station Artists’ Studios, Dublin; Gertrude Contemporary Art Spaces, Melbourne; and he is co-director/curator of the artist-run space, Pallas Projects/Studios. Curated projects include the first solo exhibition of the British artist/filmmaker John Smith in Ireland (The world seems a long way away, Pallas Projects, Dublin, 2011); and he was co-curator/producer of Darklight Compendium Vol. 1– the first Irish-produced DVD collection of experimental shorts, animation and artists’ film (2007).