Looking forward to catching @ruairimccann.bsky.social of Two Nice Catholic Boys' Closing Festival Club set at Cairde Festival with Alix, Tailtiu and Fun Protestants.

July 12th.
The Model, Sligo.

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My essay for Ultra Dogme on Larry Gottheim’s MACHETE GILETTE… MAMA, a travelogue profoundly marked by ghosts and perceptual vicissitudes. Also included in our new Larry Gottheim. zine, Intervals of Light & Darkness, which is free to download on the website.
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To celebrate his retrospective Ultra Dogme have produced this free to download zine which contains critical reflections and interviews from the editors including @ruairimccann.bsky.social , wider contributors and Larry Gottheim himself

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Featuring two brand new pieces, the zine is a 50+ page collection of essays and interviews by yours truly, Michael Sicinski, Luise Mörke, Devin Leong, and Larry Gottheim himself!

In honor of the Larry Gottheim series opening in NY tomorrow, my fellow editors at Ultra Dogme and I are happy to announce the publication of a new digital zine, Intervals of Light & Darkness: A Collection of New & Selected Texts on the Cinema of Larry Gottheim, free to download at ultraogme.com

For @bombmag.bsky.social I interviewed Dónal Foreman about his latest feature The Cry of Granuaile, its roots in history & science fiction, the influence of the 'First Wave' of independent Irish filmmakers, his work as an educator & more.
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New at Ultra Dogme: an essay by Cici Peng on the revolutionary dynamics of several films shown at the 'third worldist' Afro-Asian Film Festival, which ran for 3 editions after emerging out of the 1955 Bandung Conference.
ultradogme.com/2025/04/02/r...

Happy birthday!

The Night of Counting the Years (1969)

The longest my hair has ever been and I'm enjoying it!

Tim Robinson on kittiwakes & fulmars in Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage

New on my substack, I wrote about Frederick Wiseman's disturbing 1974 documentary Primate and the limits of scientific vision. All the pieces on my substack are free but if you do have money to spare, a paid subscription would be much appreciated.
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I've been doing some work as a model for a portrait painting class recently. Here are two favourites.

I wrote a short piece about my friend, the late great filmmaker and painter, Joseph Bernard.

Thanks to the Ultra Dogme team.

You can read it here:

ultradogme.com/2025/02/28/j...

A beautiful short piece by @deankavanagh.bsky.social on the late great Joseph Bernard
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Decided to share a trio of very short pieces on my substack. Not criticism but something like fiction
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For Mubi Notebook, I wrote about 3 films that Frederick Wiseman made in the late 70s about the US empire & military industrial complex as humdrum, business, spectacle and a society within a society. Check it out via the link in bio. Thanks to Maxwell and Chloe for the edits.
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A great read so far

Over at Ultra Dogme, we have a new essay by the always astute Liam Kenny on the lived in, phantasmagorical and revolutionary cinema or Margarida Cordeiro & António Reis. Read it here:
ultradogme.com/2025/02/18/a...

REST IN POWER JOSEPH BERNARD
1941 - 2025

My conversation with Marianne Keating at the Douglas Hyde Gallery about her films connecting the colonial and revolutionary histories of Ireland, Jamaica and Barbados is now online! Listen here
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Wish I could transport myself back to see him play with Alice Coltrane. That would have been an extraordinary show, I'm sure. Mo Chara is a beautiful name for an instrument too.

Hey, this is what I'm listening to right now and here's something I drew this evening.