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Trailer for a new film: Go Ye Afar follows an Irish-Nigerian taxi driver on a miraculous voyage through the streets of Dublin and Calabar. 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙨: Cast Stanley Aguzie @stanleyaguzie Osaro Azams @osarohello Peter Coonan Vincent Higgins Faith Jones @faithhandjones Maeve O’Mahoney @maevenomahony Director Frank Sweeney @frankbee Written by Beulah Ezeugo @b3333333ulah Frank Sweeney @frankbee Producers Emma Coen @smallcoen Alice Quinn Banville @m.o.o.n.c.u.p Madeleine Molyneaux Frank Sweeney @frankbee Director of Photography Gráinne Galvin @grainnegalvin Gaffer: Rory Fitzpatrick @roryfitzpatrick_lighting Assistant Director Beulah Ezeugo @b3333333ulah Production & Costume Designer Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng 吳彩萍 @choy.png Prop Sculptor Stéphane Béna Hanly @stephane.hanly Hair & Make-up Tee Elliot @telliottmakeup Video Technician: John Gunning @groaninngen Production Sound Mixer Oscar Freaney Steadicam Operators Jakub Bajerski @gingerjaysus Dave Doherty @dave__doherty 2nd Assistant Camera Maria Perdigao Focus Puller Jakub Bajerski @gingerjaysus Headlight Rigger Tom O’Dea Camera Trainee Ben Hackett @bennyhackett Runners Aphra Hill @aphraleehill Renn Miano @nonbinaryicon Aisling Phelan @aisling_phelan 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘁: Director Beulah Ezeugo @b3333333ulah Cinematographer / Line Producer Kagho Idhebor @bichopcblunt 1st AC / Focus puller Ọlánréwájú Ọláyínká Fọlárín @thegr8_folarin Fixer Daniel Cobham Henry Williams Assistant Fixer William Cobham Henry Williams Car Driver Abiom David Oboqua 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: Editing Frank Sweeney @frankbee Consultant Editor Donal Foreman @donalforeman Colourist & Online Editor Michael Higgins @mgmhiggins Composers Osaro Azams @osarohello Morgan Buckley Robbie Blake @robbieblakestuff Vocalists Osaro Azams @osarohello Robbie Blake @robbieblakestuff Sound Mix Morgan Buckley Mentors Onyeka Igwe @memoriesofabiglife Tadhg O’Sullivan Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland @artscouncilireland Temple Bar Gallery + Studios @templebargalleryandstudios by @frankbeee
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FEW CAN SEE by Frank Sweeney 2023, 42 min, Digital Screens as part of the VERBATIM series: 7/31 at 9:00 8/11 at 3:45 FEW CAN SEE examines the legacy of broadcast censorship of the conflict in the north of Ireland and political movements during this era. The project attempts to recreate material absent from state archives due to censorship, based on contemporary oral history interviews with people censored during this time period. Within a late-80s current affairs television format, actors verbatim re-enact edited transcripts from 18 oral history interviews, later dubbing their own performances. This technique is inspired by the use of actors to dub the voices of censored people during the conflict. The story is inspired by several blackout strikes which took place at broadcasters across Ireland and Britain in response to censorship. Most of the film is shot on old live broadcast tube cameras, resurrected for the production. With: Arthur MacCaig IRISH VOICES 1995, 13 min, 16mm-to-digital After the Bloody Sunday massacre of 1972, the British government curtailed radio and television access for the IRA and its supporters in an attempt to “deny terrorists the oxygen of publicity.” However, there were odd loopholes in this endeavor. News reports, for instance, were allowed to show the face of Gerry Adams, Sinn Fein’s president, but could not broadcast his voice. To get around this, actors were hired to lip sync Adams’s words. Featuring interviews with Adams, journalists, and one of Adams’s myriad “voices,” IRISH VOICES is a unique introduction into the media war that was part of the Irish struggle. Excerpt from SPEAK NO EVIL – THE STORY OF THE BROADCAST BAN (Francis Welch, 2005) Total running time: ca. 70 min. by @frankbeee
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New film coming out on June 11th as part of online zine and exhibition @no_matter_here 'People enjoy my company' explores the 1999 privatisation of Telecom Éireann from the viewpoint of shareholders communicating on early online forums. The film places this event within emerging ideologies of technological emancipation in the pre millennium period. Features animation from @andrewloughnane + script editing/narration from @bratkong The film is funded by the @artscouncilireland and the exhibition by @brightening_air The development was supported by @scigallerydub & @aemi_ie by @frankbeee
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Rememory / Frank Sweeney @frankbeee Moving between dream and documentary, memory and archive, Frank Sweeney’s Go Ye Afar explores the role of broadcast media in sustaining communities across geographies and generations. Following a taxi driver on a surreal voyage through the streets of Dublin (Ireland) and Calabar (Nigeria), Go Ye Afar conjures memories of Ireland’s economic crash in the 2010s; protests against foreign multinationals; the stories of Catholic missionaries; and NGOs working in Nigeria throughout the 1900s. Grounded in oral history interviews with Irish-Nigerian taxi drivers, missionaries who lived in both Ireland and Nigeria, in addition to a broad collection of archival footage, the film celebrates Ireland’s solidarity with the Biafran independence struggle (known as the first televised famine). Using a range of Nollywood-inspired (Nigerian Hollywood) special effects Go Ye Afar questions notions of identity, global north-south relations and the structural causes of post-colonial migration and inequality. Presentation at the 25th Biennale of Sydney was made possible with generous support from Culture Ireland. Originally commissioned by The Arts Council of Ireland & Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Courtesy of the artist. @whitebaypowerstation Images: Frank Sweeney, Go Ye Afar, 2026. Presentation at the 25th Biennale of Sydney was made possible with generous support from Culture Ireland. Originally commissioned by The Arts Council of Ireland & Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Courtesy of the artist © Frank Sweeney. Installation view, 25th Biennale of Sydney, Rememory, 2026, White Bay Power Station. Photograph: Document Photography. by @frankbeee
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🔥 Después de ganar la Mención del Jurado Internacional en FILMADRID X, Frank Sweeney vuelve para competir con su más reciente trabajo, ‘Go Ye Afar’ 🚕 Escrita junto a Beulah Ezeugo, ‘Go Ye Afar’ sigue a un taxista nigeriano-irlandés en un viaje milagroso por las calles de Dublín y Calabar. Una fábula que mezcla realidad y fantasía en una revisión minuciosa, tan incisiva como imaginativa, de la historia colonial compartida entre los dos países, apropiándose de técnicas cinematográficas para reflexionar sobre cómo el medio ha reproducido las dinámicas histórico-políticas de su contexto. 👤 Frank Sweeney es un artista con una práctica basada en la investigación, que utiliza material de archivo (found material) para abordar cuestiones de memoria colectiva, experiencia e identidad a través del cine y el sonido. Su trabajo reciente incluye ‘Few Can See’ (ganador de la Tiger Shorts Competition en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Rotterdam), ‘People enjoy my company’ (Mejor Documental en el LUFF de Suiza, IMMA 2021-22, Transmediale Berlín, BFI Southbank LSFF 2022) y ‘Made Ground’ (en colaboración con Eva Richardson McCrea, Temple Bar Gallery 2021, adquirida para la Colección del Arts Council en 2021). 📅 ‘Go Ye Afar’ se presentará en Cine Doré el jueves 11 de junio. Entradas pronto a la venta. by @frankbeee
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‘I Am Cuba’ (Soy Cuba) was both a landmark of radical political cinema and one of the most visually ravishing films ever made. A legendary hymn to revolution shimmers across the screen like a fever dream of rebellion.  The result of an extraordinarily ambitious collaboration between the Soviet and Cuban film industries, director Mikhail Kalatozov’s I Am Cuba unfolds in four explosive vignettes that capture Cuban life on the brink of transformation, as crushing economic exploitation and inequality give way to a working-class uprising.  Backed by Carlos Fariñas’s stirring score, the dazzling camera work by Sergei Urusevsky—an inspiration for generations of filmmakers to follow—gives flight to the movie’s message of liberation Tickets available now, link in bio 👆 https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/connolly-books-film-club-presents-i-am-cuba-by-mikhail-kalatozov-tickets-1987508240650 taken in The New Theatre: Dublin by @frankbeee
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👋🏼 25th Biennale Artist Profile 👀 Frank Sweeney Frank Sweeney is an artist with a research based practice, using found material to approach questions of collective memory, experience and identity through film and sound. This involves exploring the history of communications technologies through larger ideas such as historical materialism, cultural hegemony and imagined communities. In doing this, Sweeney’s work attempts to suggest points of departure from the social, political, and economic status quo. His work gives prominence to unofficial voices like folklore, social media and oral history interviews, allowing space for different subjectivities and contradictory perspectives; rejecting the idea that cinema can be truthful, conclusive or comprehensive. Learn more about the 25th Biennale of Sydney, Rememory, via the link in bio. Image credits: Photograph: Evanna Devine. Courtesy of the artist. Frank Sweeney, Go Ye Afar at Temple Bar Gallery, 2025, single channel video, 24 minutes. Photograph: Evanna Devine/Ros Kavanagh. Courtesy of the artist. Frank Sweeney, Few Can See at Eva International, Ireland's Biennial, 2023, single channel video, 42 minutes. Photograph: Gráinne Galvin. Courtesy of the artist. Frank Sweeney, People enjoy my company at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2021, single channel video, 17 minutes. Photograph: Frank Sweeney. Courtesy of the artist. by @frankbeee
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🎆🎆🎆Across 2026 aemi will continue to scale our ambitions and part of this is an expansion of our board; in saying this we are thrilled to welcome filmmaker Frank Sweeney to aemi’s Board of Directors.🎆🎆🎆 🎬🎞️Our board is instrumental in guiding aemi to realise our strategic function to serve the needs of film artists and advocate for them, and their work so that it can reach as wide an audience as possible. 🎬🎞️ 💜We are immensely grateful to Frank; his thoughtful and creative insights have already greatly enhanced aemi’s operations. 💜 by @frankbeee
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Screening ‘Ireland: Behind the Wire’ 1974 by Berwick Street Collective next Thursday at @connollybooks Film Club @thenewtheatre Doors at 6.30pm screening starts at 7 + tickets link in bio/stories “Unlike their counterparts in mainstream TV news, the investigative Berwick Street Film Collective were given exclusive access to Belfast’s Catholic community. The testimonies and footage of life ‘behind the wire’ that they captured amounts to a grim but arresting picture of Northern Ireland at the height of The Troubles. Ireland - Behind the Wire is a now regarded as a landmark of the 1970s oppositional cinema movement. As well as using film to convey alternative viewpoints to those aired via established news channels, the Collective embraced formal experiment, perhaps influenced by the work of Jean Luc Godard and Chris Marker. The film signalled the beginning of what is often called the reflexive tradition in documentary film in the UK. It may seem surprising that the BFI Experimental Fund committed state funds to a film that so outspokenly opposed government policies and practices. One of the Collective’s founding members, Marc Karlin, later revealed that the Special Branch seized some of their original footage and the Ministry of Defence pressurised ACTT, the film technicians’ union, into erasing some of the frames.” by @frankbeee
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Very excited to be programming some of my favourite films as part of @connollybooks Live events throughout December! Programme: * Dec 5th - No Japs At My Funeral (1980) - Jamie Nares & Very Gentle Work (2024) - Nate Lavey @nate_lavey . Introduction by political geographer & cultural critic Rory Rowan @badbwoyroro * Dec 11th - West Indies (1979) - Med Hondo. Introduction by artist & curator Clodagh Boyce @clodaghassataboyce * Dec 18th - La Commune (2000) - Peter Watkins. Introduction by artist Jesse Jones @jessepresleyjones Screenings start at 7pm @thenewtheatre . Tickets €5. taken in The New Theatre: Dublin by @frankbeee
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⭐️⭐️⭐️aemi is thrilled to recommend two screenings programmed by filmmaker Frank Sweeney @frankbeee, taking place this Friday 5th December @ The New Theatre; No Japs At My Funeral (1980) & Very Gentle Work (2024) as part of the Connolly Books Live collection.⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🎞️🎞️🎞️With an introduction to both by political geographer and cultural critic, Rory Rowan 🎥🎥🎥Doors @ 18.30. Screenings @ 19.00 No Japs at My Funeral. 1980. Directed by James Nares. 60 mins. Named after a provision in Lord Louis Mountbatten’s will made public after his assassination by the IRA in 1979, this video work is a portrait of the North of Ireland’s liberation struggle through the stories of one IRA operative. Close-up shots of the man are intercut with British television reports on the Troubles, recasting the conflict as one over control of information. As described by Gary Indiana in a 1980 East Village Eye interview, No Japs is “a deconstructive propaganda piece that demolishes the British version of events” Very Gentle Work. 2024. Directed by Nate Lavey. 24 mins. Through a fictional protagonist’s psychogeographic research into militant revenge and Jewish tradition, Very Gentle Work connects Sholem Schwarzbard, the Black Liberation Army, FALN and Weather Underground to the ongoing struggle against a proposed police training center near Atlanta, Georgia. 🎟️🎟️🎟️SEE connollybooks.org or thenewtheatre.com for booking details🎟️🎟️🎟️ taken in The New Theatre: Dublin by @frankbeee
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Join us November 20 for ‘The said and the unsaid’, aemi’s exciting, new 2025 touring programme platforming some of the most exciting new moving image work by Irish artists in conversation with key international works. Featuring a workshop and Q&A with filmmaker Frank Sweeney. Frank Sweeney is an artist with a research based practice, using found material to approach questions of collective memory, experience and identity through film and sound. Recent work includes ‘Few Can See’ (winner of the Tiger Shorts Competition at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Special Mention at Filmadrid Awards, commissioned by EVA International - Ireland’s Biennial), ‘2 Channel Land’ (Cork International Film Festival, Docs Ireland, LUFF Switzerland), ‘People enjoy my company’ (IMMA 2021-22, Transmediale Berlin, BFI Southbank LSFF 2022) and ‘Made Ground’ (collaboration with Eva Richardson McCrea, Temple Bar Gallery 2021, purchased for the Arts Council Collection in 2021). Recent awards include Best Documentary at LUFF Switzerland, the Arts Council's Next Generation Award, aemi+Sirius Film Commission 2022 & a 3 Year Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. by @frankbeee
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