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A celebration of a towering figure in the history of experimental cinema, this screening of select works by filmmaker Jonas Mekas includes one of his most celebrated films Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) as well as the rarely screened Self Portrait (1980).

We look forward to welcoming you, your family and friends to the UCC Film & Screen Media Showcase at the Fastnet Film Festival on Wednesday 25th May at 3pm.

Italian Cinema Today - Friday 20th May @3pm. Film and Screen Media Auditorium, UCC.

The Puttnam Scholars Begin Production

The N.I.C.E. Italian Film Festival Ireland, the first Italian film festival in Ireland, will feature 8 films among the most relevant in contemporary Italian cinema. The films will be screened at the GATE Multiplex Cinema in Cork between 19th and 22nd May.

The class of 2020-21 graduated today with a Master's degree in Film and Screen Media, at a Conferring ceremony in UCC.

A Double-bill Screening on April 5 and April 6, 2022. Film and Screen Media Auditorium, Kane building Basement, Room B10.b

About this event

L’eclisse (The Eclipse, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962) - April 5, 2022, 3.30-6.30 pm

Estate, a Reverie (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 2015) - April 6, 2022, 3.30-6.30 pm + Q&A (by remote) with director Andrea Luka Zimmerman

The aim of the event is to raise participants’ awareness of the home as a liminal space where existential, social and environmental issues constantly intersect.

The event will consist of two connected screenings in two consecutive days (5 and 6 April 2022). The films selected for this double bill are L’eclisse (The Eclipse, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1962, 126 minutes) and Estate, a Reverie (Andrea Luka Zimmerman, 2015, 83 minutes). Each will include a brief introduction of the film from the organisers, the screening, and a Q&A with the audience at the end of a session. The screening of Estate will include a remote Q&A with the filmmaker, Andrea Luka Zimmerman.

Eight UCC students have been awarded the prestigious title of Puttnam Scholar. The Puttnam Scholarship programme offers UCC students from any discipline the opportunity to work with and learn from digital education pioneer Lord David Puttnam, Oscar-winning producer of films including Chariots of Fire, The Mission, The Killing Fields, and Midnight Express. This year’s scholars are final-year and postgraduate students in the fields of Engineering Science, Creative Writing, Arts Management and Creative Producing, Film and Screen Media, Politics and Study of Religions.  

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