Film Screening and Discussion of Where Can I Get Lost? (Mattijs van de Port, 2024, 70')
Tuesday 10 March 2026, 3.00–5.00 p.m., in the Film & Screen Media Auditorium (Kane Building B10B) 

Philosopher and activist Paul B. Preciado’s essay film Orlando, My Political Biography (2023) reflects on the epistemic transition necessary to achieve a nonbinary reality. To do so, Preciado addresses his transition as a nonbinary transgender man from a self-representational premise, by considering Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography (1928) as his own political biography. 

This talk argues that It Is Night in America (É Noite na América, 2022), by Brazilian visual artist and filmmaker Ana Vaz, theorises a renewed understanding of cosmopolitanism by expanding it to include animals.

This seminar explores the meaningful parallels between horror cinema and folklore, looking beyond the popularity of folk horror as a subgenre and a source of theoretical perspectives. While the ‘folk horror revival’ bears important insights into how folklore is valued in popular culture, folk horror engages with a very specific understanding of folklore as ancient, esoteric and rural.

Part of a broader project on the representation of women’s experience of the global housing crisis, this talk focuses on two Irish narrative films, Rosie (Paddy Breathnach, 2018) and Herself (Phyllida Lloyd, 2020), portraying the often “invisible” configuration of female houselessness, and the ways in which the process of homemaking is crucially sustained by the two main characters’ resilience and labour.