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. While cosmopolitanism has often been extended to the non-human through models of interspecies conviviality or the attribution of political rights, this paper contends that It Is Night in America shifts the emphasis towards how animals produce and shape cosmopolitanism. 

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.

• Talk series to explore Canty’s work from music videos to short and feature films
• Events announced as Christy receives 14 IFTA nominations after major international success.
• Lunchtime talk series hosted by UCC Department of Film and Screen Media

The Department of Film & Screen Media is delighted to congratulate our third year student Laura Fioretti, who was awarded the prestigious College Quercus Scholarship. 

For the second time we are looking forward to focus our film talk on some of the talented participants of the Puttnam Scholarship.

Brendan Canty announced as recipient of 2026 Film Artist in Residence Award.

The longstanding collaboration between the Arts Council and UCC celebrates diverse artistic voices and practices shaping Ireland’s creative landscape.