VIDEO: filmpoems, screendance, ambient video

Methods of Hypnosis

Screenings

Motion Pictures at the Mez, The Red Hen, Limerick, Ireland. Curated by Kevin Kiely Jr. 14 July 2014.

Transit Spaces/Transitory Encounters, Irish Centre for Transnational Studies, Mary Immaculate College / University of Limerick, Ireland. 29 May to 1 June 2014.

Avant Garde Cinema, The Royal Picture Show, Limerick, Ireland. 16 February 2014.

Description

A woman is wrapped in a blanket by four strangers. Couples with broken arms partner on a dance floor. An unconscious young man is disengaged from a steering wheel. “Methods of Hypnosis” reveals strange choreographies hidden in public domain footage.

Repeated patterns of behaviour.

A path traced out over time.

Place in the process of formation.

One small gesture.