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Flicker

Ruth and Niamh Clinton and Moriarty


Synopsis

2016 marked 100 years since Britain, and therefore Ireland, adopted Daylight Savings Time. The rearrangement of public timekeeping resulted in a sudden loss of twenty-five minutes and twenty-one seconds of what was previously understood to be Irish time. Taking this temporal elision as a starting point, ‘Flicker’ tests the possibility of unfolding infinite moments of unrealised potential into the dramatic setting of Cobh, County Cork. A flickering refrain shows two hands of the artists navigate a circular board in order to evoke sea navigation, remote communication, psychic planchettes and TV noise. Irish language subtitles offer a text that has been scrambled and misinterpreted, telling the story of the Cork medium Geraldine Cummins’ 1955 book from the perspective of Colonel Percy Fawcett. Fawcett was a cartographer and famed British explorer who was once stationed in Cork Harbour but then disappeared into the Amazon jungle in search of an ancient, lost city. (Password protected)

Details
Title

Flicker

Year

2016

Form

Short

Key phrases

experimental, abstract, nature, time, daylight savings time, sea navigation, psychic

Language

Irish

Duration

00:25:32

Original formats

Digital HD

Aspect ratio

16:9

Colour

Colour

Sound

Yes

Supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service, the Arts Council of Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland.
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