Flicker
Ruth and Niamh Clinton and Moriarty

Description
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
Tags
Language
Irish
Duration
00:25:32
Original formats
Digital HD
Aspect ratio
16:9
Colour
Colour