Flight
Bernie Masterson
Contributors
'Flight'
Actor Ronan Faughnan
Poet Máighréad Medbh
Music Eoin Flood
Directed and Produced by Bernie Masterson
Description
I embarked on this project while in lockdown as a result of the Covid-19 crisis, juxtaposing this shared experience with Máighréad Medbh’s prose-poem, “Microcosm,” from her book of internal dialogues, Savage Solitude. In her narrative she speaks as three personas: One is the instinctual emotional self; The Other is an aggregate of society-at-large, represented here by a quote from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations; I is the conscious, reasoning self. Together they constitute a single consciousness. ‘Flight’ is a reference to the story of Icarus in Greek myth, giving it a contemporary perspective. The visual and the audio are an embodiment of the dramatic inner dialogue, simultaneously questioning the nature of our existence, behaviour, morality and mortality in a global climate of uncertainty and fear of the unknown.
Screenings
- 2021 — Purchased by the Highlanes Gallery for their collection
- 2021 — Lacuna Festivals International, Contemporary Art Festival: Distance
- 2021 — MESA Magazine online launch
- 2020 — The Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition
- 2020 — Online Programme Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles, CIACLA
- 2020 — Winner of the Inaugural Janet Mullarney Prize, Open Submission curated by Joy Gerrard, Séan Kissane, and Jerome O Drisceoil, Highlanes Gallery
Reading
Images
Details
Title
Flight
Year
2020
Tags
poetry, film, visual art, arts, expressionist
Language
English
Duration
00:03:33
Original formats
Digital HD, HD, 2K
Screening formats
Digital HD, HD, Digital 2K
Aspect ratio
16:9
Colour
Colour
