Flights from Reason
Sat. 12 Jul. – Sat. 20 Sep. 2025
Curated by aemi, Flights from Reason is a programme of new works by film artists from Ireland, France, the U.K., Poland and Sweden.
Working within a range of interconnected contexts and from a rich variety of sources the filmmakers in this programme all employ an indirect approach to their subjects, producing exciting forms of visual and sonic montage as a means of expressing unknowns, engaging with evasive figures and connecting with buried or fading histories. A complex of ideas emerges, producing entanglements where conscious and unconscious intertwine, ‘psychic knots’, as described by Joanna Stroud, that can be considered without a need for resolution.
Programme
Running Time: 104 minutes
Aurélien Froment | Louis et les langues (Louis and languages)
2023, United Kingdom, 22 minutes
English, French, Spanish, Yiddish, ST English
Louis, a young man treated for schizophrenia, lives with his mother and stepfather. He refuses his mother tongue, the English idiom, which is spoken by everyone around him. Inspired by Louis Wolfson’s book, Le Schizo et les langues.
Saskia Holmkvist | Margaret (Back Translation)
2023, Sweden, 19 minutes
Weaving together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, Margaret (Back Translation) explores the recent history of Belfast by reflecting on a 2001 performance commemorating Margaret Wright, whose brutal murder took place in the city in 1994, the last (official) year of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. The film constructs its delicate narrative from absences, halting conversations, memories of secondhand experience, people who never quite appear from behind half-open doors…
Keira Greene | Máthair
2024, United Kingdom, 16 minutes
In 1954 an Irish woman travelled alone to England to give birth in secret in a Catholic Mother and Baby Home, she then returned to Ireland having given up the baby to the nuns. This event is the departure point for Keira Greene’s film Máthair.
Ewelina Rosinska | Popół imieniem jest człowieka, Ashes by name is man
2022, Germany, 20 minutes
Polish filmmaker Ewelina Rosinska explores the textures and landscapes of her homeland, a place of contrasts and parallels, where Catholicism and the natural world swirl in a baroque gesture. A delicate, melancholy history weaves through the details of this poetic and poignant impression.
Chloe Brenan | Different Dusts
2021, Ireland, 7 minutes
Different Dusts is a non-narrative, experimental Super 8mm film and sound work. Using the theremin (as a sensor of forces below the threshold of human perception) as a central motif, the film explores the sensing/vulnerable body, intuition, tacit knowledge, erosion and measurement against a backdrop of climate change.
Aurélien Froment | Louis et les langues (Louis and languages) | 2023 | U.K. | 22 minutes
Saskia Holmkvist | Margaret (Back Translation) | 2023 | Sweden |19 minutes
Keira Greene | Máthair | 2024 | U.K. | 16 minutes
Ewelina Rosinska | Popół imieniem jest człowieka, Ashes by name is man | 2022 | Germany | 20 minutes
Chloe Brenan | Different Dusts | 2021 | Ireland | 7 minutes
Artist Biographies
Saskia Holmkvist
Saskia Holmkvist (1971) is an artist based in Stockholm. She is also a teacher and, since 2014, professor in fine art at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. For over two decades Holmkvist has worked using video, performance, and text alongside new approaches to relational work and oral archives that encompass critical listening, speculation and performative translation. She has a particular focus on contemporary history, translation processes, and ethics.
Holmkvist´s practice is concerned with the limits of translation, exploring how new interactions can reshape relations and historical trajectories. Her work combines aspects of ethnography and theatre to create films and performances that relate through past artworks, language, and political movements. This serves as a source from which she abstracts to speak back through gestures, staged scenes, documentary elements and sonics into the newly mediated narrative memories which form the aesthetic and theoretical fabric of her practice.
Saskia Holmkvist´s work has been widely exhibited internationally in museums and biennales, solo and group shows, at institutions including Gasworks (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter (Oslo), Index foundation (Stockholm), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Frankfurter Kunstverein (Frankfurt), Shedhalle (Zurich), Antics (Stockholm), Chronical Desire (Timisoara), Casino Luxembourg (Lux), Secession (Vienna), CAC (Vilnius), CCA Survival Kit (Riga), RIBOCA - The Riga Biennale of Contemporary Art, GIBCA - Gothenburg Biennale of Contemporary Art, Momentum Biennale (Moss), Contour Biennale - Decoder (Mechelen), Photo Cairo 5 (Cairo), 11th Sculpture exhibition (Biel/Bienne), and at film festivals such as Oberhausen, Docs Ireland and Cork International Film Festival. Her work has been collected by museums such as Moderna Museet and Uppsala Konstmuseum.
Keira Greene
Keira Greene is an artist working across film, photography, performance and text. Her work is preoccupied with the social and organic life and landscape of specific environments. Her work is produced through a collaborative and conversational practice of looking, writing and forming enduring relationships. Recent works are concerned with ideas of the body and the experience of emotion, in dialogue with an embodied filmmaking practice.
Moving image works by Greene are distributed by LUX.
Recent screenings and exhibitions include International Film Festival Rotterdam (2025), Arnolfini, Bristol (2024), Docs Ireland, Belfast (2024), International Film Festival, Cork (2024), Beursschouwburg, Brussels (2024), Site Gallery, Sheffield (2023), La Chapelle de l’Oratoire – Musée d’arts de Nantes, Nantes (2023), Arcade, Brussels (2022), Kelder, London (2022), Arko Art Center, Seoul (2022), Arcade, Brussels (2021), Sofia Art Projects, Sofia (2021), Café Oto, London, (2020), Stanley Picker Gallery, London (2019), LUX, London (2019), Cubitt, London (2018), Jerwood Space, London, (2018).
Her films have been screened internationally in film festivals, museums, galleries and artist-run spaces. She often collaborates with/performs with, dance artists and musicians. She is co-editor of the journal Metaphor as Metamorphosis, and guest editor with the journal Fieldnotes. keiragreene.com
Ewelina Rosinska
Ewelina Rosinska (1987, Poland) is an experimental filmmaker. She graduated from the Jagiellonen University (Art History) and German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (Filmmaking). In her practice, she mainly works with the Bolex camera and collects images and sounds on a daily basis. Her film "Ashes by Name is Man" won the Best EXiS Award 2023 at the EXiS Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul and was nominated for the German Short Film Award 2023. In 2024 she received a Berlin Senate grant for moving image artists. Her recent film "Unstable Rocks" premiered at doc lisboa international film festival 2024, followed by the international premiere at CPH:DOX 2025 and was nominated for the Doc Alliance Award. She lives and works in Germany and Portugal. www.ewelinarosinska.com
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