Join artist and filmmaker Helena Gouveia Monteiro for a direct animation on film workshop, as part of the exhibition ‘UnWorlding’.

As part of the Gallery Lates programme, join artist and filmmaker Helena Gouveia Monteiro for a hands-on workshop exploring the material possibilities of direct animation on 16mm film. Presented in conjunction with Patrick Hough’s exhibition UnWorlding, the workshop responds to the artist’s newly commissioned 16mm film work featured in the exhibition.

Over the course of this two-hour session, participants will be introduced to cameraless filmmaking techniques that transform analogue film into a tactile and expressive surface. Working with black and clear 16mm leader, participants will create a series of short individual film loops through processes including scratching the emulsion, painting with opaque and transparent inks, collage using archival footage, cut-outs, and the application of organic and found materials.

The workshop offers an opportunity to engage directly with the physical language of film and to experiment with image-making through light, texture and movement.

All materials will be provided. No prior experience is necessary, and participants from all backgrounds and disciplines are warmly welcome.

About the Exhibition
UnWorlding explores wildness, the untamed, the feral and the unruly—not as chaos, but as a force that resists systems of control. Bringing together film, photography and sculptural installations incorporating readymade objects, the exhibition assembles figures, landscapes and sites where this wildness persists: in terrains marked by colonial violence, in the unruly geographies of queer desire, and in forms of life that exceed the boundaries imposed by the human.

Helena Gouveia Monteiro is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker from Portugal, living in Ireland. Concerned with the history of technical images and influenced by experimental cinema and media archaeology, she creates films, books, and multi-media installations that engage different levels of visual and cultural recognition to question our perception of language and audio-visual experiences, with a particular focus on the materiality and sensory possibilities of film. Her work has been shown internationally in both gallery and cinema spaces, including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Indie Lisboa, Curtas Vila do Conde, Glasgow Shorts, Public Art Fund/The Filmmakers Coop (US), FCDE Paris, Festival Ecrã (Brasil), and Sirius Arts Centre (Ireland). “Purkyně’s Dusk” (2021) is distributed by Light Cone Paris and “Man of Aral” (2023) and Laoi Shuibhne|Sweeney’s Lay (in production) received the film project award from the Arts Council of Ireland.

She is the co-founder of Stereo Editions, an independent publishing collective of artists’ editions, manages Dubh Film Lab in Dublin, and is a member of L’Abominable/Navire Argo and Filmwerkplaats. As a researcher and educator, she has facilitated workshops and curated film programs in Ireland and abroad, for the Hugh Lane Gallery, IMMA, Photo Museum, and Dissolutions Festival.
Website: https://thesocietyofspectacles.com/

This workshop takes place as part of our late night programme “Gallery Lates” supported by Galway City Council and the Department of Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sports as part of the Galway City Night-Time Economy Action Plan.

Image credit “Maria Messeguer, (S8) Mostra de Cinema Periférico, A Coruña”