Free Event
Content warning: gore (video footage)
Lee Patterson
Nick Roth
Úna Monaghan
Caoimhín Breathnach (Ireland,1934) & Jennifer Walshe (Ireland, 1974)
AN GLÉACHT (2015) 30’
Outsider artist Caoimhín Breathnach (1934-2009) lived as a recluse in Knockvicar, Co. Roscommon for all his life. Breathnach’s artistic practice focussed on the creation of “subliminal” tapes and films which he believed possessed the capacity to shift consciousness. In these works, Ogham magickal scales, crystallography, astronomy, folklore and natural phenomena are combined with found audio and visual material to produce an idiosyncratic, esoteric system of correspondences.
Breathnach spent the last years of his life planning a film called AN GLÉACHT. The work was to combine subliminal tapes and films with filmed footage showing a sequence of occult rituals. For the 2015 Cork Film Festival, hcmf// 2023 Composer in Residence Jennifer Walshe (Breathnach’s great-niece) was commissioned to complete AN GLÉACHT, which was screened alongside live musical accompaniment from musicians Panos Ghikas, Nick Roth, M.C. Schmidt (Matmos) and Walshe.
At hcmf// 2023, AN GLÉACHT will be screened with a live improvisational music accompaniment from Nick Roth, Lee Patterson and Úna Monaghan.
Produced by hcmf// supported by Culture Ireland and Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation
Commissioned by Cork Film Festival
Photo: still from AN GLÉACHT
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