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Ireland’s most literary film festival is back for its third year, and a very special one indeed as 2022 marks the centenarian celebration of the publication of Ulysses (1922). The film festival was set up to be a celebration of cinema, literature, and artistic innovation, inspired by the long reaching arm of Ireland’s patriarch of modernism, James Joyce. The festival is run in partnership with the Bloomsday Festival & the James Joyce Centre. The festival will run between the 11th - 16th June physically with live screenings in Dublin at the James Joyce Centre, the IFI, and the Sugar Club. Then will be the return of the ever popular Bloomsday Film Festival Online between the 16th - 23rd of June. So this year will be very much a hybrid film festival for all the world to enjoy. We are opening up the programme this year to include, as well as the Joycean Shorts programme; Literature Shorts, Poetry Shorts, Experimental Shorts, Dublin Short Stories. We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft, literature.
We are excited to be partnering with the IFI this year in a programme called ‘IFI & BLOOMSDAY FILM FESTIVAL PRESENT: ULYSSES 100’ which will feature four Ulyssean screenings, two of which are curated by the Bloomsday Film Festival and two by Sunniva O’ Flynn, head of Irish Programming at the IFI and one of the judges of the film festival. This will open with a dazzling selection of New Joycean Short film at the IFI on the 11th.
Further exciting news, a new room at the Joyce Centre is being opened especially for the film festival and will serve as a permanent screening room after this year’s celebrations. In tribute to Joyce’s contribution in opening one of the first cinemas in Ireland, it will be called the ‘Volta Room’. The majority of the shorts will screen in this room. The room will open on Sunday the 12th, christened by an exciting screening from Bloomsday in Melbourne, ‘Love’s Bitter Mystery’ that explores the youth of Joyce in a breathtaking new feature film.
On the 13th of June we will also be celebrating the birthday of W.B Yeats, aka ‘Yeatsday’, with screenings of poetry/literature short films at the Joyce Centre followed by Keith Walsh’s stunning documentary ‘When All is Ruin Once Again’, at the Sugar Club, which takes on cinematically Yeats’ ideas about gyres and cycles of civilization.
On the 14th we will screen experimental shorts (after all what was Ulysses but one great experiment!) followed by the world premiere of Laoisa Sexton & Trevor Murphy’s star studded ‘The Ulysses Project’ at the IFI.
The award winners will be announced on the 15th at a free event in the Sugar Club, followed by a screening of all the award winners, and a festival wrap party.
Please have a browse through our events. Many are free and the rest we have tried to keep as cheap as possible to make this Bloomsday celebration as inclusive as possible. We wish you a warm welcome to the Bloomsday Film Festival, an unmissable map-point on the Bloomsday adventure.
Programme & Tickets: http://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/filmfestival
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