Eoghan Ryan
Eoghan Ryan (b. 1987, Dublin) engages moving image, installation, performance, puppetry, and collage to explore how power circulates socially and through mediated culture. His process involves long periods of editing; documenting a specific person, site, object, or song; and developing fable-like takes on the collective and the personal as institutions. These institutions range from states of being and nation-states to the cultivation of provisional culture, in art as in bacteria.
Selected shows, performances, and screenings have taken place at EVA International 2025, Limerick; the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Viewmaster Projects, Maastricht; Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin; Fundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; The Complex, Dublin; Haus für Medienkunst Oldenburg; Centrale Fies, Dro; BFI London Film Festival and ICA London; Busan Biennale 2022; International Film Festival Rotterdam; VISIO European Programme on Artists’ Moving Images; Kunstverein Freiburg; South London Gallery; and Serralves Museum, Porto.
A chance to drop-in, meet up and softly extend the themes of the project: community care, self care and palliative care as three pillars of care drawn by lgbtqia+ support groups and alternative healthcare. Pastries and tea included!
An event series, resource and film library inspired by the use of caravans as a therapeutic retreat. Join us throughout the festival as three artists from Scotland, the Netherlands and Canada hosted by BFMAF explore resilient LGBTQIA+ community led care.
Your festival pit stop! Drop in for information about the town and the Festival – or simply warm up, catch up with friends, and take a breather between screenings. Our doors are open 10am–4pm throughout the Festival.
Relaxed Screenings are taking place at the Town Hall Council Chamber, our Relaxed Screen. Films are shown at the same time as screenings at the Maltings’ Cinema at the Barracks.
Join us for conversation, connection and a little collective exhale as we press pause on the screenings and gather around the table. Good films nourish the mind. But, good food and good company take care of everything else!
Collaging across media, performance and the archive, two films probe the architectures—material, political, and psychic—that shape Irish identity across borders. From a punative contemporary asylum system to the miasma of surveillance and hostility that shadowed Irish migrants to Britain in the 1970s and 80s, they expose a spectacle of belonging maintained and malformed by its systematic denial.
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Intimate portraits of everyday life and struggle in Bangladesh speak together with playful, inter-textual vignettes exploring the confluence of autobiography and radical history. Together, Naeem Mohaiemen and Molla Sagar‘s films trace how personal memory and political upheaval collide, overlap, and refract across generations.
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Educator and social theorist Tom Campbell joins us for a dynamic conversation on how disability is produced and reshaped by the transformations of modern society. Drawing on his forthcoming book Disablement in the Age of Ambivalence, Campbell mobilises Zygmunt Bauman’s concepts of solid and liquid modernity to unpack the shifting forms of power, exclusion, and moral indifference that structure disabled lives today.
From right-wing propaganda machines to the hidden labour behind “inclusive” audiences, two films by artist Jordan Lord trouble the tangled relationships between disability, labour, and national identity – asking who gets seen, heard, and valued in the American public sphere.
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Spanning Partition to contemporary Bangladesh, this programme journeys through fractured homes and unfinished films to ask how history lingers in bodies, cities, and celluloid. Between memory and the archives, the works trace disappearance, displacement, and the stubborn afterlives of images in the face of erasure.
