Darklight: Reboot is a festival of independent creativity that is running in Smithfield from April 24th-27th 2014. It will feature all kinds of arts from forward-thinking film, digital storytelling, street games, film screenings, hack jams, visual art, live music, collaborative workshops, discussions and parties.
We always have a strong focus on the music site of things. So below are some of the music items that are taking place at Darklight Festival over the couple of days it’s running.
Tickets are on sale now at: entertainment.ie. For more information on the other amazing arts showcasing at the festival, see darklight.ie
FRIDAY 26TH APRIL
Good Friday Event Hosted by Block T Cuarted by Darklight and Beatyard
BYOB 8PM | Ticket €10
Featuring Buffalo Woman (Neil Watkins and Tim Donavan) and Tara McCormack
SATURDAY 27TH APRIL
Forsyth & Pollard – Discussion with screening excerpts
4PM Lighthouse Cinema | Ticket: €10
Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard have been matchmaking contemporary visual art with film-making since way back in ’98. with their long time collaboration with Nick Cave culminating in the documentary 20,000 days On Earth, the pair visit darklight to discuss and showcase their finest work.
A Spell To Ward Off The Darkness Screening followed by Q&A with Ben Russell
6.30pm | Cinemobile | Ticket: €10 – Directors: Ben Russell and Ben Rivers
An uncompromising, visually-stunning triptych examining attempted utopias from directors Ben Rivers and Ben Russell. We follow our wordless protagonist [Robert AA Lowe of Lichens] through the commune of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; alone as he travels through the beautiful and austere wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway.
Darklight Party 2014
10pm | Generator | Ticket: €15 (free for Season Ticket holders)
You’ve earned a break. Come dry off your festival sweat at Smithfield’s Generator, with AV/DJ sets from disco doyens Forza Italo and post-punk pros Gib & Peter [Elastic Witch/Skinny Wolves] plus a special live soundtrack of horror classic Haxan from Earthslayer & The Abyss [Simon Bird, Turning Down Sex]. And yes: the first round is on us.
SUNDAY 27TH APRIL
Elecktro Moskva – Screening
2pm | Light House Cinema | Ticket: €10
‘Synths you been gone’. Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB’s huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain – and beyond.