Bloomsday Film Festival: A Magic Lantern Odyssey

The Bloomsday Film Festival presents A Magic Lantern Odyssey on Saturday, June 14th at 7-8pm in Belvedere College.

A very rare opportunity to see a live Magic Lantern performance. An original show based on Ulysses by acclaimed lanternist Jeremy Brooker.

Playing with the kind of entertainments familiar to Joyce in Late Victorian and Edwardian Dublin, this is a fun creative take on several key episodes in Joyce’s novel. Devised by magic lanternists Jeremy and Carolyn Brooker, the show is inspired by Keith Williams’s groundbreaking book on popular Victorian media in Joyce’s work, James Joyce and Cinematicity: Before and After Film.

Using a magnificent ‘triunial’ (or three lens) brass and mahogany magic lantern, Ulysses: A Magic Lantern Odyssey features original lantern slides from the period alongside specially created modern slides. With live narration by Les Doherty and musical accompaniment by Aleka Potinga (cello, voice) and So-Young Yoon (piano).

A very rare opportunity to see a live Magic Lantern performance.

Runtime: Approx. 60 minutes

Tickets are €8.