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Himself and Nora: A Muzi Short Film

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Himself and Nora, the hit off-Broadway musical, is now in a new musical theatre format that combines AI filmmaking with original music and text to tell the love story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle.

Written and created by playwright and Broadway composer Jonathan Brielle, this Bloomsday Festival event invites you to witness how art and technology can collaborate without compromising human craft — a world premiere you can stream from home or see live at the James Joyce Centre. Using new music AI audio visual software, Jonathan Brielle has collaborated with software developers to produce this new genre called a Muzi™.

This new short film will be screening at 12-4pm on Bloomsday, Tuesday, 16th June in the Volta Room at the James Joyce Centre and simultaneously it will be launched for free online at www.watchamuzi.com. There will be a special live musical performance of Himself and Nora at 3pm with Jonathan Brielle and Darina Gallagher.

“A new musical typically takes ten years and millions of dollars to reach a stage. We do it in months, at a fraction of the cost, without compromising the writing, the music, or the performance — those are still made by human artists. Our philosophy is plainly stated: artists using AI for artists. A meaningful share of every Muzi’s revenue goes back to the writers, performers, and directors who made it.” Jonathan Brielle

UCD Alumni in Bloom

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Join us as we honour University College Dublin‘s illustrious alumnus, James Joyce, on Saturday, 13th June at 1-6pm at the UCD Student Centre. Immerse yourself in an afternoon of music, film, literature, heritage and the arts

UCD Alumni in Bloom celebrates the best cultural, artistic, musical and literary outputs of the UCD community inspired by Bloomsday. Immerse yourself in a programme which includes the annual UCD Alumni Orchestra concert, spoken word performances of Strolling Through Ulysses!, screenings of In Time: Donál Lunny, and a UCD Special Collections exhibition plus more to be announced…

Kindly note that some timed events have tickets due to capacity. Full details are outlined in agenda below.

Savour and enjoy the heritage and legacy of James Joyce on a summer’s afternoon in Belfield while reconnecting with friends and fellow alumni.

Programme:

1-2.30pm
In Time: Donál Lunny Screening 1
Delve into the life and creative process of this unique artist whose influence and impact on Irish traditional music has been both enduring and far-reaching.

1.15-2.30pm
“Life is the great teacher” Table Quiz
Test your knowledge and win prizes at the table quiz!

1.30-2.15pm
Sculpture and Art Trail with Dr Fernando Sánchez-Migallón Cano
Take a Joycean stroll through leafy Belfield and appreciate the extensive art and sculpture collection on campus. Led by UCD Art Curator, this Sculpture and Art Trail will include commissioned pieces of art inspired by Joyce as well as original photographs from his time as a student at UCD.

2.30-3.15pm
Sculpture and Art Trail with Dr Fernando Sánchez-Migallón Cano.
Take a Joycean stroll through leafy Belfield and appreciate the extensive art and sculpture collection on campus. Led by UCD Art Curator, this Sculpture and Art Trail will include commissioned pieces of art inspired by Joyce as well as original photographs from his time as a student at UCD.

2.45-4.15pm
In Time: Donál Lunny Screening 2
Delve into the life and creative process of this unique artist whose influence and impact on Irish traditional music has been both enduring and far-reaching.

2.45-4pm
Strolling Through Ulysses! by Robert Gogan
Strolling Through Ulysses! tells the fun-filled story of Bloomsday in a humorous, entertaining and informative manner, with extracts from the novel which best illustrate the various aspects of Joyce’s writing.

2.45-4pm
Launch of New Word Order XII – UCD Mary Lavin Centre for Creative Writing
The journal features new fiction, poetry, and non-fiction from Ireland and around the world with the launch including a conversation with one contributing authors, Maggie Armstrong (Old Romantics, 2024).

4-4.15pm
Surviving Ulysses with a Sigh of Relief by Robert Gogan
Join Robert Gogan and journey into the heart of the world’s most famous “unreadable” book and uncover the humour, warmth, and sheer humanity of Leopold Bloom’s Dublin.

4.30-6pm
UCD Alumni Orchestra
Delight in the musical talents of the UCD alumni community brought together for a second annual concert.

Bloomsday Film Festival: Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation Bloomsday Showcase

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Premiere of this year’s Adrian Brinkerhoff / Bloomsday ‘Universal City’ poetry film series featuring talks and live poetry performances.

Over the past four years, the Bloomsday Film Festival has collaborated with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation to produce poetry films inspired by the works of Joyce and the spirit of modern Dublin—his self-proclaimed ‘Universal City’.

Join us as we premiere this year’s series of films, including poetry performances by actor Kwaku Fortune and poet Rafael Mendes as well as a Stephen James Smith poem from a previous edition. The event will feature a talk by Brinkerhoff’s frequent collaborator, director Matthew Thompson, as well as Q & As with filmmakers and performers, and live poetry performances from Stephen James Smith and Rafael Mendes. The evening will be introduced by Brinkerhoff’s Executive Director, Amy Holmes, and presented by series producer and Bloomsday Film Festival director, Tommy Creagh.

Film Lineup:

Arrive verb by Rafael Mendes, directed by Matthew Thompson

Devotion: 4. Impromptu Evening by Micháel McCann, read by Kwaku Fortune, directed by Matthew Thompson

Herself and Himself by Brendan Kennelly, read by Rafael Mendes, directed by Matthew Thompson

An Ode to Tony MacMahon’s Den by Stephen James Smith, directed by Luke De Brún

Bloomsday Film Festival: James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, Chapter 4

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Adam Seelig’s epic episodic film series James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, performed by Richard Harte, continues for our Bloomsday Exhibition. Join us in the Volta Room of the James Joyce Centre for Chapter 4 this year. The film will play on loop between 10AM-11.30AM. Free, walk-in event. 

“Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat” (New York Times) presents Chapter 4 of James Joyce’s divine and delirious comedy, Finnegans Wake.

“Richard Harte has found a way to crack the private code and maintain the original voltage… of one of the most funny and challenging novels of the 20th century, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, in a first-of-its-kind filmed reading.”

— Cahir O’Doherty, The Irish Voice

Bloomsday Film Festival: The Clouds are not Inaccessible + Entr’act

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The Clouds are not Inaccessible/  Les Nuages ne sont pas Inaccessibles

René Clair’s 1924 film “Entr’act”

An unknown 1932 text by avant-garde artist Lucia Joyce plunges us into a phantasmagoric world of surreal creativity. Evanna Lynch leads a delightful and frightening odyssey from Lucia’s own exquisitely crafted lettrines, to a shamanic dance which launches her soul into a magical dimension where she demonstrates exactly how to reach the clouds…

René Clair’s Dadaist masterpiece, which premiered during the intermission of a Paris ballet in 1924, is emblematic of Lucia’s creative world. Her mentor Jean Börlin choreographs and appears alongside Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp and the film’s composer, Eric Satie.

Followed by a Q&A with Deirdre Mulrooney and Darina Gallagher, hosted by Katy Hayes

Bloomsday Film Festival: Luulur

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Documentary by Raivo Kelomees exploring the surreal world of Estonian sound poet Jaan Malin.

In the film “Luulur“, we follow Jaan Malin, who represents his stage name Luulur, on his journey towards the poetry slam and the “Crazy Tartu” festival. Sound poetry, originally defined by Ilmar Laaban, is a Luulur art form with roots in Dadaism and Surrealism. Jaan Malin, who has a complicated relationship with his father Ilmar Malin and the poet Ilmar Laaban, explores in his monologue the expectations and pressures that come from these influences. The structure of the film consists of several components, including Luulur’s biography and his performances at international experimental poetry events. Interviews with well-known authors bring out discussions about “meaningless” art, which is also reflected in Malin’s novel “Earth and World”, written in a fictional language.

The film explores how Luulur transcends his role models by creating dialogues with other artists such as Roomet Jakapi, Ivi Rausi and Tobias Kunze. The curation of the “Crazy Tartu” festival and the practice of sound poetry introduce Estonian surrealism and Luulur’s expressive work, which invites us to ask whether art must have a clear meaning.

This film explores the truly unique world of sound poetry as well as having parallels with Joyce.

Bloomsday Film Festival: Joycean shorts

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Short films (documentary and fiction) based on or about the works for James Joyce

Programme:

At That Hour (2026), Emlyn Boyle, 2 min, Ireland

Eala (Swan) (2026), Anne Ciecko, 2 min, United States

A Poet’s Odyssey from L.A. to Dublin (2026), Godfrey Jordan, 12 min, Canada

Letter To Ms Weaver (2025), Ger Duffy, 6 min, Ireland

Wake (2026), Joyce Garvey, 10 min, Ireland

The Bloom Mystery (2007), Csilla Toldy, 26 min, United Kingdom

The Spirit-Level (2026), C. Michael Payne, 7 min, Germany

Far Calls (2022), Tristan Heanue, Olwen Fouéré, 22 min, Ireland

Total screening runtime: approx. 87 mins

Bloomsday Film Festival: Experimental Shorts

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Bold and innovative experimental short films from Ireland and around the world.

Programme:

A Slow Fire (2025), Robin Thomson, 20 min, United Kingdom

Species of Spaces (2025), Megan O’Rourke, 21 min, Ireland

Corvus (2025), X New Worlds, William Greiner, 4 min, United Kingdom

Grab Em (2025), Dylan Delaney, 10 min, Ireland

VERMIN (2025), Clare Tascio, 11 min, United States

Waiting Room (2025), AmberAmelia Kelly, 3 min, Ireland

Coalescence (2025), Arran Tenzin Bradstock, 12 min, Ireland

Allegory of the Cave (2025), Weipeng Huang, Yajing Wang, 8 min, China

Transmutation (2025), Charlie Jimenez, 10 min, United Kingdom

Total screening runtime: approx. 99 mins

Bloomsday Film Festival: Poetry Shorts

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Short films based on works of poetry from Ireland and around the world.

Programme:

Keps (2025), Tristan Crowe, 5 min, Ireland

A Rose Amongst The Smoke (2025), Jannik Ohlendieck, 2 min, Mexico

The Remnant (2024), Arda Gül, 5 min, Türkiye

Crossing Over Barrack Street (2025), Philip Denvir, 2 min, Ireland

Blood Hounds (2025), Janet Lees, 3 min, United Kingdom

Dublin Dust (2026), Polina Cosgrave, 2 min, Ireland

A Silent Row (2026), Carles Pamies Sauret, 4 min, Spain

Breath (2025), David Van-Cauter, 10 min, United Kingdom

Life on Mars (subtitled) (2025), Colm Scully, 4 min, Ireland

A Transcription of the Sheepbiter’s Handwritten Confession (2024), Anne Ciecko, 5 min, United States

i ni (2026), Jessie Currie, 6 min, United Kingdom

Marinating (2025), Helmie Stil, Sjaan Flikweert, 4 min, Netherlands

The Art of Perception (2025), Thomas O’Donoghue, 3 min, Ireland

Petres (2024), Vassia Pappa, 7 min, Greece

Rosehip Syrup (2026), Sarah Corcoran, 3 min, Ireland

Sand Shape (2026), Danae Imme Zegers, 8 min, Belgium

Algorithm (2026), Alkistis Kafetzi, 5 min, Greece / Iceland

The Heart in the Black (2026), Luke De Brún, 11 min, Ireland

Total screening runtime: approx. 87 mins

Bloomsday Film Festival: Literature Shorts

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Short films based on works of literature.

Programme:

THE WILDE SISTERS (2024), Táine King, 11 min, Ireland

BOG (2023), Éabha Bortolozzo, Jack Kirwan, 10 min, Ireland

Dreamt by Another (2025), Vikki Bardot, 8 min, Türkiye

LICE (2025), Elena Kulesh, 8 min, Germany / Russian Federation

A Fellow of Infinite Jest (2026), Brendan Morris, 3 min, Ireland

Fog Tooth (2026), Hugo Fearon, 14 min, Ireland

I Just Wonder (2026), Mary Lavery Carrig, Veronica Henley, 13 min, Ireland

How to Shoot a Ghost (2025), Charlie Kaufman, Eva H.D, 23 min, Greece / United States

Total screening runtime: approx. 92 mins

Bloomsday Film Festival: Ulysses, New York – An Introduction with Director Caveh Zahedi

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Ulysses, New York is an ambitious 24-part adaptation of James Joyce’s Ulysses by Caveh Zahedi, an American autobiographical filmmaker known for his self-reflexive and formally adventurous approach to cinema. His feature films include Autobiographical Filmmaker Seeks Camera-Friendly Companion (2025), The Sheik and I (2012), I Am a Sex Addict (2005), In the Bathtub of the World (2001), I Don’t Hate Las Vegas Anymore (1994), and A Little Stiff (1991). He is also the creator of the web series The Show About the Show and the writer/host of the podcast 365 Stories I Want To Tell You Before We Both Die.

With Ulysses, New York, Zahedi attempts to do to Joyce’s Ulysses what Joyce did to Homer’s The Odyssey: transpose a canonical work into a new time, place and form. The events of 16 June 1904 in Dublin are reimagined as taking place on 16 June 2022 in New York City, on the centenary of the novel’s publication. Following eight actors performing in a Bloomsday stage production of Ulysses, the film moves between Joyce’s chapters onstage and the corresponding hours of the actors’ real day. This special presentation features a work-in-progress version of the introductory episode, followed by a discussion with Zahedi on the challenges of adapting Joyce.

Bloomsday Film Festival: Dublin Short Stories

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Short films (documentary & fiction) set in or about Dublin.

Programme:

The Laughing Boys (2025), Caroline Grace-Cassidy, Roisín Kearney, 6 min, Ireland

A Little Bird Told Me (2025), Sophie Meehan, 14 min, Ireland

Dublin (2024), Luis Avery, 5 min, Honduras

Heartsick (2025), MK Quane, 9 min, Ireland

Long Balconies (2025), Cara Gaynor, 6 min, Ireland

My Not-So-Dirty-Dublin (2026), Chiara Rucks, 2 min, Ireland

Tommy, My Neighbour (2025), Zeljka Zupanic, 12 min, Ireland

Sherry Trifle (2026), Maureen O’Connell, 20 min, Ireland

The Peculiar Saga of Gubu Man (2025), Renata Lima, Silvio Severino, 15 min, Ireland

Total screening runtime: approx. 88 mins

Old Ghosts

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On Bloomsday, Tuesday, 16th June at 6pm, dlr LexIcon is presenting a free screening of Old Ghosts, a short, filmed opera created in response to the Penelope episode of Ulysses, in partnership with Irish National Opera. The filmed opera offers a playful and evocative exploration of the imagined origins of Molly Bloom and the final chapter of Ulysses, with music by Evangelia Rigaki and text by Marina Carr. Directed by Louise Lowe and conducted by Elaine Kelly, Old Ghosts was originally commissioned as part of Ulysses 2.2, a collaboration between ANU, Landmark Productions, and the Museum of Literature Ireland.

The event is free. No booking is required. Running time: Approx. 40 minutes

Bloomsday Film Festival: Ulysses – A Magic Lantern Odyssey

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The James Joyce Centre presents Ulysses: A Magic Lantern Odyssey, a one-of-a-kid visual show popular during Joyce’s time!

Join us in Belvedere House on Sunday, 14th June at 5.30pm for a magical performance in celebration of James Joyce’s novel.

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 Chris Guilfoyle (guitar) and Morgan Cooke (piano).

Tickets are €10.

Bloomsday at the James Joyce Centre

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The James Joyce Centre opens its doors to celebrate the greatest day of the year — Bloomsday! We will be open to the public for free on Bloomsday, Tuesday, 16th June from 9:30am to 6pm.

The James Joyce Centre is proud to organise the Bloomsday Festival on behalf of the city of Dublin. As a token of our appreciation to Dublin and all the participants of Bloomsday, we will open our doors to the public for free. Come see Leopold Bloom’s door from No. 7 Eccles Street, where it all began. Browse our exhibitions, parlour rooms, and interactive guides to Joyce’s life and work. Marvel at the beautifully preserved 18th century townhouse, a stunning example of high Georgian architecture. See the Maginni Room, named after “Mr Denis J Maginni, professor of dancing &c,” the real-life dance instructor who used the room as his dance studio and is mentioned in Ulysses!

Seedcake will be provided by the Parnell Street Bakery for visitors to enjoy. An appearance by “Alice,” a vintage car built in 1904, will grace North Great George’s Street. Eileene McLoughlin, Noel O’Grady and Maja Elliott will be performing in the morning in Classical Joyce. We will also be visited by the Fingal Mummers for a special mumming celebration at 1pm.

Come watch Adam Seelig’s epic episodic film series James Joyce, Finnegans Wake of the Bloomsday Film Festival at 10am and a special AI premiere by American musical composer Jonathan Brielle at 12pm.

There will be readings, talks, music, children’s events, and fun throughout the day!

Feel free to dress up in your finest bowler hats and Edwardian garb as you join visitors from all over the world for an unparalleled cultural celebration.

Admission is free and open to the public. No booking is necessary.

We hope to see you there!

In the Footsteps of James Joyce and Oscar Wilde

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Fellow Irish Artists is delighted to launch the second part of its documentary In the Footsteps of James Joyce on Bloomsday, Sunday June 16th. The documentary is free and available to the public online.

Filmed and directed by Jonathan William Fay. In the Footsteps of James Joyce is short documentary film project covering the life, times, and works of the renowned Irish writer James Joyce. His rise and fall from grace and his larger-than-life legacy. Come with Jonathan in his footsteps. Joined by the friends of James Joyce: Nuala O’Connor, John Shevlin, Declan Gorman, Les Doherty, Riccardo Cepach, Silvia Beach, Ken Monaghan, Jack Walsh, Ambassador Anna Sochańska, PJ Murphy, President Michael D Higgins, and Senator David Norris. Created By Fellow Irish Artists, J.W.Fay’s Media Productions Limited, © 2024.

An independent film production by Jonathan William Fay, ® 2022, © 2024. Novels by James Joyce are available to order from Ulysses Rare Books. A Gofund page has been created to support future works by Fellow Irish Artists: https://gofund.me/78db95c8.

In The Footsteps Of Oscar Wilde, © 2024. A short documentary film project covering the life, times, and works of the renowned Irish writer Oscar Wilde. His rise and fall from grace and his larger-than-life legacy. Come with me as I follow in his footsteps, Patrick Walsh. Based on his book, Wilde’s Atlantic Ways. Winner Of 2000 Guinness Living Dublin Awards. © 2000. Filmed and Directed by Jonathan William Fay. Written and narrated by Patrick Walsh. With studio sound recordings by Leon Henry. Joined by the friends of Oscar Wilde: Sarah Lafferty, Paul Cox, Caoimhe Ni Ghormain, Rosanna Davison, Dr. Rory McEngetart, Tony Sheridan, Colette McGahern, Pauline Farrelly, Tanya Moany King, and PJ Murphy with Sir Stephen Fry and Merlin Holland. With many thanks to the members of the public. For reading parts from the book, Wilde’s Famous 100 Quotes.

Created By Fellow Irish Artists, J.W.Fay’s Media Productions Limited, © 2024. https://fellowirishartists.com An independent film production by Jonathan William Fay, ® 2022, © 2024. Novels by Patrick Walsh are available to order from, Seasons Of Ireland, online gift store: https://seasonsofireland.ie https://seasonsofireland.ie/products/… A go found has been created to support future works by Fellow Irish Artists: https://gofund.me/78db95c8.

To watch the documentaries, click this link.

Bloomsday Film Festival: Adam & Paul/An Encounter

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Irish Institute of Film

June 16th, 18:20 – Adam & Paul/An Encounter
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20th anniversary screening of Lenny Abrahamson’s first feature. Written by Mark O’Halloran about the addicts he encountered in Dublin’s inner city, it follows the Ulyssean wanderings of Adam and Paul through the streets of Dublin looking for their next fix. It is an astonishing work shot through with an absurdist and often comic vision in the service of a deeply sensitive portrait of drug addiction with utterly convincing central performances of O’Halloran and the late, wonderful Tom Murphy.

Also screening: An Encounter. An adaptation by Mark O’Halloran of Joyce’s unsettling short story. Dir. Kelly Campbell, 20 mins, Ireland, 2022 35mm.

An introduction by Mark O’Halloran will explore Joycean connections.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

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For enquiries: bloomsdayfilmfestival@jamesjoyce.ie
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Bloomsday Film Festival: The Ulysses Project

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Droichead Arts Centre

June 16th

15:00 – The Ulysses Project
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‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.

Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as 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 and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI.

Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.

We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.

View The Official Selection 2024

For enquiries: bloomsdayfilmfestival@jamesjoyce.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloomsdayfilmfestival
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Bloomsday Film Festival: The Disembodied Adventures of Alice

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Irish Institute of Film

June 16th, 15:20 – The Disembodied Adventures of Alice
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This hallucinatory trip, an adult fairytale, travels through a long, dark night conjuring otherworldly scenes of kink, gender-swapping, mental illness, loss and loneliness. Reimagining Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice, the film’s protagonist journeys though a warren of bewildering scenarios where she encounters characters who are at once beguiling and alienating – gliding, writhing, gorging, dancing, and uttering passages from Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Their world promises as much danger as sensual delight. This is the first feature film from Cléa van der Grijn, an internationally acclaimed, award-winning, visual artist and independent film maker based in Sligo.

Cléa van der Grijn will join a post-screening Q&A with Tommy Creagh, director of the Bloomsday Film Festival.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

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For enquiries: bloomsdayfilmfestival@jamesjoyce.ie
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Bloomsday Film Festival: Kino Volta

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Irish Institute of Film

June 15th

18:00 – Kino Volta
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‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.

Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as 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 and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.

Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.

We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.

View The Official Selection 2024

For enquiries: bloomsdayfilmfestival@jamesjoyce.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloomsdayfilmfestival
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Bloomsday Film Festival: Richard Harte in Finnegans Wake

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James Joyce Centre

June 16th

10:00 – Richard Harte in Finnegans Wake: Chapters 1 & 2
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‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.

Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as 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 and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.

Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.

We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.

View The Official Selection 2024

For enquiries: bloomsdayfilmfestival@jamesjoyce.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloomsdayfilmfestival
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Bloomsday Film Festival: Joycean and Dublin Shorts

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James Joyce Centre

June 15th

11:30 – Focus Screening: Lucia on Film
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13:00 – Dublin Short Stories
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15:00 – Joycean Shorts
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‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.

Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as 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 and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.

Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.

We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.

View The Official Selection 2024

For enquiries: bloomsdayfilmfestival@jamesjoyce.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloomsdayfilmfestival
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloomsdayfilmfestival
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Bloomsday Film Festival: Literary and Experimental Shorts

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James Joyce Centre

June 14th

13:00 – Literature Shorts
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15:00 – Experimental Shorts 1
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17:00 – Experimental Shorts 2
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‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.

Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as 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 and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.

Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.

We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.

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For enquiries: bloomsdayfilmfestival@jamesjoyce.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloomsdayfilmfestival
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Bloomsday Film Festival: Poetry Shorts

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James Joyce Centre

June 13th

13:30 – Focus Screening: the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation
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15:00 – Poetry Shorts 1
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17:00 – Poetry Shorts 2
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‘Whenever I am obliged to lie with my eyes closed I see a cinematograph going on and on and it brings back to my memory things I had almost forgotten.’ – James Joyce.

Ireland’s most literary film festival. Set up as 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 and will run between the 11th – 16th June, with screenings taking place at the historic James Joyce Centre and the IFI, as well as Online.

Like last year, we will celebrate the birthday of W.B Yeats on the 13th of June with a selection of Poetry and Literature short films. On the 14th, in keeping with Joyce’s radical and experimental spirit, we will screen the best Experimental Films. On the 15th, the anniversary of the publications of Dubliners, we will dedicate to Dublin with screenings of Joycean short films and Dublin Short Stories. We will also have many more special events between the 11th – 16th, as well as on Bloomsday itself of course, the 16th, and will screen the feature films in the evenings.

We want to encourage artistic innovation within the medium, artists who do things their own way, and films that seek to push the craft forward, as Joyce did so greatly within his own craft of literature.

View The Official Selection 2024

For enquiries: bloomsdayfilmfestival@jamesjoyce.ie
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bloomsdayfilmfestival
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bloomsdayfilmfestival
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bloomsdayfilmf1

 

Bloomsday at the James Joyce Centre

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The James Joyce Centre welcomes you to its doors to celebrate the greatest time of the year — Bloomsday!

The James Joyce Centre is proud to organise the Bloomsday Festival on behalf of the city of Dublin. As a token of our appreciation to Dublin and all the participants of Bloomsday, we will be open free of charge on Sunday, June 16th from 9:30am to 4:30pm. Come see Leopold Bloom’s door from No. 7 Eccles Street, where it all began. Browse our exhibitions, parlour rooms, and interactive guides to Joyce’s life and work. Marvel at the beautifully preserved 18th century townhouse, a stunning example of high Georgian architecture. See the Maginni Room, named after “Mr Denis J Maginni, professor of dancing &c,” the real-life dance instructor who used the room as his dance studio and is mentioned in Ulysses! There will be readings, talks, music, children’s events, and fun throughout the day!

Feel free to dress up in your finest bowler hats and Edwardian garb as you join visitors from around the world for an unparalleled literary occasion. For more information, visit our website at www.jamesjoyce.ie.

We hope to see you there!