COWS AND FLIES
dir. Jack Hogan, 2021
Ireland, Germany, USA. 25 mins

THE ISLAND
dir. Sam Keogh, 2022
Ireland, Germany. 29 mins.

WATERSHED
dir. Linda Stupart, 2020
UK. 11 mins.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 7:30 PM – ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Please join us for “Calving”, a program of three videos by Jack Hogan, Sam Keogh and Linda Stupart where archipelagos are inundated, maps redrawn and the borders between bodies and their environment disintegrate.

Each video seeks to gain critical purchase on some of the effects and contradictions of climate collapse as they reach toward their respective themes of mapping, ecology and survival. Calving refers to the birth of a calf by a cow, or the process of the creation of an iceberg when a large chunk of ice splits off from an ice shelf or glacier.

Jack Hogan’s Cows and Flies traces lines between imposed individuation and mapmaking, in the broadest sense of flattening and establishing or contesting boundaries: how rich social lives and shared places are fragmented and stripped of information, context and complexity, in order to be instrumentalized, branded and easily consumed.

Sam Keogh’s The Island draws connections between the competitive premise of Fortnite and ecofascist fantasies of an individualist fight to the death in the context of resource scarcity and climate collapse.

And Watershed by Linda Stupart combines fictionalized, scientific and historical narratives of water, pollution and contagion towards a utopian proposal of bodies’ capacity for survival when viscerally reconnected with our immediate environments.