Looking forward to catching @ruairimccann.bsky.social of Two Nice Catholic Boys' Closing Festival Club set at Cairde Festival with Alix, Tailtiu and Fun Protestants. July 12th. The Model, Sligo. www.cairdefestival.com/2025/fun-pro...
Ruairí McCann
@ruairimccann.bsky.social
critic, curator, illustrator & musician from Ireland (born and living in Belfast but raised in County Sligo) - co-editor of Ultra Dogme. ultradogme.com
My essay for Ultra Dogme on Larry Gottheim’s MACHETE GILETTE… MAMA, a travelogue profoundly marked by ghosts and perceptual vicissitudes. Also included in our new Larry Gottheim. zine, Intervals of Light & Darkness, which is free to download on the website. ultradogme.com/2025/05/22/m...
Do These Images Give Voice?: Machete Gillette…Mama (1989) - Ultra Dogme
Ruairí McCann on Larry Gottheim's Machete Gilette...Mama, a travelogue marked by ghosts and perceptual vicissitudes.
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To celebrate his retrospective Ultra Dogme have produced this free to download zine which contains critical reflections and interviews from the editors including @ruairimccann.bsky.social , wider contributors and Larry Gottheim himself ultradogme.com/2025/05/14/n...
Intervals of Light & Darkness: A Collection of New & Selected Texts on the Cinema of Larry Gottheim - Ultra Dogme
Ultra Dogme presents a free digital collection of new and selected texts on the cinema of Larry Gottheim.
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In honor of the Larry Gottheim series opening in NY tomorrow, my fellow editors at Ultra Dogme and I are happy to announce the publication of a new digital zine, Intervals of Light & Darkness: A Collection of New & Selected Texts on the Cinema of Larry Gottheim, free to download at ultraogme.com
For @bombmag.bsky.social I interviewed Dónal Foreman about his latest feature The Cry of Granuaile, its roots in history & science fiction, the influence of the 'First Wave' of independent Irish filmmakers, his work as an educator & more. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...
BOMB Magazine | Dónal Foreman by Ruairí McCann
The Irish auteur examines how history, mythology, film criticism, and teaching have shaped his filmmaking.
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New at Ultra Dogme: an essay by Cici Peng on the revolutionary dynamics of several films shown at the 'third worldist' Afro-Asian Film Festival, which ran for 3 editions after emerging out of the 1955 Bandung Conference. ultradogme.com/2025/04/02/r...
Revolutionary Desires: Films of The Afro-Asian Film Festival and the 'Bandung Spirit' at IFFR 2025 - Ultra Dogme
Cici Peng on the revolutionary dynamics of several films featured at the 'third worldist' Afro-Asian Film Festival and screened at IFFR for the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference.
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The longest my hair has ever been and I'm enjoying it!
Tim Robinson on kittiwakes & fulmars in Stones of Aran: Pilgrimage
New on my substack, I wrote about Frederick Wiseman's disturbing 1974 documentary Primate and the limits of scientific vision. All the pieces on my substack are free but if you do have money to spare, a paid subscription would be much appreciated. ruairimccann.substack.com/p/the-foible...
The Foibles of Homo Faber: on Frederick Wiseman's Primate
A short essay on Frederick Wiseman's Primate (1974), a docu-horror about the limits of scientific vision.
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I've been doing some work as a model for a portrait painting class recently. Here are two favourites.
I wrote a short piece about my friend, the late great filmmaker and painter, Joseph Bernard. Thanks to the Ultra Dogme team. You can read it here: ultradogme.com/2025/02/28/j...
Joseph Bernard (1941–2025) - Ultra Dogme
Dean Kavanagh on his friend and fellow filmmaker, the late Joseph Bernard.
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A beautiful short piece by @deankavanagh.bsky.social on the late great Joseph Bernard ultradogme.com/2025/02/28/j...
Joseph Bernard (1941–2025) - Ultra Dogme
Dean Kavanagh on his friend and fellow filmmaker, the late Joseph Bernard.
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Decided to share a trio of very short pieces on my substack. Not criticism but something like fiction open.substack.com/pub/ruairimc...
Three Images, Occluded, Bared
One of my favourite things to do is to write short, little prose pieces; observations, fiction and sometimes combinations of the two.
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For Mubi Notebook, I wrote about 3 films that Frederick Wiseman made in the late 70s about the US empire & military industrial complex as humdrum, business, spectacle and a society within a society. Check it out via the link in bio. Thanks to Maxwell and Chloe for the edits. mubi.com/en/notebook/...
Frederick Wiseman Goes to War
Three early films find a post-Vietnam US military repackaging the American way for export.
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Over at Ultra Dogme, we have a new essay by the always astute Liam Kenny on the lived in, phantasmagorical and revolutionary cinema or Margarida Cordeiro & António Reis. Read it here: ultradogme.com/2025/02/18/a...
Peasants of the Cinema: António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro - Ultra Dogme
Liam Kenny on Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis's revolutionary cinema of Tràs-os-Montes, its lived-in and dreamlike poetics and their ethos of close communal collaboration.
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My conversation with Marianne Keating at the Douglas Hyde Gallery about her films connecting the colonial and revolutionary histories of Ireland, Jamaica and Barbados is now online! Listen here m.soundcloud.com/user-5353451...
Marianne Keating In Conversation with Ruairí McCann
Stream Marianne Keating In Conversation with Ruairí McCann by The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Hey, this is what I'm listening to right now and here's something I drew this evening.
