'Self Made' screening at the IFI
This year’s annual collaboration between the Irish Film Institute and Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is a special screening of Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing’s debut feature Self Made. The film will be followed by a public discussion between Gillian Wearing, her collaborator Sam Rumbelow and Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith, critic and Senior Lecturer at University College, Dublin.
‘Would you like to be in a film? You can play yourself or a fictional character. Call Gillian’ This was the advert by Turner prize-winning artist placed in various different locations around London and Newcastle. From the hundreds of answers she received, Wearing selected seven people and Self Made is the fascinating result.
With the help of Method-acting teacher Sam Rumbelow, Wearing used Method acting techniques with many of the participants to delve into their memories, anxieties, fears and fantasies to create scenes that reveal, with particular intensity and clarity, who they are or who they might easily have been.
Self Made is a truthful and sensitive look at the seven individual narratives which, despite being uniquely personal, combine beautifully to create a cathartic film about shared experiences.
The screening will take place in the IFI on Friday 26th February at 4:30 pm. Booking is available through the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 or online at www.ifi.ie, or alternatively through the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival Ticket Office at 01 687 7974 or by visiting www.jdiff.com
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