Sunset Kino is Canada's only outdoor, avant-garde film festival. Founded by Séamus Kealy in Austria in 2017, this festival continues now at Oakville Galleries. Introduced by the programmers and commencing at sunset, audiences experience a curated program of films and videos by Canadian and international artists.
All films are screened outdoors in Gairloch Gardens. Please dress appropriately and bring seating and blankets. With inclement weather, screenings will be indoors in the Studio, adjacent to the Gallery.
Oakville Galleries operates with support from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario and the Corporation of the Town of Oakville, along with our many individual, corporate, and foundation partners.
Films by Aideen Barry (IE)
Programmed by Séamus Kealy (CA/IE)
Possession, Aideen Barry (IE), 2011, 6 minutes
The film’s protagonist, a housewife, succumbs to a morbid set of circumstances, responding to her household obligation through absurd gestures that defy reality. Darkly humorous phenomenological reasoning plays on our perceptions of modern living.
Not to be Known, Aideen Barry (IE), 2015, 6 minutes
This stop-motion film shows the artist overwhelmed by the monotony and magnitude of domestic chores in nightmarish scenarios. The dark-humoured, uncanny film expands upon Barry’s exploration of obsessional behaviour within a suburban “normality.”
ᖃᐅᔨᒪᔭᐅᔪᓐᓃᖅᑐᑦ / SEACHMALLTACHT / OBLIVION, Aideen Barry (IE), 2022, 2 minutes
This film merges images of poisoned lands with archival elements of outlawed folk music (Irish Harp and Inuit throat singing) and with spoken word to become a “Gothic Dance Apocalyptic Electronica Artwork.”
Klostės (Folds/Pleats), Aideen Barry (IE), 2022, 67 minutes
Klostės is a 4K nonverbal monochromatic stop-motion animated feature based on a number of short stories, myths, and hidden histories of the inter-war modernist city of Kaunas in Lithuania.
27.6.2024
LOCATION
Gairloch Gardens
1306 Lakeshore Road East
Oakville, ON L6J 1L6
START TIME
8:30 PM
Image: Still from Klostės, film, 2022. Courtesy of Aideen Barry.
