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Documentary screening: 'Making Dust' by Ellen Rowley and Fiona Hallinan
The film will be screened at 2pm in Theatre 1 of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance building on Friday 6th September 2024. This is a free event, and the venue is accessible.
If you plan to attend the film, please arrive at 1.50pm to allow for a 2pm start.
The screening is being held as part of the Irish Humanities Alliance annual conference, and is kindly supported by the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick. More information on the conference can be found here:
https://www.irishhumanities.com/events/new-perspectives-on-irish-cultur…;
Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Understanding this moment as a 'rupture', the film maps an essay by architectural
historian Ellen Rowley on to documentation of the building's dismantling. Featuring oral interviews recorded at the site of the demolition and in a nearby hairdressers, the film invites viewers to pause and reflect on this ending alongside the community of the building. The film invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and materials, how we mourn, what is sacred, how we gather, what we value and issues of sustainability in architecture.
For more information about this film, please visit: https://www.departmentofultimology.com/making-dust