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"And then the bliss came, as though in being suspended in this cosmic movement and losing the motility that comes from taking a stand and taking hold, I had found what I went down in the sea to find.” - Alphonso Lingis, The Rapture of the Deep. A marine biologist meditates on the enigmatic figure of Libris Solar, an alchemical blend of human, non-human and neoprene.
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A ballad of extinction, biodiversity loss and ecological collapse, Dust is a quiet lament from a near future.
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Nothing is safe at the moment but then, nothing is ever ‘safe’ in matters of love. From the digital world of online dating, to meeting face to face for the first time; is finding true romance a dream or can Sam and Andi find a way to be together? A journey of love for our times, an encounter full of trepidation where distance is just as vital as those soaring feelings of attraction. When romance is at stake, yet circumstances prevail… just how close would you get?
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We sit and watch as white swans sail serenely by. Yet once in a while, along comes a black swan, and our world turns upside down. A horse drowns. Next door. We all observe. But who is the horse and who is the watcher? And will we be next? Wait and see.
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In seven sad, funny, and absurd vignettes, two people navigate the changes within their world and within themselves in a time of pandemic. As they jump from one situation to another, we see how they adapt to new rituals and new vocabulary.
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At a boarding school in Dublin City, a young boy secretly mourns the loss of his mother.
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When conversations occur through screens, our eyes can't meet. Our connection falters, then breaks. In these times of rift and rupture, who haunts the glitch?
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Alone in her lab, a scientist studying the 1.26 million square kilometre mass of floating plastic known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch looks for patterns, and some kind of meaning. By looking at the phenomena of ghost apples, and seabird corpses loaded with plastics, she starts to uncover the disastrous and indelible imprint humankind is making on our planet.
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Sometimes we are our own worst enemy... We fall victim to a conscience poisoned by society's repressing landscape. A rupture occurs within ourselves – the timeless fight between good and evil.
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A Scottish lighthouse goes dark. A visiting supply ship finds the building in order. But the keepers have vanished without trace.