Refining the Senses (2016) 40 minute Performance

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Experimental Film Society (EFS) in partnership with Filmbase presents Refining the Senses, a moving image and live sound performance by Atoosa Pour Hosseini in collaboration with Suzanne Walsh.

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Refining the Senses is an uncanny sensory experience that places the viewer in a mysterious and contemplative liminal zone between different dimensions of life, death and memory. Making evocative use of the textures of Super-8 film, the visuals combine reworked found footage of anonymous old family films with newly shot scenes in which Pour Hosseini re-imagines the life of this family. By using multiple projections and painting directly onto the surface of the film, she conjures a visually gorgeous meditation on the uneasy intersection of the personal and universal in image making. The improvisational interaction of her projector performance with Walsh’s live sound form a dialogue in which moments frozen in time in the film are reactivated in the present through the impulses and reflections of the artists.

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Refining the Senses was produced and curated by Experimental Film Society and developed at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios.

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3 minutes excerpt from the Performance (Documentation) Watch Here

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​22nd October 2016 at Filmbase, Dublin

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Photos by Rouzbeh Rashidi