Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out
Digital video, duration: 03:05, (2020)
Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out screening at WORM Rotterdam, The Netherlands (2023) as part of aemi’s 2023
Irish and international touring programme.
Video still: Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out
Video still: Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out
Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out as part of Brows for Days vinyl text and drawing installation, The LAB Gallery, Dublin, 2020
ARC, IADT, MA Show
The LAB Gallery, Dublin
January 2020
Digital video on a flatscreen TV with a drawing and text vinyl installation on the windows, floor and columns of the gallery.
Dimensions variable.
The video is shown on a loop.
Photography by James Keogh
SCREENINGS
Súitú, aemi 2023 Touring Programme, premiere at
Cork International Film Festival, November 2022.
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South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, IE
Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, IE
Belfast Film Festival, Northern Ireland
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The work touches on things that are inflated;
bills, lungs, bellies, airbags, egos
bills, lungs, bellies, airbags, egos
...Lisa Freeman‘s Hook, Spill, Cry Your Eyes Out is a breakdown and blitz of the man-made and its stresses on mind and body. In a brief but packed runtime, Freeman takes on a dash through overstuffed, hectic modern existence. Her spasmodic yet pointedly eliding camerawork and propulsive editing throws the spectator from pip to the post, through a variety of scenarios and distinctly urban, constructed spaces where the overriding impression is of a hyperventilating rat race. The film depicts a life and gaze governed by the demand to keep going and going which is the paramount tenet of any neoliberal, capitalist society.
Text by Ruairí McCann, commissioned by aemi to accompany 'Súitú', an aemi touring programme featuring films by:
Fábio Andrade (Brazil), Susan Hughes (Northern Ireland), Morgan Quaintance (UK), Bárbara Lago (Argentina), Sofia Theodore-Pierce (USA), Lisa Freeman (Ireland) and Holly Márie Parnell (Ireland).
Read Ruairí's McCann's text in full on the aemi website here.