Artistic Differences Invites Declan Clarke

In our second episode, Artistic Differences has invited Declan Clarke to speak about his radically minimalistic and melancholic form of filmmaking that opens a maximal poetic potential for representing histories economic, political, ideological, affective and material. 

Our hosts, Cíntia Gil (Independent Programmer) and Christopher Allen (UnionDocs Founder), together with those who joined our monthly cineclub, surfaced questions about Clarke’s idiosyncratic filmmaking; first considering the ruminative Saturn and Beyond (2021), which looks to a history of connective technologies, the neurological decline of Clarke’s father and the history of the Irish Museum of Broadcasting; and then diving into Group Portrait With Explosives (2014), which traces an almost imperceptible link between the former country of Czechoslovakia and South Armagh in Northern Ireland through the vagaries of industrial manufacturing and international trade.

Both films are now streaming on the UnionDocs membership. We invite you to tune into this program and a conversation that probes the intriguing challenges that Clarke’s work proposes— a kind of ordering, labeling and diagramming that might allow for alternative accounts of human existence.

Watch Declan Clarke’s film on our membership, and join next month’s cineclub Oct. 5th!

Thanks to our incredible team!

Editor: Rui Alves de Sousa

Music: André Simoes 

Production support: Constanca Pinelo, Tara Kesavan

Additional UnionDocs support provided by A.S.M Kobayashi & Scott Limbacher

This is a production of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art. 

ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES is co-curated and co-organized by Cíntia Gil, Christopher Allen & Jenny Miller. 

Find more about ARTISTIC DIFFERENCES on our site: www.uniondocs.org/artistic-differences and become a member and join the club at membership.uniondocs.org.