CineSalon Experimental FIlm Festival: 'Artist in Focus' Programme
Screening Announcement: CineSalon Experimental Film Festival
7 of my short films will be screened at CineSalon Festival on 14th September in an ‘Artist in Focus’ programme. I’m really looking forward to sharing these films with everyone and discussing my work after the screening. Be sure to follow @cinesaloncork for festival updates!
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From the CineSalon festival website:
CineSalon Experimental Film Festival will feature a screening of films by Arran Tenzin Bradstock on Saturday September 14th followed by a discussion with the filmmaker about his prolific film output and parallel engagement with sound.
Arran Tenzin Bradstock is a filmmaker and musician from Cork whose experimental approaches to filmmaking treat sounds and images as independent equals and embrace unknowable results through randomised processes and improvisation. The resulting works are immersive and hypnotic, evoking surprisingly dreamlike states through their visually intense collaging of details of reality.
[Above posted August 01 2024]
Bloomsday Film Festival 2024
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Screening Announcement: November 2021 at Bloomsday Film Festival
My film November 2021 will screen as part of the Experimental Shorts programme on June 14th in the @jamesjoycecentreDublin. Really looking forward to seeing this year’s selection! Be sure to follow @bloomsdayfilmfestival for more updates and to view the full programme 📽🎞🔊
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NOVEMBER 2021: ‘A collage-film assembled from a diverse pool of audio and visual pieces made throughout November 2021. This work invites the viewer-listener to enter into an abstract audiovisual world defined by both its chaotic intensity and its meditative sense of immersion.’
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[Above posted May 23 2024]
NOW ONLINE: COLLISION | OVERLAP | FORMATION (2021)
In early 2021, I made 3 audio-only pieces and 3 visual-only pieces, all sharing the same duration. I approached them as standalone pieces, with the only point of connection being that in each piece I wanted to explore different methods of combining audio/visual materials in ways that would seem to allow new sounds and images to emerge. After completing the audio and visual pieces, I used a chance-based process to randomly pair them, resulting in 3 films: Collision, Overlap, and Formation.
Overlap premiered at Bloomsday Film Festival 2022; Collision, Overlap, and Formation were screened in one combined sequence at CineSalon in September 2023.
Click HERE to watch the films and for some background on my approach to making them.
NOW ONLINE: FRAMERATES (2021)
My experimental film FRAMERATES (2021, 8 minutes) is now online!
Click HERE to watch the film and for some background on my approach to making it.
NOW ONLINE: NOVEMBER | 3-part experimental film project
Throughout January 2024, I released my 3-part experimental film prokject NOVEMBER online. You can watch this as three seperate 15-minute films, or combined in one 45-minute version.
Click HERE for all relevant video links and background on the project.
CineSalon: SCREENING UPDATE
Screening Announcement: CineSalon, Sept. 21st 2023
My film ‘Collision – Overlap – Formation’ will screen at the upcoming CineSalon experimental film event on Thursday 21st September, 7.30pm, at The Guesthouse Project, Cork.
‘Collision – Overlap – Formation’ is a series of 3 experimental shorts presented together as one film exploring the emergence of new sounds and images arising from different methods of combining material.
Across its 3 soundscapes of noise, drones, and ambience, and 3 imagescapes of chaos, symmetry, and abstraction, the film serves as a meditation on ausio/visual structure and form.
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“CineSalon is a quarterly experimental film screening event curated by filmmakers Maximilian Le Cain and Benjamin Burns. CineSalon aims to provide a platform for film artists to share and discuss works old and new with adventurous audiences in a relaxed atmosphere. It exists to trace the emerging history of those visionary wild reeds springing up on the margins of Irish art and filmmaking. It celebrates personal, poetic, formally challenging work that ignores accepted paradigms and is all the more illuminating for it.” – CineSalon
[Above posted June 08 2023]
Bloomsday Film Festival 2023
OFFICIAL SELECTION
Screening Announcement: XENOBLAST at Bloomsday Film Festival 2023
My film XENOBLAST, made in collaboration with Maximilian Le Cain, has been Officially Selected for this year’s Bloomsday Film Festival.
It will screen as part of the ‘Irish Experimental Shorts II’ programme next Wednesday, June 14th at 16:00 in The James Joyce Centre Dublin.
To see the full programme and book tickets, visit http://www.bloomsdayfestival.ie/filmfestival
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XENOBLAST (2021, 6 minutes): ‘Spaces converge and collapse in this audiovisual exploration of location and perceptual experience, presented through sounds and images recorded by experimental filmmakers Arran Tenzin Bradstock and Maximilian Le Cain.’
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[Above posted May 2023]
IndieCork Film Festival 2022
SCREENING UPDATE
A quick update: My film XENOBLAST will screen in the ‘Made In Cork 2’ programme of IndieCork Film Festival. The screening will take place on Tuesday, October 4th at 6.30pm in The Gate Cinema Cork. Visit IndieCork's website to see the full programme and to book tickets.
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[Above posted September 24 2022]
IndieCork Film Festival 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION
I’m delighted to share that XENOBLAST has been officially selected for Bloomsday Film Festival 2023!
I made this film in collaboration with my good friend and experimental filmmaker extraordinaire Maximilian Le Cain of Close Watch Films & Experimental Film Society. I look forward to having it screened at another great festival after its successful premiere at last year’s IndieCork Film Festival.
The festival will take place between June 12th-16th in Dublin, with screenings held in the James Joyce Centre and Irish Film Institute (IFI) (other venues tbd). All films selected will also screen online over the weekend of June 16th–18th.
Be sure to follow Bloomsday Film Festival and Bloomsday Festival for more updates and programme announcements
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XENOBLAST (2021, 6 minutes): ‘Spaces converge and collapse in this audiovisual exploration of location and perceptual experience, presented through sounds and images recorded by experimental filmmakers Arran Tenzin Bradstock and Maximilian Le Cain.’
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[Above posted May 23 2023]
NOW ONLINE: ‘Film Album no.1’
All 7 tracks of Film Album no.1 are now online! These are available as individual films, as well as a 30-minute cut of all the tracks presented as one continuous film.
Click HERE for all relevant links.
[Above posted Aug 08 2022]
ONLINE AUGUST 1–7: ‘Film Album no.1’
In August I will be sharing 7 new short films. These non-narrative, experimental shorts were each made as individual films that can viewed as standalone pieces or taken together to form one film album experience. This idea came from wanting to see how the approach I often take when producing musical albums as Don't Think could be applied to my filmmaking.
[Above posted July 11 2022]
Bloomsday Film Festival 2022
OFFICIAL SELECTION
I’m very happy to share that one of my new experimental short films Overlap has been officially selected for screening at this year’s Bloomsday Film Festival!
Overlap is one of the films I’ve recently made during my ongoing PhD research at Music At UCC, and I’m really looking forward to sharing it with you all.
The festival runs from June 11th-16th in Dublin with screenings in the James Joyce Centre, Irish Film Institute (IFI) and online.
Be sure to follow the Bloomsday Film Festival on social media to see the full programme when it is announced and check back here for updates and more info!
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[Above posted May 13 2022]
Experimental Film Odyssey 2021
SPECIAL SCREENING
2 of my films, FRAMERATES and November 2020, are being screened at this year’s Experimental Film Odyssey Festival on November 20th!
The films will play as the opening double-bill of the festival's 'shorts' programme, starting at 12pm central standard time. Visit the Experimental Film Odyssey website or social media pages for more details.
IndieCork Film Festival 2021
SPECIAL PROGRAMME
I’m very pleased to announce that 4 of my films are being screened at this year’s IndieCork Film Festival! I’ve had short films screened at the festival for the past 4 years, and I’m thrilled to have a selection of my work included this year.
These are all experimental films I’ve made over the past year as part of my ongoing PhD at UCC, and I’m excited to start sharing some of this work. The films included are FRAMERATES, [sync] I & [sync] II, and November 2020, presented as a Special Programme titled ‘FRAMERATES & Other Works’.
The programme will be available online via the IndieCork festival website from Sept 19 – Oct 3, tickets on sale now! Check out the full festival programme for more information on the other screenings taking place online and at The Gate Cinema.
>>> indiecork.com
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UPDATE ON WORKS IN PROGRESS
I am currently working on a number of film projects as part of my practice based PhD in Composition at UCC. For more information CLICK HERE. I will be posting regular updates and film stills on Instagram and Facebook. Looking forward to sharing the finished films in the future!
'THREE DEGREE PRODUCTIONS' SOCIAL MEDIA UPDATE
Hello everyone! This is an update on the recent change from the 'Three Degree Productions' name to my own name, Arran Tenzin Bradstock. Hopefully this post will clear up any questions people have.
You might have already noticed my YouTube channel being changed to 'Arran Tenzin Bradstock', and in the near future I plan on making the same change on my Facebook page and Instagram account.
While I still plan on making short films and using the Three Degree Productions name, over the past year I’ve been branching out into new kinds of projects. I’ve been focusing on more experimental film/audiovisual pieces lately, and in the next few months I’ll be posting more about them. I’ve also started making music as Don’t Think, and I have are several new releases in the works.
Whereas before I only posted online about film updates, I now plan on using this page to post about all of the various things I’m working on. The film content you have come to expect will remain a core part of what I produce, and I hope that the addition of other projects will make the website and social media pages more engaging spaces. Thanks very much to everyone who has followed me so far!
-Arran