Galway Film Centre is delighted to collaborate with TULCA Visual Arts Festival in bringing internationally acclaimed artist and filmmaker Amie Siegel. Amie will talk about her feature length film DDR/DDR showing in Nuns Island Theatre throughout the Festival. Bridging the gap between visual art and cinema, DDR/DDR is a film on the German Democratic Republic and its collapse. It uses unsettlingly mundane Stasi surveillance footage, interviews with former citizens, psychoanalysts, and lolling shots of derelict office buildings into a film that meditates on history, memory, and the shared technologies of state control and art. Amie will be in conversation with Katherine Waugh on Friday November 18th at 6pm. The event is free and no booking is necessary.
Amie Siegel lives in Berlin, New York and Cambridge. She works variously in 16mm and 35mm film, video, sound and writing.
Katherine Waugh is a writer and filmmaker based in Galway. Having a background in philosophy, she actively pursues an ongoing engagement with important philosophical concepts as they relate to contemporary art and film. She has previously written for Circa, a variety of film journals and regularly writes essays for artists catalogues both internationally and nationally. She co-directed The Art of Time a film exploring radical temporalities in the work of leading international artists, filmmakers and architects.
