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FRAGMENTS OF FINNEGANS WAKE
 | Sonic Arts Research Centre, Cloreen Park (off Malone Rd), Belfast
Thursday 29 April Doors open 8pm
£6.00
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| | | | | | | | Moving on Music, Belfast Film Festival and the Sonic Arts Research Centre in association present...
Fragments of Finnegans Wake. With newly composed live soundtrack by 4 composers from the School of Music & Sonic Arts, Queens University Belfast.
A half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce’s novel, her only feature.
In the transformation from Joyce’s prose to the concrete imagery of actors and sets, Passages discovers a truly oneiric film style, a weirdly post-New Wave rediscovery of Surrealism, and in her panoply of allusion – 1950s dance crazes, atomic weaponry, ICBMs, and television all make appearances – she finds a cinematic approximation of the novel’s nearly impenetrable compressed structure.
With Passages from Finnegans Wake Bute was the first to adapt a work of James Joyce to film and was honored for this project at the Cannes Film Festival in 1965 as best debut.
Tickets £6 in advance through Moving on Music from the Belfast Welcome Centre, 47 Donegall Place, tel 028 9024 6609 or www.movingonmusic.co.uk
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