Film Screening: Monster's Walk in Ten Chapters by Irineu Destourelles

About

Irineu Destourelles is an Edinburgh-based visual artist and the current Deveron Projects artist in residence. Irineu’s practice lies in moving-image, writing, drawing and painting, revolving around treatment of identity, experiences of creolity and diaspora. With his project Does It Fall From the Skies Above?, Irineu brought sweet-looking, monster-like city person, Lilo, to Huntly to explore collective healing through place observation and filmmaking.

In Spring, Lilo was spotted around Huntly with a film crew in tow and since then the artist has been working with filmmaker Daniel Hughes and other project partners to make Monster's Walk in Ten Chapters - an experimental short film featuring a fairytale written by the artist in response to Huntly-born writer George MacDonald’s book ‘The Princess and the Goblin’, a children’s fantasy novel originally published in 1872. 

We are looking forward to sharing this film with you. The first screening will take place on Friday 20th January at 6pm followed by drinks (booking essential via the event website).

The film will then play on loop on Saturday 21st January, 11am-5pm, at 45 minute intervals: 11.00am, 11.45am, 12.30pm, 1.15pm, 2pm, 2,45pm, 3.30pm, 4.15pm. 

This event will take place in the Huntly Library meeting room, located at the top of the staircase to the right hand side. For more information and accessibility, see below. 

Synopsis by the artist
Monster's Walk in Ten Chapters is an outcome of a residence that Irineu undertook with Deveron Projects in Huntly where he immersed himself in the work of Huntly born writer, and pioneer of fantasy literature, George MacDonald. Throughout the film a dark monster enters, explores and abruptly leaves a town that he seems simultaneously unfamiliar and familiar with. As the Monster's trajectory through different urban and green spaces and states of mind unfolds, an off-screen narrator tells a disjointed tale of broken love between beings from a different reality that ultimately reveals the Monster's plight. Drawing on Irineu's engagement with issues of creolity, blackness and diaspora, the film dwells on loss as an intrinsic state of being whilst referencing structural film and representation of otherness in popular culture.

Credits

Created, Directed and Performed by Irineu Destourelles
Featuring Narration by Maureen Ross
Costume Designer: Zephyr Liddell / Costume Maker: Emily Smit-Dicks
Director of Photography and Editor: Daniel Hughes
Sound Recordist and Mixer: Mark Readhead
Story Editor: Lavendhri Arumugam