Art | Memory | Place : Maya Schweizer & Meave Connolly | Artist's Conversation by IMMA Ireland

"Laura Marks the Film Studies Theorist says 'When language cannot record memories we often look to images. When images fail to revive memory we may look to the well kept secrets of objects. Unpacking the secrets encoded in images and objects we find the memory of the senses.’ … but then you [Maya] begin by saying ‘This quote can be described as the inverse sequence of how I am working’.”
Meave Connolly, 2016

Maya Schweizer (Artist) and Maeve Connolly (IADT, ARC) discuss the role of film as collective modes of remembrance and memorialisation in Schweizer’s film Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles (The dying Soldier of Les Milles) 2014, presented in the Project Spaces from 15 March - 3 April 2016. This work explores traces of the past in the present, in a quiet French town where a former tile factory was once used as a French internment camp to imprison German soldiers during World War II.

For further information visit http://maeveconnolly.net/ and http://www.mayaschweizer.com/

This talk took place on Tuesday 15 March 2016, IMMA
Image Credit: Still from Der sterbende Soldat von Les Milles
HDV, 13 min, colour, sound, France 2014