Architect Part 1 & Glass House
Film Screening
A screening of two short films shot in the west of Ireland, by artist Laura Gannon. Each film is set in a specific architectural location, responding to female creativity, rural architecture, and migration. Architect Part 1 will be screened alongside an earlier film Glass House.
In Architect Part 1, a farmhouse sits on a mountainside, uninhabited for decades, its interior and exterior eroded by the elements. This is a result of its owner emigrating to England and the house was sold along with the farm. A reveal of architecture and the body, rural landscapes and migration. In Glass House, the film examines a modernist church built in Connemara in 1962. Local emigrants who emigrated to America send back money to pay for its construction and furnishing. It features a stained-glass window designed by artist Phyllis Burke. Making visible modernity, a rural setting and an emigrant community who funded the building.
Followed by a conversation with film director Laura Gannon and architect Jessica Reynolds, vPPR architects, with Fiona Kearney founding Director of the Glucksman Gallery, Cork.