Join for a screening of experimental films by Margaret Tait, Miles McKane, Francien Van Everdingen, Claudio Caldini, Rose Lowder, Jennifer Reeves, Marie Menken, and Nathaniel Dorsky, presented at the International Centre for the Image on 16mm projection, alongside super8 films made in a series of collaborative workshops at the Mud Island Community Garden, building on its important social and environmental role within our neighbourhood.

Scannán Glas is organised by Fire Station Artists' Studios, as part of the Five Lamps Arts Festival, celebrating contemporary arts and culture in Dublin’s North Inner City. It features an exhibition running between 11th and 19th April 2026, with works by Irish artists Sarah Browne and Laura McMorrow, alongside Mexican artist Elena Pardo.

The screening will be at 4pm on Saturday April 18th at the International Centre for the Image, North Wall, Dublin 1.

“Cinematographically
I have registered the opening of escholtzia
On an early summer morning.
It gave me a sharp awareness of time passing,
Of exact qualities and values in the light,
But I didn’t see the movement
As movement.
I didn’t with my own direct perception see the petals
moving.
Later, on the film, they seemed to open swiftly,
But, at the time,
Although I stared
And felt time not so much moving as being moved in
And felt
A unity of time and place with other times and places”
(excerpt from  Margaret Tait’s poem “Now”, 1959, in Margaret Tait: poems, stories and writings (Carcanet Press, 2012))