As part of Jennifer O'Meara's Screen Studies in the age of XR & Synthetic Media conference Trinity College Dublin last week, she talked to Joe Humphreys Irish Times Opinion about the value of taking an arts & humanities perspective to emergent tech. We are now Research Ireland Trinity Long Room Hub irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

🤔If you could meet a dead relative in Virtual Reality, would you?🤔 📻That’s a question that’s been asked by Dr Jennifer O'Meara, Associate Professor of Film Studies, (CreativeArts@Trinity) on NewstalkFM with SeánMoncrieff. 🎞️ 🎧Listen now: newstalk.com/podcasts/highl… #HubMatters

The Harris 'Brat' branding is replaying a lot of the playful online discourse from 2016's Trump & Hillary Clinton's campaign, which I looked at in a 2018 Velvet Light Trap article on 'Meme Girls versus Trump' (linked below). tinyurl.com/2rahrx4j

Big congratulations to Film Department, Trinity College Dublin PhD candidate Dr Scotty McQueen who passed his viva yesterday for a thesis 'Reconstructing Conspiracy Theories and Apocalypse Prepping in the Digital Era', which came with apocalypse survival kits for attendees-

aemi is proud to present: ‘DISSOLUTIONS’,  an experimental film festival taking place in partnership with The Complex, Dublin, Friday 6th & Saturday 7th of SEPT with events in partnership with TBG+s on Friday September 6th & Sunday September 8th 2024 respectively The Complex Dublin

A reminder of this exciting film screening and talk taking place this evening from 6:30-8PM as part of the Trinity Long Room Hub festival. All welcome!

Dinner in America: cringe-making firecracker of a comedy Kyle Gallner irishtimes.com/culture/film/d…

Check out the podcast with our own Justin Mac Gregor and Phillip from J4 Capital, about working on an AI project. A big thanks for Future of Film host Alex Stolz for having Justin and Jonathan on. futureoffilm.live/podcasts/80-jo…

Stefania Marghitu (UA JCM) & I have a new article out: “Seamful Sutures: Gender Exploration and Identity Expression Using Augmented Reality Facial Filters,” in an issue of Global Storytelling (Michigan Publishing) on the social mediascape, feminism & misogyny. doi.org/10.3998/gs.5628

TCD and The Lir Academy alum Paul Mescal, with Provost Linda Doyle!

eventbrite.ie/e/animation-an… Animation and Ireland Symposium 2024 Join us at the Animation and Ireland Symposium 2024 for a discussion of contemporary Irish animation culture and historical contexts. eventbrite.ie

Our own Ruth Barton will be reviewing Wicked  Wicked: For Good (the film of the musical, Part One), The Piano Lesson The Piano Lesson Film directed by and featuring many members of the (Denzel) Washington family and the Irish documentary, Housewife of the Year Housewife of the Year. RTE Arena

25th IFI French Film Festival and we have an excellent In Conversation masterclass this coming Saturday with director and writer Stéphane Brizé, who’s film Out of Season was this year’s Opening Gala film and has sold out across the festival. @IFI

france24.com/en/live-news/2… Our own Ruth Barton!

📖Prof Ruth Barton (CreativeArts@Trinity) and Prof Chris Morash (TCD School of English) speaking on the recent Irish cultural and creative renaissance for The Star.⭐️ thestar.com.my/lifestyle/cult… #HubMatters #IrishCulture

🔊 New Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Film Studies post Trinity College Dublin. With a specialism in Irish cinema and/or an aspect of non-Western cinema. jobs.ac.uk/job/DLJ581/ass…

Our next Research seminar event: Jennifer O'Meara Jennifer O'Meara next Tuesday at 4.15pm. details here! ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/ne…

Our very own Ruth Barton will be reviewing the Brutalist (The Brutalist) and Steven Soderbergh’s Presence plus chatting about the Oscar nominations on Arena tonight with Paul Whitington RTE Arena

A new series called Hooked begins on Rte One tonight RTÉ One. It's directed by Film Studies lecturer Anna Rodgers Anna Rodgers and presented by TCD graduate Dr. Brian Pennie. It also features TCD Professor Jo-Hanna Ivers and Professor Robert Whelan. Tune in at 9.30pm!