Frank Sweeney Screening Series
07 October — 04 November 2025, Tuesdays | 6pm
A screening series curated by exhibiting artist Frank Sweeney, selected in the context of his new film installation, Go Ye Afar.
12 December 2023, 8:30pm
aemi, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and Stereo Editions are thrilled to partner with IFI to present maɬni – towards the ocean, towards the shore by renowned artist and filmmaker Sky Hopinka
Sky Hopinka's video, photo and text work considers personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape. A Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, Hopinka is a teacher of chinuk wawa, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin in which much of maɬni is spoken. Hopinka’s interest in language as a container of culture is much in evidence in this ethereal feature debut, a film which follows two young parents – Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier – as they hike across the mountains of the Pacific Northwest and reflect upon the environment around them, the spirit world and the Chinookan origin-of-death myth. Described by the New York Times as ‘an essential portrait of contemporary Indigenous life’, maɬni lends poetic expression to the urgent need to preserve as well as lament what has already been lost of Indigenous culture.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Sky Hopinka, whose new book The Island Weights, published by Stereo Editions, will be launched at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios as part of Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic on Sunday December 10th 2023, 6pm.
This event takes place as part of Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic, sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
07 October — 04 November 2025, Tuesdays | 6pm
A screening series curated by exhibiting artist Frank Sweeney, selected in the context of his new film installation, Go Ye Afar.
14 October 2025, 5–6pm
An intimate studio talk offers insight for those beginning their career as a professional artist or curator, returning to their practice, or who are new to Dublin.
07 November 2025, 5–6pm
Exhibiting artist and filmmaker Frank Sweeney discusses his new film Go Ye Afar with writer and curator Diana Bamimeke.