Frank Sweeney Screening Series

A screen-based investigation about the invisible workers who teach AI how to read the world. Testimonies and screen recordings introduce the experience of online micro-workers from the Global South: their job is to teach the AI of self-driving cars to navigate the streets of the Global North.

Nicolas Gourault is an artist and filmmaker based in Paris, France, who's work navigates between online open-source investigations and the critical use of new media as documentary tools.

Duration: 23 mins

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A car slowly navigates the winding streets and disparate airwaves of the United States of America to uncover the scars of capitalism in natural landscapes, urban environments, people, and wildlife. An intricately built meditative audio-visual experience, mixed in Dolby Atmos.

These streets will never look the same was written directed and produced by Mitchell Stafiej.

Duration: 95 mins

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This documentary by Cian O'Laoi and Oliver Knowles tells the story of a rural community in Co. Mayo in Ireland and their battle with the oil giant Shell over their plans to put a dangerous raw gas pipeline through the community and complete construction of a gas processing terminal that is a threat to their delicate environment. The documentary features interviews with Colin Joyce of Shell Ireland; Willie Corduff, a local farmer & one of the Rossport Five; Pat O'Donnell, a local fisherman; Gerry Coyle, a County Councillor for the area (Fine Gael); Eoin O'Leidhin & Diane Amber, activists with the Shell-to-Sea group; Terence Conway, a spokesperson for the Shell-to-Sea group; and Niall Harnett, who co-ordinates the solidarity camp in the area.

Duration: 60 mins

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"In The Black and the Green (1983), [St. Clair] Bourne explored the influence of the African American civil rights movement, both in philosophy and strategy, on the fight for Catholic independence in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Presented as a fact-finding trip to Belfast by five Black American activists (including Jean Carey Bond), where they observed Catholics living in all-too-familiar ghettos under constant surveillance and the threat of violence, the film, in Bourne’s own words, 'ends up seeming pro–Irish Republican Army in the same sense that a film about Selma in the 1960s might have ended up seeming pro-Black, but then I’m a filmmaker from the ’60s. I try to be humanistically political.'"
–Museum of Modern Art, New York

Duration: 45 mins

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Alain Kassanda’s Coconut Head Generation is a powerful observational documentary that reclaims the disparaging term used to dismiss Nigerian youth as "brainless youth", illustrating that they are anything but. Students gather weekly for a film club at the University of Ibadan—the country’s oldest university, still shaped by its colonial legacy—where post-film, sometimes-heated conversations revolve around politics, feminism, and identity. Coconut Head Generation presents an intellectually vibrant environment, where spirited debates challenge generational stereotypes and reveal a youth collective deeply attuned to Nigeria’s socio-political realities.

Duration: 90mins

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