The said and the unsaid

‘The said and the unsaid’ is aemi’s exciting new 2025 touring program, an annual selection platforming some of the most innovative new moving image work by Irish artists in conversation with key international works. This program includes new Irish works by Frank Sweeney and Jonathan O'Grady alongside works by filmmakers Maryam Tafakory and Stephanie Barber.

This eclectic program of work shifts from an act of deliberate and playful obfuscation (3 Peonies) to a process of attempted rediscovery (In Search of the Forenaughts Longstone) to an uncovering of media artefacts that speak to both deliberate and discrete forms of expression in the face of state sponsored censorship (Nazarbazi and Few Can See). Together these works describe a variety of creative means of expression borne out of a necessity to speak, however indirectly. 

3 Peonies (Stephanie Barber, USA, 2017, 3 min.)

In Search of the Forenaughts Longstone (Jonathan O'Grady, Ireland, 2021, 12…