Declan Clarke

Declan Clarke was born in Dublin in 1974. He studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and Chelsea College of Arts, London. He works predominately in the medium of film. In 2002 he was awarded the PS1 MoMA International Residency Program in New York and in 2012 he was short listed to represent Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2013. His work explores political themes and their representation in film and television

For his exhibition, ‘Loneliness in West Germany’, at the Goethe-Institut in Dublin, he examined the activities and legacy of the Movement June 2nd, an anarchist group closely associated with the Red Army Faction, founded in Berlin in 1971.

His film ‘Group Portrait with Explosives’, 2014 connects the early history of Czechoslovakian tractor production with his own family history in rural South Armagh, it’s notorious IRA Brigade, and the invention of the plastic explosive Semtex in the former Czechoslovakia.

He is an unabashed connoisseur of eastern European film culture. From Russian anti-war films to new wave of Romanian cinema. Today he will talk to you about his own work and he will introduce the movie he has chosen The Saragossa Manuscript (1965) by Wojciech Jerzy Has

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