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The Voltas

Joyce. He was living in Trieste at the time and he persuaded a group of Italian entrepreneurs to establish a cinema in Dublin along the lines of their Volta Picture Palace in Bucharest.

2007

Consolata Boyle

Gabriel Byrne

Jeremy Thomas

Michael Dwyer

2008

Brendan Gleeson

The Volta awards are named after Ireland’s first dedicated cinema, the Volta Picture Theatre on Mary Street in Dublin, which opened on December 20 1909. The cinema was run by an enterprising young novelist named James

Each year, the festival organisers identify key members of the international filmmaking fraternity whose work they admire and whose contribution to world cinema is celebrated within the event. The recipients are selected for their passion and commitment to cinema as an art form.

Daniel Day-Lewis

Leo Ward

2009

George Morrison

Paolo Sorrentino

Thierry Fremaux

The festival will announce this year’s recipients during the festival. The Volta award was designed by German-born Sligo resident, Bettina Seitz.

An ‘orphan film’ is any motion picture that has been abandoned by its owner or caretaker. Usually, the term refers to all manner of films outside of the commercial mainstream: public domain materials, home movies, outtakes, alternate endings, undeveloped reels, unreleased material, industrial, medical and educational movies, CCTV footage, just about anything that’s unloved, unwanted or forgotten. To celebrate these parentless films, the festival will be hosting a unique installation at the Greenhouse on Andrews Street. In keeping with the Greenhouse’s green ethic – it is part of the Cultivate community – the setting will be composed entirely of recycled elements. Indeed, the Orphanage could be seen as a celebration of the possibilities of recycling. The furniture, decorations and art works that decorate the space will all be composed from found objects. Most significantly, the films themselves are, in some sense, all needlessly discarded objects. Among the delights on display will be Planet Wars, the famous (perhaps notorious) Brazilian remake of Star Wars, released just five, barely legal months after Lucas’s film hit South America.

Also have a glance at utterly hilarious Turkish takes on ET (Badi) and The Wizard of Oz (Aysecik in the Land of Magic Dwarfs). If you want something semi-respectable then visit when The Old Dark House, James Whale’s follow-up to Frankenstein, is occupying the monitor. If you’d like to witness a legendary folly then check out Pulgasari, a North Korean version of Godzilla. Shin Sang-ok, the film’s South Korean director, was famously kidnapped by Kim Jong-il and forced to do the film-mad dictator’s weird bidding. Odd.

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Credits: Remakes by Evan Doherty. Space by Alan Kelly. Curated by Tara Brady. Hosted by Cultivate.