Author Ruairí McCann

Ruairí McCann

Ruairí McCann is an Irish writer, programmer, illustrator and musician, born and based in Belfast but raised in County Sligo. He's co-editor of Ultra Dogme, a contributing editor to photogénie, and has contributed to aemi, MUBI Notebook, Documentary Magazine, Film Hub NI, Sight & Sound and Screen Slate, among others. Katherine Waugh is filmmaker, writer and curator whose trans-disciplinary practice includes films such as her film essay The Art of Time with Fergus Daly and curatorial projects drawing on philosophy, literature and film, many in collaboration with Sylvere Lotringer including Schizo-Culture: Cracks in the Street and a number of projects on Antonin Artaud. Fergus Daly is the co-author of a book on Leos Carax. His recent films include Melmoth the Wanderer 1820-2020 (2020), An Irish Georg Trakl (2021) and The Mirror of Possible Worlds: Kiarostami on Aran (2021). Nicole Brenez wrote about his work here.

The Animal Side: Interview with Katherine Waugh & Fergus Daly

Ruairí McCann

May 2024

Film and the Nonhuman

I See a Darkness (2023) delves into the shadow archive of image-capture technologies, and, with an emphasis on the non-human and animal, raises questions about the streamlining of cinematographic technologies i...