Eimear Young
About
Biography
Eimear is a London-based moving-image artist from Wicklow, Ireland. She graduated from the National Film School at IADT in Dublin with a First Class BA (Hons) Degree in Animation in 2021, where she received the ‘Windmill Lane Animation Award’ and the ‘Thesis Award for Academic Excellence.’
Her undergraduate film ‘Saudade;’ was awarded the ‘Art(ist) Film Award’ at Indie Cork, and has screened at festivals such as Bolton International Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Waterford International Film Festival, Belfast Film Festival and Animation Dingle.
In addition to pursuing both independent and freelance animation projects, she has also previously worked as a Visual Effects Artist on the BAFTA-winning ‘Bad Sisters,’ the IFTA-winner for Best VFX ‘The Woman King,’ and ‘Good Omens,’ amongst others.
She is currently producing a short film, ‘Unanimated Strangers’ dir. Róisín Sinai Kelly, funded by the National Talent Academy, a Screen Ireland initiative.
Artist Statement
In Eimear’s work, experimentation with both structure and materials serves as a vehicle for auto-ethnographic exploration. Her films demonstrate an ongoing preoccupation with structuralist and essayist filmmakers, which she draws on in her own investigations into highly personal sentiments; her practice often functions as a means of traversing and clarifying ill-defined emotions, memories and mental states, through the process of experimental filmmaking.
Academic research is a core tenet of Eimear’s process, and often informs the foundation of her practical inquiries into mechanisms of thought. Her RCA graduate film ‘I’m Staring Over’ was inspired by research into concepts such queer temporality, hauntology, auto-destructive art, visual poetry and Giles Deleuze’s ‘Difference and Repetition.’
Eimear’s mixed-media approach reflects her fascination with the tension that emerges when disparate mediums are combined. In particular, much of her work involves integrating experimental animation practices with photographic techniques. During her studies at the RCA, she experimented with developing expired Super 8 film in various solutions (‘film souping’), animating directly on film, and employing photosensitive printmaking processes such as cyanotype and photopolymer printing.
‘I’m Starting Over’
Eimear’s RCA graduate film takes the form of a meditative journey through a shifting domestic space, and the recurring memories of a relationship it harbours. It investigates the entanglements that exist between space, memory and intimacy, and considers how information becomes distorted in the mind through futile acts of repetitive rumination. This is expressed both in the film’s cyclical structure, as well as through relentless exploitation of the monotype printing processes, pushing the materials used past their physical limits. The film is narrated visually using fragments of text, which were created using a typewriter.
Email: eimearyoung.artist@gmail.com
Instagram: @eimearyoungg
Portfolio: behance.net/eimearyoung
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