The artist Helen Kirwan will present her film Memory Theatre (2017) at Close Up Cinema, London on 6 June 2018, 7-10pm. The screening is followed by a short talk by the artist and Q&A led by Dr. Jane Madsen and drinks at the Close-Up bar.

Memory Theatre began as a series of outdoor performances by the artist in Kent, Morocco and the west of Ireland. Filmed live, the video footage was subsequently edited into a two channel video with award- winning Dublin based composer Tom Lane commissioned for the sound.

Recurring themes are memory and memorial and fragment and trace. Intensely haptic, the performances serve as a metaphor for attempted navigation through the wilderness of bereavement; and, as she awaits her own death, the artist marks with infinite futility, the finitude of human existence.