Cinema Info
Experience the best in Independent and world film in a fully digital cinema based in the unique surroundings of a stunningly refurbished 1700s neo-classical church. Triskel Arts Centre in the heart of Cork city screens two titles each week with additional special events, film strands such as Experimental Film, Horror and monthly Shorts.
The Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) certifies each film according to the following system, and Triskel Arts Centre is obliged by law to only admit customers who meet the age criteria set by the classification of each film. Valid ID may be required.
- G: Suitable for all, including children of a school going age.
- PG: Generally suitable for children aged 8 and over.
- 12A: Suitable for people aged 12 and over, or for younger people if accompanied by a responsible adult.
- 15A: Suitable for people aged 15 and over, or for younger people if accompanied by a responsible adult.
- 16: Suitable only for people aged 16 and above. Younger people may not be admitted by law.
- 18: Suitable only for persons aged 18 and above. Younger people may not be admitted by law.
- NC: Films marked “NC” (Not Certified) have not been granted certification by the Irish Film Classification Office. Ticket buyers must be 18 years of age or older and they require a Triskel Cinema Membership, which may be purchased on an annual or per film basis.
We encourage everyone to purchase tickets online in advance but, if you’d prefer to purchase in person, check out this week’s Box Office Opening Hours. We would appreciate contactless payment where possible.
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Ticket prices before 5pm*:
Full: €8.00
With Annual Membership: €7.00
Child (under 14): €7.00
Ticket prices 5pm and after*:
Full: €11.00
With Annual Membership: €8.50
Child (under 14): €8.50
We encourage everyone to purchase tickets online in advance but, if you’d prefer to purchase in person, check out this week’s Box Office Opening Hours. We would appreciate contactless payment where possible.
*Triskel may adjust these prices in special circumstances
Are you a cinema member? If not, why not?! Click on the Cinema Membership tab above for more information or purchase directly.
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If you love films, then Triskel Cinema Membership is a must for you. Members benefits include:
- Reduced standard ticket prices
- No fees on non-cert titles
- Invitation to special screenings and events
- Exclusive membership newsletter
- A free screening after every eight attended (full annual membership only)
- Treat one guest per screening to your membership rates (full annual membership only)
- Free 90-day subscription to MUBI
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Unwaged*: Free (for jobseekers)
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Terms and conditions
- Card is valid for 12 months from date of purchase.
- Titles, times, dates and prices subject to change.
- Management reserves the right to refuse admission.
- Membership can be revoked if not used in line with our terms and conditions.
- Membership is non-transferrable.
- Full Membership can be purchased online. All other memberships need to be obtained at our Box Office. Please note, we do not process memberships in the 30 minutes prior to a screening.
- Presentation of membership card and valid ID needed to purchase tickets and enter auditorium.
- Membership prices does not extend to satellite broadcasting events.
- Membership price can be extended to one guest per screening (full annual membership only).
- One free ticket earned for every eight (full annual membership only).
- Use of recording devices is forbidden.
- Tickets for films rated ’12A’ and ’15A’ can be purchased for persons under the ages of 12 and 15 only if accompanied by an adult guardian (of 18 years or older).
- Tickets for films rated ’16’ can be purchased by and for persons of 16 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required).
- Tickets for films rated ’18’ can be purchased by and for persons of 18 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required).
- Tickets for films rated ‘NC’ can be purchased by members only, of 18 years of age and over only (valid ID may be required).
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67 mins – Lithuania 2021
Artist & Filmmaker: Aideen Barry
Featuring: Natsuho Matsumoto, Julija Mintauté, Eglé Valadkevičiūté
Klostės translated as Pleats or Folds is a Black & White, non verbal, 67 minute feature film created by the People of Kaunas, Lithuania, together with Artist & Filmmaker Aideen Barry. This Experimental Art Film was commissioned by Kaunas 2022, The European Capital of Culture. The film takes inspiration from Kaunas Architectural Modernism and the hidden histories associated with the magical city.
Klostės/Pleats is a metaphor for how time folds like fabric. It is a metaphor for how things can appear to repeat or loop. It is also an architectural trope for a repeat pattern, evident in Kaunas Interwar-Modernism. Klostės is a reference to how a film constructed out of thousands and thousands of still photographs creates a visual fiction or illusion. In 2023 the film was part of the bid that won UNESCO World Heritage Status for the city of Kaunas, and in 2024 it was acquired for the National Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
The Cork born director is delighted to be showing this work for the first time in her home city as apart of this new festival and this experience begins with a light installation on the exterior of Triskel Christchurch: audiences will enter via the Triskel Christchurch gates on South Main Street and from there though the doors into Christchurch where they are invited to watch the film.
Director’s Statement
‘The engagement of over five hundred children and young people in workshops in short story writing, film directing, optical illusion workshops, top-motion animation workshops, introductions into Green Screen Technology & Prop Creation has also been intentional. This project set about fostering enthusiasm for this architectural and visual cultural heritage of this city. These groups of future artists have directed and made their own animated shorts adding further elements to the film project and an army of volunteers are currently engaged in large aspects of its production from workshop supervision, extra roles, artistic production, makeup and special effects.
The majority of Cast, Crew and Production of this film is made of people who live in this City. It is a deliberate intervention on behalf of Kaunas 2022 and the Artist & Director Aideen Barry to empower the creatives of this Contemporary Kaunas in the authorship of the film. The film features dancers and actors from the acclaimed International Dance Troupe AURA as protagonists in the Roles of forgotten “Others” of Kaunas.’
About the Artist
Aideen Barry is a conceptual artist based in Ireland with an international multifaceted practice spanning filmmaking, performance, experimental lens-based media, drawing, and sculpture. Her work employs visual trickery to create a heightened suspension of reality, with a central theme of exploring sinister systems.
Her recent projects are intersectional and collaborative, working with artists such as Peter Gabriel, William Kentridge, and The Centre of the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, as well as Inuit throat singer ᕇᑦ Riit, composers Irene Buckley, choreographers Junk Ensemble, fashion designer Richard Malone, Tropical Topical & Margaret O’Connor, composers Tshegofatso Moeng, Philip Miller and Irene Buckley.
Barry engages with a diverse range of collaborators, including artists, pop singers, archives, archivists, historians, scientists and activists, transcending pop culture and visual culture to create massive interventionist artworks. Notably, she collaborated with nearly a thousand Lithuanian citizens to create the feature film *Klostės*, which is now part of the National Collection at IMMA and contributed to Kaunas receiving UNESCO World Heritage Status. Her works serve as a Brechtian hammer, while also democratising access to visual culture for various audiences and stakeholders, inviting them to co-author the creative process.
Significant projects include: projects and exhibitions at; The Bangkok Art Biennial curated by Dr. Apinan Poshyananda, FORMAT international festival of photography, UK, film screenings at the BFI and the IFI, solo at IMMA, solos at Salzburg Kunstverein, Oakville Galleries, Canada The Welt Museum, Vienna, Matucana 100; Chile,The Irish Museum of Modern Art PS; Ireland, CAC Malaga; Spain, The Headlands Center for the Arts; US, Centre for the Less Good Idea; South Africa, Art OMI; US, The Whitaker Museum;UK, NASA Kennedy Space Center; US, Skaftfell; Iceland, Banff Centre; Canada, Centre Cultural Irlandais; France. Selected Solo and international projects at: Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark, Zona Maco, Ch ACO; Chile, The Katzen Center at the American Museum; US, Wexner Center: US Elephant Gallery; UK, Moderna Musett; Sweden, Musée des Beaux Arts,Lyon; France, Louise T. Blouin Gallery; UK, Galeria Isabel Hurley; Spain, Artscene Shanghai;China and Project 304 Gallery; Thailand, BAC Geneva; Switzerland, Liste Art Fair; Switzerland, Catharine Clark Gallery; US, NYU DC; US, Crawford Municipal Gallery,Project Art Centre, Temple Bar Gallery, Limerick City Gallery, The RHA, Visual,Mothers Tankstation, The Butler Gallery; Ireland, an An Post EUROPA stamp commission and a collection of edition works with various Kunstverein in Europe and beyond.
Barry is a member of Aosdána and the Royal Hibernian Academy, and her work is held in private collections and public museum collections worldwide.
www.aideenbarry.com
www.klostes.com
Free – no booking required
67 mins – Lithuania 2021
Artist & Filmmaker: Aideen Barry
Featuring: Natsuho Matsumoto, Julija Mintauté, Eglé Valadkevičiūté
Klostės translated as Pleats or Folds is a Black & White, non verbal, 67 minute feature film created by the People of Kaunas, Lithuania, together with Artist & Filmmaker Aideen Barry. This Experimental Art Film was commissioned by Kaunas 2022, The European Capital of Culture. The film takes inspiration from Kaunas Architectural Modernism and the hidden histories associated with the magical city.
Klostės/Pleats is a metaphor for how time folds like fabric. It is a metaphor for how things can appear to repeat or loop. It is also an architectural trope for a repeat pattern, evident in Kaunas Interwar-Modernism. Klostės is a reference to how a film constructed out of thousands and thousands of still photographs creates a visual fiction or illusion. In 2023 the film was part of the bid that won UNESCO World Heritage Status for the city of Kaunas, and in 2024 it was acquired for the National Collection at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
The Cork born director is delighted to be showing this work for the first time in her home city as apart of this new festival and this experience begins with a light installation on the exterior of Triskel Christchurch: audiences will enter via the Triskel Christchurch gates on South Main Street and from there though the doors into Christchurch where they are invited to watch the film.
Director’s Statement
‘The engagement of over five hundred children and young people in workshops in short story writing, film directing, optical illusion workshops, top-motion animation workshops, introductions into Green Screen Technology & Prop Creation has also been intentional. This project set about fostering enthusiasm for this architectural and visual cultural heritage of this city. These groups of future artists have directed and made their own animated shorts adding further elements to the film project and an army of volunteers are currently engaged in large aspects of its production from workshop supervision, extra roles, artistic production, makeup and special effects.
The majority of Cast, Crew and Production of this film is made of people who live in this City. It is a deliberate intervention on behalf of Kaunas 2022 and the Artist & Director Aideen Barry to empower the creatives of this Contemporary Kaunas in the authorship of the film. The film features dancers and actors from the acclaimed International Dance Troupe AURA as protagonists in the Roles of forgotten “Others” of Kaunas.’
About the Artist
Aideen Barry is a conceptual artist based in Ireland with an international multifaceted practice spanning filmmaking, performance, experimental lens-based media, drawing, and sculpture. Her work employs visual trickery to create a heightened suspension of reality, with a central theme of exploring sinister systems.
Her recent projects are intersectional and collaborative, working with artists such as Peter Gabriel, William Kentridge, and The Centre of the Less Good Idea in Johannesburg, as well as Inuit throat singer ᕇᑦ Riit, composers Irene Buckley, choreographers Junk Ensemble, fashion designer Richard Malone, Tropical Topical & Margaret O’Connor, composers Tshegofatso Moeng, Philip Miller and Irene Buckley.
Barry engages with a diverse range of collaborators, including artists, pop singers, archives, archivists, historians, scientists and activists, transcending pop culture and visual culture to create massive interventionist artworks. Notably, she collaborated with nearly a thousand Lithuanian citizens to create the feature film *Klostės*, which is now part of the National Collection at IMMA and contributed to Kaunas receiving UNESCO World Heritage Status. Her works serve as a Brechtian hammer, while also democratising access to visual culture for various audiences and stakeholders, inviting them to co-author the creative process.
Significant projects include: projects and exhibitions at; The Bangkok Art Biennial curated by Dr. Apinan Poshyananda, FORMAT international festival of photography, UK, film screenings at the BFI and the IFI, solo at IMMA, solos at Salzburg Kunstverein, Oakville Galleries, Canada The Welt Museum, Vienna, Matucana 100; Chile,The Irish Museum of Modern Art PS; Ireland, CAC Malaga; Spain, The Headlands Center for the Arts; US, Centre for the Less Good Idea; South Africa, Art OMI; US, The Whitaker Museum;UK, NASA Kennedy Space Center; US, Skaftfell; Iceland, Banff Centre; Canada, Centre Cultural Irlandais; France. Selected Solo and international projects at: Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark, Zona Maco, Ch ACO; Chile, The Katzen Center at the American Museum; US, Wexner Center: US Elephant Gallery; UK, Moderna Musett; Sweden, Musée des Beaux Arts,Lyon; France, Louise T. Blouin Gallery; UK, Galeria Isabel Hurley; Spain, Artscene Shanghai;China and Project 304 Gallery; Thailand, BAC Geneva; Switzerland, Liste Art Fair; Switzerland, Catharine Clark Gallery; US, NYU DC; US, Crawford Municipal Gallery,Project Art Centre, Temple Bar Gallery, Limerick City Gallery, The RHA, Visual,Mothers Tankstation, The Butler Gallery; Ireland, an An Post EUROPA stamp commission and a collection of edition works with various Kunstverein in Europe and beyond.
Barry is a member of Aosdána and the Royal Hibernian Academy, and her work is held in private collections and public museum collections worldwide.
www.aideenbarry.com
www.klostes.com
Triskel Arts Centre is proud to announce its association with The F-Rating initiative. Developed in the Bath Film Festival in 2014, the F-Rating is a new film rating which will highlight those with a strong female voice.