cling(ing) like fire

a film created for Ulysses Journey 2022

Presented by the Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland (CMC) and Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris (CCI)

an Incubus visits to sit upon, weigh upon, brood upon your chest as you sleep, inveigling their way into your secret life— bred in the dreaming bed— to heal you

“…dazzled transcendence, an art-full, hyper-realised, liberation in which wild collisions of images and movement, nightmare symbols and musical effulgence, collage together beautifully to spin our heads in the most beautifully Joycean way.” — Dr Stephen Graham

Composer / filmmaker Ultan O’Brien

music by Ultan O’Brien, Paul Roe & Eoghan Ó Ceannabháin

Eimear Walshe as the incubus

Camilla Houstoun as Penelope

Sound recorded at Hellfire Studio, Dublin