Beginning with the world’s first metal cantilever bridge, which was located in Bavaria, Floating Structures charts a course to Paris where it encounters the visionary engineering work of Ireland’s Peter Rice. Co-directed by visual artist and writer Adrian Duncan and Feargal Ward (The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid), Floating Structures is a flâneur-like quest to consider the gravity-defying mysteries of structural engineering. DOM
Accompanied by a screening of ‘Memory Room’ (22 mins). There will be a post-screening panel discussion about the film’s themes and filmmaker’s practice hosted by Dr Dara Waldron, author of New Nonfiction Film: Art, Poetics and Documentary Theory.