Something for the Weekend: Kathryn’s Ferguson’s cultural picks

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Belfast-born filmmaker Kathryn Ferguson won acclaim and awards internationally for Nothing Compares, her documentary portrait of Sinead O’Connor.

She followed it with Bogart: Life Comes in Flashes, a film exploring screen icon Humphrey Bogart’s rise to stardom.

Screening at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival, her new BAFTA nominated short film Nostalgie marks her first steps into the fictional realm.

Adapted from a short story by Wendy Erskine, it stars Aiden Gillen and Kneecap star Jessica Reynolds – she talks all things Nostalgie with RTÉ Arena below:

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We asked Kathryn for her choice cultural picks…

FILM

I began the year with great intentions but was struck down by the flu almost immediately and spent a glorious week in bed where I binge-watched some incredible new films including Pillion, Sentimental Value and Come See Me in the Good Light. They were all extraordinary films, expansive and inspiring.

MUSIC

I’m excited to hear the upcoming cover of Sinéad O’Connor’s Black Boys on Mopeds by Fontaines D.C.

BOOK

I’ve been very lucky to be working recently with two excellent writers. I’m a huge fan of Elaine Feeney’s novels How to Build a Boat and Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way and Wendy Erskine’s The Benefactors.

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THEATRE

Specky Clark by Oona Doherty at Sadler’s Wells.

TV

Trespasses – Lola Petticrew’s performance was excellent and I particularly loved Gillian Anderson’s nail colour and wardrobe choices by costume designer Emma O’Loughlin.

GIG

A brilliant evening at Turner Contemporary in Margate, where I live. Speakers Corner Quartet performed with hand-built robotic acoustic instruments, while a live drum machine was streamed from Café Oto in London. It went on for hours and was completely immersive.

ART

Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death by Arthur Jafa. I finally saw it in its entirety at the Bourse de Commerce in Paris last year and it left me speechless.

PODCAST

Fashion Neurosis with Bella Freud for fun, or Tara Brach for calming the nervous system.

TECH

Peloton, I’m trying to teach myself how to run.

Nostalgie screens at the Dublin International Film Festival on February 26th – find out more here