Light Moves Festival 2025

Light Moves returns to Belltable with a screening of the critically acclaimed they shoot horses (2004) by Turner Prize nominated artist Phil Collins, a video installation which traverses the turbulent territory between performance and moving image.

they shoot horses depicts a disco dance marathon Collins organised more than two decades ago with a group of young people from Ramallah in Palestine. Filmed continuously over the course of eight hours, the dancers move through unfolding emotional and physical states – elation, joy, fatigue, exhaustion, and endurance – set to a soundtrack of pop, rock and dance hits from the 1960s onwards. Speaking to both the hardships and the resilience of living under the decades-long illegal occupation by the state of Israel, they shoot horses centres dancing as an act of resistance in the face of daily atrocities, and as a fragile yet inextinguishable anticipation of liberation to come.

Bookings open from mid-September, please keep an eye on lightmoves.ie for more info.

This presentation is an event held in solidarity with the people of Palestine, raising donations to support Palestinian civil society.