Leila Hekmat

Leila Hekmat is a visual artist who works in performance. Her theatrical performances, installations, and films resemble psychologically charged mystery plays, chamber dramas and musical comedies of the 60s/70s. The Los Angeles-born, Berlin-based artist art deals with gender, family, power and powerlessness, libertarian freedom, and dying societies which gather behind closed doors celebrating horror and decadent beauty in the face of doom. 

Symptom Recital: Music for Wild Angels

The film premiere of Symptom Recital: Music for Wild Angels. A film about a collective of women both familiar and unique to this story and this setting. The setting and spiritual locus for these women is Hospital Hekmat. This is a facility for an illness which needs no cure. The purpose of this infirmary is to fortify existing insolence and foster growth through comic relief and buffoonery. A healing ground for the unrepentant woman.

Image: Leila Hekmat, Symptom Recital: Music for Wild Angels, 2023; image courtesy of artists and Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi. Copyright Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi.

Venue: Pálás Cinema, 15 Merchants Road Lower, Galway
Dates: 4 November, 2.30pm
Tickets: www.palas.ie

Access: Pálás Cinema  is a step free venue. There are accessible toilet facilities located at -2 level. Each Screen has wheelchair accessible seats, at the back room of each screen. A complimentary carer seat is provided with these seats. There are three accessible parking spots located on Saint Augustine Street opposite the TULCA Gallery, which is a 4-minute walk from the venue. There is a Loop system in every screen. The film time is captioned.