Film Screening: Blood Rising

This screening is in association with La Grande Illusion, the solo exhibition of work by artist Brian Maguire (3 October 2024 – 18 May 2025).

Friday 25 April 2025, 1pm

Join us for a screening of Blood Rising (1h 15mins), directed by Mark McLoughlin in 2013. The film will be introduced by film curator Alice Butler, who will also lead a post screening Q+A.

Ciudad Juarez in Mexico is one of the most dangerous cities in the world. In 2010 (when this film was made), 438 young women were murdered there and only 2% of the cases were properly investigated. Their grieving mothers were ignored by the police, government, judiciary and the media. Their cries for help were unanswered and when the Mexican government sent in extra police and army they became part of the problem, as they became consumed by money, greed and drugs. This film follows a pioneering art project where many mothers chose to work with Irish artist, Brian Maguire, to communicate their stories to the outside world in the hope that the international pressure may bring some justice to their loss.

Free, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability.

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