‘Desire Lines’ is a term from the field of landscape architecture used, as Sara Ahmed writes in Queer Phenomenology (2006) to ‘describe unofficial paths, those marks left on the ground that show everyday comings and goings, where people deviate from the paths they are supposed to follow.’

Taken as a whole, the films featured in Desire Lines by Chloe Brenan (IRL), Collectif Faire-Part (Brussels, Congo, Democratic Republic), Eóin Heaney (IRL), Olivia Normile (IRL) and Basma al-Sharif (Palestine, USA) offer up a picture of imposed and chosen deviation, a picture that takes in experiences of isolation and displacement alongside those of collective resistance and revelation, taking care to capture the fleeting moments where these possibilities can briefly intersect.

Morning Circle / Morgenkreis, Basma al-Sharif, 2025, Canada/UAE, 21 minutes

Verdigris, Chloe Brenan, 2025, Ireland, 12 minutes

as above, so below (Limits and Demonstrations), Olivia Normile, 2025, Ireland, 3 minutes

Speech For A Melting Statue, Collectif Faire Part, 2023, Belgium, Congo, Democratic Republic, 10 minutes

Body Diagrams (Limits and Demonstrations), Olivia Normile, 2025, Ireland, 1 minute 30 seconds

Parish, Eóin Heaney, 2024, Ireland, 27 minutes (provided by IFI Irish Film Archive)