Position One
2023
Digital Media, Website
Byrne Bros Force Fields introduces the fantastical story of the titular Byrne Brothers, Dublin born manufacturers of magical force fields. Using a mockumentary approach their metaphysical working lives are presented as the corporate website for their firm.
This online work encompasses product marketing materials, a history of the company, pen portraits of the current leadership and archival press materials that depict the development of Byrne Brothers from its founding in 1905 to the present day.
The lives of the Byrnes is set against a wider world building - the Silver Branch Universe - that imagines what might happen if Irish independence was won on the astral rather than the physical plane by a band of occultist revolutionaries led by William Butler Yeats and, consequently, that Ireland adopted magic rather than Christianity as the States’ official belief system.
Jules Charlton is a film artist based in Leinster. Jules’ practice focuses on liminal states of being.
His 2017 installation i aM eLLIS bELL won a prize from the EU. His film Memory of Mariga screened at Disappear Here Film Festival, Louth International Film Festival, Fastnet Film Festival and Elizabethtown Film Festival. His documentary H.P.Lovecraft and the Moon-Bog has screened at Chicago Irish Film Festival, Waterford International Film Festival and the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival. His co-authored video installation with Ronan Concannon - The Ocean Floor is a Green World - has screened at the Mayo International Film Festival and International Underwater Film Festival Belgrade.
Jules is a recipient of the David Puttnam Scholarship (2022), a recipient of an Agility Award from the Arts Council of Ireland (2021), a recipient of two awards at Worldfest Houston and is a member of A4 Sounds.
