Mini-Documentary · Arts & Culture

IMMA — Art Hill

Irish Museum of Modern Art · 2025 · 5 min 35 sec

A creative programme supporting Ukrainian families displaced by war. A film about art as a space for expression, connection, and belonging.

Art Hill — a short documentary for the Irish Museum of Modern Art. — video by Rage Media, Dublin — Art Hill — a short documentary for the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

— The Work

Art as a spacefor belonging.

Art Hill is a creative programme at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, built to support Ukrainian families displaced by the war. The work happens in studios, in conversations, in materials — in the quiet act of making something together when much has been taken away.

We spent time with the programme, the facilitators, and the families — filming workshops, conducting intimate interviews, and letting the moments unfold without interference. The film is observational by choice. The subject deserves it.

— The Approach

The visual language is nostalgic — soft, warm, grain-forward — deliberately echoing the emotional register of memory and the slowness of real human presence. No fast cuts, no manufactured urgency.

Our role: Creative Direction and Cinematography. The brief wasn't to sell the programme. It was to show what it means — to the people inside it, and to anyone willing to watch.

Mateus Lima on set at IMMA holding an old digital camera — On set at IMMA — parts of the film were shot on an old digital camera.

Mateus Lima filming with an old digital camera at IMMA — On set at IMMA — parts of the film were shot on an old digital camera.

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