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With a film and theatre career spanning almost forty years, Alan Gilsenan is one of Ireland’s most prolific and revered directors of drama and documentary film. This selective retrospective, which includes two of his four feature dramas, provides an introduction to the films (many made with his longtime producer Martin Mahon, through their company Yellow Asylum Films). Gilsenan’s documentary mode, which ranges from robust investigation to essayistic reverie to sensitive observation, is distinguished by intellectual rigour and creative innovation, allied to a seemingly unquenchable curiosity about history, literature, culture and society – both in Ireland but also in the wider world. His highly eclectic oeuvre of over 40 films for cinema and television also provides an invaluable compendium of reflection on Irish minds and Irish matters over four decades.
The films in this season will be introduced by Alan Gilsenan or by his filmmaking collaborators, with Marsha Hunt attending for Marsha Hunt: Made in America, and with Stephen Rea and composers Jim O’Rourke and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh in attendance for the Special Advance Preview screening of The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones.
A selection of titles from the season will be available to stream across the Republic of Ireland on www.ifihome.ie
Season notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
Cinema Schedule
The Road To God Knows Where – Wednesday, April 8th (18.30) All Souls’ Day – Saturday, April 11th (15.30) Marsha Hunt: Made in America – Sunday, April 12th (16.00) Samuel Beckett’s Eh Joe – Monday, April 13th (18.30) The Asylum – Wednesday, April 15th (18.30) The Yellow Bittern: The Life and Times of Liam Clancy – Saturday, April 18th (15.00) Ó Pheann An Phiarsaigh – Sunday, April 19th (15.00) Unless – Wednesday, April 22nd (18.30) Meetings With Ivor – Saturday, April 25th (15.30) The Journey of Weather-Exposed Bones (Special Advance Preview) – Sunday, April 26th (13.30) Career Talk with Alan Gilsenan – Thursday, April 30th (18.30)
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 15.30 (OC), 20.30
BÁITE 12.45
LA GRAZIA 20.20
ORWELL: 2+2=5 18.00
SIRĀT 13.20
SPILT MILK 18.15
THE DRAMA 13.00, 18.10, 20.40
THE SECRET AGENT 14.50
TWO PROSECUTORS 15.45
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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