World Premiere

Making Dust is a powerful portrait of the demolition of the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas in 2021, the second-largest Catholic Church in Ireland when it was built in 1967. Structured around a provocative essay by architectural historian Ellen Rowley and featuring oral interviews recorded at the site and in a nearby hairdressers, the film considers the ways in which the building has both influenced and has been influenced by the community it was built to serve.

Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn

Also screening: Churches for our Children (Radharc Films)
26 mins, Ireland, 1974

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with Fiona Hallinan and Ellen Rowley, hosted by Alice Butler (aemi).

Screening as part of the IFI Documentary Festival 2023.