Join us for FREE lunchtime screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive.

This year’s One City One Book choice – If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry and Song inspires a richly varied programme of films about Dublin poets and poetry in our two strands, Archive at Lunchtime and From the Vaults.

PROGRAMME 2: 

OÍCHE NOLLAG LE MÁIRE MHAC AN TSAOI

Part of the series Nead an Dreolín, James Kelly’s series of short films is a beautifully crafted collection exploring the poetry of six living Irish language poets. A fresh and innovative piece of work, these films interweave image and sound, as beautifully shot contemporary footage combines with carefully selected archive footage, to lyrically and poetically reflect the themes explored in each of the poems.

FILM INFO: JAMES KELLY (3 minutes, 2008, Colour)

MNEMOSYNE LAY IN DUST MEMORIES OF AUSTIN CLARKE

Clarke’s 1966 poem Mnemosyne Lay in Dust is an intensely personal poem is based on Clarke’s own experience of insanity and the months he spent in a mental hospital in Dublin as a young man.

This short film from director Stephen Bean and  producer Mary Breen, both of UCC, explores Austin Clarke’s 1966 poem Mnemosyne Lay in Dust an intensely personal poem is based on his own experience of insanity and the months he spent in a mental hospital in Dublin as a young man.

FILM INFO: Stephen Bean (7 minutes, 2013, Colour)

THE SELFISH GIANT

This animated German adapation of Oscar Wilde’s short story has recently been uncovered within the IFI Irish Film Achive collection.  This primitive but charming crayon animation tells the allegorical story of a friendship between  a little boy and a cold-hearted giant.

FILM INFO: REINER FILM (14 minutes, 1964, Colour, Germany)

As part of Once City One Book, the IFI will host a significant Archive at Lunchtime series in April which includes four programmes, along with another four longer documentary profiles held over the weekends. Click here for a full list of our free archive events.

Simply book your FREE seat by contacting the IFI Box Office on 01 679 3477 or emailing boxoffice@irishfilm.ie (given that events can sell out, please note that your emailed booking requests must be confirmed by reply email from the Box Office in order to be considered valid).