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Director
Alan Gilsenan
Category
DocumentaryLiterature
The life and work of W.B. Yeats holds a particular place in hearts and imaginations across the world. This film is a response to that vast body of work – a visual and avowedly experimental ‘film-poem’. Using solely the words of Yeats, we attempted to take the viewer on a cinematic journey into his extraordinary imagination – an unconventional biography of sorts.
Yet, beyond the poet’s popular profile and his cultural tourist caché, little is really known of his complex life, despite having articulated it so completely, so creatively. In so many ways, Yeats dreamt up his life. He fashioned his own majestic screenplay and we are – endlessly – the beneficiaries. (Notes by Alan Gilsenan.)
75 minutes, Ireland, 2013
BLUE MOON 18.45
BUGONIA 13.00 (35mm)
DIE MY LOVE 15.30
EAFFI DISCOVERIES: THE BOTANIST 18.20
HORSESHOE 20.55
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT 16.30, 20.30
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE 13.45
PILLION 16.00, 18.00
SUNSET BOULEVARD (75th ANNIVERSARY RE-RELEASE) 13.40
THE SHINING (45th ANNIVERSARY) 20.20
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY 11.00
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council