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Pat Collins
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Producer: Pat Collins
Category
Documentary
After making his first feature, the acclaimed Silence, director Pat Collins returned to the territory he made his name on with this mesmeric documentary, a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary life. Revolving around stories associated with place, the film reflects on the traces of the past that exist in the present. As his distinctive slow cinema style is masterfully deployed, Collins locates these traces in the footprints – mansions, battlefields, and worn-down villages – left by histories shown to be still in motion today. Making judicious use of archive footage from RTÉ and the IFI, Collins meditates on the themes of colonialism, emigration, the Famine, land, property, and art these histories contain. With all this achieved through Collins’ unique cinematic voice, the result is a film which starts a much-needed conversation about Ireland’s buried past.
80 minutes, Ireland, 2014, Colour
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: BRITISH & IRISH (PROGRAMME 2) 12.50
CROSSING 15.20, 20.55
HEART OF AN OAK 18:00
LA CHIMERA 20.30
SHAYDA 13.00 (OC), 18.00
SLEEP 13.15
THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 18.30
THE COMMANDANT’S SHADOW 13.40
THE CONVERSATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY 4K RESTORATION 16.00
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council