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Director
Risteard O'Domhnaill
Credits
Producers: Risteard O'Domhnaill, Rachel Lysaght
Category
DocumentaryIrish Language
Local opposition to a gas pipeline in the West of Ireland is already seen to have caused the imprisonment of five activists when this documentary account of the ongoing battle between Shell Oil and a County Mayo community picks up the story. These arrests sparks protests which delay construction, and provoke police violence towards the protestors. Director Risteard Ó Domhnaill, acting initially as a news cameraman, captured the development of the story over several years. Refusing to glamorise this story of a rural town facing down big business The Pipe records community meetings collapsing into acrimony, whilst bribery fragments what is a politically disparate movement. Seen also however is the indomitable will which leads to hunger strikes, offshore blockades, and a challenge against Shell which is brought to the European Parliament. A powerful documentary about an often fractious struggle, The Pipe punctuates the story of escalating protests with anecdotes from locals explaining their connection to the land and the kinds of lives that would be destroyed were the pipeline to be operational.
83 minutes, Ireland, 2010, Colour
BÁITE 15.30, 18.20 (Cinema Club)
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU 13.00
JEAN-LUC GODARD: FIRST NAME: CARMEN (PRÉNOM CARMEN) 18.30
SIRĀT 12.55
SOUND OF FALLING 15.20 (OC), 20.10
THE BRIDE! 17.30, 20.35
THE SECRET AGENT 20.20
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 15.30 (70MM)
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