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Director
Dearbhla Glynn
Credits
Producer: Vanessa Gildea. Sound: Hugh Fox.
Category
DocumentaryMusic
Living out a dream, Irish musicians Paddy Keenan and Liam Ó’Maonlaí travel across Mali on a musical roadtrip, soaking themselves in local traditions en route to the famous Festival au désert. On a slow-paced journey the pair take the opportunity to listen to and learn from numerous Malian musicians, with both settled and nomadic communities revealing rich musical traditions stretching back hundreds of years. Music, indeed, is seen as a repository for the history of tribes and communities, with songs recording how the land has changed over the centuries. Using interviews with the travelling pair in tandem with scenes of performance and travel, director Dearbhla Glynn focuses on how music can cross borders and break barriers of language and history. The concluding scenes of Keenan and Ó’Maonlaí fusing their traditional Irish music with the sounds and songs performed at Festival au desert form the definitive statement of this goal.
93 minutes, Ireland/Mali, 2008, Colour
ALL YOU NEED IS DEATH 16:00, 20:45
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: SPRING FORWARD (PROGRAMME 1) 13.20
BALTIMORE 13:30
DUNE: PART TWO (70MM) 19.40
FROM THE VAULTS: ABBAS KIAROSTAMI: THE ART OF LIVING 18.30
IO CAPITANO 15:50
JEANNE DU BARRY 14:30, 18:10
ON THE WATERFRONT 70TH ANNIVERSARY 13:40
PERFECT DAYS 20:30
THE TEACHERS’ LOUNGE 17:15
WILD STRAWBERRIES: THAT THEY MAY FACE THE RISING SUN 11.00 (OC)
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