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Dreamtime Revisited

    • Director

      Julius Ziz, Dónal Ó Céillachair

    • Credits

      Producer: Emer Ní Maoilearca

  • Category

    Documentary
    Literature

A poet and philosopher inspired by Irish mythology and landscape, the writings of the late John Moriarty are here transformed into an impressionistic exploration of the wonder Moriarty found in the world. Interviews with members of Moriarty’s surviving family offer some context to his life but directors Julius Ziz and Dónal Ó Céilleachair keep the focus on Moriarty’s poetic works; topics roam from emigration to Celtic legends as readings from Moriarty’s texts are performed over images of a lush, gorgeously captured Irish countryside that is read as a repository of local and mythical knowledge. These words and images wash over the viewer without the use of any regimented narrative, a decision which allows for associations and impressions to be freely formed.

Continuing Moriarty’s own desire to dive into a more mystic, inscrutable terrain than is commonly seen in contemporary Irish culture, Dreamtime Revisited is an enigmatic and experiential documentary that emulates Moriarty’s own connection to the worlds of Irish language, land, and culture.

For more information on Dreamtime Revisited, see this IFI blog from director Dónal Ó Céilleachair 

76 minutes, Ireland, 2012, Colour

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