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Director
Claire Dix
Credits
Producer: Nodlag Houlihan. Sound: Graham Newcombe
Category
DocumentaryMusic
GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists, rappers and song-writers from Dublin’s often-deprived suburbs. Through their words they have found a way to diffuse their frustration with the chaos that surrounds them and to inspire others to master forms of self-expression which nurture creativity rather than anger. The pared-back aesthetic of Claire Dix’s documentary, shot elegantly in black and white (with occasional, metaphorical splashes of colour), ennobles her young subjects and mirrors the raw texture of their work. Her method is un-invasive, dwelling not on the detail of the boys’ sometimes shambolic lives, but focusing instead on their music. And while all are immensely talented, attention is drawn inexorably to the astonishing, haunting voice of 19-year-old urban soul singer Willa Lee.
66 minutes, Ireland, 2013, B&W
AKIRA (4K RESTORATION) 16.00
ALAN GILSENAN: THE YELLOW BITTERN 15.00
AMÉLIE (25th ANNIVERSARY) 17.30
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: MISSIONS IMPOSSIBLE (DOUBLE BILL) 13.25
FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER 13.10
IDOL WORSHIP: AN EVENING WITH MINK STOLE AND PEACHES CHRIST
REBUILDING 11.00, 17.45
THE BLUE TRAIL 15.40
THE DRAMA 11.00, 20.15
THE STRANGER 13.20
THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN 20.00
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council