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The Irish Film Archive’s collection is broad, aiming to reflect all aspects of indigenous film production, whether professional or amateur. It incorporates fiction, features, public information films, amateur material, documentary, newsreel, experimental film and animation.
The oldest film held is the Lumiere Brothers’ 1897 footage of Dublin. The Archive also preserves recent indigenous film production.
The Irish Film Archive has a non-purchase acquisition policy and acquires donations from private sources as well as from production companies and professional bodies. Material is donated to us primarily by those eager to see films preserved and centralised in a national archive. The Irish Film Board for instance is a valuable source of material as it deposits in the Archive a preservation copy of each film it has helped to finance. Over the last decade and a half, major collections have been acquired from many sources. Donors include a number of Government Departments, Gael Linn, the National Museum of Ireland, Bord Failte and film- makers such as John Boorman and Neil Jordan, amongst others.
The moving image collection exists on a number of different formats and covers a wide variety of genres. The categories displayed above are intended as a broad introduction to the major types of material we hold.
ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME: GAEILGE ABÚ! (PROGRAMME 1) 12.40
BÁITE 12.45, 18.00
IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU 13.10, 18.00
RESURRECTION 20.05
SIRĀT 15.35
SOUND OF FALLING 14.50
THE BRIDE! 18.10
THE LOVE THAT REMAINS 12.40, 20.50
THE SECRET AGENT 15.00
THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE 20.25 (70MM)
The IFI is supported by The Arts Council
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