Children of Lir is an animation made entirely from still photographs from the LIFE Magazine archives. It combines an Irish tale of children set adrift as swans with the tragic poisoning of water in Flint and other American communities. An impressive flicker creates a sense of depth and motion to the picture sequences.
Also in this combined programme
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Flight Paths
Shot from the perspective of an avian observer, Robert Todd’s camera traces pathways and patterns that exist on the street but to which we rarel -
The I Mine
Experimental narrative connects South African paleoanthropologists and diamond miners digging for items of value with a narrator thoroughly investigat -
025 Sunset Red
Red colours the Californian landscape; red is the blood that flows and leaves a trail to the Basque Country. “Everything of value is defenceless.” -
The Colour of His Hair
Drama and documentary merge in an impressionistic meditation on outlawed queer life and the struggle for gay rights in the UK in the 1960s.
Film details
- Country of production
- USA
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
