Song of Granite
One might say that the grain of granite is the visible side of a mystery emanating from a child. That the grain of Pat Collins’s film is the device distinguishing fiction from archive footage, which convey a reality interspersed with fragments of radio recordings. But that would be a reductive take on this patient portrait of the world-renowned “King of Irish singers”, an acolyte of John Cage in his “writing through Finnegans Wake”, after James Joyce. Indeed the core of the film is where the singing rises.
Technical sheet
Original version : irish, english.
Subtitles : english.
Screen : Richard Kendrick.
Editor : Tadhg O’Sullivan.
Sound : Delphine Measroch.
With : Macdara Ó Fatharta, Mícheál Ó Confhaola, Jaren Cerf, Pól Ó Ceannabháín, Colm Seoighe.
Production : Alan Maher, Jessie Fisk, Martin Paul-Hus.
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