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Pat Collins

Pat Collins

Irish documentary filmmaker.

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Movies Made By Pat Collins (18)

That They May Face the Rising Sun (2024)

Joe and Kate Ruttledge have returned from London to live and work among the small, close-knit community near to where Joe grew up. Now deeply embedded in life around the lake, the drama of a year in their lives and those of the memorable characters around ...

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Songs of the Open Road (2022)

"Songs of The Open Road" sheds light on the life of the award-winning Irish Traveller, Traditional Singer, Thomas McCarthy. Thomas comes from a long line of singers and musicians who kept the tradition of singing strong within the Irish Traveller community ...

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The Dance (2021)

Thrillingly documenting the creation of a new dance show by Michael Keegan-Dolan, acclaimed Irish filmmaker Pat Collins reveals a work that is expressive and exhilarating. ...

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Henry Glassie: Field Work (2019)

A chronicle of the worldwide travels and unique cultural finds of renowned American folklorist Henry Glassie. ...

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Song of Granite (2017)

The life story of traditional Irish folk singer Joe Heaney, who is estimated to have recorded in excess of 500 traditional Irish sean nós ('old style') songs. Heaney moved from Ireland to the UK, and then on to New York City, where he settled shortly afte ...

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William McKeown: Between Heaven and Earth (2016)

'William McKeown: Idir Neamh agus Talamh' is a meditation on the work of Irish artist William McKeown (1962-2011), who developed a body of work that has had a radical and fundamental effect on our understanding of the age-old relationship of art to nature ...

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Living in a Coded Land (2014)

'Living in a Coded Land' is a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary life. The film revolves around the notion of a sense of place and stories associated with place, reflecting o ...

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Ballade (2014)

'Ballade' is a four minute film commissioned by the Trailblazery and RTÉ which was shown as part of 'We Need to Talk about ireland', a 90 minute show on what it means to be Irish in 2014. ...

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Tim Robinson: Connemara (2011)

Documentarian Pat Collins adopts cartographer Tim Robinson's memoirs of his time in Connemara, exploring the ill-defined boundaries of the region through scenic imagery and hushed narration. ...

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What We Leave in Our Wake (2010)

Emigration, mythology, consumerism, socialism, the place of the church in Irish life, the central role of land in Irish history, and the sense of a civic society are explored in a series of conversations and imagery. ...

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Pilgrim (2008)

Each year on the last Sunday of July one of the oldest pilgrimages in Ireland takes place. Pilgrims come from the surrounding countryside to ascend the 2,510 feet of Croagh Patrick. It has been traditional for certain people to climb the mountain at night ...

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Cathair Chorcaí (2005)

A portrait of the history and people of the city of Cork, Ireland. ...

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Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003)

Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles Kiarostami as a poet and a photographer. ...

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Tory Island (2002)

Tory Island, nine miles off the coast of Donegal is the most remote inhabited island off Ireland. Its notorious inaccessibility and unforgiving landscape has not deterred 150 people from making this island their home. Oileán Thoraí captures, over the co ...

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Talking to the Dead (2000)

Based on the book by Pat Sheeran and Nina Witoszek, this hour-long documentary focuses on the hold that the dead have on the living in Ireland, and the tradition of the funeral in Irish culture. ...

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John McGahern: A Private World (2000)

On March 30th 2006, after a life-time of dedication to his art, John McGahern, one of Ireland's most distinguished writers, sadly passed away after a long illness. Since the publication of his first book in 1963, John McGahern was at the cultural heart of ...

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Michael Hartnett: A Necklace of Wrens (1999)

Filmed the year before his death, Necklace of Wrens is a documentary profile on the life of one of Ireland's leading poets, Michael Hartnett. The documentary includes contributions from poets Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Liam O Muirthile, artist Graham K ...

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