Curated in collaboration with Ruaíri McCann
Ár Lorg Saoirse: A Radical Irish Cinema takes place in the cinema from Thursday 3/17 – Sunday 3/20, each film for a suggested donation of $15
On St. Patrick’s Day around the world, the Irish identity blooms into broad, fixed symbols, subbing in for a wide range of experiences across made a thorny past and present day.
Our aim with Ár Lorg Saoirse: A Radical Irish Cinema is to present a bounty of alternative images of Ireland, crafted with the interweaving of narrative and documentary.
Ireland’s dissident ‘First Wave’ is represented in Maeve (1981), a feminist memory piece made on the streets of a wartorn, segregated Belfast, and On a Paving Stone Mounted (1978), a crazy quilting of fiction and non-fiction depicting the Irish immigrant experience in England. A Sense of Loss (1972) is an outsider’s investigation into The Troubles, a moral position located between a rock and hard place. While The Black and the Green (1983), is a film of solidarity and debate between two civil rights movements: one Catholic and Northern Irish, the other Black and American.
Together, these films test Ireland’s most hotly contested zones, evoking the radical politics and hidden truths of the Irish experience.
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit.
– Ruairí McCann
Screenings Include:
Thursday 3/17 at 7:30PM | Bernadette (Duncan Campbell, 2008, 37 min.) and The Black and the Green (St. Clair Bourne, 1983, 45 min.) TICKETS HERE
Friday 3/18 at 7:30PM | Visibility: Moderate (Vivienne Dick, 1981, 38 min.) and Caoineadh Airt Ui Laoir (Bob Quinn, 1983, 52 min.) TICKETS HERE
Saturday 3/19 at 2PM | On a Paving Stone Mounted (Thaddeus O’Sullivan, 1978, 93 min.) TICKETS HERE
Saturday 3/19 at 4:15PM | Maeve (Pat Murphy & John Davies, 1978, 115 min.) TICKETS HERE
Saturday 3/19 at 7PM | Anne Devlin (Pat Murphy, 1984, 121 min.) TICKETS HERE
Sunday 3/20 at 5PM | A Sense of Loss (Marcel Ophuls, 1972, 135 min.) TICKETS HERE
