ar siúl – in motion

Password: uilleannpipes

The experimental short film „ar siúl – in motion“ was produced for the „Archives and Appropriation“ seminar, held by Ciara Chambers as part of the MA Film and Screen Media of University College Cork. The rights to reuse the film material were provided by Northern Ireland Screen: Digital Film Archive and Make Film History project as well as Reuters Screen Ocean. The film illustrates the development from manual labor to industrialisation, the increased speed and dehumanisation of production procedures and the risks of uncontrolled growths purely through the use of film extracts from Irish and British archive material. The climatic evolution of the experimental documentary is accompanied by the ever prominent melodies of the Uilleann Pipes, which where improvised and recorded specificaly for the short film.

Cork/Ireland 2022