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Donald Taylor Black's film "DAVID FARRELL - ELUSIVE MOMENTS" screened on RTE One
31-07-2009
Donald Taylor Black's film, DAVID FARRELL - ELUSIVE MOMENTS, will be screened on RTE One on Monday, 10 August at 11.05pm as part of the "Look of the Irish" season about Irish photography.
Dublin-born Farrell is the only Irish photographer to have won the European Publishers' Award for Photography, which he achieved for his 'Innocent Landscapes" project, which deals with the searches for the so-called "Disappeared" from the conflict in the north of Ireland. It was first seen at the international photography festival at Arles, and which has since toured the world from Italy to the USA and from Brazil to China.
Farrell is not interested in making a record of events as they are, or in drawing clear conclusions; he believes strongly in photography's ability to bear witness and his quest for what he calls "elusive moments". We see him "making" photographs in various locations and landscapes, working with collaborators, supervising the printing of his photographs and the hanging of exhibitions, talking to curators and colleagues, and, with some reluctance, engaging with the business and marketing of his work.
The documentary was filmed in Dublin, Wicklow, Cork, Paris, and northern Italy, with funding from the Arts Council and Bord Scannan na hEireann/the Irish Film Board, under the Documenting the Arts scheme. Interviewees include Enrique Juncosa, Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art; photographer, Tony O'Shea; and Tanya Kiang, Director of the Gallery of Photography. It was produced and directed by Black (THE JOY, HEARTS AND SOULS), edited by IFTA winner, J. Patrick Duffner (KISSES, MY LEFT FOOT), with Sean Corcoran (A CHILD'S VOICE, DECEMBER BRIDE) as cinematographer.
DAVID FARRELL - ELUSIVE MOMENTS was first screened at the Cork Film Festival in October and at the Irish Film Institute in November.
