Goodbye Marian Avenue
Deirdre Mulrooney
Contributors
Olwen Fouéré - Voice
Catherine (Kitty) O'Brien - Voice
Paud Mulrooney - Archive Stills Camera/ Super 8
Andrew Irving - Contemporary Video Camera
Samuel Beckett - Incidental text "Ill Seen, Ill Said"
Deirdre Mulrooney - Producer, Director, Editor, Performer, Contemporary Camera
Catherine (Kitty) O'Brien - Voice
Paud Mulrooney - Archive Stills Camera/ Super 8
Andrew Irving - Contemporary Video Camera
Samuel Beckett - Incidental text "Ill Seen, Ill Said"
Deirdre Mulrooney - Producer, Director, Editor, Performer, Contemporary Camera
Synopsis
In the overgrown back garden of a 1950s Limerick city housing estate which was the height of utopian modernity when built for Ireland's new civil servants, the filmmaker enacts a Newgrange-like ritual bidding farewell to a family home, and ushering in a new era.
Concept & Technique
Through the aperture of archive photographs, Super 8 film, vintage voice recording, and oral history, the artist revisits re-enacts, and re-inhabits the geography of her ancestors and her Limerick childhood, sublimating them in a contemporary back garden ritual of Grange spirals, farewells, and melancholy Beckett whispers.
Details
Title
Goodbye Marian Avenue
Year
2022
Genres
Autobiography, Cultural Commentary, Documentary, Historical, Performance
Topics
Emotions, Human Relations, Humankind
Language
English
Duration
00:08:39
Original formats
Digital HD, Film 8mm / Super8mm
Screening formats
Digital HD
Aspect ratio
16:9
Colour
Colour
Sound
Yes
