Orchard | Irish Artist's Film Index

Orchard

Julie Murray


Artist's biography

Julie Murray

Synopsis

'Much of the footage that comprises Orchard is of a 19th century ruin that includes a walled orchard in an area known as Rostellan in southwest Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls has become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach twenty feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of water and in other places branch and wind over the brickwork in an apparently intelligent arterial arrangement reminiscent of the human body. Some footage of Central Park is in there, as well as Niagara Falls, the main Dublin-to-Cork road and a thin smoking woods on the outskirts of Rosslare, Co. Waterford. These facts may be incidental to the film's eventual form, which winds the images into an arrangement of continuous wandering. All this is attended by environmental whispering sounds until a voice calls out toward the end, in dream-bound recognition, to a figure from the far, far past.' - JM (Sourced from https://julifilm.wordpress.com/moving-images-2000-2007/ on September 18th 2016)


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Title

Orchard

Year

2004

Form

Short

Key phrases

absolute, experimental, landscape, entropy, displacement

Language

English

Duration

00:09:00

Original formats

Physical: Film: 16mm

Aspect ratio

4:3

Colour

Colour

Sound

Yes

Supported by Kildare County Council Arts Service, the Arts Council of Ireland and Visual Artists Ireland.
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