Images Ireland(1988)
A kaleidoscopic film depicting Ireland in the early 80s. These fragments of rural and urban life blend document with fiction showing a teenager in love, a riot outside the British Embassy, a picket at Mountjoy prison, dinnertime in Cork with Nell McCafferty on the radio. Soundtrack by Steve Nieve.
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A kaleidoscopic film depicting Ireland in the early 80s. These fragments of rural and urban life blend document with fiction showing a teenager in love, a riot outside the British Embassy, a picket at Mountjoy prison, dinnertime in Cork with Nell McCafferty on the radio. Soundtrack by Steve Nieve.
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1988-01-01
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