Film series "Shared Histories – Collaboration in Ethnographic Film"
While Robert Flaherty was recording the soundtrack to "Man of Aran" in London, he shot the short film Oidhche Sheanchais (A Night of Storytelling) with his legendary actors Colman King, Maggie Dirrane, Patch Ruadh, Michaeleen Dillane, and storyteller Seáinín Tom Ó Dioráin.
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Filmstill aus „Man of Aran“ (1934)
Shot entirely in the dialect of the Aran Islands, the film was considered lost until a 35mm nitro film print was discovered at Harvard in 2013.
- Robert Flaherty, Ireland 1935, Digital HD, 12 min., OV: Gaelic with English subtitles
Man of Aran
Robert Flaherty, UK 1934, 35mm, 77 min., OV: English with English subtitles
Robert Flaherty's first sound film is a breathtaking, romanticized ethnographic film about humanity and the sea. The inhabitants of the Aran Islands wage a constant struggle for survival against the relentless forces of nature as they fish in their traditional Irish round boats, gather seaweed on barren land, and hunt sharks. A cinematic experience for the senses.
- Introduction: Patrick Holzapfel (film critic, curator, writer)
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Dates
September 2025
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