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Henry Glassie Fieldwork nominated for The Folklore Society Non-Print Media Award 2021

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Career Interview with Pat Collins at Doc Day Live at Cork Film Festival 2021

Thursday November 11th 2021, 2.30pm

To coincide with the Documentary Gala screening of his new feature documentary The Dance, Cork filmmaker Pat Collins joins Doc Day for an in-depth interview about his filmmaking career. Speaker: Pat Collins – Director, The Dance. Interviewed by: Vanessa Gildea – Head of the Department of Film + Media, National Film School, IADT / Director, Producer, Writer


Taskovski Films acquires World Sales Rights for The Dance 

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All that is, is Light to Screen at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork Film Festival 2021

10th November 2021 at 11am, 1.00pm and 3.00pm


The Dance to screen at the 66th Cork Film Festival, 2021

11th November 2021 at 8.30pm / The Everyman, Cork

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Terence Davies and Pat Collins Directing Masterclass at Still Voices Film Festival

6th November 2021 at 2.30pm

Backstage Theatre, Longford

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The Dance selected for BFI London Film Festival 2021

12th & 13th October 2021

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The Dance nominated for Grierson Award at BFI London Film Festival 2021

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Folk Film Gathering – Pat Collins in conversation with Michaelangelo Frammartino (Il Dono, La Quattro Volte, Alberi)

Edinburgh, 28th July 2021 

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Henry Glassie : Fieldwork for Glasgow Film Festival

1st March 2020

Glasgow Film Festival

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Retrospective Pat Collins presented by the University of Saskatchewan

16th – 20th February 2020

Cinémathèque Québécoise, Montreal, Canada

A series of screenings and discussions including Song of Granite,  What Remains, Oileain Thoraí, Pilgrim, Tim Robinson: Connemara, Fathom…

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Henry Glassie: Fieldwork for Toronto International Film Festival

World Premiere of Henry Glassie: Fieldwork for Toronto Film Festival 2019

“Henry Glassie has made a life out of studying folk artists and the marvels they create. Over the past 50 years, the renowned US scholar has travelled to five continents, conducting fieldwork with an obsessive thoroughness. Each project Glassie undertakes requires at least a decade. Brimming with insights into the artistic impulse — and how every culture manifests its own standard of beauty and meaning — this poetic portrait of Glassie doubles as a travelogue, taking us places Glassie has embedded himself.”

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Distance as part of Lux Touring Programme

8th August 2018

A touring programme of recent artists’ moving image work from Ireland featuring artists Saoirse Wall, Laura Fitzgerald, Sharon Whooley, Doireann O’Malley and Ronan McCrea. Curated by Alice Butler

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Distance at Irish Film Institute

31st July 2019 

Brief Encounters

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Distance at Alchemy Film Festival

5th May 2019

9th Edition of Alchemy Film Festival and Moving Image Festival (2 – 6 May 2019) presenting 147 moving-image works over five days and across eight programme strands — including features, shorts, installations, performances, special focuses and guest-curated programmes.

The Earth Will Move Once More: Stillness and movement entwine in this selection of sublime contemplations on place, culture and habitat — from Austria to Morocco, from Hong Kong to Hawick.

Sandy Devers, Wang Haiyang, Richard Forbes-Hamilton, Jacques Perconte, Davorin Marc, Markus Maicher, Raquel Vermunt, Sharon Whooley. 

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Distance at Irish Film Festa Rome

13th March 2019

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Distance at Les Recontres Internationales, Paris

5th March – 10th 2019

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Between Structure and Agency – Distance Screening

25th October 2018

Artist’s Moving Image at Tyneside cinema

This programme of short works examines different facets or experiences of agency to consider what occurs when it is compromised, reclaimed, expanded or channelled elsewhere, specifically to the natural and built environment. With recent films by Irish artists Saoirse Wall, Laura Fitzgerald, Sharon Whooley, Doireann O’Malley and Ronan McCrea.

Event curated by Alice Butler, AEMI in association with LUX and the Irish Film Institute. This event marks the launch of a tour with LUX to several UK venues over the course of twelve months.

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Distance at Cork Film Festival

13th November 2018

Gate Cinema | 13.45pm

“Experimental and artistic, boundary-pushing films.”

Distance to screen as part of a programme of experimental shorts with film artists Katherine Canty, Atoosa Pour Hosseini, Dianne Lucille Campbel, Oonagh Kearney and Alice Maher & Aideen Barry.

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Three film works by Pat Collins to screen at IndieCork

October 13th 2018

Screening of Twilight (2017), What Remains (2013), Pilgrim (2008) Followed by Q&A with Pat Collins and James Mulvey

Three experimental film works funded by the Arts Council of Ireland.

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Distance at Unseen 2018

27th September 2018

Unseen Film Festival, Denver, Colorado

Sunken Treasures : Working with new definitions of experimental film, writing, and dance during a full 30 days of screenings and other performances at multiple venues from September 1 to September 30, 2018.

Programme includes films by Josh Weissbach, Lorenzo Gattorna and Domietta Torlasco, Kanika Agrawa and Sharon Whooley.

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Distance to screen at Still Voices Short Film Festival 2018

17th & 18th August 2018

Ballymahon, Co. Longford

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Song of Granite to screen at Film Festival Menorca 2018

17th July 2018

Song of Granite screening 

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Song of Granite to screen at FID Marseilles 2018

11th & 16th July 2018

Song of Granite at FID 29th International Film Festival Marseilles 2018

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Song of Granite to screen at Revelation Film Festival 2018, Perth

6th, 7th, 10th, 17th July 2018

Song of Granite screening

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Song of Granite to screen at Midnight Sun Film Festival, Finland

15th June 2018

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Song of Granite at Carlow Arts Festival 2018

10th June 2018

Song of Granite at Carlow Arts Festival

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Song of Granite to screen at Byre Theatre, St. Andrew’s, Fife

3rd May 2018

Song of Granite at Carlow Arts FestivalSong of Granite screening is followed by an interview with Eoghan Mac Giolla Bhríde and is supported by the Byre Theatre and the School of English at St. Andrew’s University, and hosted by Dr Peter Mackay.

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2nd May 2018

Song ‘Imogen Stuart’ screening as part of a special in-conversation event with renowned artist Imogen Stuart RHA and Donal Maguire to celebrate Emil Nolde: Art is Life

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Richard Kendrick wins Special Jury Prize for Cinematography at Fajr FIlm Festival Iran 2018

2nd May 2018

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Song of Granite to screen at Bealtaine Arts Festival, Dingle

4th May 2018

Phoenix Cinema, 6.30pm

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Song of Granite to screen at Portland Museum of Art, Oregon

2nd May 2018

Screenings May 4th, 5th and 6th 2018…


Song of Granite: ‘Anatomy of a Film’ at University College Dublin

12th April 2018

Dissecting the various aspects that make a film… with Pat Collins (Director), Amy Rowan (Casting Agent), Padraig O’Neil (Production Designer), Richard Kendrick (DOP) and Alan Maher (Producer)

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Song of Granite new title on Volta VOD

2nd May 2018

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Song of Granite to screen at Irish Film Festival, Australia

2nd May 2018

Screenings at Penrith, Melbourne and Paddington

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Song of Granite to screen at Irish Arts Centre, New York

8th April 2018

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Song of Granite to compete in Fajr International Film Festival Iran

28th April 2018

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Pat Collins to screen and present Song of Granite at Princeton University

6th April 2018

Song of Granite screening followed by discussion with Pat Collins and Fintan O’Toole

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Song of Granite to screen at Buenos Aires Film Festival, 2018

2nd April 2018

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Song of Granite to screen at The School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh

2nd April 2018

George’s Square | 5pm

SCREENING of ‘Song of Granite’, introduced by Dr Virginia Blankenhorn, Celtic and Scottish Studies, followed by Dr Blankenhorn’s seminar ‘At the Fulcrum: Joe Heaney and the Folk Revival’.

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Song of Granite nominated in Arts Category of Celtic Media Film Festival

2nd – 4th May 2018

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Song of Granite to screen on TG4

27th March 2018

Song of Granite will make it’s Irish TV premiere on Easter Monday

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Song of Granite to screen at Dingle Film Festival

24th March 2018

St. James’ Church | 8.30pm

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Song of Granite to screen at Irish Film Festa, Rome

25th March 2018

Casa del Cinema di Roma | 4pm | 
(Largo Marcello Mastroianni 1, Villa Borghese|)

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‘Imogen Stuart’ and ‘William McKeown’ films to screen at IFI

2nd March 2018

Brief Encounters: Gearrscannán Nua at IFI

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Song of Granite wins Best Feature at Seeyousound Film Festival, Italy

5th February 2018

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Distance screening at aDifferent Festival, Milwaukee, USA

2nd February 2018

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Twilight to screen at Dublin Film Festival

28th February 2018

Lighthouse Cinema | 6.30pm |

Twilight to screen at Audi Dublin International Film Festival

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Song of Granite nominated for 3 IFTA Awards 2018

19th January 2018

Song of Granite nominated in Best Camera, Best Editing and Best Film Categories 2018…

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Song of Granite to screen at Goteborg Film Festival

27th, 28th January and 2nd, 4th February 2018

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4* Review for Song of Granite from The Guardian

18th December 2017

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Song of Granite opens at cinemas nationwide this weekend

6th December 2017

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Song of Granite to show at Cork Film Festival

30th October 2017

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Song of Granite to show at Leeds International Film Festival

12th November 2017

Hyde Park Picture House | 17.45pm

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Song of Granite to show at Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival

15th, 17th November 2017 | Mannheim

16th, 17th November 2017 | Heidelberg

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Song of Granite to show at Singapore International Film Festival

29th November 2017

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Song of Granite screening at Oireachtais 2017

4ú Samhain 2017

Amharclann an Oireachtais, Óstán Brehon | 5.00pm

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Song of Granite for Irish Film Festival London

2nd December 2017

Regent Street Cinema | 4.45pm

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Song of Granite at Queens Film Theatre, Belfast

8th December 2017

Song of Granite screening

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Song of Granite for Kerry Film Festival

20th October 2017

Cinema Killarney | 7.30pm

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Song of Granite for Sky Road Film Festival

14th October 2017

Station House Theatre, Clifden | 8pm

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Song of Granite at Montreal Film Festival

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

10th October 2017

Cineplex Odeon Quartier Salle 10 | 18.15

15th October 2017

Cineplex Odeon Quartier Salle 16 | 19.00

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Critics Choice nomination for Song of Granite at Hamburg Film Festival

8th October 2017

Abaton Gross | 8.30pm

13th October 2017

Passage 1 | 9.45pm

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Song of Granite for Vancouver International Film Festival

29th September and 1st October 2017

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Song of Granite to screen at London Film Festival 2017

7th October 2017

BFI Southbank | 18.30pm

8th October 2017

ICA London | 12.45pm

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Song of Granite Ireland’s Entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar 2017

11th September 2017

“Joe Heaney remains one of the great traditional singers. I think he would have liked the notion of a film with sean nós singing at its core representing Ireland in an international competition like the Oscars.” Pat Collins

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Song of Granite to show at FIN Film Festival, Nova Scotia Canada

10th September 2017

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‘Twilight’ for Visual Carlow

9th September 2017 – 28th January 2018

Twilight was filmed by Pat Collins over 2 years close to Baltimore in West Cork, with field recordings by world renowned sound artist Chris Watson. The film has twilight as its central subject and is an attempt to capture the colour and quality of light that is in flux, the fleeting and transient sensations, the sense of the world turning.

Made with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland.

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‘Fathom’ to screen at Port | River | City 2017

17th September 2017

Fathom to screen at Port | River | City

port | river | city takes the form of a unique programme of screenings and site-specific moving image installations curated by Alice Butler & Daniel Fitzpatrick of aemi and artist Cliona Harmey.

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‘Song of Granite’ to show at Film by the Sea 2017

8th September 2017

Song of Granite to show at Vlissingen, Netherlands

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Galway Film Fleadh ‘Best Cinematography Award’ for Song of Granite

17th July 2021

Richard Kendrick awarded ‘Best Cinematography’ Award for his exquisite work on Song of Granite…

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Cinema release for Song of Granite

24th November 2017

Song of Granite will be released in cinemas in Ireland on November 24th…

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Song of Granite to screen at 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017

17th July 2017

Song of Granite at KVIFF 2017

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9th May – 30th July 2017

SurprEYES! 

SurprEYES is an exhibtion that has been specially selected by curator Martin Drury to appeal to children.  There are over 30 artworks on show from the collection of the Arts Council of Ireland featuring artists such Louis Le Brocquey, Dorothy Cross, Gary Coyle, Alice Maher and many more.


‘Song of Granite’ to open Galway Film Fleadh 2017

11th July 2017

Song of Granite has been announced as the Opening Film of the 29th Galway Film Fleadh

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Oscilloscope pick up ‘Song of Granite’ for US Distribution

10th May 2017

‘Song of Granite’ picked up for US Distribution by Oscilloscope…

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