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Henry Glassie Fieldwork nominated for The Folklore Society Non-Print Media Award 2021
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
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
Terence Davies and Pat Collins Directing Masterclass at Still Voices Film Festival
6th November 2021 at 2.30pm
Backstage Theatre, Longford
The Dance selected for BFI London Film Festival 2021
12th & 13th October 2021
The Dance nominated for Grierson Award at BFI London Film Festival 2021
Folk Film Gathering – Pat Collins in conversation with Michaelangelo Frammartino (Il Dono, La Quattro Volte, Alberi)
Edinburgh, 28th July 2021
Henry Glassie : Fieldwork for Glasgow Film Festival
1st March 2020
Glasgow Film Festival
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…
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.”
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
Distance at Irish Film Institute
31st July 2019
Brief Encounters
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.
Distance at Irish Film Festa Rome
13th March 2019
Distance at Les Recontres Internationales, Paris
5th March – 10th 2019
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.
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.
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.
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.
Distance to screen at Still Voices Short Film Festival 2018
17th & 18th August 2018
Ballymahon, Co. Longford
Song of Granite to screen at Film Festival Menorca 2018
17th July 2018
Song of Granite screening
Song of Granite to screen at FID Marseilles 2018
11th & 16th July 2018
Song of Granite at FID 29th International Film Festival Marseilles 2018
Song of Granite to screen at Revelation Film Festival 2018, Perth
6th, 7th, 10th, 17th July 2018
Song of Granite screening
Song of Granite to screen at Midnight Sun Film Festival, Finland
15th June 2018
Song of Granite at Carlow Arts Festival 2018
10th June 2018
Song of Granite at Carlow Arts Festival
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.
Imogen Stuart to screen at National Gallery, Ireland
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
Richard Kendrick wins Special Jury Prize for Cinematography at Fajr FIlm Festival Iran 2018
2nd May 2018
Song of Granite to screen at Bealtaine Arts Festival, Dingle
4th May 2018
Phoenix Cinema, 6.30pm
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)
Song of Granite new title on Volta VOD
2nd May 2018
Song of Granite to screen at Irish Film Festival, Australia
2nd May 2018
Screenings at Penrith, Melbourne and Paddington
Song of Granite to screen at Irish Arts Centre, New York
8th April 2018
Song of Granite to compete in Fajr International Film Festival Iran
28th April 2018
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
Song of Granite to screen at Buenos Aires Film Festival, 2018
2nd April 2018
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’.
Song of Granite nominated in Arts Category of Celtic Media Film Festival
2nd – 4th May 2018
Song of Granite to screen on TG4
27th March 2018
Song of Granite will make it’s Irish TV premiere on Easter Monday
Song of Granite to screen at Dingle Film Festival
24th March 2018
St. James’ Church | 8.30pm
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|)
‘Imogen Stuart’ and ‘William McKeown’ films to screen at IFI
2nd March 2018
Brief Encounters: Gearrscannán Nua at IFI
Song of Granite wins Best Feature at Seeyousound Film Festival, Italy
5th February 2018
Distance screening at aDifferent Festival, Milwaukee, USA
2nd February 2018
Twilight to screen at Dublin Film Festival
28th February 2018
Lighthouse Cinema | 6.30pm |
Twilight to screen at Audi Dublin International Film Festival
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…
Song of Granite to screen at Goteborg Film Festival
27th, 28th January and 2nd, 4th February 2018
4* Review for Song of Granite from The Guardian
18th December 2017
Song of Granite opens at cinemas nationwide this weekend
6th December 2017
Song of Granite to show at Cork Film Festival
30th October 2017
Song of Granite to show at Leeds International Film Festival
12th November 2017
Hyde Park Picture House | 17.45pm
Song of Granite to show at Mannheim-Heidelberg Film Festival
15th, 17th November 2017 | Mannheim
16th, 17th November 2017 | Heidelberg
Song of Granite to show at Singapore International Film Festival
29th November 2017
Song of Granite screening at Oireachtais 2017
4ú Samhain 2017
Amharclann an Oireachtais, Óstán Brehon | 5.00pm
Song of Granite for Irish Film Festival London
2nd December 2017
Regent Street Cinema | 4.45pm
Song of Granite at Queens Film Theatre, Belfast
8th December 2017
Song of Granite screening
Song of Granite for Kerry Film Festival
20th October 2017
Cinema Killarney | 7.30pm
Song of Granite for Sky Road Film Festival
14th October 2017
Station House Theatre, Clifden | 8pm
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
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
Song of Granite for Vancouver International Film Festival
29th September and 1st October 2017
Song of Granite to screen at London Film Festival 2017
7th October 2017
BFI Southbank | 18.30pm
8th October 2017
ICA London | 12.45pm
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
Song of Granite to show at FIN Film Festival, Nova Scotia Canada
10th September 2017
‘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.
‘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.
‘Song of Granite’ to show at Film by the Sea 2017
8th September 2017
Song of Granite to show at Vlissingen, Netherlands
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…
Cinema release for Song of Granite
24th November 2017
Song of Granite will be released in cinemas in Ireland on November 24th…
Song of Granite to screen at 52nd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017
17th July 2017
Song of Granite at KVIFF 2017
‘Nettle Coat’ film screening as part of SurprEYES at Dun Laoghaire Lexicon Gallery
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
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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