Movements Recollected ( 16mm,22mins,1999©)
'In a film that draws on avant-garde traditions, McClean weaves an elusive and haunting narrative out of visual fragments full of the intensity and intimacy of memory. The process of filmmaking itself is shown to be integral to her enunciation of identity on a journey that is both abstract and autobiographical.' Alev Adil
In March 2000 ‘Movements Recollected’ was chosen by Cineteca Italiana in Milan to run as a short in a season of Jean Luc Godard films. Shown in a slot called ‘Saranno famosi? (Will they be famous?) Her film was described as ‘poetic’ and ‘’original’. The film also ran as a short before Paolo Pasolini’s 1966 film ‘Uccellacci E Uccellini’ in the Belfast film festival at the QFT in September 2000 and was shown with two other films in a programme entitled ‘Wheel’ at the 44th London Regus Film Festival at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank in London in November 2000.
" Movements Recollected blends fiction and reality to depict a young artists journey of self-discovery, an odyssey that takes her from rural Ireland to the cosmopolitan inner cities of London and Milan “ Anthony White
SCREENED AT:
Premiere: Omagh Arts Festival, Co.Tyrone, Northern Ireland | 1999
Cineteca Italiana, Spazio Oberdan, Milan, Italy | 2000
Germany: Kino 46, Bremen, Germany | 2000
Belfast Film Festival, Belfast, Northern Ireland | 2000
Crew: Camera: Christian Meyer, Steffie Prietzsch & Mairéad McClean
Funded by: The Arts Council of Ireland | An Chomhairle Ealaíon
MOVEMENTS RECOLLECTED | 1999© | Funded by The Arts Council of Ireland