Bloomsday Film Festival: Songs of Blood and Destiny + Q & A w Trish McAdam

The Bloomsday Film Festival presents Songs of Blood and Destiny + Q & A with Trish McAdam on Sunday, June 15th at 5pm in Belvedere College.

Visionary film based on the epic poem iGirl by Marina Carr, by Trish McAdams.

Based on Marina Carr’s epic poem, iGirl, Beckettian in style, the writer unravels her life like some knotted ball of string, and reflects with dark humour and wit on the legacy of her own work and that of homo sapiens, evoking voices past and future, while contemplating the possible extinction of both at our own hand.

“Evoking imagined inner voices of giants of the narrative form – Antigone, Joan of Arc, Oedipus, and the last of the Neanderthals – the film is a playful intellectual feast. Using live footage, animation and music to create a cinematic immersion the film pulsates with vivid performances from renowned actors Eileen Walsh, Brian Gleeson, Cathy Belton and Brian Quinn and newcomers Holly Sturton and Ella Lilly Hyland.” ~ Sunniva O’ Flynn, IFI.

Trish McAdam began making films after a period in NY’s East Village hanging out with photographer, Nan Goldin and Vivienne Dick. Best known for, NEW YORK 81, THE DRIP (1985) SNAKES AND LADDERS (1997), HOODWINKED (1998), NO ENEMIES LIU XIAOBO (2012) STRANGERS OF KINDNESS (2015), CONFINEMENT (2019) OUTCRY AND WHISPER (2020) Solo exhibition, The Butler Gallery (2016) MA IADT (2011) Member of Aosdana (2017) Irish Film Institute Director in Focus (2019).

Much of her work is held in the Archive of The Irish film Institute, including digitization of all production footage from the documentaries HOODWINKED and FLIRTING WITH THE LIGHT (2001).

Screening will be followed by a Q & A with director Trish McAdams.

Runtime: 98 min

Tickets are €8.