Filmmaker - Visual Artist
Trish McAdam
Trish McAdam
SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY (2023)
Based on the epic poem iGirl
by Marina Carr
by Marina Carr
with Eileen Walsh, Ella Lilly Hyland, Holly Sturton, Cathy Belton, Brian Gleeson, and Bryan Quinn
An intellectually playful comment on the state of Homo Sapiens, past, present and future. A narrator unravels her life like some knotted ball of string, evokes voices past and future to reflects with dark humour and heavenly wit on her own and humanities legacy in the light of potential extinction.
A film by Trish McAdam - Based on the epic poem, iGirl, by Marina Carr
A narrator unravels her own life like some knotted ball of string, reflects with dark humour and heavenly wit on humanities destiny and evokes voices past and future.
The filmmaker takes the semi-autobiographic words of Marina Carr's epic poem, as if they were her own, encouraging the audience to do the same. Using her unique visual language, the filmmaker mirrors the slippery nature of Carr's work, fire, earth, air, water, crash and bump, contradictory truths told by a dynamic troupe of actors, banging on the forth wall. Visuals untangle, re-tangle in multi-layered collages to augment performances of Eileen Walsh, Cathy Belton, Brian Gleeson, Brian Quinn and new-comers Ella Lilly Hyland and Holly Sturton.
The present day narrator is curious, funny but unforgiving, evoking voices, past and future. Joan of Arc, the warrior, Antigone, the truth teller, and the incestuous Jocasta and her son Oedipus, victims of homosapiens tragic fate of our own making. Looking forward from our contemporary, messy domesticity, back to the extinction of the Neanderthals, the film reminds us of the potential extinction of the planet, and ourselves, driven by our very desire to avoid it, fuelled by sci-fi fantasies of somewhere better in the beyond, transhumants of the future.
Composer: Paddy Mulcahy: Casting Director: Maureen Hughes Production Manager Grace Sexton, Studio shoot Cinematographer Fiona Graham, Anna O'Carroll camera operator, Sound Peter Nicell, Hair, Makeup Sarah O’Rourke, Edited with Connie Farrell in Oughterard, Post Production Gorilla Post. Motion Graphics Mark Sherwin.
Niche Films would like to acknowledge the Film Project Award financial support of The Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Cliona Maher as producer with Trish McAdam for Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.
SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY - AWARDS
ARTS COUNCIL FILM PROJECT AWARD
AWARD OF THE FESTIVAL - INDIE CORK December 2023
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - Kerry International Film Festival for Paddy Mulcahy Nov 2023
Eileen Walsh (The Narrator in SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY) was the recipient of the 2023 Maureen O'Hara Award for excellence throughout her career at Kerry International Film Festival 2023.
A narrator unravels her own life like some knotted ball of string, reflects with dark humour and heavenly wit on humanities destiny and evokes voices past and future.
The filmmaker takes the semi-autobiographic words of Marina Carr's epic poem, as if they were her own, encouraging the audience to do the same. Using her unique visual language, the filmmaker mirrors the slippery nature of Carr's work, fire, earth, air, water, crash and bump, contradictory truths told by a dynamic troupe of actors, banging on the forth wall. Visuals untangle, re-tangle in multi-layered collages to augment performances of Eileen Walsh, Cathy Belton, Brian Gleeson, Brian Quinn and new-comers Ella Lilly Hyland and Holly Sturton.
The present day narrator is curious, funny but unforgiving, evoking voices, past and future. Joan of Arc, the warrior, Antigone, the truth teller, and the incestuous Jocasta and her son Oedipus, victims of homosapiens tragic fate of our own making. Looking forward from our contemporary, messy domesticity, back to the extinction of the Neanderthals, the film reminds us of the potential extinction of the planet, and ourselves, driven by our very desire to avoid it, fuelled by sci-fi fantasies of somewhere better in the beyond, transhumants of the future.
Composer: Paddy Mulcahy: Casting Director: Maureen Hughes Production Manager Grace Sexton, Studio shoot Cinematographer Fiona Graham, Anna O'Carroll camera operator, Sound Peter Nicell, Hair, Makeup Sarah O’Rourke, Edited with Connie Farrell in Oughterard, Post Production Gorilla Post. Motion Graphics Mark Sherwin.
Niche Films would like to acknowledge the Film Project Award financial support of The Arts Council | An Chomhairle Ealaíon and Cliona Maher as producer with Trish McAdam for Clonmel Junction Arts Festival.
SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY - AWARDS
ARTS COUNCIL FILM PROJECT AWARD
AWARD OF THE FESTIVAL - INDIE CORK December 2023
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE - Kerry International Film Festival for Paddy Mulcahy Nov 2023
Eileen Walsh (The Narrator in SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY) was the recipient of the 2023 Maureen O'Hara Award for excellence throughout her career at Kerry International Film Festival 2023.
ARENA RTE Radio 1
"Marina Carr’s, iGirl, has been reimagined into a striking feature film, SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY, by visual artist and filmmaker Trish McAdam"
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22272535/
"Marina Carr’s, iGirl, has been reimagined into a striking feature film, SONGS OF BLOOD AND DESTINY, by visual artist and filmmaker Trish McAdam"
https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22272535/
