"I’ve always believed that you’re just trying to create one
[important] work in your lifetime, it just takes all your fucking
lifetime to try and achieve it."
Filmmaker, artist and writer Denis Buckley was raised in the repressive, hypocritical, religious Ireland of the 1970s. His only respite came from the Cinema Paradiso-esque joy of film at a local cinema. The early death of his father caused him to rebel and escape the country at 20 and he has lived and worked in London ever since.
We discuss what it means to be Irish and the ideas of national identity and fidelity to one’s country as it applies to the growing global populism and isolationism. He also shares his profound wisdom on the role of the artist and art in today’s society. His new project, which explores the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell fire, opens at Galway 126 on September 6th.
LINKS
www.denisbuckley.com
The Dawn (1936) https://tinyurl.com/y2bbjgak
Article on the Irish in the UK during the 60s https://tinyurl.com/yysll7ud
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Release date: August 10th 2019
Runtime: 44m
Recorded: London
