Poul an Oigheann — The Bottomless Lake

I was inspired to make this film after reading an entry in the wonderful Roaring Water Journal. I was very much taken with the atmosphere of Finola Finlay’s photographs and also of the included stories from the Dúchas schools folklore collection of the 1930’s. The story is presented here in fragmented form and set to animated versions of Finola’s images and a deep generative score. My focus is trained on the interstices where place meets the woven mythic fabric of its people, where they are unexpectedly balanced upon the constantly sliding temporal contexts of folklore.