As part of RTÉ's new series ‘The Look of the Irish’ documentaries will be aired from Sunday 9 to Friday 14 August, which will celebrate Ireland and our heritage through the photographs that have shown us who we are since 1893.
In this series formal and informal snaps taken by amateur and professional photographers over the last 170 years will be looked at. Nine documentaries will be aired covering emotive photographic topics such as a Cork’s family’s story if city life over three generations to the fascinating archive of Titanic survivor Fr. Browne.
On Monday, 10 August, Donald Taylor Black's film ’David Farrell – Elusive Moments’ will be broadcast. The documentary, which was first screened at the Cork Film Festival in October, was filmed in Dublin, Wicklow, Cork, Paris, and northern Italy, with funding from the Arts Council and Bord Scannan na hEireann/the Irish Film Board, under the Documenting the Arts scheme. Interviewees include Enrique Juncosa, Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art; photographer, Tony O'Shea; and Tanya Kiang, Director of the Gallery of Photography. Produced and directed by Taylor Black (The Joy, Hearts and Souls), the documentary was edited by IFTA winner J. Patrick Duffner (Kisses, My Left Foot), whilst Sean Corcoran (A Childs Voice, December Bride) was cinematographer.
This particular documentary looks at Dublin born David Farrell, who was the only Irish photographer to have won the European Publishers' Award for Photography, which he achieved for his 'Innocent Landscapes" project, which deals with the searches for the so-called "Disappeared" from the conflict in the north of Ireland.
Farrell is not interested in making a record of events as they are, or in drawing clear conclusions; he believes strongly in photography's ability to bear witness and his quest for what he calls "elusive moments".
In ‘David Farrell – Elusive Moments’ we see him "making" photographs in various locations and landscapes, working with collaborators, supervising the printing of his photographs and the hanging of exhibitions, talking to curators and colleagues, and, with some reluctance, engaging with the business and marketing of his work.
Also airing as part of this series will be
- ‘Fergus Bourke: In His Own Words’ 9th August, 11:10pm, RTÉ One
- ‘Day by Day by Day’ 10th August, 7:30pm, RTÉ One
- ‘The Day Before Yesterday: The Birth of a Nation’ 10th August, 8:30pm, RTÉ One
- ‘David Farrell - Elusive Moments' 10th August, 11:05pm, RTÉ One
- ‘Riviera Cocktail’ 11th August, 11:30pm, RTÉ One
- ‘Sweet Cork of Thee - Edwardian Cork on Camera’ 12th August, 7:30pm RTÉ One
- 'Dark Room' Profile of Harry Thuillier Jr’. 12th August 11:55pm, RTÉ One
- ‘The Man Who Shot Beckett’ 13th August, 11:05pm, RTÉ One
- ‘Not Fade Away’ 14th August, 8:30pm, RTÉ One
