Dear Bird Watcher by Daire Villa

Details

Location

Rathmullan

Year

2024

Date

Length

03min 00sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

black and white

Source

Daire Villa

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Daire Villa, Rathmullan Film Festival, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

Daire Villa

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Dear Bird Watcher is Daire Villa's entry for the 2024 Rathmullan Film Festival's What's the Story? competition. Daire reflects on the project:

"When the watcher becomes the watched can it change our perspective? A film made from a collection of archival clips, we take a birds eye view to see what can we learn about human nature.

Working with archival material is such a privilege and is arguably one of the most exciting ways to make film whether you are a beginner or experienced filmmaker. This project was so fun from start to finish from the group zoom workshops to delving into the clips and producing our final films. 

As the clips were pre-chosen for us it posed a new and interesting challenge, to find our voice or our story within a completely unfamiliar world. It allowed me to unlock a multitude of stories that wouldn't necessarily have come to me otherwise which was extremely exciting and has really opened my mind to delving into stories that are more unfamiliar to me or that I wouldn't necessarily expect myself to be interested in. 

I went back and forth on a few ideas, finally settling on an idea which originally came from a throwaway joke 'Who is this Mr Jack Daw', which I made after reading the title of one of the clips, and I simply ran with it."

Credits

Film by Daire Villa

Filmmaking course provided by Póca Productions in conjunction with Rathmullan Film Festival and Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive.  

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