Lila Schmitz’s documentary offers a candid look at Irish music and community struggles in a small Irish village known for its bar-room sessions
That The Banshees of Inisherin may apparently be a documentary is the main takeaway of this swift but wide- and deep-ranging investigation into the musical community of Doolin, County Clare. It’s a truism to point out the absorption with the landscape in Irish folk music, and a certain attendant melancholia. But it’s hard not to go back to such ideas when one interviewee says of nearby tourist attraction the Cliffs of Moher: “Who wants to look over a big cliff? Unless you’re thinking of jumping?”
Once a remote scrum of thatched cottages, Doolin is now on the tourist trail thanks to its uninterrupted tradition of bar-room sessions – in which all-comers are welcome to pitch in with whatever musical talent they have. The place...
That The Banshees of Inisherin may apparently be a documentary is the main takeaway of this swift but wide- and deep-ranging investigation into the musical community of Doolin, County Clare. It’s a truism to point out the absorption with the landscape in Irish folk music, and a certain attendant melancholia. But it’s hard not to go back to such ideas when one interviewee says of nearby tourist attraction the Cliffs of Moher: “Who wants to look over a big cliff? Unless you’re thinking of jumping?”
Once a remote scrum of thatched cottages, Doolin is now on the tourist trail thanks to its uninterrupted tradition of bar-room sessions – in which all-comers are welcome to pitch in with whatever musical talent they have. The place...
- 9/20/2023
- by Phil Hoad
- The Guardian - Film News
"It's a very lonely place... if we didn't have the music, I don't know how we'd cope." Central City Media has revealed an official trailer for a music documentary film titled The Job of Songs, made by filmmaker Lila Schmitz. The film won the Best International Documentary at last year's Galway Film Festival. In Doolin (see Google Maps), an isolated village teetering on the western edge of Ireland, a community of musicians seek joy and connection through music as they face a modernizing world. An intimate doc conversing with may Irish people who want to keep the music playing. "Music is a way for us to unleash our feelings so that we may express the unspoken," the director explains. Music has the power to bring people together. In this community of musicians, artists explore what it means to exist in the old music, the long-standing tradition, and find community through the strumming of a guitar,...
- 8/14/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
’Lakelands’ won best Irish film; ‘The Sparrow’ picked up best first Irish feature.
Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney’s Lakelands was among the big winners at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh which closed on Sunday evening (July 10).
Set among a community in the Irish midlands where Gaelic football is revered Lakelands centres on a sportsman struggling with the aftermath of a head injury. It won best Irish film and the Bingham Ray New Talent award. The latter was given jointly to Lakelands’ two lead actors, Éanna Hardwicke and Danielle Galligan.
The Fleadh awarded best Irish first feature to Michael Kinirons’ The Sparrow,...
Robert Higgins and Patrick McGivney’s Lakelands was among the big winners at this year’s Galway Film Fleadh which closed on Sunday evening (July 10).
Set among a community in the Irish midlands where Gaelic football is revered Lakelands centres on a sportsman struggling with the aftermath of a head injury. It won best Irish film and the Bingham Ray New Talent award. The latter was given jointly to Lakelands’ two lead actors, Éanna Hardwicke and Danielle Galligan.
The Fleadh awarded best Irish first feature to Michael Kinirons’ The Sparrow,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Musicians Eoin O’Neill, Kieran O’Connell, Adam Shapiro Christy Mc Namara and Beth Tipton at Fitzpatrick’s Bar in Lila Schmitz’s The Job Of Songs Photo: Anika Kan Grevstad
In my discussion with Lila Schmitz, following the World Premiere of her debut feature The Job Of Songs in the Doc NYC Sonic Cinema programme (a highlight of the 12th edition), she mentions first seeing the Cliffs of Moher in Harry Potter films. The Doolin, County Clare community of storytellers/musicians, Ireland and Sam Shepard, grace in Bruno Dumont and France, and the shot of cows walking in time to Yvonne Casey’s Kieran Jig played over Clare FM by radio host Eoin O'Neill all came up.
Lila Schmitz with Anne-Katrin Titze on stepping into a session: “Being allowed to witness the community that the musicians are creating for each other and for anybody who cares to listen.”
Director/writer/editor and her producing partners,...
In my discussion with Lila Schmitz, following the World Premiere of her debut feature The Job Of Songs in the Doc NYC Sonic Cinema programme (a highlight of the 12th edition), she mentions first seeing the Cliffs of Moher in Harry Potter films. The Doolin, County Clare community of storytellers/musicians, Ireland and Sam Shepard, grace in Bruno Dumont and France, and the shot of cows walking in time to Yvonne Casey’s Kieran Jig played over Clare FM by radio host Eoin O'Neill all came up.
Lila Schmitz with Anne-Katrin Titze on stepping into a session: “Being allowed to witness the community that the musicians are creating for each other and for anybody who cares to listen.”
Director/writer/editor and her producing partners,...
- 11/23/2021
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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