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Collins is doing onscreen what Tim Robinson is doing in Connemara: mapping this land to try and understand the terrible beauty and contradictions that are here. It is a lonely toil and one that we as cinema lovers should be very grateful that he has undertaken. Pat Collins is one of our greatest living filmmakers and an inquisitive one. We can be sure that whatever comes after Song of Granite it will be another necessary and wonderful grand question. He surely knows that yet again it will be one we will answer as the beauty more than makes up for the pain.
Song of Granite will be released in Ireland on the 8th December 2017.
Living in a Coded Land
"Collins is measuring our relationship to the physical island and our ability to try and separate that from the political, religious or psychological."
Song of Granite