Movie
Living in a Coded Land
2014 · 80 min
A slow, contemplative essay that drifts through images and memories, asking you to sit quietly with the weight of history and place.
- Directed by
- Pat Collins
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- 'Living in a Coded Land' is a poetic and imaginative film essay that makes unexpected links between events and locations, history and contemporary life. The film revolves around the notion of a sense of place and stories associated with place, reflecting on the subterranean traces of the past in the present and probing themes such as the impact of colonialism, emigration, the famine, land, housing and the place of art in society. Making extensive use of archive from RTÉ and the IFI, the film seeks to explore the more elusive layers of meaning that make up this country.
- How it feels
- Melancholic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and demanding.
- About
- Memory, identity, colonialism, isolation
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Pat Collins
- Genres
- Documentary