Songs of Blood and Destiny

(2023, 97mins)

Screening of Trish McAdam’s brand new adaptation of the poem IGirl by Marina Carr. The filmmaker takes the semi-autobiographic words of Marina Carr’s poem “iGirl” as if they were her own, encouraging the actors and the audience to do the same. Using a personal visual language, the filmmaker mirrors the slippery nature of Carr’s work, fire, earth, air, water, crash and bump, contradictory truths told by a dynamic troupe of actors, banging on the fourth wall. Featuring performances of Eileen Walsh, Cathy Belton, Brian Gleeson, Brian Quinn and new-comers Ella Lilly Hyland and Holly Sturton. (Galway Film Fleadh notes)

Trish McAdam will be interviewed post-screening by Johnny Gogan.