Dreamtime, Revisited is a “walkabout in dreamtime Ireland” inspired by the works of writer, poet and philosopher, John Moriarty.
“It being Dreamtime then, the land was appropriated more effectively with myths than it was with weapons. Without myths going before them, weapons were useless. It being Dreamtime then, the land and everything in it was dreaming. Well might a person in those days say; there is a Dream that dreams us…” (from Dreamtime, 1996)
The film weaves together contemporary and archive material, with excerpts from some of Moriarty’s key talks, in a labyrinthine invocation of his “dream-vision” of Ireland. Dreamtime, Revisited is an observational film mirroring Moriarty’s gaze upon the face of contemporary and historical Ireland. It is an impressionistic film retracing the spiritual and poetic dimensions of Ireland across the folds of its landscape. And an abstract film, following Moriarty’s mythological lead into the depths of the nation’s Dreamtime. - Julius Ziz and Dónal Ó Céilleachair
Reel Art is an Arts Council scheme designed to provide film artists with a unique opportunity to make highly creative, imaginative and experimental documentaries on an artistic theme.
