VISUAL Carlow 2023
Funded by the Irish Arts Council Visual Arts Project Award
This film essay looks closely at a rupture, the demolition of a church in Dublin through a portrait of the building’s dismantling.
While the cultural meaning of the end of this building has been marked by its community through ritual events, this project comes from a new materialist perspective, drawing attention to the life of the fabric of the church. Produced in collaboration with architectural historian Ellen Rowley, and featuring oral interviews recorded in Finglas, the film points to questions of sustainability in architecture such as counting the embodied energy of this church. Tracing how materials were financed, grown and crafted, the project will provide scope for audiences to reflect on the life of the building itself, socially, culturally, and environmentally.
45.03 minutes
Film
Directed by Fiona Hallinan
Based on an essay by Ellen Rowley
Produced by Ellen Rowley, Fiona Hallinan and Kate Strain
Written by Ellen Rowley and the Department of Ultimology: Kate Strain and Fiona
Hallinan
Edited by Michael Barwise
Cinematography Faolán Carey, Jamie Goldrick, Johnny Lyons, Francis O’Mahony
and Tadhg O’Sullivan
Research by Ellen Rowley with additional research by Faolán Carey, Luke Corish
and Fiona Hallinan
Sound design and sound mix by Brendan William Jenkinson
Composition by Davy Kehoe
Organ performance Davy Kehoe and Hannah Curtin
Soundscape by Davy Kehoe
Visual identity by Alex Synge
Grading by Michael Higgins
Photography by Faolán Carey
Full credits in film
While the cultural meaning of the end of this building has been marked by its community through ritual events, this project comes from a new materialist perspective, drawing attention to the life of the fabric of the church. Produced in collaboration with architectural historian Ellen Rowley, and featuring oral interviews recorded in Finglas, the film points to questions of sustainability in architecture such as counting the embodied energy of this church. Tracing how materials were financed, grown and crafted, the project will provide scope for audiences to reflect on the life of the building itself, socially, culturally, and environmentally.
45.03 minutes
Film
Directed by Fiona Hallinan
Based on an essay by Ellen Rowley
Produced by Ellen Rowley, Fiona Hallinan and Kate Strain
Written by Ellen Rowley and the Department of Ultimology: Kate Strain and Fiona
Hallinan
Edited by Michael Barwise
Cinematography Faolán Carey, Jamie Goldrick, Johnny Lyons, Francis O’Mahony
and Tadhg O’Sullivan
Research by Ellen Rowley with additional research by Faolán Carey, Luke Corish
and Fiona Hallinan
Sound design and sound mix by Brendan William Jenkinson
Composition by Davy Kehoe
Organ performance Davy Kehoe and Hannah Curtin
Soundscape by Davy Kehoe
Visual identity by Alex Synge
Grading by Michael Higgins
Photography by Faolán Carey
Full credits in film
Previews of Making Dust, 2023.
Image by Faolán Carey for Making Dust 2021