This experimental documentary follows up the previous Αbbas Κiarostami: Τhe art of living (2003), in which the great Iranion director Abbas Kiarostami talks about Robert Flaherty, the father of ethnographic documentary, and his film Man of Aran (1934). Daly explores anew the effect of place on creative thinking and the situation of the exiled artist in his encounter with a dispossessed land. In the words of Nicole Brenez: “Supremely minimalist and elegant, it achieves one of the deepest meditations about the image in contemporary cinema, rising winds of ideas blowing directly from the barren plains of Aran, the mythical navel of the documentary form”.
Fergus Daly is a film theorist, curator of experimental film and director. Among other things he wrote about Leos Carax, Jean-Luc Godard and Soviet cinema. His writings are online at https://fergusdaly.wordpress.com/. Other of his films that have been screened worldwide are: Experimental conversations (2006), The Αrt of time (2009), Outliving Dracula: le Fanu's Carmilla (2010), Armand Gatti: Welcome to our battle of images (2009), Matter & memory (2010), Immortal stories (2014), Crimson: an Irish trakl (2020) and Melmoth the wanderer 1820-2020 (2020).
