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The Sligo short film '...for peace comes dropping slow...' is to be screened next Monday June 13th at 6pm, at a celebration of W.B. Yeats’s 146th birthday at the W.B. Yeats Society of New York in the National Arts Club, Gramarcy Park, New York City.
In July, the short film will also screen as an Official Selection at the New Hope Film Festival(NHFF), Pennsylvania onSaturday July 16th. The festival's chairman Doug Whipple commented that "...for peace comes dropping slow..." is the first Irish film to screen at NHFF , and said "You're breaking new ground for Ireland at our festival, and I should add that your blend of poetry, nature and peace is a fine tribute to your country". The film will screen at the state-of-the-art Stephen S. Busk Memorial Theatre at New Hope.
Conceived and directed by Sligo-based artist Lisa Vandegrift Davala and commissioned by the Arts Office, Sligo County Council, the film was shot at a number of Sligo locations during the summer of 2010.
In the film, a line from W.B. Yeats' famous poem "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" "...for peace comes dropping slow..." is inscribed in light across the landscape of Sligo by up to seventy people from all over Ireland.
Three of the region's most scenic locations feature across the film including Carrane Hill, Culleenamore Strand and Lough Gill at Parke's Castle, the location of the Lake Isle of Innisfree. The original film score includes the moving Gaelic vocals and fiddle of the legendary Seamie O'Dowd (son of Joe O'Dowd and long-time member of Dervish).
With cinematography by Cian de Buitléar, Tony Kearns as film editor, and Darren Carr as the stills photographer, the film has been well-received since its release in Autumn of 2010. Nomination in the Best Irish Short Category at the 23rd Foyle International Film Festival in Derry, the film has received screenings at Culture Night Sligo 2010, Sligo Live Festival 2010, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh, The Model Sligo, and the Corona Fastnet Short Film Festival in Cork.
About the Film
In 1888 the young William Butler Yeats wrote ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, as a yearning incantation of his youth spent in County Sligo near the Atlantic coast in the northwest of Ireland. Lisa Vandegrift Davala lives near this island. In her film, the words “… for peace comes dropping slow…” from Yeats’ poem were re-enacted in light across the landscape of the Sligo. During two fine summer days in June, 2010, people from all over Ireland including members of the Yeatsian Legacy and Peace III Programme of Northern Ireland and a team of young actors and performers, were invited by Director Lisa Vandegrift Davala to County Sligo. They gathered on Carrane Hill Bog, at Culleenamore Strand near Knocknarea and at Parke’s Castle on Lough Gill overlooking Innisfree; to inscribe this ‘Land of Heart’s Desire’ with the line and mark of W. B. Yeats’ poetic light.
This film was made with the support of the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government Per Cent ForArt Scheme and the PEACE III Programme on behalf of Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee.
For further information on screenings and to view a trailer of the film, please visit here.
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