"for peace comes dropping slow" Film

 

“…for peace comes dropping slow…” Screening

In her film, Artist and Director Lisa Vandegrift Davala has re-enacted the words “…for peace comes dropping slow…” from Yeats’ poem across the landscape of this region of Ireland.

 In 1888 the young William Butler Yeats wrote ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, a yearning incantation of his youth spent in County Sligo near the Atlantic coast in the northwest of Ireland. Artist and Director Lisa Vandegrift Davala, lives near this island. In her film, the words “…for peace comes dropping slow…” from Yeats’ poem have been re-enacted across the landscape of this region of Ireland.
 
During two fine summer days in 2010, people from all over Ireland (including members of the Yeatsian Legacy and Peace III Programme of Northern Ireland) gathered at Carrane Hill Bog, Culleenamore Strand near Knocknarea and 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.

 

Director, Producer, Story, Soundscape: Lisa Vandegrift Davala, Cinematographer: Cian de Buitlár, Stills and Documentary Photographer: Darren Carr, Film Editor: Tony Kearns and the vocals and fiddle of Seamie O'Dowd. Go to www.forpeacecomesdroppingslow.com for further details.

For full screening information go to  

http://www.forpeacecomesdroppingslow.com/?page_id=48

 
This film was made through the generous support of The Yeatsian Legacy project, delivered by Sligo Arts Service and partners and supported by the Peace III Programme, managed for the Special EU Programmes body by Sligo County Council on behalf of Sligo Peace and Reconciliation Partnership Committee with additional support from the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government Per Cent For Art Scheme.

 

 

            

"...for peace comes dropping slow.." from Sligo Arts Service on Vimeo.

A film by Lisa Vandegrift Davala. Commissioned by Sligo County Council, 2010.

Funded by the Department of Environment, Heritage and Local Government Per Cent for Art Scheme and the Peace III Programme.

12 mins

Further information on www.forpeacecomesdroppingslow.com and www.sligoarts.ie

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