Flora Kerrigan: Dream Maker - IFI Archive Play Collection Trailer

The Irish Film Institute (IFI), Dublin is thrilled to announce the release of a retrospective celebrating the highly skilled amateur filmmaker Flora Kerrigan, including films from the 1950s and 1960s which have only recently resurfaced; the films are now available to screen worldwide for free on the IFI Archive Player. This collection is presented with a new music accompaniment by renowned avant-garde free-improvisational pianist Paul G. Smyth and double bass virtuoso John Edwards.

Available to view free worldwide now Via http://www.ifiarchiveplayer.ie/flora-...

Restored with support from ACE – Association des Cinémathèques Européennes and the EU Creative Europe MEDIA programme as part of A Season of Classic Films 2024.

This presentation was funded through the Research Ireland New Foundations Grant Number NF/2024/11760. Flora Kerrigan: Dream Maker was identified as part of the Women In Focus project, which was funded by Research Ireland and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities scheme. The project was a collaboration between the University of East Anglia, Maynooth University and the University of Sussex, with the IFI Irish Film Archive and East Anglian Film Archive as archive partners.

The IFI Archive Player is developed with the support and partnership of Axonista.

The IFI acknowledges the support of the Arts Council.