James Joyce "Finnegans Wake" Chapter 1 FILM (including "Finnegan's Wake" Folk Song)

http://onelittlegoat.org/finneganswake

“Toronto’s enterprising One Little Goat” (New York Times) presents “Finnegans Wake, Chapter 1,” a new film of James Joyce’s divine and delirious comedy.

This marks the first of 17 chapters in “Finnegans Wake” (1939), as brought to life by the virtuosic performances of Irish-Canadian actor Richard Harte. The film also includes Irish-Canadian singer Kevin Kennedy’s superb rendition of the “Finnegan’s Wake” folk song that inspired Joyce’s title. Directed by Adam Seelig and filmed before live audiences, this multi-year project marks the first ‘audio-video book’ of “Finnegans Wake” and is a valuable resource for both new and seasoned readers of Joyce’s extraordinary final work.

“Actor Richard Harte has found a way to crack the private code and maintain the original voltage… of one of the most funny and challenging novels of the 20th century, Joyce’s Finnegans Wake.” —Cahir O’Doherty, The Irish Voice

“Joyce is good. He is a good writer. People like him because he is incomprehensible and anybody can understand him.” —Gertrude Stein

Official Selection (2023):
Bloomsday Film Festival Dublin
Toronto Irish Film Festival
European Union Film Festival

Written by James Joyce
Read for a live audience by Richard Harte
Song performed by Kevin Kennedy
Directed by Adam Seelig
Running time 86 minutes
Filmed in Toronto, Canada, 31 August 2022

“Finnegans Wake, Chapter 1” is made possible with support from the Emigrant Support Programme from the Government of Ireland and Friends of One Little Goat Theatre Company, and is in association with the James Joyce Centre in Dublin.

One Little Goat is a registered charity in the United States and Canada. To support our work, please visit: https://www.onelittlegoat.org/contact

0:00 Opening, Don River, Toronto
0:40 “riverrun” (page 3; line 1)
14:58 Interlude, Queen’s Park
15:15 The museyroom (p.8;9)
30:28 Interlude, Kelly Library Sculpture
30:45 Mammon Lujius (p.13;20)
37:21 Mutt & Jute (p.15;29)
48:52 Interlude, Casa Loma
49:16 “Axe on thwacks” (p.19;20)
54:13 The prankquean (p.21;5)
1:04:14 Interlude, Taber Hill Memorial Park
1:04:36 “Now be aisy” (p.24;16)
1:21:04 “Finnegan’s Wake” folk song
1:25:00 Credits, Don River