The Summer Traveller, Timothy Neat – Appendix 1, 2 & 3 The suggested texts are selected to stimulate discussion on the role of the outsider and the contribution travellers made to Gaelic culture and Highland history and what the public perception of travelling communities are now. In addition to the screening and to assist in placing the film in a Scottish island context you are invited to take part in a special reading group for the event. Outsider: Travelling communities and the Outsider, their role in Highland history What is an archive if not a collection of letters to ourselves?” Gradually the pieces converge: our nostalgia for ancient folkways, traditional song and the romance of freedom, all undercut by scientific rationalism and the pressures of normativity bringing law to bear on lives resistant to conformity. Only the disjunction between sounds that live close within the ear and rich voices from a fading past distinguish archive from present. Film made only recently can be easily confused with the archival vintage of washed-out or saturated tones and blurred edges. “Luke Fowler’s films dwell on potentiality: what might be, what might have been, what might still be if the world were to turn in a different direction? But film time runs in many directions, as do arguments. The film-work was originally commissioned as part of Artists and Archives: Artists’ Moving Image at the BBC a residency programme based at BBC Scotland. In association with Lux Scotland, ATLAS Arts & Taigh Chearsabhagh, Film Hub Scotland, HICA, The Pier, DCA and Talbot Riceįor Where I Am, ATLAS Arts as part of its Broad Reach programme with Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum and Arts Centre, is hosting a screening of Luke Fowler’s film Depositions, 2014.ĭepositions explores the role of the Highland traveller in Gaelic Highland history and culture by combining archival footage from the Isle of Barra, new footage and interviews.
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