The Image You Missed

Donal Foreman
Part of

Art of the Real 2018

April 26 - May 6, 2018

Donal Foreman tries to understand the father he hardly knew, the Irish-American political filmmaker Arthur MacCaig, who passed away in 2008, in his singular essay film.

DIRECTOR
Donal Foreman
YEAR
2018
COUNTRY
Ireland / France / USA / UK
RUNTIME
73 minutes
LANGUAGE
English and French with English subtitles

Q&A with Donal Foreman

Foreman tries to understand the father he hardly knew, the Irish-American political filmmaker Arthur MacCaig, who passed away in 2008, in his singular essay film. Though he was largely based in Paris, MacCaig made documentaries on the conflict in Northern Ireland—including 1979’s The Patriot Game—and left behind a vast visual archive that Foreman analyzes in search of familial affinities. Through this footage—powerful, direct images capturing the Troubles in all their complexity—Foreman comes to know his father on a more profound and moving plane. The Image You Missed is an enthralling historical exhumation that erases the boundary between the personal and the political. North American Premiere

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