Trouble

Mariah Garnett
Part of

57th New York Film Festival

September 27 - October 13, 2019

Mariah Garnett’s intimate and inventive biographical portrait of her artist father recounts in his own words his past as a political activist in Belfast and his daughter’s unlikely influence on his life via a combination of letters, interviews, archival footage, and uncanny reenactments of the period.

DIRECTOR
Mariah Garnett
YEAR
2019
COUNTRY
USA / UK
RUNTIME
82 minutes
LANGUAGE
Subtitled

Q&A with Mariah Garnett on Oct. 6

Mariah Garnett’s intimate and inventive biographical portrait of her artist father recounts in his own words his past as a political activist in Belfast and his daughter’s unlikely influence on his life. Through a combination of letters, interviews, archival footage, and uncanny reenactments of the period (featuring Garnett herself in the role of her father), this slyly self-reflexive yet deeply felt film provides crucial insights into his largely forgotten accomplishments and Ireland’s history of sociopolitical unrest, while also documenting the father and daughter’s belated reunion.

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