Out of Place
A documentary by Féile Na Gréine, directed by Graham Patterson. Out of Place is a meditation on the role music plays in building community, exploring the tensions that emerge when musicians struggle to carve out a space for themselves in their city.
This is a pinhole view capturing a passing moment. The story is neither polished or neat, it is rough and taped together at the seams, fragmented and utterly incomplete.
Featuring performances from Denise Chaila, God Knows, Hey Rusty, His Father’s Voice, MuRli, and Post Punk Podge & the Technohippies, OUT OF PLACE is an intimate portrayal of a local music scene, capturing the incredible diversity of cultural activity happening in Limerick City.
Exploring music made at a local level, this film follows a variety of musicians as they try to navigate their changing city, in an attempt to find places to create, perform and connect with others. This proves difficult as space provided for culture is always shrinking, turning the act of music-making into an act of defiance.
Filmed with a DIY spirit, this is both a celebration of music as a form of individual and collective expression.
Running Time: 71 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Directed by: Graham Patterson
Written by: Graham Patterson / Hugh Heffernan / Jack Brolly
Produced by: Hugh Heffernan / Jack Brolly / Diarmuid O’Shea
Edited by: Graham Patterson
Original Score by: Míchéal Keating
“An honest look at what it takes to create on your own terms”
-Mike McGrath-Bryan / Echolive.ie
Parallel to the making of the film, we shot, developed, sequenced and published a photography book of the same title. Featuring crisp monotone photography, illustrations and essays by photographers Hugh Heffernan and Laya Meabhdh, this book further explores the often-times fraught relationship between artist and place.
This is a book about artists doing something meaningful in an environment often indifferent to their existence. You could call this a testament to perseverance in a state of emergency, but in reality their drive is not defined by, nor in response to, some new disease or disaster. This is how artists work, whether in the context of Covid-19 or during any other point in history. Their struggle continues.
Photography by: Hugh Heffernan / Laya Meabhdh Kenny
Words by: Hugh Heffernan / Laya Meabhdh Kenny
Mark Making by: Hugh Heffernan / Laya Meabhdh Kenny / Graham Patterson
Layout by: Hugh Heffernan
Print: Die Keure, Brugge
