2020 Directed by Tadhg O'Sullivan
This is a beautiful and poetic cinematic ode to our moon. Made primarily from international cinematic archives in combination with literary fragments and original moonlit cinematography filmed across five continents, To the Moon steps lightly through the ages and ideas that people have drawn from the moon to create a meditative work.
Jimmy Gimferrer Scott Barley Joshua Bonnetta Margaret Salmon Tadhg O'Sullivan Feargal Ward Lorenzo Gattorna
К луне
Italy
Venice Days
Russian Federation
Moscow International Film Festival
Italy
Russian Federation
stunningly beautiful montage of found footage, own cinematography, film history and poetry. contemplative, associative cinema at its very finest. and what better subject to chose than the almighty shining enigma ruling the sky by night?
“What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.”
Tadhg O’Sullivan’s poetic tribute to that old orb of the night takes you through all emotions deeply connected to it. Clips from Murnau, Satyajit Ray, Chaplin, Sjöström, Fritz Lang among other guide us through moments of love in the moonlight, moments of lunacy, and moments of melancholy while either ‘Clair de lune’ or the beautiful score plays on the heartstrings in the background. O’Sullivan draws on his Irish descent by having the atmospheric prose of James Joyce read aloud. What’s so great about this little cinematic essay is the way we as humans can find ourselves in the beauty of that celestial body, and how we can see our fragile selves reflected in the man in the moon.
don’t know if i would be happier or more upset if they didn’t use claire de lune at least once
La lune est là, la lune est là
La lune est là, mais le cinéphile ne la voit pas
Pour la trouver, il faut la nuit
Il faut la nuit, mais le cinéphile ne le sait pas et toujours luit.
“... everything flows and connects.”
To The Moon is an impressionistic ode to the moon, a collection of gory video essays reflecting on the many faces the celestial orb has shown mankind, or perhaps even the many faces projected upon it.
Tadhg O’Sullivan has a beautiful eye, creating a documentary that is enchanting and hypnotic. It’s a montage that seems to tap into some great and primal reservoir of human emotion.
It’s beautiful.
VENICE 2020
Written, directed and edited by Tadhg O'Sullivan, To the Moon is a stunning experimental discourse that involves over 130 archival pieces of cinema in a beautiful, unique ode to the moon. O'Sullivan's experimental film is undeniably unique and obscure, but it has a good purpose to be so. The cinematic realm has always had a degree of a passionate love affair with the moon.
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VIFF 2021 - Film #21
Strangely compelling and emotional. I was surprised by how much I liked this supercut and love letter to the moon. Comprised of archival footage and classic film clips, Tadhg O’Sullivan’s visual poem weaves together themes of life, love, transformation, superstition, death and rebirth through the ages.
2021 Nowe Horyzonty - #25
Moon, Earth's fragment, remember us. Because you are alone in the sky, always alone...
For fragments of humanity surrounded by silent, ubiquitous beauty of the universe. For dreamers, for romantics, for lovers; because at night, we all look at the same moon.
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