Broken Song
2013/Ireland/70mins/North American premiere
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GI, Costello and Willa Lee are street poets, hip-hop artists and songwriters from north Dublin. For these young men self-expression in the form of poetry, rap and song has become a spiritual experience. Their aim is simply to articulate the chaos that surrounds them and to fight it with their words and voices alone. Along the way it has become their identity, their religion and, as they claim themselves, they are its high priests.
The place where they live and their words are one and the same, constantly in flux, full of darkness and light. It is proof that these suburbs – that have bred darkness, murder and hate – have also inspired poetry and these unlikely artists are using words alone to fight back. Broken Song is a documentary film about music, redemption and the struggle to find and articulate meaning in an often chaotic world.
Sunday Oct 5 2014 3:00PM
Cantor Film Center, 36th East 8th St. New York, NY 10003
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Cast: Willa Lee, James Costello, GI, Dean Scurry
Director: Claire Dix
Producer: Nodlag Houlihan
This film has been supplied by the Irish Film Institute and is preserved in the IFI Irish Film Archive.
