AM DÉR GRÉNE:

is a 2025 collaborative film work consisting of three films (shot on location in Dublin, West Cork, and The Burren, Ireland) with three collaborators: Firuca Puscas, a cleaner from Bistrița, Romania, who sings an old folk song while footage of the Beara Peninsula in West Cork unfolds. The camera tracks along telegraph lines slicing through the landscape—creating an image of past and present interwoven. Tomy Pius, a dancer from Kerala, India, moves through a modern college building. The location sound is removed and replaced with ambient sounds from Kerala, merged with non-diegetic electronic compositions, collapsing geographical and temporal boundaries. Carlos Silva, a student from Minas Gerais, Brazil, sings in Portuguese words attributed to Edmund Ludlow, a Cromwellian lieutenant general in Ireland (c. 1651). He reflects on the significance of The Burren, a 350-million-year-old limestone landscape. It is the only place in the world where Arctic and Mediterranean plants grow together—layering the film with ancestral and geological memory.

The film was installed in the Kevin Barry Recital Room, for a single screening event on July 24th, 2025. Sound artist David Donohoe contributed a solo improvised sound work, engaging with ideas of improvised sound as material gesture and presence— offering points of connection and punctuation across the three-film structure: 5 minute film, 7 minute sound work, 5 minute film, 7 minute sound work & 5 minute film.

In my collaborative filmmaking practice, I seek to engage with ideas of entanglement—across time, landscape, language and cultures. The film’s title, Am Dér Gréne ( I am shining tear of sun ), is the sixth line from The Song of Amergin, an incantation attributed to the chief poet of the Milesians in the Irish Mythological Cycle. Considered the first poem in the Irish language, it functions as a cosmological utterance. Through his words, Amergin conjures a vision of the world he intends to shape upon arriving in Ireland—establishing an entanglement of all things across time and space.

Produced with support from Falmouth University MA Fine Art and School of Arts, Humanities & Creative Media - The Dublin Business School.

AM DÉR GRÉNE
2025 | 30mins 30secs | 4K DCI video with sound.