We have created a new annual showcase in memory of Tony Langlois, founder of the festival. Each year, the film screened will reflect the spirit of Tony’s artistic and creative interests. We hope you enjoy the first of ‘Zelloloid Presents’, using Tony’s early publishing moniker, ‘Zelloloid’.
For this inaugural screening, we are proud to present a film he worked on himself, composing both the music and soundscape. It inspired a love for Beara, a rugged and beautiful landscape in West Cork, Ireland. Also for Hungry Hill which he climbed several times, the highest of the Caha Mountains. He spent many hours reflecting, recording ambient sounds and refining his composition for the film.
Hungry Hill
Directors: Mieke Vanmechelen and Michael Holly / Ireland / 2023 / 81 mins
Music and sound composition: Tony Langlois
Filmed on the highest point on the Beara Peninsula in West Cork, Hungry Hill follows the day-to-day lives of a community of sheep farmers who are in perpetual negotiation with the demands of the terrain, changing societal attitudes and the impact of globalisation.
Central to the film is the story of three generations of co-director Vanmechelen’s family, who moved to Ireland from the Drowned Land of Saeftinghe in Holland/Belgium in the 1980s.
The family left their farm in the polders, due to its proximity to the Doel nuclear power station and the adverse effects of pollution coming from the pharmaceutical industry. Archival media from Belgium and Holland weaves an intertextuality with footage from Hungry Hill that connects disparate times and places.
We welcome co-directors Mieke Vanmechelen and Michael Holly to introduce the film.
