While bouncing around the internet the other day I happened to stumble onto the Irish Film Institute and in particular a filmmaker named Patrick Carey. Carey was a cameraman who worked In Ireland and Canada. He has credits on some major motion pictures. Barry Lyndon, Julia and A Man For All Seasons on his resume. Carey returned to Ireland and with his wife formed his own film company where he created short films about and around the Irish countryside.
Waves, was photographed off the Irish coast. Carey had worked as a cameraman on David Lean's epic
Ryan's Daughter and after watching this film you can see that he definitely had a big influence on Lean's picture in the seascape scenes.
Errigal is apparently the highest point in an area of Ireland called the Derryveagh Mountains. It's the perfect place for lots of impressive nature photography.
Waves feature no narration and
Errigal has some introductory remarks at the beginning of the film after that it's narration free for the remainder of it's running time. Both these films clock in under a half an hour. These films are art films. The films are what you would call mood pieces or visual essays.
These films can be viewed at the Irish Film Institute website
https://ifiarchiveplayer.ie/patrick-carey/ but they would probably look more impressive on a large screen format. These films are not paced for today's ADD film viewer who are conditioned to overblown action scenes with rapid editing.
The running time for Waves is 26 minutes. The running time for Errigal is 14 minutes.
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