Revolving around stories associated with place, Living in a Coded Land reflects on the traces of the past that exist in the present. Director Pat Collins locates these traces in the footprints – mansions, battlefields, and worn-down villages – left by histories shown to be still in motion today. Making judicious use of archive footage, Collins meditates on the themes of colonialism, emigration, the Famine, land, property, and art these histories contain. The result is a film which starts a much-needed conversation about Ireland’s buried past.
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