An Cailleach Bhéarra

An Cailleach Bhéarra

2007
8min

"The Cailleach was dependent on this one thing... every hundred years she must get back to the water and immerse herself so that she might become young again." This film is an interpretation of fragments of the ancient myth of the "cailleach", old hag, otherworld female, mother earth, sovereignty queen, or witch. Told using a large scale puppet and actors moving through real landscape.

An Cailleach Bhéarra

Storyline

"The Cailleach was dependent on this one thing... every hundred years she must get back to the water and immerse herself so that she might become young again." This film is an interpretation of fragments of the ancient myth of the "cailleach", old hag, otherworld female, mother earth, sovereignty queen, or witch. Told using a large scale puppet and actors moving through real landscape.
    Released
    14 July 2007
    Runtime
    8min
    Director
    Genre
    Status
    Released
    Language
    English
    Production
    Metropolitan Filmexport, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
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