Conor Walsh: Selected Piano Works + Q&A12A64 min
Synopsis
Post screening Q&A with the filmmakers hosted by Siobhan Kane.
Conor Walsh wrote his heart in minimalist piano compositions; his music the soundtrack to his life. Described in the press as ‘meticulously crafted’ and ‘genuinely spellbinding’, his work came from a practice of non-directedness, guiding us only to transcendence from our quotidian existence.In this musical reverie, director Keith Walsh (When All is Ruin Once Again), celebrates the work Conor left behind when he died tragically of a heart attack aged 36, just when his music was beginning to flow out into the world. It pulses with the influences that went into the creation of his art – the windings of the river Moy, the human traffic of a small Mayo town, the migratory movements of swallows, a creaking 200-year-old hotel, the maternal melodies of his childhood.