I Could Read the Sky

I Could Read the Sky is a 1999 Irish film directed by Nichola Bruce. It is based upon a photographic novel by Timothy OGrady and Steve Pyke, which concerns the Irish experience of emigration and exile. It has been described as an innovative, melancholic, and deeply moving film.

The film was based on a photographic novel of the same name by Timothy OGrady and Steve Pyke. OGrady lived for some time in the west of Ireland and was interested in the stories of Irish immigrants. In the authors wordsI Could Read The Sky is a novel which tells its story through words and photographs. The story is that of an Irish emigrant struggling to possess his life in acts of memory. He is old. He is alone. He is lying in bed at night in the darkness remembering a life of dislocation, of loss, of descent into madness and of redemption through music and through the love of a woman. Some of the time he is remembering on prose and some of the time in pictures. Neither is meant to illustrate the other. They are distinct acts of memory in their own right. The act of remembering itself becomes a way of completing his life. ........

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