Movie Details
Theatrical Release:January 1st, 2004
Original Language:English
Orchard (2004)
8 minJan 1st, 2004
Much of the footage that comprises Orchard is of a 19c ruins that included a walled orchard in and area known as Rostellen in southwest Ireland It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls has become the anchor for the roots of slender trees so uninhibited for all this time that they reach twenty feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of water and in other places branch and wind over the brickwork in an arterial arrangement reminiscent of the human body Some footage of Central Park is in there as well as Niagara Falls the main DublintoCork road and a thin smoking woods on the outskirts of Rosslare Co Waterford These are facts may be incidental to the films eventual form which winds the images into an arrangement of continuous wandering All this is attended by environmental whispering sounds until a voice calls out toward the end in dreambound recognition to a figure from the far far past
DirectorJulie Murray
