Friday, May 18, 2007
This festival is taking place on an island that I know and love: Eriskay.
Thre are many films being shown during the festival and I wish I could go ...
here is the link: Small Islands Film Festival 2007
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Michael Powell, the film director (1905-1990) loved islands of Scotland and undertook film projects which involved island stories.
His first film to use the island theme was The Edge of the World and released in 1935. This is a story based on the evacuation of St Kilda that happened in 1930.
Michael Powell also to Scotland (The Orkneys) to film Spy in Black (1939), but the Hebrides were the setting for I Know Where I’m Going! - a film released in 1945.
Early references to islands in Celtic myth and lore, and legends of islands at the ‘edge of the world’ and the continuum of island literature and narratives from early times show that the concept of the island is embedded into human consciousness.
Random Image from Islomania:
