Canntaireachd
Original format: 16mm
Year of release: 1992
Running time: 1 minute 15 seconds
Screening format: 35mm Dolby stereo comopt print, BetaSP
and DVD
Credits: A film by Kayla Parker
Director/producer/animator: Kayla Parker
Cinematography: Stuart Moore
Additional animation: Stuart Moore
Commissioned for Canan nan Gaidhael (The Language of the
Gaels), documentary programme about Gaelic music, directed
by Graham Strong for Scottish Television
Distribution and sales: Scottish Television (Copyright ©
STV)
Description
Sung bagpipe music by Mary Morrison of the
isle of Barra.
Production notes
I also made a 2 minute 16mm film called
Puirt a Beul for the programme, to the mouth music
of a mother and two daughters
Publication and comments
Exhibition
selected
1994
Art into Film event to coincide with the
opening of the Tate Gallery’s R.B. Kitaj retorospective;
organised by Sarah Stephens, Adam Hodgkins and Maryannick
Le Cohu; sponsored by Sight and Sound magazine, The Arts
Council of England and the Tate Gallery. National Film
Theatre, London, UK. See Art into Film programme with
notes compiled by Liese Spencer (17 and 18 June 1994)
1992
Canan nan Gaidheal, Scottish TV.
Television broadcast, UK (Premiere: January 1992)