âMost people are discouraged from being creativeâ: Pat Collins on Henry Glassie: Field Work
The globe-trotting work of American folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie is the focus of the new film from Irish documentary-maker Pat Collins. As Collins tells us, the results get at a larger truth about the human need for creativity.
16 April 2021
Henry Glassie: Field Work (2019)
Since John Bergerâs award-winning BBC series Ways of Seeing (1972), weâve not often seen perceptive visual arts criticism on our screens. Now from Pat Collins, the Irish director of Silence (2012) and Song of Granite (2017), comes a mesmerising documentary inspired by the writings of celebrated American folklorist and ethnologist Henry Glassie.
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