
Making Dust (2023)
N/A|1 Oct, 2023|45 min
A portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin
N/A|1 Oct, 2023|45 min
Released
Making Dust is an essay film, a portrait of the demolition of Ireland's second largest Catholic Church, the Church of the Annunciation in Finglas West, Dublin. Understanding this moment as a 'rupture', the film maps an essay by architectural historian Ellen Rowley on to documentation of the building's dismantling. Featuring oral interviews recorded at the site of the demolition and in a nearby hairdressers, the film invites viewers to pause and reflect on this ending alongside the community of the building. The film is informed by Ultimology, and invites its audience to think about the life cycles of buildings and materials, how we mourn, what is sacred, how we gather, what we value and issues of sustainability in architecture.
Keywords
demolition
community
architecture
church
death
finglas
ultimology
Casts
Ellen Rowley
Narrator
Crews
Brendan Jenkinson
Sound Designer
Fiona Hallinan
Writer
Ellen Rowley
Producer
Michael Barwise
Editor
Kate Strain
Producer
Fiona Hallinan
Director
Ellen Rowley
Writer
Fiona Hallinan
Producer
Kate Strain
Writer
Faolán Carey
Director of Photography
Francis O'Mahony
Director of Photography
Jamie Goldrick
Director of Photography
Johnny Lyons
Director of Photography

Tadhg O'Sullivan
Director of Photography
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