Edition: 2015

Selected by the Festival: RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2013, Edinburgh, Scotland

Award winner: COMMENDATION, MATERIAL CULTURE AND ARCHEOLOGY FILM PRIZE

Year of production: 2012

Country of production: Ireland

Production: Cathal Black

Set in: Ireland

Duration: 8'

Film: Color

Directed by: Tony Donoghue

In Ireland, old hand-painted furniture is often associated with hard times and poverty. Because of this association much of the country’s furniture heritage lies rotting in barns and sheds. In making this film, sixteen pieces of abandoned folk furniture were restored and returned home into daily use.