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Director Pat Collins discusses his influences and his award-winning adaptation of McGahern’s final novel

Documentary achieves the near impossible: capturing transience of the medium it observes

The latest documentary from Pat Collins – one of our nation’s greatest filmmakers – which was well received at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2019, arrives just a week after Jessica Sarah Rinland’s frighteningly austere Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another. Both feature much footage of hands working away at emerging artefacts, but, though unlikely to be confused with Godzilla vs Kong, Henry Glassie: Field Work is much easier on the digestion. The picture i...