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Seamus Murphy Tom Burke, photo:Malcolm McGettigan
Pat Ingoldsby, photo:Seamus Murphy poetry at the heart of everything. “We decided we were going to tell his life through his poetry and go off on all the little side roads and cul-de-sacs which that would produce,” says Murphy. “He would tell us what happened to him, we’d hear a poem, there would be some connection, a parallel but not too obvious.” This is complemented by Murphy’s photographical observations of the city, by no means explicitly hewn to the material but rather a tangential, fleeting, freeflow allowing the imagination of the viewer to breathe and wander midst words and images. “I was going with his imagination,” says Murphy. “He could loe you very quickly if you were trying to make a film to get to a certain point. There’s moments in it of him in full flow talking, associating things with what The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby is released on November 4 by Break Out Pictures. seamusmurphy.com broadstonefilms.com he has just said, you want to get them from the poems too as it is about his art and legacy and years on the street. That is what we were trying to get at, his incredible imagination… He did it his way which was very idiosyncratic sitting on a beer crate. He once said, ‘my poems are happy when I write them, they are even happier when you read them.’ He feels that what we’ve made is an honest representation of him.” I thought we were coming at Pat in a similar way, not in a hagiographic ‘isn’t he amazing’ way but in understanding the link between Pat’s poetry and the streets of Dublin. 27