Finnegans Wake

Duration: 97

Creator: Grove Press-Cinema 16 Film Lib

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: This film version of James Joyce's 'FINNEGANS WAKE' attempts to render the dream fantasies and the halfunconscious sensations experienced by a single person in the course of a night's sleep. , An experimental retelling of James Joyce's story of a single night in the life of H.C. Earwicker or Finnegan. Director Mary Ellen Bute uses innovative cinematic techniques to evoke Joyce's surrealistic style - juxtapositions, illusion, flashbacks and subtitles. (Does not circulate)

Complete Record: This film version of James Joyce's 'FINNEGANS WAKE' attempts to render the dream fantasies and the halfunconscious sensations experienced by a single person in the course of a night's sleep. , An experimental retelling of James Joyce's story of a single night in the life of H.C. Earwicker or Finnegan. Director Mary Ellen Bute uses innovative cinematic techniques to evoke Joyce's surrealistic style - juxtapositions, illusion, flashbacks and subtitles. (Does not circulate) NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.