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• W263069046 abstract "A single chapter in Martin Mcloone's Irish Film (2000) aside, the short film form is one which has suffered a significant level of neglect within writing on Irish film. Despite the relatively high number of shorts produced in this country, and the success of films such as Six Shooter (Martin McDonagh 2004) and Give Up Your Auld Sins (Cathal Gaffney 2001) at the Oscars, there has been little exploration of the significance of the short form within Irish cinema. Indeed, this is a neglect which is replicated within the wider field of film studies. Where the short film has been considered, it is usually within a teleological narrative which sees it as merely a training space for aspiring filmmakers, a momentary stopping point on the path to feature-length fulfilment. This inevitably leads to a critical focus, when addressing short films, on the potential displayed by the filmmakers involved rather than the intrinsic qualities of the short film form. It is to a preliminary exploration of those qualities, through discussion of the Irish language short, An Ranger (P.J. Dillon 2008), that this article will now turn. One obvious point of departure when seeking to establish the textual properties of the short film is in the relationship between the short story and the novel. This is both a productive, and potentially troubling, analogy. It is a much noted fact that many successful feature films have in fact been adapted from short stories rather than novels, which would seem to trouble any easy comparison between the novel and the feature film or indeed between literary and cinematic shorts. Nevertheless, a consideration of the formal properties of the short story, and how it functions differently to the novel, offers an insight into the inherent qualities of the short film and suggests how we might critically approach the form. Wendell Harris describes the essence of the short story as the impulse 'to isolate, to portray the individual person, or moment, or scene in isolation--detached from the great continuum--at once social and historical' (cited in May 2002: 13). In its necessarily pared down approach to incident, the short story must strip away context, frequently reducing narrative to a single moment of reversal or revelation. This focus on the individual person and moment neither requires nor permits social and historical contextualisation. Although every story must have a setting, and the individual character must be situated in a meaningful relationship to his or her environment, the nature of that relationship retains a crucial element of ambiguity in the short form. However, whilst the story environment may be sketched in a few short sentences within short fiction, film's visual nature pushes the question of setting to the fore. The short film, like the feature, must fill the frame with visual detail and each of these details draws the film away from the sketch like quality of the short story and into a more concrete relationship with the historical world. A relevant example is 'An Ranger', which tells the story of a Connaught Ranger returning to his family home in the years following the Irish famine. The film opens with the returning soldier, Myles, framed in long-shot on horseback, his red uniform standing in relief against a distant mountain haze. In the foreground, the rich green Connemara scrub fills the frame. A close-up gives us a glimpse of his hardened features, staring coldly into the distance, before we return to wide-shot as Myles and his horse pick their way across a valley, a mere speck against the grey-green expanse of mountain and bog. Throughout this opening sequence, the sound of Uillean pipes can be heard playing on the soundtrack. The film hinges on a moment of confrontation between Myles and his former neighbour, following the discovery that his family home is in ruins and the neighbour's pigs are grazing within. This confrontation occurs within the darkened interior of the neighbour's cottage and takes up over six minutes of the film's ten minute running time. …" @default.
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