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Time after Time
a film by Mairéid Sullivan and Ben Kettlewell

"lyrical and jubilant" - "a cinematic poem"

Celebrating the great heritage of ancient Celtic, American and Australian peoples.

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"Rich, embracing and informative
... an exhilarating example
of visual world music at its best."
Don Heckman, Los Angeles Times
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"...'films d’auteur' are considered to be the 'jewels' of world cinema and reflect the sense of freedom that has gone into their making."
Panagiotis Chionidis, Director, International Panorama of Independent Filmmakers, Athens, Greece

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Time after Time Puts Imagery Back in the Cinema
"...Time after Time is, in fact, a film so rich in meaning and so fearless in its presentation that it cannot be linked with any standard genre of filmmaking. Nothing will prepare the viewer for the extraordinary imagery that keeps coming at you nonstop together with the beautifully integrated songs of Maireid Sullivan, one of the finest pure singers to come out of Ireland in the last fifty years, imagery so powerful that the traditional need for a narrative line is utterly absent. You want to stop this film and linger over the pictures that come almost too rapidly at you, pictures of places, nature, and people. It's the kind of film you can see over and over and still find something new and meaningful that you missed before. I have been to Ireland many times in my life and I live in America, but this film shows me aspects of both those places and cultures, especially in the primitive times the film celebrates, of which I was not fully aware. It showed me these things by its consummate evocation of its themes through a chain of stunning images.

"Time After Time" speaks in carefully presented lyrical pictures and makes its salient points eloquently and poetically. You never have the sense of being beaten over the head with an idea of the filmmakers. The work of Ms. Sullivan, Ben Kettlewell, and friends, "Time After Time" is nothing less than a triumph of the eye and the imagination." >>>more
T.S. Kerrigan, American Reporter Correspondent
Los Angeles, California

"Time After Time is a symphony of images, an astonishing feat of true artistry, taking the music and the muses of three of the most ancient cultures and weaving them into a film of enormous, moving beauty.Time after Time embraces the viewer with images, songs and poetry woven together to create a mesmerizing and enchanting film that propels this art form to a new level. It's magnificent.
I was really moved." Kevin Childs, Australian author

Notes from the 2005 Provincetown International Film Festival program guide, where Time after Time was nominated for the HBO Audience Favorite Award:
"After four years filming beautiful landscapes, sacred gathering places, and ancient symbols and icons, in Ireland, North America and Australia, the filmmakers have married song, music, and image to create this lyrical and jubilant interpretation of the human spirit through time and cultures."

Over 77 minutes we are taken into glorious landscapes and seductive images of Ireland, North America and Australia. Produced, filmed and edited by Mairéid Sullivan and Ben Kettlewell, here are found the old songs and stories that touch us deeply, melded with original compositions.

There is magic here as sublime poetry and ancient song celebrate freedom and echo a world beyond ours. It shows how beauty heals suffering, the wisdom of the original inhabitants of these ancient lands and how, ultimately, although we are but stardust in a vast universe, through a shared understanding, we are one. The result is as moving and affecting as all great art.

"Time After Time is the perfect artistic creation to capture the world's minds, and particularly the minds of the world's leaders and the world's children. Time After Time is breathtakingly exquisite, ... For me it has been one of the most engaging and thought provoking resonating experiences of a life time! Time after Time takes you on intensely pleasurable, beautiful and uplifting historical grand journey, magically unfolding from the cosmos of deep space, across ever-changing exotic oceans, rivers and streams, and onto bountiful ancient lands, revealing the exquisite ways and wonders of three highly-successful human civilizations. You will be left stimulated and thoughtful and thankful to be alive, overjoyed and inspired by the beauty and wonder of our magnificent world heritage; and firmly convinced that humankind has the capacity, ingenuity and firm foundations to solve ongoing problems, and to continue to timelessly thrive and prosper."
Dr Allan Skertchly, Psychologist & Educator, Darwin, Australia

"Time After Time is an extended hymn to nature and indigenous traditions, across three continents." Rachael Kohn, ABC-Radio National, Australia