The Ocean Floor is a Green World (2021)

'Faoi thoinn 's thar toinn' or 'The Ocean Floor is a Green World' draws its title from an old Gaelic word for "Wave" and the role that the wave plays in Irish mythology and folklore - explored in Manchán Magan's book 'Thirty Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape' (2020) - and translates approximately as 'under the waves and over the waves'. Filmed in An Gaeltacht, the work seeks to interrogate our coastal landscapes - beaches, shores and cliffs - as epic dreamscapes out of which a new era of Irish positivity can emerge; places of wild imagination conjured up through Gaelic phraseology that link us to this island, its memories and our collective psyche.