In my latest for Film Comment, I wrote about Robert Flaherty’s “documentary”, Man of Aran, filmed out on the Aran Islands in 1932-33, released in 1934. Its footprint is pretty huge and if you go to the Aran Islands now, you can’t escape its presence. The story behind the story is almost more interesting than the film itself – but the footage of the island is awe-inspiring. I mean, look at this.
