Guests of Another Nation

A 16mm independent film about the young Irish in London in the 1980s.

Over 27 minutes, it locates various subjects as anything but the successful role models the Irish media at the time was selling as part of a need to be positive about emigration. Arguably far more accurately, it paints the Irish migrant in London more as a lost and lonely outsider driven by something other than economics. Tone is wistful, melancholic, unsettled. A time capsule in whose favour Ireland has once more unfortunately turned.

Made by John Fleming and Mark Stewart. Shot over six short, dark and bloody cold days in December 1987.

Broadcast
RTE in Aug 1989

Screenings
Dublin Film Festival (1988)
Stranger Than Fiction documentary festival, Dublin (2009)
Los Angeles Irish Film Festival (2009)

Видео Guests of Another Nation канала John Fleming