

The Image You Missed
An Irish filmmaker grapples with the legacy of his estranged father, the late documentarian Arthur MacCaig, through MacCaig's decades-spanning archive of the conflict in Northern Ireland. Drawing on over 30 years of unique and never-seen-before footage, 'The Image You Missed' is an experimental essay film that weaves together a history of the Northern Irish 'Troubles' with the story of a son's search for his father. In the process, the film creates a candid encounter between two filmmakers born into different political moments, revealing their contrasting experiences of Irish nationalism, the role of images in social struggle, and the competing claims of personal and political responsibility.
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- English
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United Kingdom, United States of America, Ireland, France
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United StatesUS
- Digital / OTTThe Criterion Channel1 Jul 2022
IrelandIE
- Theatrical (limited)Dublin Film Festival1 Mar 2018
NetherlandsNL
- PremiereIFFR 28 Jan 2018
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The Image You Missed was released on 1 March 2018.
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1- S4/10
Stephen Campbell
5/15/2019
**_Just didn't work for me_** > _I had a line that used to end the film but I ended up cutting it out. It said: "film is the art of conjuring ghosts, not getting rid of them." I used to think filming could act like a kind of catharsis and exorcism: you film to try to get something off your chest so that you can get rid of it. But I never found it to play out that way, because by making a film you're essentially cr…
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