Is An Cailín Ciúin an Example of Deleuzian Minor Cinema?

Thursday, May 25
8:20 pm – 8:40 pm (CEST)


In An Cailín Ciúin, a family drama set in the 1980s, Irish exists in perpetual relationship with English. Niall Kennedy examines whether the film can be considered a work of minor cinema according to Deleuze and Guattari, and what implications it has for the linguistic politics of Ireland today.