Joan Baez: I Am A Noise - Film Screening

Presented in conjunction with Art for Human Rights, Magnolia Pictures & Mead Street Films

Seamus Heaney HomePlace is delighted to announce a very special screening of Joan Baez: I Am A Noise in advance of her visit to the Helicon in December.

Billed as a ‘spellbinding study of a revolutionary talent’ (Washington Post), I Am A Noise follows the 1960s folk icon as she embarks on her final tour, in this superbly constructed film by Karen O’Connor, Miri Navasky and Maeve O’Boyle. What starts out as a goodbye chronicle turns into something far more revealing and surprising than viewers expect. Still galvanizingly charismatic in her early 80s, Baez holds nothing back in this disarmingly intimate film, in which she explores her lifelong anxieties and buried traumas, as well as her early rise to stardom; her relationships with men, women and family; and the continuing mystery that is that sublime, still-powerful voice.

Speaking of their film, the co-directors said they wanted to bring Joan’s past alive with the trove of original source material from Joan and her family that we unearthed: newly discovered home movies; Joan’s amazing artwork and drawings; journals and diaries, photographs, therapy tapes, and a gold mine of audiotaped letters that Baez sent home – all capturing what she was experiencing in real time, rather than recollected from a distant remove.’

The result is an eloquent and meditative piece of work which takes a searingly honest look at a living legend, to create a compelling and deeply personal exploration of an iconic artist, who has never told the full truth of her life, as she experienced it, until now.

Running Time: 113 mins, Certificate: 12

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