Synopsis


Storytellers Duncan Wiliamson, Margaret Bennett and Eddie Lenihan share their stories in this 33 minute film. Landscapes shot in 16mm invite us into the world of the fairies in Northern Scotland and Western Ireland.


Questioning our beliefs and challenging the foundation of our traditions the story tellers allow us to consider the importance of the fairies and more importantly in what we believe.


“One Man’s superstition is another man’s religion,” Eddie Lenihan.

“Faith is believing in what you don’t see,” Margaret Bennett.

“People will believe and go on believing until the end of time” Duncan Williamson


Original soundtrack created by Katie McD.

Additional Music by Jerry O’sullivan, Iain McHarg and Peter Kapp.

Illustrations by Abby Manock and children from participating schools in Maine and new hampshire.

Edited by Chi-Ho Lee.

 

About the film

Stories of the Fairy Folk is Produced and Directed by Lindsay Stewart Pinchbeck. Pinchbeck a photographer, met story teller Eddie Lenihan on a trip to Ireland in 1998. Pinchbeck  returned to the US and invited Ernest Tremblay (co-director) and Chandler Griffen (camera and sound) to participate in the project which has become Stories of the Fairy folk. She hoped to record some stories from these engaging tellers in their purest form. While nothing can take the place of listening to the stories first hand the following film attempts to keep the tales in their fullest form.


Story telling is the oldest art form, it engages the mind, the body and the heart. We are all full of stories but many of us have lost the ability to share our tales. To tell a good story you must, tell, listen and respond, but most importantly you must believe in the tale you are telling.

about the tellers