Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre
Ailbhe Ní Bhriain’s Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre is an immersive film—set in three distinct locations—that examines how histories are supplanted and erased through dislocation and erosion. Borrowing its title from a sixteenth-century text about museum management, the film addresses the Western world’s legacy of imperialism as well as human displacement and the possibility of a future destabilized by climate change.
The soundtrack is composed by Susan Stenger with a voiceover performed by Eileen Walsh. Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre has a run time of 33 minutes and plays roughly every half hour on the hour.
The Artists
Inscriptions of an Immense Theatre is supported by the Kohler Trust for Arts and Education, the Frederic Cornell Kohler Charitable Trust, Kohler Foundation, Inc., Herzfeld Foundation, and the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts.
