Breathna nan Eilean

Beatha nan Eilean

RA, Film Tasglann 17mion Uist Film. Film co-chruinneachadh air ùr-digiteachd a thàinig bho FAODAIL /Film a chaidh a lorg sna h-Eileanan 

Thoisich Film Uibhist Taigh Chearsbhagh air Pròiseact Tasglann Film Innse Gall /FAODAIL ann an 2015. 

Gu 1979, ‘s e glè bheag, film às na h-eileanan, no mu dheidhinn na h-eileanan a tha ann an Tasglann Film Gluasadach ann an Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba, a chaidh a cruthachadh ach, le filmichean neach-clàraidh bho taobh a muigh na sgìre.  Dh’fhàg sin, eadar cinn beachd nan tùsanaich, fiosrachadh nach robh buileach ceart, gun eòlas air an dòigh beatha, cleas romansach agus coimhead sìos air eileanaich, gu robh tric sealladh air beatha nan eilean gun a bhith buileach mar a bha e ann an da-rìreabh.   Thoisich Faodàil airson sin a chur ceart, agus thathas air cruth-dhigiteach a chur air 25 uair a thìde de film 8mm.  Chaidh na filmichean a bha a’ cuimseachadh air an àrainneachd mu na 70an agus na 80an, a clàradh le Anna Dhòmhnallach Chnoc na Luib Uibhist a Tuath. 

Beatha nan Eilean | Life in the Islands

UK,  2025 Uist Film  Freshly digitised footage compilation from the FAODAIL | FOUND Outer Hebrides Film Archive, 17min

 

The FAODAIL | FOUND Outer Hebrides Film Archive project was initiated by UistFilm at Taigh Chearsabhagh in 2015.

Up until as late as 1979, very little, if any, film created in or about the Outer Hebrides available in the National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive was made from anything other than an outsiders' perspective. This lack of an indigenous viewpoint led, at best, to an uninformed, and often romanticised or patronising, representation of island life. 

 

The FAODAIL | FOUND project seeks to address this imbalance and so far has digitised, through crowdfunding, over 25 hours of 8mm home movies. This compilation of 8mm film from the 70s and early 80s focusses on the natural environment mainly filmed by Annie (Chnoc na Luib) MacDonald of North Uist.