Director
A collaborative film by Aidan O’Rourke, Becky Manson and Mark Cousins
Run Time
65 mins
Release Year
2022
Country of Origin
UK
Language
English, Irish Gaelic
Director of Photography: Becky Manson, Mark Cousins
Exec Producer: Edinburgh International Festival
Editor: Becky Manson
Produced by: John Archer
Music: Aidan O’Rourke
Screenplay by: Aidan O’Rourke
Sound Production: Angus McPake, Paul Hartmann
Director Bio
A collaborative film by Aidan O’Rourke, Becky Manson and Mark Cousins
P&I - Director Bio
Mark Cousins has directed twenty feature films, forty shorts, forty hours of TV and published five books. He has won the Prix Italia, the Stanley Kubrick award, the European Film Academy's Innovation award and a Peabody, among others. His next three films are about the rise of fascism, Alfred Hitchcock and painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham.
The Ballad of a Great Disordered Heart
An evocative film about Edinburgh’s Old Town and the communities who have called it home. During lockdown, musician Aidan O’Rourke befriended his three octogenarian neighbours, all called Margaret. Inspired by their tales, with a renewed curiosity for his own roots, he takes a musical journey into the meaning of home and belonging. This celebratory film about folk music and its power to connect features a foot-stomping original soundtrack by O’Rourke and live performances by sensational Irish and Scottish folk musicians. [12] Lauren Ferris
Celebrating Scotland’s Stories on Screen
The film will be introduced by Mark Cousins, and the screening will feature a live performance by Aidan O'Rourke.