Is Mise an Teanga

Here is the introduction to the film Is Mise an Teanga ( I Am the Tongue ).

They say the Irish and the Scots are like Greeks born in the rain. We've reached the 21st century with an ancient language and literature by resistance, accident and stubbornness. We make great poems in languages that some think are dead and several think should be dead. We make mad music sanely, talk as though talk were important and write as though eternity were listening.

Is Mise an Teanga is about Gaelic, its contemporary poets and their encounters with 100 visual artists in The Great Book of Gaelic - a Book of Kells for our time.

Is Mise an Teanga is aliving portrait of a language in flux

Directed by Murray Grigor
Written by Kevin Anderson
Produced by Cassandra McGrogan
Photographed by Seumas McGarvey & Conor Hammond
Sound by Allan Young

Funded by: Comataidh Craolaidh Gaidhlig
Scottish Screen National Lottery
Bord Scannan na hEireann

In association with: BBC Alba
Radio Telefis Eireann

With special thanks to Malcolm Maclean and all at Proiseact nan Ealan.

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