1. “Ghost in the Machine”: Yeats, Auto/biography and Medium of Film Prof. Lance Pettitt www.lancepettitt.com www.lancepettitt.com UFSC, Florianopolis 19 May 2016 @CISLondon ©2016 Lance Pettitt

2. Introduction How can we link WBY to film? What relationship, if any, between life writing (auto/biography) and film? How, after his death, was film used to explore his life and work ? [Interstices of commemoration/commodification] Presentation: intro, then show 4 kinds of film clip: online then archive of actualité, tribute/tourist and film-poem. ©2016 Lance Pettitt

3. IFI Yeats Remembered, June 2015 ©2016 Lance Pettitt

4. WBY life as a ‘screenplay’ IFI series “Images from a past life” (PR May) June 2015. A Vision: The Life of Yeats (Gilsenan, 2015, 65mins) “In so many ways Yeats dreamt up his own life. He fashioned his own majestic screenplay and we are – endlessly – his beneficiaries” (Gilsenan) ©2016 Lance Pettitt

5. Genius…“Crisis joined” “I know now that revelation is from the self, but from that age-long memoried self [….] and that genius is a crisis that joins that buried self for certain moments to our trivial daily mind (YEATS Autobiographies, 1980 [1955]: 272) “I have spent all of my life in clearing out of poetry every phrase written for the eye, and bringing all back to syntax that is for the ear alone” (YEATS, ‘A General Introduction for My Work’, 1937) ©2016 Lance Pettitt

6. I. Yeats 2015 – the 3 C’s ©2016 Lance Pettitt

7. Yeats Exhibition: National Library (Dublin 2014) ©2016 Lance Pettitt

8. I. Discover Ireland (May 2015) 1. “Your Yeats” tab – individual readings/recorded 2. ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus’ (2’ 42”) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_VPtGfs w0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_VPtGfs w0 ©2016 Lance Pettitt

9. II. Actualité: Life subject on screen Found Footage – scarce Newsreel/Archive + home movie 1.1923Stockholm Nobel Prize 2.1928Yeats Gibraltar/Algeciras 3.1948Irish Military Archive. WBY remains repatriated ©2016 Lance Pettitt

10. III. Tribute and Tourism 1. 1950W.B. Yeats: A Tribute National Film Instit of Ireland/21mins Narrator: Cyric Cusak. Verse readings: Micheal MacLiammor, Siobhan McKenna. Script: John D. Sheridan. Camera: George Fleischman Music: Eamonn O’Gallaoigbhair 2. 1965Yeats Country Dept External Affairs Patrick Carey/Joe Mendoza Aengus Films/17mins Music: combined atonal percussion -natural sound track; eerie other worldly mood. Non-representational Voice over: Tom St John Barry ©2016 Lance Pettitt

11. III. Travelogue 1. 1950Journey in Sligo. Col. J.C. Coleman 2.1966Yeats Country J.J. Tohill Col. “Not to be confused with the Dept of Foreign Affairs film”. (Advises Irish Film and TV Research Online) ©2016 Lance Pettitt

12. IV: TV doc and Film Poem 1. 1989.Cast a Cold Eye Sean O Mordha. RTE. 2. 2015No Country for Old Men Maurice Sweeney RTE. 3. 2015 A Vision: A Life of Yeats Gilsenan, 65mins After coffee – remember …. Alan’s film is less a screening, a more a séance. ©2016 Lance Pettitt