Blog: Direct Current

In what is turning out to be one of the most fascinating releases of the year, fine UK rockers British Sea Power have created a brand new soundtrack for a 1934 film Man Of Aran . The critically acclaimed landmark "dramatised documentary" created by American director Robert J. Flaherty is a vivid and visually spectacular black and white testament to the incredible seascape hardships facing the inhabitants on the far flung Irish Aran Islands. Noted critic Pauline Kael has described Man of Aran as "the greatest film tribute to man's struggle [...]