From the first weeks of lockdown we’ve been contributing to the #StayatHomeCinema online initiative by sharing a FREE film to watch weekly from the safety of your own home together with Weekly Insights into these transformative times.
Due to popular demand we are extending the STAYSAFE2020 free promo code until June 15th, 2020.
Scroll down to the bottom of this post for step-by-step instructions on how to use the code and take the very best care of yourselves in these transformative times.
Week 1 – STAY SAFE
For the strange times we live in here’s a FREE promo code to watch one of our inspiring music docs from the comfort of your own home.
The recently digitally re-mastered 3/TRIÚR (In Search of Musical Form) is a film that will take you “on a journey to the heart of Irish Traditional Music”.
The Patricks’ Day parades may have been cancelled but you can still enjoy Irish culture at home – wherever you are.
Stay safe, take care of yourselves – and each other – in these challenging times.
Dónal & The Team at Anú Pictures
Week 2 – KEEP THE FAITH
As the Lockdown continues we’re continuing our Initiative to spotlight a movie from our new ANÚ ONLINE CINEMA portal to watch for FREE from the comfort of your own home
The recently digitally re-mastered PRELUDE (2008) is a day in the life film on a young girl growing up in Rocinha, South America’s largest favela in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
Stay safe, take care of yourselves – and each other – in these challenging times.
Dónal & The Team at Anú Pictures
Week 3 – A VISION FOR OUR TIMES
As the Lockdown continues we’re continuing our weekly spotlight of a movie from our new ANU ONLINE CINEMA portal to watch for FREE from the comfort of your own home
This week it’s our award-winning creative doc DREAMTIME REVISITED – inspired by the life and works of the legendary Irish Writer, Poet & Philosopher John Moriarty.
Moriarty’s vision of a way of living more in harmony with the natural rhythms of this incredible planet we live on becomes more and more pressing with the passing of each and every day and if there is one thing that this pandemic might teach us might it be this?
I’m also sharing a personal story below from a beautiful synchronicity that happened to me this week, that reminded me of the importance of Moriarty’s vision (see Insights post http://www.anupictures.com/insights/).
Stay safe, take care of yourselves – and each other – in these challenging times.
Dónal & The Team at Anú Pictures
Week 4 – CYCLES OF TIME
During this Cocooning time we’re continuing our weekly spotlight of a movie from our new ANU ONLINE CINEMA portal to watch for FREE from the comfort of your own home
This week it’s the digitally re-mastered CUZCO 1999 (Chronicle of a City at the End of the Century). This doc chronicles the final days leading up to New Year’s Eve, 1999 in the Ancient Capital of the Incas, in Peru.
It was in Peru during my 20’s, that I came to fully appreciate the clash of world-views that was taking place in modern times; between the predominant western world-view and indigenous world-views that have managed to preserve much of the wisdom that we have now forgotten.
In times like these we would do well to seek more of that type of wisdom, to help us navigate a way forward.
Stay safe, take care of yourselves – and each other – in these challenging times.
Dónal & The Team at Anú Pictures
Week 5 – HOPE
During this Cocooning time we’re continuing our weekly spotlight of a doc from our new ANU ONLINE CINEMA portal to watch for FREE from the comfort of your own home
This week it’s the third film from our IRISH MUSIC TRILOGY: FROM COOLEA TO IONA a journey into the heart of the Men’s singing tradition with the legendary Coolea Men’s choir under the watchful direction of Peadar Ó Riada.
Matt Micucci of Cinecola described it as a ‘A work of great creative synergy and intimacy (with) a meditative aura’ .
Stay safe, take care of yourselves – and each other – in these challenging times.
Dónal & The Team at Anú Pictures
Week 6 – IMAGINATION, REIMAGINED, IMAGINE*!
As worldwide Cocooning continues we continue sharing a weekly FREE film to watch from our new ANU ONLINE CINEMA portal.
Over the past 5 weeks we’ve brought you to South America’s largest favela, to the heights of the Andes and to the heart of Irish Mythology, Music & Culture.
This week we’re offering to take you somewhere completely different.
For many years I lived at the very epicentre of the independent and experimental film community in NYC as a filmmaker and as Founder/Director of Ocularis ‘One of the most innovative film venues in New York’ (ARTFORUM Magazine).
This period produced a number of early experimental works that have been digitally re-mastered and are now available online for the first time.
Re-watching this work reminds me of how the avant-garde anticipates imminent cultural transformations and how in these charged times we will need to draw upon all of the powers of our collective imaginations to forge a harmonious way forward.
Stay home, watch good cinema & take care of your imaginations; we are going to need them!
Dónal & The Team at Anú Pictures
(* With a nod to Samuel Beckett’s Imagination, Dead, Imagine!)
Week 7 – FINDING NEW MEANING IN THE OLD STORIES
As worldwide Cocooning continues we continue sharing a weekly FREE film to watch from our new ANU ONLINE CINEMA portal.
This week here’s a short film bringing the legendary Song Of Amergin to life for contemporary audiences, inspired by John Moriarty’s ‘Invoking Ireland’ of which Michael Harding writes:
“Taking his cue from Amergin’s invocation John Moriarty wants us to share his exploration of Irish myth at this deep psychological level so that we can find new meaning in the old stories … so that the old stories can bring a new perception to the way we live out our lives.”
Some more deep wisdom from our cultural DNA for the times we live in.
Stay home, watch good cinema & take care of your imaginations; we are going to need them!
Dónal & The Team at Anú Pictures
Step-by-step directions to stream the films on Vimeo:
1. Click on the FILM IMAGE above select “RENT” on the Vimeo page.
2. Here you will have to log in/sign up (if you are not already a member of Vimeo you will need to join but this is free)
3. Once done you will see a section that says “Apply Promo Code”
4. Enter the Free Promo Code STAYSAFE2020 here and enjoy
50% OFF THE ANÚ ONLINE CINEMA ACCESS PASS
Each of these titles are included in our new ANÚ ONLINE CINEMA portal.
If you like our films why not consider gifting the ANÚ ONLINE CINEMA UNIMITED ACCESS PASS to someone special under lockdown in these challenging times and support us in the process.
Use the bewell2020 promo code for an additional 50% off !
Le míle buíochas (with a thousand thanks).