Man of Aran

Producer-director Robert Flaherty turns now away from the sea, to the sparse inland conditions of the Aran Islands of the Western coast of Ireland, in the semi-documentary Man Of Aran, 1934.

From the extended dramatic segment based on the shark hunt, which historians confirm had not been practiced for at least 50 years when the film was made, Robert J. Flaherty’s depiction of the lives of the natives of the islands of the Western coast of Ireland, Man Of Aran, 1934.

From producer-director Robert Flaherty’s initial scene, his assembled family of natives, (Colman “Tiger” King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dillane) rescuing their net from the rocky surf of Inishmore in Galway Bay, in his quasi-documentary of life in the Aran Islands, Man Of Aran, 1934.