Victoria Clarke

Music videos and archived footage supplement recent interviews in this documentary of ex-Pogues singer Shane MacGowan. We follow his life from the early days in Ireland and England, through his formation of - and later dismissal from - The Pogues, to his new band The Popes. Shane's family, friends, and former bandmates comment on the music, the rumors, and the alcohol.

Echolalia is the meaningless repetition of words or phrases associated with forms of dementia and aphasia. In the build-up to the war in Iraq certain phrases were endlessly repeated to the point where these empty rhetorical phrases were confused with concrete facts. I tried to record as many instances of people repeating the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” as I could stand and represent these statements in a way that draws attention to the deadening effect of their repetition, however emphatically they are expressed.

Périple cinématographique dans la vie de Shane MacGowan, le film de Julien Temple « Crock of Gold » détaille l’existence explosive de Shane, de sa jeunesse en Irlande, aux rues mal famées de Londres jusqu’à la scène punk. Nous découvrons les passions de MacGowan, son humour et sa profonde connaissance de la musique, de l’histoire, de la spiritualité et de la culture populaire. Car c’est l’histoire de Shane. Une vision du monde à travers les yeux du grand poète punk lui-même et du cercle intime d'amis proches et de membres de la famille.