Julie Murray is one of the most significant experimental filmmakers of the last 25 years. After studying Fine Art in Dublin, Ireland, she moved to the United States in 1985. Drawing on her background in art, the filmmaker creates short experimental works in both digital and film media, imbued with a poetic nature that engages with the textural imprints and limits of the form as an essential element of pictorial content. She has crafted a body of work that fluctuates between films derived from found footage and first-person visual diaries. Her film and digital pieces have been showcased at numerous festivals, both nationally and internationally, including the New York Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, London Film Festival, and the Flaherty Film Seminar.
Much of the footage that comprises _Orchard_ is of a 19th century ruin that included a walled orchard of the southwest of Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls have become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach 20 feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of w...
Much of the footage that comprises _Orchard_ is of a 19th century ruin that included a walled orchard of the southwest of Ireland. It is set deep in the woods and the crumbling brick and mortar of the broken walls have become the anchor for the roots of slender trees, so uninhibited for all this time that they reach 20 feet in height and have thick roots that follow like slow lazy trickles of w...