Re:Vision: The Outcasts
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Written and directed by Robert Wynne-Simmons (writer of folk-horror masterpiece Blood on Satan’s Claw), and starring legendary Irish actors Cyril Cusack and Mick Lally, The Outcasts was the first major feature film funded in Ireland in forty years. Set in the earlier 1800s, an era of great poverty and no little superstition in pre-Famine Ireland, The Outcasts centers Maura (Mary Ryan), one of three daughters, a peculiar young woman largely ostracized by her rural Irish community due to her “abnormal” behavior. In great need of an ally, Maura aligns herself with the much feared Scarf Michael, whose power over the locals seems to tap into a world beyond our own.
The greens and greys and weighty clouds of the Irish countryside are evocatively captured by cinematographer Seamus Corcoran, and the destitution of the characters is made palpable by Consolata Boyle’s costume design. Rife with nods to myth and oral storytelling tradition, in The Outcasts stones rain, curses come true, and goats are not to be trusted! While set in a very particular time and place, the film’s depiction of man’s innate savagery is all too universal. When unfathomable misfortune strikes, the urge to blame the weak was then and is now far too quick an instinct. In The Outcasts, Maura is a likely victim for such impulses, but is she as powerless as she seems? — Kathy Rose O’Regan
The Outcasts was shot on 16mm and blown up to 35mm for its original release. This 2K digital restoration was created from 35mm sound and picture negatives preserved at the IFI Irish Film Archive. Restored by the IFI and Fís Éireann.
The Outcasts will screen with the following short:
WITCH (Karen Loveland Adey, United States, 1973) 5m
Among the many achievements in her remarkable life, Karen Loveland Adey founded the Exhibits Motion Picture Unit at the Smithsonian Institution and produced and/or directed over one hundred films during her time there. Unique to her filmography is the astonishing Witch, created for the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic—later renamed World of the Unexplainable Museum—in Gatlinburg, Tennessee (with a satellite site in San Francisco). The looping Witch was intended to be projected on a blank bust as part of a permanent installation in the museum. — Jonathan Marlow
Current personnel at the Smithsonian restored Witch from the surviving 16mm materials earlier this year.
Preserved through National Film Preservation Foundation funding.
Runtime
1h 50m
Year
1982
Director
Robert Wynne-Simmons
Format
DCP
Country
Ireland
Language
English with Open Captions
First Showing
September 25, 2026
Categories
RE:VISION — FESTIVAL OF RESTORATION AND REDISCOVERY
,
Featured
The greens and greys and weighty clouds of the Irish countryside are evocatively captured by cinematographer Seamus Corcoran, and the destitution of the characters is made palpable by Consolata Boyle’s costume design. Rife with nods to myth and oral storytelling tradition, in The Outcasts stones rain, curses come true, and goats are not to be trusted! While set in a very particular time and place, the film’s depiction of man’s innate savagery is all too universal. When unfathomable misfortune strikes, the urge to blame the weak was then and is now far too quick an instinct. In The Outcasts, Maura is a likely victim for such impulses, but is she as powerless as she seems? — Kathy Rose O’Regan
The Outcasts was shot on 16mm and blown up to 35mm for its original release. This 2K digital restoration was created from 35mm sound and picture negatives preserved at the IFI Irish Film Archive. Restored by the IFI and Fís Éireann.
The Outcasts will screen with the following short:
WITCH (Karen Loveland Adey, United States, 1973) 5m
Among the many achievements in her remarkable life, Karen Loveland Adey founded the Exhibits Motion Picture Unit at the Smithsonian Institution and produced and/or directed over one hundred films during her time there. Unique to her filmography is the astonishing Witch, created for the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic—later renamed World of the Unexplainable Museum—in Gatlinburg, Tennessee (with a satellite site in San Francisco). The looping Witch was intended to be projected on a blank bust as part of a permanent installation in the museum. — Jonathan Marlow
Current personnel at the Smithsonian restored Witch from the surviving 16mm materials earlier this year.
Preserved through National Film Preservation Foundation funding.
Runtime
1h 50m
Year
1982
Director
Robert Wynne-Simmons
Format
DCP
Country
Ireland
Language
English with Open Captions
First Showing
September 25, 2026
Categories
RE:VISION — FESTIVAL OF RESTORATION AND REDISCOVERY
,
Featured
