“How many are trying to catch our collective breath?” In this short film directed by Craig Kenny for First Fortnight, Ireland’s Mental Health Art and Culture Festival, Stephen James Smith shares his poem with accompanying music by Gareth Quinn Redmond and Conor J. O’Brien.
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