Editing Man of Aran (section)

==Artistic legacy==
[[Richard Leacock]], who went to school with Flaherty's daughters and later worked as the cinematographer on ''Louisiana Story'', says that Flaherty taught him to concentrate on finding images: "You look, you search. You think of the image not merely as a way of showing something but also as a way of withholding information, of creating tension in the viewer. Of not revealing too much. Of seeing things with different perspectives by using different focal-length lenses".<ref>Leacock, Richard; On Working With Robert and Frances Flaherty 26 April 1990</ref> Flaherty says he owes almost everything to these long lenses and with them captured some of the most memorable sea footage ever recorded.<ref>Barsam</ref> Corliss says ''Man of Aran'' was very different from his earlier work, “…the [[chiaroscuro]] compositions, charcoal rock, black-clad figures against a gray sky, are light-years removed from the natural grandeur of ''Nanook of the North'' or the easy elegance of ''Moana''.<ref>Corliss, R; The Man in the Iron Myth, Film comment, Nov-Dec 1973</ref> Corliss suggests there are enough similarities between Flaherty and [[John Ford]], [[Charlie Chaplin|Chaplin]], [[Borzage]], even [[Disney]] that place him firmly in a tradition of the romantic visionary American.<ref>Corliss</ref> Winston sees the influence of Flaherty in [[Leni Riefenstahl]] films, arguing that her [[aesthetics]] of manipulation owed much to his pioneering work.<ref>Winston</ref> McLoon goes further, suggesting "the cult of beauty, and fetishism of courage" in ''Man of Aran'' are the tropes of [[Fascism]].  He goes on to exonerate Flaherty of any [[Nazi]] connection saying "it is a measure of the apolitical nature of Flaherty’s vision that he was unaware of this problem inherent in his nineteenth-century primitive sensibility".<ref>McLoon</ref>

''[[The Cripple of Inishmaan]]'' (1996) by [[Martin McDonagh]] is a play set on the Aran Islands at the time of the filming of ''Man of Aran''.

The UK rock band [[British Sea Power|Sea Power]] were asked to record [[Man of Aran (album)|a new soundtrack]] for the film's 2009 DVD release, performing the score at a series of live events in the UK including one accompanying the film itself at the British Film Institute.<ref>[http://www.clashmusic.com/news/british-sea-power-soundtrack British Sea Power Soundtrack. 'Man of Aran' nears release], ClashMusic.com, 23 January 2009. Accessed online 8 April 2009.</ref>

Flaherty's legacy is the subject of the 2010 [[British Universities Film & Video Council]] award-winning and [[FOCAL International]] award-nominated documentary ''A Boatload of Wild Irishmen'' (so named because, after the staged climactic sequence of ''Man of Aran'', Flaherty said he'd been accused of "trying to drown a boatload of wild Irishmen"), written by Professor [[Brian Winston]] of University of Lincoln, UK, and directed by [[Mac Dara Ó Curraidhín]].