THE TRACKLESS WILD
Song of A Wandering Tip (2026 · 70 min)
The Trackless Wild began with the idea of focusing on one song to build a film around, a 19th century lyric that led from the Argentine pampas back to Ireland. In the early stages of the filming four further ballads emerged, hidden in the pages of El Monitor de la Campaña, all signed by the same curious name: A Wandering Tip.
Filmed over three years in Argentina, the film brings together song, landscape, animation, and lyrical narration to follow these ballads not as relics, but as living things, still traveling, still wandering, though their author is long gone.
Beir bua,
Charlie O'Brien
Ecos Amigos: Irish Ballads on the Argentine Pampas
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The Trackless Wild, Irish Song of the Pampa
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Press Kit
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Both the film and album were funded by this crowdfunding campaign. The soundtrack to the film was sponsored by the Kerry County Council.
Since its premiere at Killarney House for “Culture Night” 2025, in conjunction with Killarney National Park, The Trackless Wild has screened at community venues across Argentina as part of “Culture Ireland” supported tours in 2025 and 2026, at Féile na Bealtaine in Dingle, and as an Official Selection of the Chicago Irish Film Festival and Torino Underground Film Festival. It was also invited to the VdR–Film Market, Visions du Réel, Switzerland, 2026.
“Steer my bark, steer my bark, o'er the wild pampa main, oh ye winds be more calm there are shoals on the plain!”
A Wandering Tip, 1873