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BERNADETTE & AWINGBIGCELL
WEDNESDAY 1 APRIL
7PM
QFT
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£6 / £5.50
BOOK ONLINE
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When the Northern Irish Republican political activist Bernadette Devlin was prohibited from speaking in parliament after Bloody Sunday, she punched the home secretary and proclaimed she only regretted she "didn't get him by the throat". The firebrand Devlin is obviously hard to historically pin down: a fact that the video artist Duncan Campbell here fully recognises in his celebration of her political spirit. Working with mediated images of her, he mixes fact and fiction, documentary footage with animation and scripted voiceover to create an intriguing portrait of a committed individual.
The films will be followed by a panel discussion chaired by Prof. Bill Rolston, (University of Ulster) on the creation and ownership of stories. ‘Rights of the individual versus freedom of expression of the film maker’.
PANELISTS
Bernadette McAliskey
Duncan Campbell (Film-maker)
AWINGBIGCELL (will screen prior to Bernadette)
2008 / 18mins
'AWingBigCell' is based upon footage recorded at the site of the notorious H-Blocks at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland. Location of mass internment without trial in the 1970's, and the 1981 Hunger Strikes, the prison was finally closed in 2001 as the Good Friday Agreement's prisoner release program, and ongoing ceasefires by the paramilitary groups at the centre of the country's 30 year conflict, rendered it part of history. Seamus Harahan and Miriam de Búrca instead leave us in a state of limbo, where the open wound that the prison represents is suspended between the desire for total erasure and the need to historicize and 'move on'.
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Scotland / 2008 / 37mins
Director: Duncan Campbell
The Artist
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