“To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognise it ‘the way it really was.'
It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger" (Thesis VI- W Benjamin).
A Line Was Drawn (2019) weaves together material from a number of different sources to explore issues of how our world is structured through the creation of borders and boundaries limiting movement, thinking, questioning and agency. Through its layered format and contrasting sources of sound, A Line Was Drawn aims to question the construct of seamless television documentary and news narratives tasked with conveying a particular story to convince or intrench a point of view. The film meditates on the need of an individual to have their voice heard in the midst of rules of storytelling and dominant historical narratives.
The work was produced with support of The Wapping Project, London.
A LINE WAS DRAWN screened at:
63rd BFI London Film Festival | Official Selection | Experimenta | 2019
Resonances@ The Horse Hospital | The Wapping Project | 2019
Bogotá Experimental Film Festival | Official Selection | Other Latitudes Colombia | July 2020
Docs Ireland | Official Selection | Competition | Nov 2020
Cinemas of Sisterhood | with Anne Robinson | Whitechapel Art Gallery, Nov 2020
RPM Film Festival | Boston, MA, USA, | Sept 2020
Monitor 14| SAVAC | IMAGES | Toronto Film Festival | 2021
also screened
At the conference: Beyond 2022 Research Showcase, marking the centenary of the Custom House: Fire People, Place and Power: Grand Jury Records and Local History and during the conference: Partition and its Legacies in Ireland: Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, 2022.