Dialogue | Diptych| 2021© (Full film 16mins- 3 min clip above)
Dialogue | Diptych | 2021 consists of two films (No More, 2013 and Broadcast,2016) placed side beside to create a ‘dialogue’ between them. Both deal with the period of McClean’s father’s imprisonment in Long Kesh Prison in Northern Ireland over fifty year ago. Through archive news footage from America and England, set against a dance training film with the Polish performer Ryszard Cieślak, the personal and political collide, to retell a story ‘with new inflections and rhythms from the juxtapositions, as if film is now oral history. There is delight and strangeness in how fortuitously the films fit together and offer up co-incidences and new realisations in this pairing’ . From Shirley MacWilliam’s essay - How to Make it as a Human Being published in Here, Belfast Exposed Gallery, 2022. No More won the MAC International Art Prize in 2014. In 2016 I found the interview footage of my mother in a TV archive in Nashville, USA and I made Broadcast 32172.
Dialogue/Diptych screened at:
HERE | Belfast Exposed Gallery | Solo Survey Show | Northern Ireland | 2022
Flex Fest | Florida International Experimental Film Festival | USA | 2022
28th CUFF | Chicago Underground Film Festival | Chicago, USA | 2021
World Premiere | Vivienne Dick @ Jeu de Paume | Carte Blanche | Paris | 2021
Dialogue Diptych, 2021©
Dialogue Diptych | Ireland: 100 Years Under The Influence | Group show | Irish Cultural Institute, Paris | France with Anne Maree Barry, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Alison Lowry, Mairéad McClean, Aine Phillips and Jennifer Trouton.
Dialogue Diptych | HERE | Solo Show | Belfast Exposed | Oct,22-Dec,2022 | curated by Deirdre Robb and Gary Sangster.