Materialities of History Trailer

Details

Location

Year

2018

Date

Length

01min 39sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

colour

Source

Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive

Courtesy

Conor Quinn, Film Audience Network, Mirjami Schuppert, PS2, Ulrika Ferm, Unlocking Film Heritage

Rights Holder

Central Office of Information, ITV, Northern Ireland Screen, Rights are managed by National Museums Northern Ireland on behalf of Tourism NI

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

In celebration of Northern Ireland’s coastal life - and as part of the the British Film Institute's Britain on Film: Coast and Sea project - Ulrika Ferm was asked to produce an artistic response to the content of the Digital Film Archive. The resulting project Materiliaties of History was shown at PS² gallery in Belfast during August 2018.

This project approaches the Northern Irish film heritage from a Finnish point of view. The artist Ulrika Ferm, originally from a small coastal town in Finland, was invited to respond to the coastal themed films in the Digital Film Archive. In her research Ferm mainly focused on the Northern Ireland Tourist Board collection, which created films that aimed to sell Northern Ireland as a holiday destination. Members of staff documented the region through stills and moving images, the films they created capturing various facets of life in Northern Ireland, its society and history, people and places. 

Ferm’s practice is interested in archival structures and the way history presents itself through visual material found in archives. The exhibition displayed both edited and unedited footage from the NITB collection and some other institutional film productions such as UTV’s Richer and Rarer(1960). The gallery used to house the biggest Northern Irish Fishing tackle shop J Braddell & Sons Ltd and some traces of the building’s history were still visible. 

The project was curated by Mirjami Schuppert, curator in residence at PS². 

A reworking of this project was on display in Photographic Gallery Hippolyte & Hippolyte Studio in Helsinki from January 4th-27th 2019.

Credits

Trailer created for Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive by Conor Quinn

Artist Ulrika Ferm

The project was curated by Mirjami Schuppert, curator in residence at PS²

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