Wanderers, Rachael Boyd

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Location

Belfast, Dublin

Year

2022

Date

Filmed 2021 - Post Production 2022 - Includes archive footage from 1959-69

Length

06min 00sec

Audio

sound

Format

Digital

black and white, colour

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Conor Dockery, Department for Communities, ITV, Rachael Boyd, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

Northern Ireland Screen

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

Description

Northern Ireland Screen invited four artists to respond to the films within the Digital Film Archive. The Looking Glass Anthology is a collection of beautiful works by a range of musicians and poets that capture what the archives mean to them on a personal level.  

Rachael Boyd creates beautiful post-classical work. A talented multi-instrumentalist, Rachael uses her gift to make music that tells stories, exploring universal themes with sympathy and emotion. 

Here, Rachael has looked at the difficult relationship between the Travellers and local residents in mid-60s Northern Ireland. It is a painful story of ignorance and fear exposed through bigotry. The footage is both poignant and upsetting and Rachael’s music humanises the experience of the much maligned and marginalised Traveller community.

Credits

A Northern Ireland Screen production funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2.

Composed and Performed by Rachael Boyd.

Performance Filmed by Conor Dockery.

Produced and Edited by Paul McClintock.

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