Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Streets of Ulster, with Louise Denver and Dr. Ciara Chambers
@ Media Burn Archive
Online
Opening Monday, May 5th, at 5PM
Join Media Burn for a virtual screening of the documentary Streets of Ulster (1973), with co-director Louise Denver and scholar Dr. Ciara Chambers.
A stunning documentary that has gone largely unseen for decades, Streets of Ulster (1973) is a remarkable portrait of the community living on Kashmir Road in Belfast during the height of The Troubles. Firebombings, armored trucks in the streets, soldiers marching through the neighborhood – Streets of Ulster vividly captures the resilience and humanity of a community existing amidst unimaginable chaos and violence.
Streets of Ulster was shot in 1972 by Louise Denver, an Australian journalist then living in London, and photographer David Redom. The pair, having previously spent time in Belfast reporting for Frendz Magazine, returned to the city after gaining access to their first video camera. The filming was extraordinarily dangerous even beyond the violence captured on video – Denver and Redom were kidnapped by IRA members and subject to repeated raids and threats by the British authorities – but Denver and Redom persisted, smuggling the tapes out of Ireland. Denver brought them to New York and edited Streets of Ulster with the assistance of Susan Milano in the facilities of Global Village. In the 1970s, the completed documentary won awards and played to great acclaim in Europe, the US, and around the world, but, like so many other masterpieces of the early video era, it has gone largely unseen in subsequent decades. More than 50 years later, the urgency, power, and importance of Streets of Ulster endures.
This event is free with advanced registration. Register HERE.
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