What is the Irish border to its inhabitants? A checkpoint? An opportunity for taking care of their neighbours despite their beliefs? A matter of identity? The Reel Borders shorts is a collection of four amateur short documentary films exploring the meaning of borders through archival collections filmed in Donegal and Derry. They portray people who lived during the Troubles, those who grew up post-Good Friday Agreement, and those from other countries with their own views on what borders represent. The Reel Borders Project is funded by the European Research Council (Starting Grant #948278), hosted at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and in partnership with the Nerve Centre, the Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, and the Irish Film Institute Archive.
Borders across the world are often contentious places where differences between people are focused and concentrated making them difficult places to live and prosper. The land border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK is one of these contentious borders. Pettigo is a small village in the Northwest of Ireland divided in half by this border and over the years has known its fair share of The Troubles. However, despite these conflicts the people of Pettigo, both Unionist and Nationalist, have continued ot cooperate and work together. This documentary, "Triang Times" focuses on the lives of two such people, one Unionist and one Nationalist, who have spent a lifetime stepping outside their cultural boundaries to build a better place to live.
- Runtime13 minutes
- DirectorMolly Phillips, Tom Hannigan
What is the Irish border to its inhabitants? A checkpoint? An opportunity for taking care of their neighbours despite their beliefs? A matter of identity? The Reel Borders shorts is a collection of four amateur short documentary films exploring the meaning of borders through archival collections filmed in Donegal and Derry. They portray people who lived during the Troubles, those who grew up post-Good Friday Agreement, and those from other countries with their own views on what borders represent. The Reel Borders Project is funded by the European Research Council (Starting Grant #948278), hosted at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and in partnership with the Nerve Centre, the Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, and the Irish Film Institute Archive.
Borders across the world are often contentious places where differences between people are focused and concentrated making them difficult places to live and prosper. The land border between the Republic of Ireland and the UK is one of these contentious borders. Pettigo is a small village in the Northwest of Ireland divided in half by this border and over the years has known its fair share of The Troubles. However, despite these conflicts the people of Pettigo, both Unionist and Nationalist, have continued ot cooperate and work together. This documentary, "Triang Times" focuses on the lives of two such people, one Unionist and one Nationalist, who have spent a lifetime stepping outside their cultural boundaries to build a better place to live.
- Runtime13 minutes
- DirectorMolly Phillips, Tom Hannigan
