Thirteen Points, Expanded (Video)

‘Thirteen Points, Expanded’ is a 14 minute HD Video that was filmed over 18 months in Belfast, systematically visiting each of the thirteen urban clusters of Interfaces that divide Nationalist and Unionist communities. Contemporary HD Video footage is overlayed with historical archival footage and sound to render a layered representation of the various ‘Interface Areas’ of the city. Composited text presents a commentary on the implementation and resilient longevity of the ‘Peacewalls’, from a number of different points of view – British, Northern Irish and Irish, both Catholic and Protestant, ranging widely from historical to contemporary accounts. Rather than looking at specific walls or clusters of urban barriers, the work positions the interface as a vast urban system that includes walls, derelict spaces, urban infrastructure, telecommunications, historical events, surveillance, policing and policy documents as all part of the same resilient organism.