Picturing Derry

Duration: 59

Year Published: 1985

Creator: Wombat

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Focusing on Derry, Northern Ireland, this film examines the ways in which photographic images generated within a situation affect that situation. The work of a variety of photographers, including internationally-known photojournalists, freelance professionals and anonymous police photographers are analyzed and intercut with live-action footage of Derry to give the viewer a multi-dimensional picture of a city where violence and tragedy are routine. A group of young photographers who live in Derry cite the importance of the inhabitants recording the events which directly affect them. A woman presents her personal photo album which chronicles seven years of unrest in Northern Ireland alongside mementos of family life.

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