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“We realised the power of it”: Derry Film and Video Workshop

Sara Greavu & Ciara Phillips

EVA International, Limerick City Art Gallery
24 September – 14 November 2021

“Curator Sara Greavu in collaboration with artist Ciara Phillips presented We realised the power of it (2021), an installation of archive material from the Derry Film and Video Workshop which included previously unseen footage, photographs and documents that trace a history of the workshop, exploring concerns with gender, class, the Irish ‘national question’ and the legacies of imperialism.

The Derry Film and Video Workshop, established in 1984 was a women-led film production company formed under the terms of the 1982 Workshop Declaration, which also gave birth to projects such as the Black Audio Film Collective and Sankofa Film and Video Collective. Largely omitted from the histories of these regional/minority/Black-British/diaspora workshops as well as from records of feminist counter-cinema, the DFVW elaborated and explored overlapping political tensions around gender, class, the Irish “national question” and legacies of imperialism. Formed around ideas of radical self-representation and resistance, films produced by the collective offer a nuanced depiction of these complex forces at work in the specific context of Derry.”

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 See also:      

      Little did they know
           Guest programme of 39th EVA International
           Sept. 2020 - Nov. 2021

2025Unless otherwise indicated, all images © Ciara Phillips