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The Burr of Berwick Film Library is a community video archive and exhibition series. Open and evolving, the Burr Film Library offers a shared space for screenings, discussions, and creativity.
Based at 22 Bridge Street, the Film Library is open Saturdays 12 – 4pm. The Library also travels to present pop-up events at spaces and occasions around town.
With the potential to speak to personal memories and experiences, the films reflect and respond to real-world topics. Everyone is invited to pop in for a cuppa and share ideas and stories, or delve into the Library’s themes through events and workshops.
Endless Love Tapes
‘If every person on the planet could make a love tape, then you’d really know what it’s like to be human’ ~Wendy Clarke
Endless Love Tapes (United Kingdom, 2025) is a pilot project by Wendy Clarke (US) and Kim Coleman (UK). Artist Wendy Clarke’s participatory video project, Love Tapes – which she began in 1977 – is an incredible collection of over 2,500 three-minute videos where people discuss what love means to them.
But how can a participatory art project started by an individual artist continue indefinitely? And how can everyone really participate in it?
Clarke and Coleman aim to answer this question and to achieve what Clarke has always wanted – for everyone in the world to be able to make a Love Tape. The pair have crafted a manual to share and continue Clarke’s process, enabling people to add Loves Tapes from their own communities to the growing collection indefinitely, without direct communication with the artist.
Berwick Film Festival 2025 celebrates the start of a year of their Endless Love Tapes project which tests the potential for Clarke’s Love Tapes to grow endlessly.
During the festival, visit The Burr of Berwick (22 Bridge Street) to create your own Love Tape, view earlier Love Tapes, and learn how to make a Love Tape with your own community.