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Cáit McClay

Cáit McClay and Éiméar McClay are Irish-born, collaborative artists currently based in London. Their recent work has analysed both the British Imperial project in Ireland and the period following the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922 to examine the cultural, political and economic effects of colonisation. This has involved a focus on the network of social institutions – Magdalene Laundries, mother and baby homes, etc. – run by the Catholic church and the state in Ireland across the 20th century.

Their work has been selected for many esteemed exhibitions and awards, including Circa Class of 2020; Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2020; TH4Y, GENERATORprojects; the 17th & 18th Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival New Cinema Award; the Hospitalfield Graduate Programme; the Market Gallery Studio Projects residency; the CCA Derry residency; Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award 2021 & 2022; RSA New Contemporaries 2022; the RSA Stuart Prize 2022; the 56th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival; Queer Lisboa; aemi@GAZE 2022; Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival; Festival du Nouveau Ciné; Intersección, MAV Award; the Beijing International Short Film Festival; the CCA Glasgow Creative Lab residency; Docs Ireland; Memoryhouse, Glebe House; the Creative Scotland Open Fund Award; SQIFF 2023; Other Worlds, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny; zoombiblestudy, Galerie FaVU; the Visual Arts Bursary Award 2024; aemi @ Docs Ireland: Back Translation; A Mother’s Love, Prayer Room; SQIFF 2024; and Intersección 2024.

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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

One of Eadweard Muybridge’s earliest contributions to the photographic image were stereographs commissioned by the U.S. Army, capturing their war against the Modoc Tribe in Northern California. These stereographs, many of which were staged, are revisited here through violent collisions of image and sound – generating entangled histories of visual technology, genocide and expropriation of Indigenous populations.

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6 mins

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2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

‘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.

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98 mins

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2025
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

A critical look at the evolution of Irish psychiatric institutions across the 20th century, examining the confluence of carceral, therapeutic and socioeconomic incentives that determined their influence.

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20 mins

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2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

Over 100 filmmakers and artists from around the world have formed Some Strings, an ensemble of unreleased filmic gestures rooted in Palestine, where poet and teacher Refaat Alareer was targeted by Israeli strikes along with seven members of his family.

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300 mins

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2024
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27 March, 12:00 – 17:00 • 28 – 30 March, 10:00 – 17:00

A film, installation, and exhibition by artist and filmmaker Harry Lawson, created in collaboration with young inner-city horse riders from Stepney Bank Stables in Newcastle. Reimagining Byker as the Wild West, the project blurs the line between fact and fiction, weaving together recontextualised iPhone footage shot by the riders, archival material from the North East Film Archive, and Lawson’s own cinematography.

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40 mins

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2025
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Thursday 27 March, 12:00

The first edition of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival’s New Cinema Forum is an invitation to artists, filmmakers, critics and arts/film workers to consider new orientations to creating, exhibiting and working collectively. Offering practical ways to sustain and develop your practice and community, the NCF is a relaxed space to reflect and make connections ahead of our Opening Night film.

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300 mins
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Thursday 27 March, 19:30

When a supernatural entity plagues a village community in war torn Northern Sri Lanka, a mother loses her son. Set in militarily occupied territory marked by 26 years of civil war, this hybrid docufiction made collaboratively, and secretly, with impacted Tamil communities lyrically examines the stories of missing people. A potent, elliptical protest poem moving with grace and purpose between disparate cinematic forms.

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100 mins
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