Thirteen Points, Expanded (Video)

Description of 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. Description of Event: Film-Making-Space Royal Academy Geological Society, Piccadilly, W1 13 February 2017, 6.30pm-8.30pm During this evening of short screenings and performances, our contributors explore how filmmaking can open up new ways of thinking about architecture. Established practices of drawing in the visual representation of architecture tend to make us think of space outside time. They limit not only our communication of temporal aspects of architecture, but also design thinking. Introducing the dimension of time through film can bring a space to life. Used as both a creative and critical design tool, film can generate an affective relationship with architecture, a form of empathy with the building. Film can capture the atmosphere of a space, the additive layers of weathering and the regular patterns of light and shadow cast on the skin of a building. Equally it can unlock the story-telling and emotive potential of design, reveal traces of history and personal memories and frame the daily intimacy of occupation, as well as accentuate and contextualise the link between architecture and identity. This evening of short screenings, performances and discussion explores how filmmaking can open up new ways of thinking about architecture. Speakers include: Dr Penelope Haralambidou – architect, researcher and lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL Dr Richard Martin – public programmer at Tate and a teaching fellow at King’s College London Clara Jo – Berlin and London based filmmaker and artist, previous Starr Fellow at the Royal Academy of Arts Kreider & O’Leary – a poet and an architect who collaborate to make performance, installation and time-based media work Liam Young – a speculative architect who operates across design, fiction and future