Acts of Memory Screening and Q&A session with local award winning fimmaker Mariéad McClean
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Acts of Memory opens as the sound of a powder flash ignites, bringing to life a photograph taken in the reading room of a public archive in Dublin, Ireland, frozen in time since 1914. This moment, acknowledges a vanished past; neither the figures captured in the photo, the building nor its contents, remain.
Celebrate local talent with a screening of 'Acts of Memory', an acclaimed experimental film by Beragh's own Mairéad McClean.
Winner of Best Experimental at Nice's C'est Trop Courts Festival, this 28-minute film reflects on how we preserve and reconstruct cultural memory when archives are lost to war. Experience powerful storytelling from one of Tyrone's own, followed by questions and answer session with Mairéad.
Festival C’est Trop Court, Nice (October 2025) – Winner of Best Experimental Film. Expérience category, jury comments ...
“A film that creates a link between the past and the present, between old techniques and those of today. A tribute to heritage, memory, and also to forgetting — while maintaining a strong and original artistic stance.
A personalisation of history — a reactivation of the past through the archive and contemporary creation — which transforms absence into a new poetic substance and delivers a humble message of humanity.”
A personalisation of history — a reactivation of the past through the archive and contemporary creation — which transforms absence into a new poetic substance and delivers a humble message of humanity.”
Mairéad will hold a Q&A after the film.
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