Bernadette presents an unravelling, yet accumulatively open-ended portrayal of the female Irish dissident and political activist, Bernadette Devlin. Cutting between archival material, animation, and scripted voice-over, Jarman Award nominee Duncan Campbell’s film is interested in fusing documentary and fiction in order to assess both the subject matter and the mode of communicating it, striving for what Samuel Beckett terms, ‘a form that accommodates the mess’.
Featured in these combined programmes
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Tiger Awards Competition Short Films 3
‘And the winners are…’ A jury chooses from the 27 nominees the three winners for the Tiger Awards for Short Films. The presentation takes place…
Film details
- Country of production
- United Kingdom
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 38'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
