Our Land
Single channel digital video, 13 mins 4 secs, 2008.

'Our Land' was filmed in St Anne's Park, a former estate owned by the Guinness family, in north Dublin City. Two actors narrate a complex web of information, culminating in an intimate conversation about the park while they overlook it from a window on the top floor of a new artists' studios complex. The narrative combines historical information about the location with rumours about the artist, ruminations on romanticism and art with stories about murder, mysticism, war and football. The actors refer to their 'British Asian' ethnicity, the use of accents in cinema and the film's audition process, drawing specific attention to their own roles in the film.

click on images for QuickTime movie 1 minute excerpt from 'Our Land'. file size: 2.5 mb.

Credits:
Performance: Anil Kumar, Sunita Shroff
Camera/Lighting: Deirdre Noonan, Michael Doyle
© Michelle Deignan 2008