The video shows a series of pictures of Belfast's peacelines (walls between catholic and protestant districts). A wall slowly appears under which water is flowing (the wall, which crosses a stream, was built in Alexandra Park to prevent conflicts between teenagers in the beginning of the 90s). This water spouts out, coming first as the contrast of a moving image against still images; then it dissolves the peaceline pictures, giving birth to a rhythm of alternating black walls and white scum, eventually leading to a flicker (a syncopated alternation of black and white). This break through the walls, through this border, thus echoes the current screening room and the real wall as well as any constraints to the self.
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