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Developers (2011-2014)
Developers by Alice Lyons & Orla Mc Hardy
2 channel installation, HD video & digital animation, live poetry reading, dimensions variable, 2011-2014
Developers was made in rural Ireland in the midst of the various guises of economic crisis: ‘boom’, ‘crash’ and ‘austerity’. The work presents both a live poetry reading and a film screening performed simultaneously. Both the text and moving images focus on the village of Cootehall, County Roscommon (Lyons’s home for fifteen years), where hundreds of holiday homes were built and then stood empty for years and became known as ‘ghost estates’. The poems capture voices of the locality: migrant workers, homeowners, blow-ins, entrepreneurs, media commentators. The camera finds up-close and distant views of the village in all weathers. Using tropes and devices that reflect the development of contemporary rural society, Developers strives to portray what is often difficult to decipher or goes unseen.
credits
| writer/director | Alice Lyons |
| art direction/animation | Orla Mc Hardy |
| director of photography | Kate McCullough |
| additional photography | Orla Mc Hardy |
| editing | Orla Mc Hardy & Alice Lyons |
| sound | Orla Mc Hardy, Justin Spooner, Natalia Beylis, Willie Stewart |
| production | Linda Shevlin, Colin McKeown |
| camera assistants | Éanna de Buis, Aidan Maguire |
| lighting | Colum O’Dwyer |
| mirror wrangling | Nerijus Zutautas, J.J. Zilvinas Zutautas |
| featuring | Gerry Bambrick Cootehall, County Roscommon |
Funded by a Film Project Award, the Arts Council