Archive-inspired storytelling as a creative response to conflict

This short entry critically analyses the creative reuse of cultural heritage on the theme of conflict by filmmaking participants of the Make Film History project, a cross-border initiative opening up access to 300 films from British and Irish moving image archives for creative reuse by emerging filmmakers. The entry discusses films produced through the project which address three spaces of conflict: the sectarian conflict along religious lines in Northern Ireland, revisited through the landscape of the border areas, home movies and childhood memory, and Belfast’s embrace of punk culture in the 1970s; the racial conflict in 1960s and 1970s Britain, explored through the experience and perspective of Black and migrant families; and the discrimination experienced by the LGBTQIA+ community during this period.