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Counterterror: North of Ireland

Annie Goldson

1990 00:29:24 Ireland, United StatesEnglishColorMono4:3Video
Tags:
Crime or Violence, Documentary, Media Analysis, Politics, Post-colonialism, War

Description

This video takes its departure from the BBC's coverage of the killing of three IRA volunteers by British Security Forces in Strabane, a small town on the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. Interrogating television discourse, the video examines what is referred to as the British “shoot to kill” policy of planned assassination in the North. In the words of resident Eammon McCann, “Even if the notion of objectivity and balance had meaning, they still wouldn’t produce a fair account of what is happening here for the very simple reason that what is happening here is not itself fair.”

About Annie Goldson

Annie Goldson was a founding member of XChange TV, a network that distributed television broadcasts from Central America. A prolific video producer, Goldson has created numerous works documenting social injustice and the efforts of people around the world to throw off political oppression, from Northern Ireland and Nicaragua, to the Black Panther Movement in the U.S.  She also worked with Chris Bratton to produce the Counterterror series, a four-part experimental documentary that examines how the label “terrorism” has been used to criminalize political dissent. Goldson lives and works in New Zealand.