A History in Numbers

NINOW100: Audio

A History in Numbers deals with the passage of time and the changes that it may or may not bring. It picks at the political, artistic and inter-relational threads that were woven into Emma's experience of one element of change; the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland.

A HISTORY IN NUMBERS: VIDE0

Originally a text commissioned by The MAC Belfast during Lockdown, then a video collaboration commissioned by Ireland Feminist Constitutional Futures and Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive, A History in Numbers deals with the passage of time and the changes that it may or may not bring. It picks at the political, artistic and inter-relational threads that were woven into Emma's experience of one element of change; the decriminalisation of abortion in Northern Ireland.

Credits:
Video production by Elspeth Vischer, Vish Films NI
Archive Producer Sinéad Bhreathnach Cashell
Archive research by Emma Campbell, Elspeth Vischer and Sinéad Bhreathnach Cashell
Video Commissioned by Máiréad Enright at Northern/Ireland Feminist Constitutional Futures & Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive
Audio Commissioned for NI NOW100 project at The MAC
Audio starring Libby Huntley, Ruby Campbell and Rachel Murray
Audio directed by Colm G. Doran
Sound and Music composition by Costance Keane
Live Recording by Damien Hughes and Ian Jordan 
Photographs featured are 'Passport Butterflies' from “An Appropriate Hobby 2014-2019” by Emma Campbell 

Archive featured:
Copyright ITV: Family Planning (1960); Waeving for Ships (1960, The Impact of High-Rise Living on Mothers (1965); Counterpoint: Abortion (1979); Counterpoint: A Woman's Worth (1988); Reclaim the Night (1987); Blackstaff Square: Working Women's Square (1989); Counterpoint: Teenage Mothers (1991);Insight: Abortion (1999); UTV News (2002); Women in Construction and Non-Traditional Sectors Campaign (2007); UTV Live (2008), UTV News (2021). 

Copyright Waddell Media Ltd Resolutions: Right Time for Sex (1998)