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Up until as late as 1979, very little, if any, publicly disseminated moving image created in or about the Outer Hebrides was made from anything other than an outsiders’ perspective. This lack of an indigenous viewpoint and language led, at best, to an uninformed, and often romanticised or patronising, representation of island life.
Dùthchas co-director and co-producer, Andy Mackinnon of UistFilm is developing a project with Outer Hebridean Comann Eachdraidhs (local history societies) to bring together all available archive film made in or about the Outer Hebrides.
UistFilm’s FAODAIL | FOUND Outer Hebrides Archive Film project seeks to digitise and disseminate indigenous archive film of the islands.
UistFilm, based on North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, was formed in 2013 by Andy Mackinnon within Taigh Chearsabhagh Trust, and produces a wide range of media content including commissioning and collaborating on artists’ moving image. Andy produced and directed UistFilm’s first broadcast documentary commission, the widely acclaimed An Dotair Mòr (2014) and recently collaborated with Joshua Bonnetta, whose Uist-shot feature An Dà Sheallach | The Two Sights premiered at Berlinale FORUM in 2020.
Do you have old home movies of the Outer Hebrides in the cupboard?
The purpose of this project is to make the FAODAIL | FOUND moving image archive available to a wider public in a curated online platform with access points in island museums, schools, libraries and Comann Eachdraidh, heritage and arts venues.
FAODAIL | FOUND will host public screenings, reminiscence events and generate new film projects using archive film sources, to reinterpret archive moving image from contemporary islanders perspective.