2 Channel Land

A calm landscape turns into a television image, church bells toll and a voice over of a tv broadcast introduces 2 Chanel Land. This short film emerges as a collaborative ouevre by Frank Sweeney and Tom O'dea. Audiovisual material and radio installation are combinedá to explore the phenomenon of pirate radio stations on the Irish-British border. The screening of this story, out of the official scope -overlapping illegal mediatic infrastructure in both islands, as Sweeney points out in the interview- allows to make up for a sense of community, always present in the film.maker's work (seen in Few Can See, too) restoring the concept of border as a "come-together" point -instead of a limit- between lands. 2 Channel Land is built upon the permanent dialogue of different languages, within and out of cinematographic discourse: analogue, archival material, fiction and non-fiction, and country music video-clips...The result is a surrealistic pastiche, at its most, that reflects the nature of the nations it twins. Both part of a shared land and connected by a same sense and spirit of communication, it portrayes the search of community beyond the territorial and legal borders of what they can see and hear. DANIELA URZOLA