Tin City

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We see clips of what looks like fragments of found footage from a dystopian, imagined town. Disembodied mannequin heads turn menacingly on a system of turntables. A bar, a bank, a shop – each location reveals another iteration of the same macabre set-up. Against this backdrop, a German television news program investigates. The secret nature of the site, located in a remote forest in northwest Germany, is revealed: it is an urban combat facility called “Tin City,” created by the British army to train its soldiers for foreign wars. The murder of the German wife of a British soldier sparks more media interest in this facility. An interview between a journalist and a spokesperson for the Irish underground terror organization – the IRA – informs us about why the Northern Ireland “Troubles” have come to mainland Europe.

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by Feargal Ward (Director) Ireland 2024 German 20' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

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Director	Feargal Ward
Editing	Feargal Ward
Producer	Feargal Ward

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FSE films

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Feargal Ward

Feargal Ward is a filmmaker and artist from Ireland. His practice is largely concerned with the hybrid-documentary form, where tropes and devices from narrative cinema are often appropriated or subverted in an attempt to facilitate the telling of greater truths. His feature documentary The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid (2017) premiered in the main competition at International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam and screened at multiple festivals worldwide before being broadcast on German, Irish, and Finnish television. His debut feature documentary Yximalloo (co-directed with Tadhg O’Sullivan, 2014) premiered at FIDMarseille, where it won the Prix Premier.

Filmography

2014 Yximalloo; with Tadhg O’Sullivan, 75 min 2017 The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid 2019 Tension Structures; with Adrian Duncan, 64 min 2024 Tin City