Cinilingus - A Million Bricks

7th Video Festival. Larrotxene Cultural Centre, Donostia 23th of April

A Million Bricks is a documentary video directed and produced by Frank Martin and Seamus Kelters in Northern Ireland in 1999. This documentary is being screened with the help of the Cinilingus group from Belfast. This is an organisation made up of several members of the Belfast artistic community that presents an annual programme of screenings from a variety of genres.

A Million Bricks tells how at the height of the economic boom in the 60's the residents of the residential area Springfield Park had bought their own houses, not knowing that once the troubles started, they would be right at the epicentre of a violent clash between communities.

This documentary tells the story of a scattered community narrated by its own members with the help of the directors who lived in Springfield Park when they were small and later on plucked up the courage to use the video format for the first time to tell the story of their area. These are ordinary people who saw how, in the space of a decade, their hopes become reality only to be dashed. Where once they built a row of houses shared by Protestants and Catholics, is where now the biggest peace line in Belfast is located; a brick wall that keeps them apart. What was previously home to a lot of people, is now no-mans-land.