DUNCAN CAMPBELL
“Bernadette”, 2008,
Video for projection
37 minutes 10 seconds
16mm transferred to DVD.

“Bernadette” presents an unravelling, open-ended story of the female Irish dissident and political activist, Bernadette Devlin. Duncan Campbell is interested in fusing documentary and fiction in order to assess both the subject matter and the mode of communicating it.Documentary is a peculiar form of fiction. It has the appearance of verity grounded in many of the same formal conventions of fiction––narrative drive, linear plot, and closure. More…