Press Releases

March 9, 2001
Award-Winning Film Screened at MoMA and Southampton College

Professor/Documentarian Faced Danger and Arrest in Northern Irelnad

Contact:
Darren Johnson
(631) 287 8313
Fax: (631) 283 4081

Southampton College Professor John Reilly's acclaimed 1974 documentary "The Irish Tapes" will be shown at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Saturday at 3:15 p.m. and Monday at 6 p.m. as part of their "The Path of Resistance" film series.

Reilly will also show "The Irish Tapes" in his World Cinema class on Monday, March 26, at 6 p.m. in Duke Lecture Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

A study of Northern Ireland during one of its most turbulent periods, the 46-minute, award-winning film was recently added to MoMA's permanent collection. It was the first major work to use portable video equipment and has been broadcast on PBS several times.

Reilly, co-director Stefan Moore and crew shot over 100 hours of footage spanning over three years, interviewing IRA members and Belfast families on both sides of the conflict. When his investigation became too probing, British authorities arrested Reilly. "It was a dangerous adventure I wouldn't want to relive," he said.