Seaview (2009)

Documentary about Mosney, a village on the Irish coast used to be a holiday camp. Nowadays, it houses refugees from all over the world.

Date of release
2009-01-29
Runtime
1h 21m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Paul Rowley, Nicky Gogan

Interesting facts

Seaview is a 2007 documentary film directed by Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley. The film chronicles the lives of a group of asylum seekers living in the former Butlin's Holiday Camp at Mosney, Ireland. The film takes an innovative approach to the use to sound and image in telling the stories of the Mosney residents. This has much to do with the past work of the directors, which has been focused on video art and gallery installation projects.

Production

Directors Nicky Gogan and Paul Rowley first visited the camp as children when Mosney was run as a holiday centre. They returned to the camp in February 2004 to begin a period of research with the residents at the camp. Originally the intention was to write a script for a drama based on the idea of flotels - container ships holding asylum seekers to be floated off the coast while the asylum seekers were being processed.

The filmmakers lived at Mosney over a three-year period, meeting with asylum seekers at different stages in the process and conducting interviews. The film discusses the difficulties that arise when people are forced to live for an extended period of time in within a system that is processing their case.

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