Belfast Boulevard
Is a nine minute film made with artist Seamus Harahan. The film shows the route of the ‘Inner Box’ road which circles the city core and marks the start of a grey doughnut of inner city neglect. ‘The Inner Box’ is now referred to in BMTP as an aspirational boulevard. The film is shot from a car in two separate takes, one looks into the city, the other looks out – they are streamed side by side in the film. Framed on the street level frontage they show the devastation of roads policy in blighting city commerce. Belfast Boulevard is 4 kilometres long and has around 14 shops.
The film shocked viewers at the 2009 Forum launch, it confronts them with the reality of the city. It was later shown at the ‘Unbuilt’ Exhibition in the Golden Thread Gallery which lies off Belfast Boulevard.