How I Became A Communist

The life of an elderly woman running a farm in the countryside between Northern Ireland and the Republic is observed in a portrait marked by stillness and a meticulous chronicling of the everyday. The film also explores Grimm’s fairytale The Musicians of Bremen to reflect on the decline of a unified left wing political movement in Europe since the suppression of the Paris Commune in 1871. In this elegantly constructed essay by artist Declan Clarke, the desire for revolution is explored through objects and passages which conjure agricultural routines; the lives of farm animals; and the complex history of Northern Ireland.