Expanding the Small Screen: Exhibiting Northern Irish Television Archive

This article discusses three audio-visual works curated by the author as part of her work as Programmer at Belfast Film Festival. The three pieces are compiled of broadcast television material primarily from the Ulster Television archive maintained by Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, and BBC Northern Ireland. The works discussed are put into the context of a culture of established and often creative exploration of television curation within the Belfast Film Festival. The three works reflect different aspects of both the archive, the broadcaster, the role of the curator and considerations of exhibiting such material in a post-conflict society.