Places of Public Resort

Big Screen Liverpool in association with ICDC, North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University, Liverpool City Council and the BBC.

The BBC Big Screens bring cities across the UK to life. There are seventeen sites where you can watch the biggest and best events and films in loads of the major towns and cities, with more planned for the future as we get closer to the London 2012 Olympics. The Big Screens are interactive providing opportunities for everyone to get involved.

Places of Public Resort is a collaboration between ICDC, North West Film Archive at Manchester Metropolitan University, the BBC and the Big Screen Liverpool.  It offers a giant video carousel that members of the public can scroll through using hand movements when stood in Clayton Square, picked up by a camera feed and interpreted via responsive software. This will contain up to a dozen short news reports dating between 1966 – 1986, chosen from the BBC North West Regional News & Documentary Archive; donated to the NWFA when the BBC moved to videotape formats.

Each of these reports will be selected in response to the title theme, containing such diverse footage as the opening of the Liverpool International Garden Festival, or the closure of Belle Vue Zoological Gardens - many never seen since original broadcast.  Suffused with now-generation nostalgia and occupying a platform more commonly associated with contemporary and late-breaking news, the past will become jumbled with the present as we encourage observers to linger and look anew at how we choose to draw together in a collective wish for novelty and escape.

Open Weekend - Fri 24th - Sunday 26th July

Places of Public Resort is part of ICDC's Big Screen Programme.

For further information about the project and ICDC, please contact Jason Taylor, ICDC Production Manager or call him on 0151 231 4755.