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May 1968,
2008 is a moving image artwork comparing the readiness to protest in France in 1968 with the apparent apathy in the UK 40 years later.
Firrell's
May 1968
was screened at Curzon Cinemas as part of the 2008 festival
All Power to the Imagination: 1968 and its Legacies.
It asked the question, 'Where are the mass protests now? Against detention without trial? Against compulsory ID cards? Against illegal war?'
This is the first of the artist's work dealing explicitly with protest and will go on to inform elements of the series
Three Billboards for Blair Peach
2019.3.3
and
Union City
2019.4.9
