Cork Film Festival trophy 1979
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Title
Cork Film Festival trophy 1979
Subject
Cork Film Festival, Award, European Union, MEDIA, Jim Corr
Description
This is a black and white photo of a festival award marked Cork Film Festival 1979 European Community Award. The award is placed on a small circular table in a dining room where we can just make out some people milling around in the background. One of the men appear to be wearing a mayoral chain and given the date of the award we might suspect that this is the Fine Gael politician Jim Corr (1934-) who served as Lord Mayor of Cork in 1979.
The award itself is distinctive consisting of three bronze, or pewter, skeletal attenuated figures, much in the style of the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The figures are leaning in towards each other whilst holding their arms aloft towards a European Union logo similar to the Euro symbol. This euro symbol, adorned with a dove in this case, was (and is) a tangible symbol of European unity for citizens of the European Union. The Cork Film Festival was particularly indebted to European Union funding during this era via the MEDIA Programme of the European Union designed to support the European film and audio-visual industries.
The award itself is distinctive consisting of three bronze, or pewter, skeletal attenuated figures, much in the style of the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti. The figures are leaning in towards each other whilst holding their arms aloft towards a European Union logo similar to the Euro symbol. This euro symbol, adorned with a dove in this case, was (and is) a tangible symbol of European unity for citizens of the European Union. The Cork Film Festival was particularly indebted to European Union funding during this era via the MEDIA Programme of the European Union designed to support the European film and audio-visual industries.
Creator
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival
Source
Cork Film Festival Collection
Publisher
University College Cork
Date
1979
Rights
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Please credit the Cork International Film Festival Archive and provide a link back to the site.
Format
Photo
TIFF
JPEG
TIFF
JPEG
Language
English, eng
Coverage
1979
Cork, Ireland
Cork, Ireland
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Photo
Physical Dimensions
166 x 214mm
Collection
Citation
University College Cork, Cork Film Festival, “Cork Film Festival trophy 1979,” Cork International Film Festival Archive, accessed December 22, 2024, https://corkfilmfest.ucc.ie/items/show/188.