Flags and Emblems

Having moved “behind enemy lines” into a loyalist housing estate, art student Liam is having the time of his life, partying through the night and romancing the local girls. One morning though the fun stops, as he is awakened from his latest hangover by a sharp knock at the door. Head of the local “community association”, Bob, invites himself inside and presents his plans to paint a new paramilitary mural on the wall of Liam’s end-terrace house. Not only that, Bob claims that they like to consult the residents in the process and Liam is given a choice from a list of progressively more violent and controversial designs. Equal parts offended and terrified, Liam tries his best to veto each concept on its artistic merits alone, all the while struggling to keep his Catholic heritage hidden from an increasingly suspicious Bob.
Through a darkly comedic lens, Flags & Emblems explores the legacy of conflict in Northern Ireland, contrasting the experiences of those who lived through it and those born in its aftermath, as well as how the glorification of violence continues to linger in plain sight.

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