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Lost Lines by Noel Connor

Lost Lines is a short film by Noel Connor and features two of his poems. It is just one part of Frontier Work, a visual art exhibition in the Regional Cultural Centre marking 100 years of Ireland's border. The film is available to view here during the exhibition's run, from 15 January until 4 March 2022 in the Regional Cultural Centre. Noel Connor has found the frontier in his hometown, Belfast, to create a set of works that meditate on the city’s divisions and connections, especially as remembered from youth. Up until 1968, when Noel was fourteen, most of the Belfast’s public transport fleet were trolleybuses with destination signs that rolled like blinds, cranked and changed with a brass handle, listing routes throughout Belfast. The city had its own internal frontiers with many areas Noel rarely, if ever, ventured into: Carlisle Circus, Rosetta or Ligoniel, the names felt mysterious. The number 12 Falls Road bus from Castle Street was the only one Noel needed to take. This all forms the background to Noel’s eight-minute film ‘Lost Lines’. The buses were powered by elevated lines and the extraordinary web of power lines and cables which once criss-crossed the city are also illuminated in the work, he thinks of them as “sky maps”. They have an abstract beauty, but also symbolic significance as lost lines of connection and communication. The film includes two of Noel’s poems, ‘Lost Lines’ and ‘Waiting for the Number 12.’ They are read by Noel himself, while the actor reciting Belfast place names is his nephew, Colin Connor. He makes the names of Belfast place names into a poem of their own, one about memories and associations, a simple list of names starts to hum with emotion. www.noelconnor.com