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Set around Tropicana Café on Scotch Street, beside Dungannon bus station, this film frames a single building as a living record of the town. Through interviews, on-site observation and archival material, Richardson and Alexander map how local life has been reorganised through work, movement, demographic-change, and the pressures and possibilities of living together in Ulster’s most diverse town.

Voices, instrumentation and field recordings shape the film. In Tropicana, an improvised score brings the traditional and the not-so-traditional into dialogue with Dungannon’s varied communities. It translates the town’s many languages into musical form through accent, overlap, interruption and refrain. The phrase “He who rules Dungannon, rules Ulster” is re-voiced in multiple languages, shifting from a historical claim of power, shadowed by plantation-era dispossession, into a chorus of presence voiced by old and new residents across the generations.

Beyond the one-time showband haunt and mitching hidey-hole, the film follows the wider systems that shape the town and draw people to it; attending to the poultry industry’s labour and logistics, and to the environmental fallout carried downstream to Lough Neagh.

Extraction has a long memory here, tracing a line from earls to empire to enclosure to ecocide, and back again…