Frank Sweeney is an artist with a research based practice, using found material to approach questions of collective memory, experience and identity through film and sound. This involves exploring the history of communications technologies through larger ideas such as historical materialism, cultural hegemony and imagined communities. In doing this, Sweeney’s work attempts to suggest points of departure from the social, political, and economic status quo. His work gives prominence to unofficial voices like folklore, social media and oral history interviews, allowing space for different subjectivities and contradictory perspectives; rejecting the idea that cinema can be truthful, conclusive or comprehensive.