{"id":2555,"date":"2017-01-11T12:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T12:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2017-07-31T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:51:51","slug":"esther-johnson-asunder-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-asunder-on-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Esther Johnson’s film ‘Asunder’ at the Barbican and on tour"},"content":{"rendered":"

Asunder<\/em><\/a> is a film by Sheffield Hallam Reader of Media Arts Dr Esther Johnson<\/a>, telling the story of what happened to an English town during the First World War, with almost all of its men fighting abroad and its women and children left behind. The North East was in the front line, thanks to its shipyards and munitions factories. <\/p>\n

Using archive and contemporary footage and audio, Asunder<\/em> collages the stories of people from Tyneside and Wearside to uncover just what life was like on the home front, with bombs falling on Britain for the first time, conscientious objectors sentenced to death, and women working as doctors, tram conductors and footballers. The narrative moves from an Edwardian golden era, in which sport grew in popularity and aircraft and cars pointed to a bright new future, to a war that horrifically reversed this progress. In the Battle of the Somme, British, French and German armies fought one of the most traumatic battles in military history. Over the course of just four months, more than one million soldiers were captured, wounded or killed in a confrontation of unimaginable horror.<\/p>\n

Asunder<\/em> features a soundtrack composed by Sunderland\u2019s Mercury-nominated Field Music and Newcastle\u2019s Warm Digits, performed with the Royal Northern Sinfonia and The Cornshed Sisters. The narration for the film is voiced by journalist Kate Adie, with the actor Alun Armstrong as the voice of the Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette.
\nIt has been co-commissioned by Sunderland Cultural Partnership and 14\u201318 NOW: WW1 Centenary Art Commissions, supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Sunderland Business Improvement District, Culture Bridge North East and Sir James Knott Trust.<\/p>\n

Follow Asunder<\/em> on Twitter @1916asunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upcoming screenings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

12 February 2017
\nBarbican<\/a>, Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 20:00, Performance with live music.<\/p>\n

20 February 2017
\nHOME<\/a>, Manchester, plus Q&A with Esther Johnson and Bob Stanley, 18:20.<\/p>\n

Community film screenings:<\/strong><\/p>\n

18 January 2017
\nBack on the Map Community Centre<\/a> Hendon, Sunderland 14:00<\/p>\n

15 February 2017
\nPop Recs LTD<\/a> Sunderland, 18:30<\/p>\n

17 March 2017
\nWhitburn Methodist Church<\/a> South Tyneside, 19:00<\/p>\n

19 April 2017
\nArts Centre Washington<\/a> Sunderland, 13:30 and 19:00.<\/p>\n

26 April 2017
\nHolmeside Coffee<\/a> Sunderland, 18:00<\/p>\n

7 May 2017
\nPhoenix Theatre<\/a> Blyth, 19:30<\/p>\n

TBC 2017
\nNational Glass Centre<\/a> Sunderland <\/p>\n

Dr Esther Johnson<\/a> (MA Royal College of Art) is an artist and filmmaker working at the intersection of artist moving image and documentary portraiture. She is a Reader in Media Arts at Sheffield Hallam University. See more of her work here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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