{"id":4837,"date":"2018-02-06T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:07:11","slug":"esther-johnson-the-conversation-asunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/esther-johnson-the-conversation-asunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Esther Johnson writes for The Conversation about Asunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor of Film and Media Arts Esther Johnson<\/a> has written a piece for The Conversation<\/a> about the hidden stories of heroism and tragedy during World War I, which she uncovered during the research for her film Asunder. The film highlights nine real-life accounts based in Sunderland and the north-east, a vulnerable area during WWI due to its shipyards and munitions factories.<\/p>\n

Read Esther’s piece here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asunder<\/em><\/a>\u00a0tells 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. Asunder<\/em> has 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.<\/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

Esther Johnson<\/a>\u00a0works at the intersection of artist moving image and documentary. Her poetic portraits focus on marginal worlds, revealing resonant stories that may otherwise remain hidden or ignored. Work has been exhibited internationally in 40 countries, and has also featured on television and radio. In 2012 Johnson won the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Performing and Visual Arts for young scholars. She is a Professor of Film & Media Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about Esther\u2019s work\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Asunder<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is 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

Asunder<\/em>\u00a0is on Twitter\u00a0@1916asunder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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