{"id":546,"date":"2017-02-03T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=546"},"modified":"2017-06-12T13:03:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T12:03:50","slug":"asunder-film-esther-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/asunder-film-esther-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Esther Johnson announces Spring 2017 screenings for Asunder"},"content":{"rendered":"

Esther Johnson<\/a>, Professor of Film in ADRC, has announced a series of screenings across the UK of her new poetic documentary film Asunder<\/a><\/em> which tells 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 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<\/a> 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

Upcoming Screenings<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

12 February 2017<\/b> \u00a0\u00a0Barbican<\/b><\/a>,\u00a0<\/b>Milton Court Concert Hall, London, 20:00, Performance with Live Music.<\/p>\n

22 February 2017<\/b> \u00a0\u00a0HOME<\/b><\/a>, Manchester, plus Q&A with Esther Johnson and Bob Stanley, 18:20.<\/p>\n

18 April 2017 \u00a0<\/b>Regent Street Cinema, London, time tbc<\/p>\n

Community Film Screenings<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n

18 January 2017<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Back on the Map Community Centre<\/a>\u00a0Hendon, Sunderland, 14:00
\n15 February 2017<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Pop Recs LTD<\/a>\u00a0Sunderland, 18:30
\n17 March 2017<\/b>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Whitburn Methodist Church<\/a>\u00a0South Tyneside, 19:00
\n19 April 2017\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Arts Centre Washington<\/a>\u00a0Sunderland, 13:30 and 19:00.
\n26 April 2017\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Holmeside Coffee<\/a>\u00a0Sunderland, 18:00
\n7 May 2017 \u00a0\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Phoenix Theatre<\/a>\u00a0Blyth, 19:30
\nTBC 2017<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0National Glass Centre<\/a>\u00a0Sunderland<\/p>\n

ASUNDER<\/a> is 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 is on Twitter @1916asunder<\/a><\/p>\n

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posted by Alison Honnor, Impact Researcher<\/span>
\n find me on Twitter<\/span> @alisonhonnor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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