Dear Friend, I Can No Longer Hear Your Voice..

About

Anne-Marie Creamer’s new film is an imagined recreation, through a combination of photogrammetry, CGI animation, sound, voice, and song, of Eliza Soane’s bedchamber, and a reclamation of her presence in the museum.

Eliza died suddenly and tragically in 1815. Her husband, John Soane – Georgian England’s leading architect – never got over her death, preserving her bedchamber for 19 years, and later creating private allusions to Eliza throughout the museum.

Alongside the exhibition, a series of events will discuss related themes of memory, memorialisation, and bereavement – how we deal with dying and remember our dead, as well as contemporary artists relationship to historical characters.

The film is based on photogrammetry of objects from the Museum’s collection by John Griffin of Arc Minute Ltd, with digital animation by Edmund Brown. A choral soundtrack by Verity Standen has lyrics by Anne-Marie, drawn from the diaries and letters of John Soane and close family friends. The film is produced by Anne-Marie Creamer and Gary Thomas at Animate Projects.

The film’s development and production, and the public programme, are supported using public funding from the National Lottery by Arts Council England. It is also supported by Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.