Exhibition
The Earth Asleep
11 Mar 2021
Regular hours
- Thu, 11 Mar
- 00:00 – 23:30
Timezone: Europe/London
Online
- Language: English
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A new artist film by visual artist Clara Casian about one of the most powerful earthquake and tsunami ever recorded, with music by composer Robin Richards, will receive its World Premiere on March 11 to mark the 10th anniversary of the Great East Japan disaster.
About
The Earth Asleep is an artist film commissioned by Manchester arts centre HOME, and will be released on BFI Player. The haunting travelogue addresses the ways in which our exposure to extreme live-trauma in the form of rolling news and citizen reportage has resulted in an inability to process grief at a manageable, human scale.
The Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011 killed over 15,000 people and caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant – the worst such incident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
As the world attempts to digest similarly unimaginable loss during the Covid-19 pandemic, film, poetry and live music intertwine in this live rhythmic montage, conjuring a pathway by which the human soul might navigate unseen astral dimensions.
