We are creating a celluloid portrait of our amazing county. Working collaboratively over two weeks, we are devising, shooting and editing a 24-minute film in which each minute shows an hour in the life of Somerset and its people. Sound will be added by yet another local group in response to our footage.
For my part of the project I have been filming an estuarine landscape at Combwich on the banks of the majestic and tidal River Parrett where the fresh water meets the sea, I went down at dawn as the water was receeding from the land back to the sea.
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| Dawn breaking over the River Parrett |
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| And the mud is fantastic! |
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| The Pill, where the Pilot boats would moor up while waiting to go out to guide ships along the river |
The Sound We See is an international series of 24-minute films. It is based on the ‘City Symphonies’, avant-garde black and white silent motion pictures from the 1920s that captured the spirit and uniqueness of a place by assembling images of everyday life there. A Somerset Symphony will take its place in a series of new City Symphonies alongside Los Angeles, Rotterdam, Guwahati, and Hanoi.
