'On the Somme' a Featurette documentary
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Official Selection: Imperial War Museum Film Festival 2014
Shortlisted for the IWM Creative Prize 2014
Imperial War Museum
On the Somme: "The region of Picardy in Northern France was the location of some of the heaviest fighting along the Western Front in the First World War. Peter Bromley's cinematically rich On the Somme presents a multi-faceted depiction of the landscape of this area. Despite the unmistakable tranquillity of the region, the film conveys the sense with which the conflict and its casualties are written in to the land itself"
David Somerset British Film Institute
On the Somme: "The particular creative challenge of the project itself is immense, to creatively treat a period of the first world war history - a period characterized by a new phase in human barbarity - one that would produce carnage and destruction to life on an industrial, hitherto unknown scale... this brings me to think about the film as a piece of visual poetry, a poetic treatment of a changing visual landscape as much as an historical meditation. In the arresting beauty of the images, the war seems to be some distant nightmare - the many thousands of dead who were never given a proper burial still only just a footfall beneath the surface"
1968 Film Group produce Featurette on the 'Battle of the Somme' filmed on location in Picardie, Northern France, across 2012. Using image and sound the film captures the landscape today where thousands perished and are still missing.
DP Ruben Woodin Dechamps
Soundtrack Stephen Oldfield, Andrew Law
Historian Adrian Jackson
Editors Peter Bromley, Ruben Woodin Dechamps
Producer Ranna McArdle, Peter Bromley
Director Peter Bromley
Production 1968 Film Group