Echo-Maker EVENT 7/8 October 2017

Projected through layers of gauze within a three-dimensional ‘magic lantern’, Echo-Maker explores in mesmerising and meditative fashion a unique and special story of birds and people – and of resilience and hope amidst turbulent times. A film about loss and return in the wetlands of the Somerset Levels and Moors; returning this autumn in the archetypal landscape that inspired it…

 

Reformatted for the intimate surroundings of the Romano-British dining room at the Avalon Marshes Centre, the installation takes place amidst marshland that our ancestors – inhabitants of the nearby prehistoric lake villages of Glastonbury and Meare – shared not only with crane and bittern, but also the Great Northern Diver, Dalmatian Pelican and White-tailed Eagle.

Combining animation, live-action footage and sound recordings gathered during the course of the Cranes and Communities project in 2016, the film evokes a lost world which might, through the potent combination of science and community action, return once more – as the Great Crane Project has already so powerfully demonstrated. Our actions, no matter how small, can and do change the world for the better…

Echo-Maker is the work of artist Sean Harris, commissioned by Somerset Art Works, in partnership with The Great Crane Project.

Come and see Echo-Maker on 7 and 8 October 2017:

The Romano-British Dining Room, Avalon Marshes Centre, Shapwick Road, WESTHAY, BA6 9TT