A Silent War - Sakura (B.S.L.)

Details

Location

Belfast, University of Atypical

Year

2021

Date

Length

01min 45sec

Audio

silent

Format

Digital

colour

Source

Northern Ireland Screen's Digital Film Archive

Courtesy

Hands That Sign, Paula Clarke, Ross Thompson

Rights Holder

Northern Ireland Screen, Ross Thompson

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Sakura by Ross Thompson, written in Bangor during 2020 Lockdown

A cherry blossom at the bottom of your street
has wept, casting petals, said to be edible,

onto rain-soaked tarmac, flavouring newly fresh
air with vanilla tobacco of sweet meadow.

Confetti the colour of pink coral now lies
beneath your feet: a sign that you are still alive.

Credits

Sakura by Ross Thompson
BSL translation and performance by Paula Clarke
Filmed in University of Atypical by Stuart Calvin
A Silent War Creative Producers: Sinéad Bhreathnach-Cashell & Ann Donnelly
Funded by the Department for Communities through Northern Ireland Screen

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