Chris Hope was selected to compose the score for Ivan Morison’s film, White Horses, which celebrates 200 years of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI).
The film, which is funded by six national partners, including Weston’s SuperCulture, is set to tour the country this summer.
It will make a stop in Weston from Thursday, June 5 to Sunday, June 8, where Chris will give a talk about the composition process.
The film is part of a project called Sea Like a Mirror, which is a partnership project led by Cement Fields, with Art Gene, Norfolk & Norwich Festival, North East Lincolnshire Council & East Marsh United and Super Culture.
It is supported with public funding from Arts Council England.
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The film, which is housed within a unique, custom-made tent, will tour six coastal towns to immerse audiences in the stories of RNLI crew and local people from around the coastline.
It presents a multifaceted portrait of the sea and the nation’s coast, bringing together six diverse locations, each linked by the lifeboat station at the centre of their community.
Produced through a series of visits to lifeboat stations and seaside towns around the coastline, and in close collaboration with those who hold a deep connection to the water, the work explores the sea’s innate duality as a place of wonder and peril and the myriad roles it plays for coastal communities.
Ivan Morison said: “When I began this wintertime survey of the coast, I was looking for storms, and people who face that storm, people who have found a place in the service of the sea.
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“I have met fishermen of lobsters and crab, farmers of oysters, I have seen where we build our nation’s nuclear submarines, and understood the changing economies of these coastal towns, I have been out to wind farms and watched blade technicians at work, I have darted between huge tankers with a sixth-generation skipper on his tug and I have swam with those that swim and been saved by those that save.
“Yes I have found waves, sometimes there have been storms, but more than that I think I have found a changing but thriving coast populated by people with a sparkle in their eyes, doing remarkable things with an understated competence, and a lightness and joy.
In each setting, White Horses will be accompanied by a series of commissions by local artists, made in collaboration with the area’s community in dialogue with Ivan’s central artwork.
