A new artist film by visual artist Clara Casian about one of the most powerful earthquake and tsunami ever recorded, with music by composer Robin Richards, will be released on March 11 to mark the 10th year commemoration of the Great East Japan disaster.
The Earth Asleep is an artist film commissioned by Manchester arts centre HOME and will be released on the BFI Player. The haunting documentary addresses the ways in which our exposure to extreme live-trauma has resulted in an inability to process grief at a manageable, human scale.
The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in 2011 killed over 16,000 people and caused a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant - the worst such incident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. As the world attempts to digest similarly unimaginable loss during the Covid-19 pandemic, film, poetry and live music intertwine in this live rhythmic montage, conjuring a pathway by which the human soul might navigate unseen astral dimensions. See the trailer at the link.
