Stillness Rings is a short, poetic film, made from stills, that reflects on the second Lockdown. The film is a collaboration between award winning poet Jacqueline Saphra, Carl Hunter, Clare Heney and a collection of first time filmmakers from 21 Media and the Institute for Creative Enterprise. Carl took a photograph from the same place on Crosby beach in Britain every day and Jacqueline wrote a poem each day from her London home. In collaboration with the other filmmakers, cinematic vignettes that suggest our craving for distance during lock-down were created. Jacqueline is heard reading some of her poems over the film. The words and pictures take us on a journey where sound is used to re-imagine memory, creating sonic ghosts that serve to help us remember what we were missing.
—Carl Hunter