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Alison Lock's memory of a near-fatal accident on the Yorkshire moors becomes a dreamlike journey into a landscape in close-up, where nature has the power to kill or cure.

Alison Lock's dreamlike journey describes her dramatic, near-fatal accident four years ago. One morning, on her regular walk on the Yorkshire moors, she slipped and fell into a millpond, breaking her back in seven places along the way. Alison has no memory of the moment of falling, but every second of clawing her way back to life, from one handhold to the next, is vividly imprinted and distilled into this poetic sequence.

Music by Will Gregory (Goldfrapp, The Moog Ensemble), with violin by Alex Balanescu (Michael Nyman Band, Balanescu Quartet), and vocals by Hazel Mills (Goldfrapp, Florence and the Machine, The Paper Cinema).

Sound design by Iain Hunter.

A Pier Production, produced and directed by Kate McAll.

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Wed 9 Aug 202321:15
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