Moving through time along Bae Ceredigion/Cardigan Bay, we arrive at today's climate crisis.
Sarn Gynfelyn is revealed every low tide and looks like a road into the sea. In fact, it is a glacial moraine laid down 20,000 years ago when ice sheets melted, and it marks the beginning of the global conditions that have enabled human expansion.
At Borth, a 6,000 year old forest flourished for a few thousand years. Submerged by the sea, it has since been re-exposed in recent storms. Sarn Gynfelyn and Borth’s forest are both cited as supporting the Cantre'r Gwaelod legend of lost fertile lands in Cardigan Bay, but the geology tells a different story.
Moving forwards, we arrive at Fairbourne, a seaside town built on saltmarsh and English industrial wealth. It is now set to become the first UK town to be decommissioned due to sea level rise. It will be demolished and returned to salt marsh and will have existed for less than 200 years.
In the intertidal zone, between land and sea, three people move, with arresting visual imagery through these three remarkable sites.
amser / time has seen huge success and recognition across a range of festivals winning at 5 festivals, finalist and semi-finalist at 3 festivals and being selected at 19 other festivals!
We are happy to announce the full list below:
Winner
MOVING BODY Festival - Screendance / Dance Film
Sherman Oaks Film Festival - Short Film - Arthouse/Experimental
Rameshwaram International Film Festival - International Competition - Short Films & Performing Arts
MEXICO CITY VIDEODANCE FESTIVAL - International Section
SeeMor Films Festival - Artists films
Finalist
The British Short Film Awards
Semi-Finalist
Films for the Forest
Boden International Film Festival
Selected
Shorts On Tap London
Bengal International Short Film Festival
San Francisco Short Film Festival presented by SF IndieFest
Still Voices Film Festival
Golden Short Film Festival
FilmFest by Rogue Dancer
The Women's Film Festival
Leeds International Film Festival
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema
Portland Dance Film Fest
Defy Film Festival
Experimental, Dance & Music Film Festival
YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival
#DANCEPASSION
Light Ladd Emberton’s short film amser / time is being premiered as part of #DancePassion 2022.
CAST & CREATIVES
Director Deborah Light
Concept and Choreography Deborah Light, Eddie Ladd, Gwyn Emberton
Director of Photography and Editor Pete Telfer (Culture Colony)
Composer and Sound Design Sion Orgon
Producer Laura H Drane
Performers Eddie Ladd, Deborah Light, Jake Nwogu
Drone and Gimbal Operator Rob Key
Camera Assistants Lowri Paige, Kieran Shand, Felix Cannadam
Runner Lucy Wordsworth
Grading Gorilla
Thanks to Dr. Martin Bates
FUNDED & SUPPORTED BY
Commissioned by BBC Arts and One Dance UK - Funded by Arts Council England
Additional support from Arts Council of Wales, National Lottery and Welsh Government
Please contact lightladdemberton@gmail.com