“We laugh and for one heartbeat forget to be afraid.” This short film of John Glenday’s poem “The Big Push” is inspired by James Herbert Gunn’s 1916 painting “The Eve of the Battle of the Somme.” Animated by Xin Li, the film was produced by the Poetry Society and Mosaic Films.
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