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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London;VALUE=DATE:20181107
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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/fact-twwiter/
SUMMARY:FACT: FACT: tWWIter
DESCRIPTION:tWWItter - something old\, something new\n\nA century in 6 minu
 tes\n\nHow would World War One have been described and remembered if the m
 en and women who fought and endured it had possessed 21st century technolo
 gy like smartphones and social media platforms?\n\nA short film by televis
 ion producer Mark Gorton provides the answer and makes the war to end all 
 wars accessible to a generation of youngsters for whom it is ancient histo
 ry.\n\nThe film is online and accompanied by a downloadable teaching resou
 rce of lesson plans and worksheets.\n\ntWWItter will also be screened in F
 ACT Liverpool’s ground floor 50 seat cinema called The Box all day on No
 vember 7. The first screening will be at 9am and every ten minutes thereaf
 ter until 5pm.\n\ntWWItter tells the story of Private David Tindal. He was
  a Scot who fought in France with the Highland Light Infantry. While there
  he wrote eloquent letters back to his family in Scotland.\n\nThe film ima
 gines what David Tindal’s messages home would have looked like if he had
  had a phone to hand instead of notepaper and postcards\, and condenses a 
 period of time that begins with his march to the front line in late 1915 a
 nd ends just before the Somme offensive of July 1916.\n\nWatch tWWItter he
 re.\n\nMark Gorton says: “David Tindal was the great uncle of a friend o
 f mine called Alasdair Coates. He lent me letters and cards David wrote - 
 the letters normally from behind the lines\, the cards while in the trench
 es. They are beautifully written and chart David’s journey from exciteme
 nt to despair. Stripping them down to tweet length messages loses none of 
 the originals’ power and brings his century old story vividly to life he
 re in the modern world.\n\n“tWWItter was made in 2014 as an experiment. 
 I was just testing whether or not I could engage youngsters by setting Dav
 id’s story in a world that would seem familiar to them. On paper\, a har
 rowing and tragic story told in tweets felt like it shouldn’t work\, but
  it did. The film won a couple of awards from the Imperial War Museum and 
 was screened there and elsewhere. Luckily I’d been able to call upon tal
 ented friends and colleagues at Lion Eyes Television in Manchester.\n\n“
 For Remembrance Week 2018 I decided it was worth updating the film. There 
 are some visual changes\, along with new music which also belongs in the h
 ere and now as opposed to the past. Great thanks to the talented Andrew Hu
 nt who took a simple chord sequence of mine and turned it into a score.\n\
 n“In collaboration with teachers we’ve also created educational resour
 ces to go with the film\, and really hope they prove useful and engaging w
 hen schools turn their attention to the centenary of the end of World War 
 One. There are primary and secondary versions.”\n\nThe tWWItter teaching
  resources can be viewed and downloaded here: www.thechildrenscontentcompa
 ny.com\n\nAlasdair Coates\, from Heswall in Wirral\, says\, “It’s rema
 rkable but true that even after more than a hundred years this short film 
 has awakened new respect for our family member. So many people sacrificed 
 so much and asked for so little in return. It’s been really heartwarming
  to see David be recognised and\, as a former teacher and Head\, I hope tW
 WItter is screened in classrooms up and down the country. Lest we forget.
 ”\n\nMark Gorton\, who also lives in Heswall\, adds: “If people are in
  the vicinity of FACT on Liverpool’s Wood Street on November 7\, or fanc
 y making a trip to see the film on a big screen\, everyone involved would 
 be delighted to welcome them. Give the film 6 minutes and it will give a c
 entury in return\, and I hope audiences consider it time meaningfully spen
 t.”
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