Walking with Ghosts premiered in November 2022, with an 84-hour showing at Folkestone Harbour Arm Station and accompanying workshops at Fourth Wall. It returned to Folkestone over Remembrance Weekend, 2023. More than 20,000 people have experienced this powerful immersive art experience which explores the legacy of war in Folkestone using film, music, poetry and personal accounts.
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Walking with Ghosts 2023
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About Walking with Ghosts
Walking with Ghosts was developed in collaboration with local artists, community groups, schools and arts organisations. It was part of the IWM 14-18 NOW Legacy Fund, a national programme of 22 artist commissions inspired by the heritage of conflict and created in partnership with Imperial War Museums and 14-18 NOW, the official UK arts programme for the First World War centenary.
It premiered as an 84-hour immersive multimedia artwork at Folkestone Harbour Arm Station in 2022. It returned for Remembrance Weekend 2023 and was be seen on 11 and 12 November between 3.30 and 11pm.
The artwork is inspired by, and uses, original film footage from the First World War, as well as photographs, artworks, poetry, letters, diaries, newspaper accounts, and testimony on war and its impact from 1914 to the present. These come together to create the immersive experience including an original soundscape inspired by the site and a recreation of the 'ghostly army' who marched through Folkestone from 1914. Everything you see and hear in the artwork is taken directly from original sources. The original score, which plays throughout and accompanies the images and voices, was inspired by these historic sources and by the sounds and sights of Folkestone Harbour and its historic station.
