Broken Token
2024•12m•Released
Documentary
A single female voice sings of waiting in her garden for her ‘dark-eyed sailor’ to return from war, bearing the other half of their token, a gimmel ring. Three veterans pass on the road as she waits, and she asks them: “When you were fighting in distant lands, did you think of the home you left?” In reply the veterans relate their recollections. The garden images in the accompanying film represent ‘home’, but also stand for a more general possibility of redemption, of the potential of the past to return at any time, disguised and changed, to renew the present: “Each moment of time is a garden gate,” the song goes, “Through it my love may walk.”
Director
Paul Rooney
Writer
Paul Rooney, Tony Ray, Carol Ray, Yorkie Cunningham, Chris Attis, Aden Navarro
Languages
English
Studio
Imperial War Museums
Cast
Hannah Martin
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