Somme Project

The Somme Project was a ten year photographic and film work. Started in 2006, and ended with the centenary of the Battle of the Somme in 2016.

Official Selection: Imperial War Museum Film Festival 2014

Shortlisted for the IWM Creative Prize 2014

Official Selection: Bradford City of Film 2014

Official Selection: Centenaire de la Grande Guerre Albert France 2014

Official Selection: Arras Film Festival France 2015

Official Selection: APOX Documentary Film Festival Croatia 2020

Imperial War Museum

On The Somme: "The region of Picardy in Northern France was the location of some of the heaviest fighting along the Western Front in the First World War. Peter Bromley's cinematically rich On the Somme presents a multi-faceted depiction of the landscape of this area. Despite the unmistakable tranquillity of the region, the film conveys the sense with which the conflict and its casualties are written in to the land itself"

David Somerset British Film Institute

On The Somme: "The particular creative challenge of the project itself is immense, to creatively treat a period of the first world war history - a period characterized by a new phase in human barbarity - one that would produce carnage and destruction to life on an industrial, hitherto unknown scale... this brings me to think about the film as a piece of visual poetry, a poetic treatment of a changing visual landscape as much as an historical meditation. In the arresting beauty of the images, the war seems to be some distant nightmare - the many thousands of dead who were never given a proper burial still only just a footfall beneath the surface"

1968 Film Group produce Featurette on the 'Battle of the Somme' filmed on location in Picardie, Northern France, across 2013. Using image and sound the film captures the landscape today where thousands perished and are still missing.

DP Ruben Woodin Dechamps

Soundtrack Stephen Oldfield, Andrew Law

Historian Adrian Jackson

Editors Peter Bromley, Ruben Woodin Dechamps

Producer Ranna McArdle, Peter Bromley

Assistant Director Justine Beckett

Director Peter Bromley

Production 1968 Film Group

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