Broken Token

Broken Token

2024
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Overview

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.”

Status: Released

Language: EN

Production Information

Production Companies
Imperial War Museums
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Spoken Languages
English

Keywords

gulf war folk music afghanistan war (2001-2021) plymouth falklands war oral history folk song veterans west country

Quick Facts

Release Date October 19, 2024
Status Released
Language EN

Cast

Hannah Martin
Hannah Martin

Key Crew

Paul Rooney
Director
Paul Rooney
Writer
Tony Ray
Writer
Carol Ray
Writer
Yorkie Cunningham
Writer
Chris Attis
Writer
Aden Navarro
Writer