Falls the Shadow

In this documentary, artist Helen Pollock discusses her sculpture Falls the Shadow. Using clay from the Coromandel and the Passchendaele battlefield in the Netherlands, she created a grove of arms reaching up against a background of trees stripped bare by gunfire in World War One. The work was inspired by her father, a wartime signaller. Pollock discusses her installation and the effect of combat on Kiwi troops in the war. In two hours during the  Battle of Passchendaele, 846 Kiwis died. The work is now on permanent display at Passchendaele Memorial Museum. Pollock directed the film with editor Scott Ewing.

The clay was really disposable and ordinary, and those young men’s bodies were disposable and ordinary.

– Helen Pollock

Key Cast & Crew

Matt Klitscher

Camera

Andrew McMillan

Soundscape

Scott Ewing

Co-Director, Editor

Helen Pollock

Co-Director, Subject

Glenn Jowitt

Additional Camera Operator

Derek Brickell

Additional Camera Operator