Single-use Plastic Bag by Abeer Ameer
UK filmmaker Janet Lees adapted a viral poem by Iraqi British poet Abeer Ameer. She told me in an email,
Like many of her poems, this has stayed with me in a visceral way since I read it. For a long time I have been wanting to make a film with Abeer’s poetry, and particularly this poem, but I couldn’t find a way in visually. Then when I was out walking by a children’s playground a few weeks ago, it became clear – I needed to encapsulate that cry we hear so often on social media, ‘What if it was your child?’
Here are the credits from YouTube:
Based on the poem ‘Single-use Plastic Bag’, by Abeer Ameer @abeer_ameer77
Creative direction & video editing, Janet Lees
Music, ‘Dream Thieves’, Richard Quirk
Footage, Janet Lees, Motion Array & Pexels
Additional sound, freesound.org: children1.mp3 by yacou — https://freesound.org/s/190894/ — License: Creative Commons 0
Seaside Mono.wav by morganpurkis — https://freesound.org/s/402392/ — License: Creative Commons 0
Giggles.aiff by Alex_hears_things — https://freesound.org/s/457275/ — License: Creative Commons 0
Toddler Laughing.wav by Stevious42 — https://freesound.org/s/259625/ — License: Attribution 3.0
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Dave Bonta is a poet, editor, and web publisher from the Appalachian mountains of central Pennsylvania.
