Director Danny Boyle has announced a nationwide beachside event to mark the centenary of the end of World War I.
Members of the public are invited to assemble at dozens of beaches around the United Kingdom on Armistice Day, 11 November.
A huge-scale portrait of a casualty from the conflict could be drawn into the sand at low tide in each area and washed away as the waves arrive.
Boyle has additionally commissioned a new poem using poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy to read human beings at the seashores.
The event, titled Pages of the Sea, is part of 14-18 NOW, the UK’s reputable arts program to mark the World War One centenary, which has been running since 2014.
The Oscar-triumphing movie-maker and mastermind behind the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony has created the event as a “casual national gesture of remembrance”.
The public will be asked to sign up for it by creating silhouettes of people in the sand, remembering the millions of lives lost or modified by warfare.
Many of those who served in World War I left by sea, and Boyle stated he felt seashores had been the correct locations for a memorial.
“Beaches are public spaces, where no one regulates other than the tide,” he said. “They seem the right area to collect and say a final goodbye and thanks to the ones whose lives had been taken or all the time modified with the aid of the First World War.
“I’m inviting human beings to observe as the faces of the fallen are etched within the sand, and for communities to come back collectively to consider the sacrifices that have been made.
Twelve locations have been introduced, from Waulkmill Bay on Orkney to Porthmeor Beach in St Ives, Cornwall. More may be shown.
There can also be an internet gallery of graphics of some individuals who served in World War One – for human beings to pick out someone to say a personal goodbye to on the seaside or via social media if they cannot get there.
The snapshots are from the Imperial War Museum’s Lives of the First World War mission, which aims to inform the stories of 8 million human beings from Britain and the Commonwealth who served.
Boyle has currently pulled out of directing the new James Bond film and was asked at the launch if he had any advice for Cary Fukunaga, who has taken on the role.
More time without Bond
“We’re speakme about real heroes today in preference to fictional ones,” he stated.
But he admitted stepping far from Bond gave him more excellent time to reflect on the anniversary plans.
“I do have a bit more time to devote to this. That is exceptional. I’m very pleased about that as it’s something which may be very expensive to my heart.”
“My involvement in it would have been barely compromised through that (Bond) workload.
He said it turned into a “right-privilege” to create Pages of the Sea, where you may desire to “hook up with everyone in the country in some manner, as much as you can, instead of through your ordinary channels, like the field office”.
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