One of the Many - a Story from the Soil of Wardsend Cemetery, by Louise Smith
At the beginning of TAP, I never knew it was possible to intern in a cemetery. If I had, I might have thought that meant digging graves, or planting flowers. I would not have thought about learning the stories of those beneath the graves, or that there would be such riotous stories to find. And I certainly would not have thought I would be making a short film about one of those stories. First of all, Covid made it more difficult. Projects that were more hands on and physical might have been fun, but I wasn’t in Sheffield. Making a short film about the cemetery sounded amazing right away, but I am not a filmmaker and am not sure how a beginner’s choppy attempt would have helped the cemetery promote themselves in any way. Luckily, Sheffield has everything you could need, including a filmmaker willing to make their cemetery debut. He must have thought it pretty unique too. The first trip was in the midst of summer, and it made everything green. Plants were growing thickly and climbing all