All the rest of us, with the gear and the mix, had to follow them. “The analogy I use is, instead of an orchestra with a conductor, this was a piece conducted from the keyboard. The soloist, at the piano, was actually managing the thing. And all of us, in the so-called control room, were following and trying to cue stuff up as best we could – absolutely fascinating, a different world. But it could be the future.” As to the impact of the documentary, director Franny Armstrong says, “We feel that Rivercide is part of a wave of outrage and awareness about the state of Britain’s rivers. All the MPs from the Wye have written to the Treasury asking for a new task force to be set up, and for £10-15m in funding, to come from fines paid by the water companies for illegally discharging sewage.” Feargal Sharkey confirmed this outlook at a British Library screening of Rivercide : “The government is now on the back foot about river pollution. Now is the time to turn our efforts up to 15.”
RIVERCIDE IS PART OF A WAVE OF OUTRAGE AND AWARENESS ABOUT THE STATE OF BRITAIN’S RIVERS
MOVING TARGET The ambition of the Rivercide production ran into a challenge: a sequence shot from the back of a moving car
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