
Edith Walks is a 60 minute 66 second feature film inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex. The film documents a pilgrimage in memory of Edith Swan Neck. Bits of King Harold's body were brought to Waltham for burial near the High Altar after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and his hand fast wife Edith Swan Neck is seen cradling him in a remarkable sculpture at Grosvenor Gardens on the sea front in St Leonards. The fil... (Full plot summary below)
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Edith Walks is a 60 minute 66 second feature film inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex. The film documents a pilgrimage in memory of Edith Swan Neck. Bits of King Harold's body were brought to Waltham for burial near the High Altar after the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and his hand fast wife Edith Swan Neck is seen cradling him in a remarkable sculpture at Grosvenor Gardens on the sea front in St Leonards. The film re-connects the lovers after 950 years of separation. The 108 mile journey, as the crow flies, allows the audience to reflect upon all things Edith. A conversation in Northampton between Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair and Edith Swan Neck is also a key element to the unfolding 'story'. With images shot using digital super 8 iPhone's and sound recorded using a specially constructed music box with a boom microphone the film unfolds chronologically but in a completely unpredictable way. The numerous encounters and impromptu performances en route are proof, as if needed, that the angels of happenstance were to looking down upon the troop, with EDITH as their hallucination. Starring David Aylward, Claudia Barton, Anonymous Bosch, Jem Finer, Andrew Kötting, Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair.
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| Observer (UK)Wendy IdeThe route is as the crow flies, but it's embellished with glorious curlicues of eccentricity. |
| Sight and SoundHannah McGillThis whole project is in large part a lark; and it's Kötting's mixing of fairly serious intellectual conjecture with guesswork, whimsy, jokes and gossip that gives it its approachability and life. |
| Financial TimesNigel AndrewsA journey enriched by visions, thoughts, music, art-and-philosophy digressions, and other perks of the Kötting package tour. |
| HeyUGuysLinda MarricShows just how much can be achieved with very little material and even less money. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawAnother eccentric, strange yet weirdly engaging journey along the leyline of Englishness from experimental film-maker Andrew Kötting, flying under the radar of conventional history and conventional production values. |
| Total FilmMatt LookerKötting conjures a certain amateurish charm in an otherwise perplexing film that - ironically - lacks clear direction. |