EDITH: A Performance
Director: Andrew Kotting
Country: UK
Running Time: 80′
London Premiere
Year: 2016
Andrew Kötting and author Iain Sinclair take another epic journey through England’s buried history in EDITH. Following on from Swandown and By Our Selves (both screened by EEFF) Kötting and Sinclair embarked on a 108 mile walk from Waltham Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea in memory of Edith Swan Neck, the mistress of King Harold.
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Reconnecting and consoling historic lovers after nearly 1,000 years, the experience has inspired a film (Edith Walks), bookwork and this special live film-music-performance event, incorporating spoken word from Iain Sinclair, with music and soundscapes by David Aylward, Claudia Barton, Jem Finer and Andrew Kötting, set to the spectral images of Kötting’s film. A chance to experience an extraordinary project in the atmosphere of St. Johns on Bethnal Green, with EDITH as their hallucination.
Boosted by the great community spirit of our audiences for their generous food donations on our opening weekend, we welcome you to bring dry, long-life food, tins, coffee/tea, supplies to this event, where St Johns Church will distribute to their local community.
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