Edith Walks (2017)

Edith Walks: Directed by Andrew Kotting. With Andrew Kotting, David Aylward, Claurdia Barton, Anonymous Bosch. 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.

“So, spacetime is a 4D solid, which gives some people the impression that the past is somehow closer, more here, than if they think of space as 3D and time as another independent dimension. This is pants. Think of a one dimensional line passing through the universe – and someone within that line says, there is a second dimension, creating a u0026quot;planeu0026quot;, which is fair enough. But it is not fair enough to claim that all the infinite things in the 2nd dimension seem u0026quot;closeru0026quot; to the line just because you understand that it is there.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe past is not here, and neither is the future. They are as distant and untouchable as a 4th u0026quot;spatialu0026quot; dimension.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe problem for the artistic sensibility is that we all lives our lives in time, experiencing for ourselves u0026quot;nowu0026quot; continuously throughout our lives. And, we know about history, and can predict the future. But this does not make 1066 close, any more than a point on the plane is close to the line. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOK, added to all the cod philosophy beloved by middle-aged men is a terrible film.”