Edith Walks

Edith Walks (2017)

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. 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

Date of release
2017-06-23
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 0m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Andrew Kötting

Interesting facts

Edith Walks is a 2017 documentary film directed by Andrew Kötting which imagines a journey by Edith the Fair, wife of English king Harold Godwinson, from Waltham Abbey where he is buried to near the site of the Battle of Hastings and the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. It includes contributions from the writers Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair, the torch singer Claudia Barton, and the musician Jem Finer.

Production and release

The film is the third collaboration of Kötting and Iain Sinclair, following Swandown and By Our Selves, all three of which enact different journeys. It was shown in cinemas in 2017 alongside "Forgotten the Queen", a short about Edith directed by Eden Kötting, Andrew Kötting's daughter.

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