1st Dec 2011 6:30pm
Sallis Benney Theatre
CINECITY
Premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival, the latest from Andrew Kötting (GALLIVANT, IVUL) is a deliciously eccentric portrait of the remote tumbledown Pyrenean farmhouse where the film-maker, his wife Leila and daughter Eden have lived on and off for more than 20 years. Last seen in GALLIVANT as a plucky kid touring the coastline of Britain, Eden, who was born with a rare neurological disease, is now a young woman aged 22. Here we see her painting still lifes and singing along to the radio as the seasons ebb and flow around her. With music from Scanner and a whole plethora of cut-ups and voices from the film-maker’s sound archive, THIS OUR STILL LIFE exudes an evocative charge of melancholia and nostalgia.
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EDEN
Dir: Gideon Koppell.
A short film portrait of Eden Kötting from the director of SLEEP FURIOUSLY.
Project Arts Works – a Hastings based visual arts organization – commissioned several artist film makers to make portraits of young people with severe intellectual disabilities. This project – ‘In Transit’ – is funded by The Paul Hamlyn Foundation and East Sussex County Council.
The film portraits are intended to offer a rounded picture of each person as they make the difficult transition from a world of childhood care to finding support from adult social services. The portraits can be used by social services and other professionals in assessing the needs and aspirations of each individual in addition to the conventional paper based methods of description and assessment.
Followed by Q&A with Andrew and Eden Kötting.
For more information and tickets, please visit the CINECITY website.
