THIS OUR STILL LIFE - DVD

THIS OUR STILL LIFE
A film by Andrew Kötting

Andrew Kötting's deliciously eccentric film is a touching portrait of his daughter, Eden, as a young woman in their tumbledown Pyrenean farmhouse. Last seen in Gallivant (1996) as a plucky kid touring the coastline of Britain with her big Granny, Eden, now 23, is here shown painting still lifes and singing along to the radio as the seasons ebb and flow around her. Reminiscent of Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man (1964) this lo-fi marvel features music by Scanner's Robin Rimbaud and a range of voices from Köttings sound archive to explore notions of nostalgia, memory and place.

Special features

• Mapping Perception (2002, 37 mins): the result of a four-year collaboration between Giles Lane, curator and producer, Andrew Kötting and Mark Lythgoe, a neurophysiologist at the Institute of Child Health, London with the participation of Eden Kötting
• An History of Civilisation(2011, 7 mins): against a skyline dominated by London's Canary Wharf, we observe a May Bank Holiday funfair in Southwark Park during which all of humanity is present
• Portrait of Eden (2011, 21 mins): portrait of Eden Kötting filmed and edited by Gideon Koppel (Sleep furiously) in October 2010
• Fully illustrated booklet featuring essays by John Roseveare, Iain Sinclair and Sukhdev Sandhu and drawings by Andrew and Eden Kötting

UK | 2011 | colour and back & white | English language | 57 minutes | DVD9 | Dolby Digital 2.0 (320kbps) (48k/16-bit) | Original aspect ratio 1.33:1 | Region 0 PAL DVD