This Our Still Life ( Louyre: This Our Still Life )

This Our Still Life (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Louyre: This Our Still Life
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
57 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Andrew Kotting

Written By:
Andrew Kotting

Actors:
Andrew Kotting ..... Herself
Eden Kotting
Leila McMillan

Synopsis:

A new film by Andrew Kötting is always cause for celebration, and his deliciously eccentric latest 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, this lo-fi marvel features music by Scanner's Robin Rimbaud and a range of voices from Kötting's sound archive to explore notions of nostalgia, memory and place.

This Our Still Life is Kötting's attempt to make sense of their life and the footage he has shot in this bolthole on various cameras and formats over the years.The film moves through the four seasons, but mostly it's a flickering and wilful impression of family life, characterised by found footage edited together with Kötting's archive, indistinct voices found and recorded, stark captions recounting Kötting's thoughts and a moody score by Scanner. There's a sadness running through the film's reflection on time passing and on periods of melancholy ('wellbeing comes over me intermittently') but there's also joy at familial love and, above all, the bond between a father and daughter. Kötting explores the house and countryside as a theatre for his 'still life', but always returns to Eden, who, along with her father, is a keen painter (an offshoot of this film is a book of Eden's drawings). There's humour, too, as when Kötting lingers on a postcard from a place called Tossa.

This Our Still Life is a sequel to Kent-born Andrew Kötting's 1996 documentary Gallivant, which showed his daughter Eden as a child, indulging in the beauty of Britain's coastline with two generations of relatives. The new film follows this young woman, who was born with the rare genetic disorder Joubert syndrome, at the age of 23. Her father charts their residency at Louyre, an isolated yet idyllic French Pyrenean farmhouse. The pair come alive artistically in this calming nest through the process of still life painting - a hobby they can share and mutually enjoy.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 06 July, 2012.