IN FAR AWAY LAND
6 minutes – colour DVD Blu Ray
Film
Andrew Kötting
Drawings collages and paintings
Eden Kötting
Animations and fiddlings
Glenn Whiting
Sound & Edit
Andrew Kötting
Voices
Marcia Farquhar
Mikhail Karikis
Eden Kötting
Miranda Pennell
Alex Rodgers
John Smith
Music
Dirch Blewn
David Bloor
Andrew Kötting
Alex Rodgers
John Wall
Back stroke, butterfly, nipples, breasts, front crawl and bras, we are awash in an ocean of bubbles. Meanwhile Captain Ahab sets sail on his magic carpet in search of the whale. All is not well in the world but Eden is there, fresh from her garden, tuning into The Far Away Land. We are deep in the cloud of our own making but help is at hand, and everything might yet be alright.
Perhaps best read within the tradition of Surrealist cut ups and collage, IN FAR AWAY LAND sees another compelling collaboration between Andrew & Eden Kötting with Glenn Whiting. They bring to life the collages, drawings and paintings produced in 2019 by Eden in response to the feature film The Whale Bone Box, which she stars in and which will be distributed across the UK and Ireland in early 2020.
It will also mark 25 years since the making of the classic father, daughter, grandmother, great grandmother road movie GALLIVANT, which is consistently voted within the top 100 Best British Films of all time. Eden is no longer seven, she will be thirty two in 2020 and fairly full to overflowing with artistic ambition.
IN FAR AWAY LAND
TRANSCRIPTION
00.07 If just above her head….
00.09 There hung suspended in air….
00.14 The slightest crown Of Gothic prong and practick bright….
00.21 Nothing else for you now – goodbye….
00.25 Somebody’s got his eyes out on stalks - in far away land
00.33 Way land….
00.39 Hello…. Hello….
00.44 He’s transmitting…. Vision….
00.48 And who’s that man taking notes? I don’t know….
00.52 There’s the earth spinning round….
00.55 The compass is spinning…. The earth’s turning….
00.59 He’s transmitting wavelengths …. To unlock a secret safe somewhere….
01.06 At the bottom of the sea….
01.13 Hello?
01.18 That was a brilliant fish it seemed to have a woman inside …. Did it?
01.24 A glamorous sort of woman….
01.27 Where’s the key?
01.29 Ah Ahab….
01.30 He’s chasing her….
01.33 Bubbles Bubbles Bubbles….
01.35 Oh here’s a sheepish looking character with breasts….
01.40 Breasts …. These are nipples….
01.41 No they’re clouds with bits of rain falling from the bottom of the clouds….
01.46 Well they’re beautiful whatever they are it doesn’t really matter does it….
01.48 And this character is swimming through the molasses of life….
01.53 Oh yes I can see…. Deep in the cloud of our own making….
01.58 Hello…. Hello….
02.05 I wonder if you could errm?
02.08 How men began to build…. How men began to build….
02.12 Harpoon – that which I was looking at was a harpoon….
02.18 Well I didn’t know – it all goes so quickly….
02.23 And there’s Eden looking out…. Now it’s clear….
02.28 Those baguettes are binoculars….
02.32 Where’s they key?
02.33 What key?
02.34 The key you took from Doc Kennedy – I want it….
02.36 I don’t know what you’re talking about….
02.37 The key is very important…. Don’t waste my time
02.39 Here comes Captain Ahab on a flying carpet? Possibly….
02.40 Is that a flying carpet?
02.45 Maybe you could spit out the little bit that’s left explaining?
02.48 Flying across a wide-eyed bunny jumping out of….
02.56 Love you?
03.04 Baking some berries…. More than one…. I can’t read this
03.13 So I remember it all….
03.15 Where’s the key?
03.16 The sweetshop is closed…. Oh I love her
03.19 Bubbles bubbles bubbles….
03.20 Tell me about that character?
03.23 There’s a lot of watery stuff…. There’s a lot of aquatic stuff going on
03.28 So I remember you
03.30 I love those bubbles
03.32 Errm Sidestroke – breast stroke – butterfly stroke
03.42 Sinking….
03.43 Bubbles bubbles bubbles….
03.45 And I think it’s oceanic – I like that word….
03.47 I like it because it means to me something beyond my ken….
03.57 That lady with the wreath – she’s a bit like…. She makes me think of mediums in ancient Greece….
04.05 And what about this swimming man where’s he been?
04.07 That swimming man has been too far out I’d say….
04.12 He’s looking decidedly panicky….
04.21 I’m a bit worried whether he’s going to survive and whether he can keep it up against the current….
04.38 Do you think he’s a feared of the fish?
04.41 Well I think it comes and goes I think it comes in waves….
04.47 I think the fear is superficial….
04.52 The very young breasts of Marilyn Monroe and the waving babies swimming past
05.00 I think that the fear is superficial….
05.01 You think everything is going to be alright in the end?
05.06 I think it is….
05.09 I think it is but it’s going to be a long journey….
05.15 But in the end I think it all becomes alright….
05.25 That provides refuge for human beings….
05.29 Where’s the key?
