The Whalebone Box
The Whalebone Box is a 2019 documentary film directed by Andrew Kötting.
Synopsis
According to Owen Richards at The Arts Desk, "Essentially, the plot follows Kötting, writer Iain Sinclair, and photographer Anonymous Bosch as they travel from London to Tarbert, off the west of Scotland, in possession of a box. It was crafted from the bones of a beached whale, and gifted to Sinclair by its sculptor Steve Dilworth. Their intention is to return it to the sands from which it came."According to Mark Kermode in The Guardian, "part of The Whalebone Box is a typically fragmented account of that journey, venturing in a chronological fashion from the psychic aerial of Sway Tower in the New Forest to the standing stones of Lewis, all recorded in a variety of DIY formats, both physical and digital, and interspersed with archive footage, still photography and animation. The other part is a journey into the dreams of Eden Kötting, the remarkable artist who has long been the muse and inspiration of her father, Andrew."
Cast
- MacGillivray
- Philip Hoare
- Eden Kotting
- Iain Sinclair