There’s something uniquely wonderful about the unfettered pagan spirit of Andrew Kötting. His film-making has an anarchic lawlessness; a refreshing alternative to pictures that are pruned and shaped to fit into a preordained structure. For this project, Kötting and a band of merry troubadours (including writer Alan Moore and historian Iain Sinclair) embark on a journey by foot from Waltham Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea. Along the way, they explore the mythic legacy of King Harold and his wife, Edith Swan-Neck (embodied for the pilgrimage by Claurdia Barton). The route is as the crow flies, but it’s embellished with glorious curlicues of eccentricity.
