The Memory Blocks + Cast and Crew Q&A (U)
Andrew Kötting’s complex docu-essay about his daughter Eden, who has Joubert syndrome, steps outside conventional filmmaking grammar.
The Memory Blocks takes the viewer on a wild visual journey, using a neurodivergent perspective that reveals how memories shift and transform, challenging our understanding of how we recall and process past experiences.
This gala screening celebrates the Hastings premiere of Kotting's newest feature and is part of our weekend celebration of films by the internationally recognised filmmaker and artist.
His twenty-eight year career has moved from early live-art, often absurdist pieces, through darkly comic shorts teasing out the melancholy surrealism at the heart of contemporary Englishness to eight independent feature films that take biography, landscape and journeys as springboards into the making of visually striking and structurally inventive enquiries into identity, belonging, history and notions of the folkloric.
Premiering at the Edinburgh Film Festival to acclaim in 2025, this visually unique film sees Kötting working again with his daughter Eden.
Eden and her colleagues from the Project Artworks collective – Charlie, Michelle and Neville – take us on a journey, ferrying fragments of meaning back and forth, stitching time into a visionary experimental feature while having a right laugh along the way.