HOPE HOLDS UP HER HEAD AND HOPES – THE SLIDE SHOW
BY ANDREW KÖTTING
Commissioned through FUTURE SCREENS NI & Ulster University.

B/W & Colour Digital Pinholes – 4 minutes 2025

 

Hope Holds Up Her Head And Hopes – The Slide Show documents the making of the experimental short film Hope Holds Up Her Head And Hopes and also the feature film The Memory Blocks.

Digital pinhole photographs taken by Anonymous Bosch on the sets of both films are presented in a looping time line. With a soundscape which has been cannibalized from the aforementioned moving image work, the slide show is designed to run as part of an installation which would accompany the short film Hope Holds Up Her Head and Hopes.

Costumes from the films are presented on mannequins as well as artworks by Eden and Andrew Kötting and 3D prints of Eden dressed as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.

 

 

 

The Figurine and the Ego – Mary Wild

Eden’s figurine, delicate yet commanding, appears whole until it shatters—a happenstance or divine necessity. Its fracture, its dislocation, is the essence of the work: to dismantle, to reduce to the elemental. This process, while comical, holds a paradoxical truth: the figurine, grand and tangible, crumbles with ease, yet the imperceptible memory blocks endure.

Here lies the allegory of the ego, a brittle edifice dressed in grandeur, pretending permanence. The smashing of the figurine is a liberation—a rupture revealing the subatomic psyche, where true resilience resides. To see past the ego’s masquerade is to touch the eternal, where the soul emerges in its unadorned, unbreakable form….
 

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
PAUL MOORE

PRODUCTION MANAGER – NORTHERN IRELAND
TERESA KANE

PRODUCTION ASSISTANT - NORTHERN IRELAND
KRISITIN O’DONNELL

ULSTER UNIVERSITY COORDINATOR
CAROLINE HARKIN
WITH
EDEN KÖTTING
CHARLIE STEPHENS
NEVILLE JERMYN
MICHELLE ROBERTS
BOB HUMM
CLAIRE HUMM
CHRIS BROUGHTON
LORNA CRABBE
IVY BROUGHTON CRABBE
BECKI LANE
LEILA MCMILLAN

SCRIPT – WORDS
ANDREW KÖTTING
MARY WILD

DIGITAL PINHOLES
ANONYMOUS BOSCH

3D MODELLING & ANIMATION
ISABELLE SKINNER

ANIMATION
GLENN WHITING

EDIT & SOUND DESIGN
ANDREW KÖTTING

VOICES
EDEN KÖTTING
MARY WILD

MUSIC – SOUNDS
DAVID BLOOR
DIRCH BLEWN
CLAUDIA BARTON