What 2017 documentary film imagines a journey by a person also known as Edith Swanneck?
Edith Walks Edith Walks is a 2017 documentary film directed by Andrew Kötting which imagines a journey by Edith the Fair, wife of English king Harold Godwinson, from Waltham Abbey where he is buried to near the site of the Battle of Hastings and the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066. It includes contributions from the writers Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair, the torch singer Claudia Barton, and the musician Jem Finer.
Melody Gilbert Melody Gilbert is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker, and educator from St. Paul, Minnesota now stationed in Chicago, Illinois. Her work is noteworthy for featuring a rare intimacy with her subjects as she unearths previously hidden worlds. She works mostly solo, querying her subjects from behind the camera, giving the voice to ordinary people with extraordinary stories. She has Directed, Filmed, Produced, and sometimes Edited, five independent feature-length documentaries since 2002. The Documentary Channel calls her "one of the most fearless filmmakers in contemporary documentary cinema."