6Jun/09
Greedy Edith
Post-moves09 I'm still returning time and again to watch Shelly Love's new commission for the big screens, a moves / Sadler's Wells co-production conceived specifically for outdoor display. Greedy Edith features a grand lady (Polly Bowman, who also wrote and performed the score), sitting for a portrait in her 17th Century attire, but edited with discordant jump cuts and accompanied by a pie-fingered piano soundtrack that starts off demurely but soon runs awry. Utterly mesmerising, and hinting at a decay beneath the iced façade, a stuffed dog watches in silent judgement.