The Eternal Children

“You live in your creation, your life is your artwork”.

The Eternal Children is a documentary by David Kleijwegt featuring sisters CocoRosie, Antony Hegarty, Devendra Banhart and Vashti Bunyan. It hops about on the thinking clogs of those belonging to the so-called ‘freak-folk’ movement as it explores the inner-workings of these equally weird and wonderful artists.

Self-proclaimed outsiders, CocoRosie make their adventures in music and film, dressing up at every opportunity, pencilling on moustaches and telling tales of fairies who snip away at their flowing locks whilst they sleep. Yet naïve they are not. What transpires is that they belong to a collective who all share the same spiritual understanding of life by enjoying it for what it has to offer; love, light and infinite potentialities to create. What initially appear as the sort of ramblings you may expect to hear from heavily stoned students, The Eternal Children is in fact full of insightful little gems which make you want to reach for your jotter and scribble down their words of wisdom. In their world everything sparkles and they possess the ability to live amongst the ordinary in a quite extra-ordinary fashion. A mixture of interviews and live performances, we are offered a brief peep through the keyhole as we journey along the fantastical world they have chosen to create for themselves. An unmissable watch for any true fan, may you listen to their music with fresh ears.

Highlight - a beautiful rendition of ‘Just another Diamond Day’ by Vashti Bunyan who sits and strums in a breezy field of corn.