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Review - The Whalebone Box (Andrew Kötting, 2019) [Little White Lies]

“For those that don’t know, a ‘whalebone box’ is “a box made of whale bones”, as director Andrew Kötting helpfully explains in his film about one, The Whalebone Box. Described in turn as a black-box, pandora’s box, a coffin and a bomb—even at one point as a “record of what went wrong”—it is a suitably inscrutable object for a filmmaker to obsess over: a mystery box with contents that must forever remain unknown. “

Full review of Andrew Kotting’s The Whalebone Box in Little White Lies 84