Movies: Andrew Kötting

Director Andrew Kötting and writer Iain Sinclair sail a swan-shaped pedalo from Hastings to Hackney in London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games....

A film shot on an iPhone with a super 8 app documenting a walk made by Andrew Kötting with Iain Sinclair from Dover to London along Watling Street, sometimes in the company of John Rogers and sometimes in the company of Anne Caron-Delion....

Artist and film-maker Andrew Kötting re-vists his graduation film Klipperty Klöpp. A post punk piece of pagan sensibility in which a man repeatedly and energetically runs round and round in circles on common ground in Gloucestershire chasing a painti...

Inspired by the overwhelming force of 2G and the ensuing befuddlement, the work might be read as a tongue-in-cheek homage to Yuri Gagarin, the people of Star City and the pioneering artists who attempted to create work on a plunging aircraft. Kötting...

Beginning in the pitch-black early hours of a September morning, the film follows a 14hr 17min cross-channel relay swim that I made along with my brothers Mark and Joey, a friend Ian Dale, the actor and comedian Sean Lock (Smart Alek and co-writer of...

Sea Swallow'd charts the choppy waters of gut feelings, capturing the flotsam and jetsam of impulse, desire and fights to the death. A film by Andrew Kotting and Curious shot as a series of lapping and flowing, irregular chapters, which borrow their ...

'I’m not moaning, you don’t hear me moaning!' These are the words spoken by Gladys Morris, the artist’s dead grandmother, that form, along with other snippets of her conversation, the soundscape for moving image artist Andrew Kötting’s latest work '...

‘A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments, seen under a microscope can quickly confirm the existence of another world. This is the Kingdom of Protista and like all living things it needs to try to suck itself off.’...

EDITH LOOPS is a reflection upon all things Edith Swan Neck and her role as the great visionary and Pagan Queen to the muddled British Isles in the wake of The Battle of Hastings 950 years ago....

Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5....

This was funded by the Arts Council as a test or pilot for their ‘Long Format Experimenta’ scheme. Although short-listed it was not commissioned as a feature-length project. Andrew Kötting then worked with Ben Woolford of Tall Stories on the idea of ...

Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5....

From London to the far reaches of Scotland, the journey in the form of a quest for a whalebone box, related to its place of origin....

London Overground retraces legendary London writer Iain Sinclair’s journey with film-maker Andrew Kötting around the Overground railway on foot for the book of the same name. The film follows Sinclair reprising the walk over the course of a year rat...

The worlds of Franz Kafka and Josef Fritzl collide to produce a disturbing insight into the notions of incubation as heard through the ears of someone under duress. Isolation as the process or fact of isolating or being isolated, including the socia...

Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5....

Filmed over the course of a week in October 2010, the film captures the everyday life of its Joubert syndrome-suffering protagonist, taking in her daily routines of work, play, and therapy, whilst also capturing her admirable joie de vivre against th...

In the Wake of a Deadad is Kötting's powerful, often uncomfortable reflection on the recent death of his father. His Deadad....

Animals all-at-sea; a cow’s head struggling to make for shore, an owl floundering in the surf or a reindeer awash in the breakers. Buoys of poetic improbability bobbing up and down in a sea of city-life normality....

Shot on the Island of Jura and in and around the French Pyrenees. The film is a foray into the notions of performance-travelogue-essay, it meanders hither and dither through the landscape. A DAT recorder catches fragments of the great out-of-doors wh...