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Gallivant (1996)
Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminiscences – and Eden, his eight-year-old daughter with Joubert syndrome, as they take a zig-zagging 6,000 mile trip in their campervan around Britain's coastline.
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5.4
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Là-bas (Down There) (1994)
Taking as its departure point the 1993 opening of the Channel Tunnel, Là Bas is a playful burlesque on cultural difference, eccentricity and passion. Using different locations, Kötting knits together an imaginary tunnel, with tickets sold like a seaside attraction, through which one walks between England and France (the interior shots of the tunnel are of the Greenwich foot tunnel), and which is subject to random and sudden closure like many other British forms of transport.
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6.1
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The Sun Came Dripping a Bucket Full of Gold (2014)
At the threshold of the last mystery you have looked into the eyes of your creature self and watched the sun come dripping a bucket full of gold.
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Jaunt (1995)
"Developed and reduced from the treatment that I had already written for GALLIVANT (THE PILOT), this is a ‘psychogeographical’ derive conducted along the high ways, by ways and waterways of the River Thames. It begins at Southend-on-Sea and ends up by the Houses of Parliament next to Westminster Bridge." – Andrew Kötting
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4.4
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Me (2003)
"This is a five minute piece about me, the twit gone drank : a vehicle for the dissemination of my own confusion and pomp, full of the irony : a centreless web of desires and beliefs, dim : all muddleup. I find myself confabulating more and more and it is the me that makes me sick and convinces the self that severe psychotic disturbance, intellectual perversion and the lookatmesyndome has swept me off of my stupid little feet. Dysphonic, insecure and wearing only dirty pajama bottoms. (oh dear what can the matter be.)" – Andrew Kötting
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Bunhill Fields Artefact: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney (2012)
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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20
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Donkeyhead (1998)
"This film, like everything else nowadays, is magic. I don’t know where he originated from but he’s been sound in our family for years and years and years."
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In the Wake of a Deadad (2006)
In the Wake of a Deadad is Kötting's powerful, often uncomfortable reflection on the recent death of his father. His Deadad.
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6.4
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The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014)
A collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
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20
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Kingdom Protista (2000)
‘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.’
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Smart Alek (1993)
In 1972 a family are on their way for a holiday in Essex. The parents argue and the son swears, making obscene gestures. So the father throws him out, drives on and crashes the car. The grandmother flags down a car with three men in it. Too late she recognises one as the man who shot a neighbour...
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7.3
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Diseased and Disorderly (2021)
Neuro-diverse artist Eden Kötting’s remarkable drawings, paintings and collages create an illusory, animated world where the rules change and everything is possible.
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Artefact #4: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney (2012)
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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Artefact #5: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney (2012)
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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Artefact #2: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney (2012)
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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6.3
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Artefact #3: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney (2012)
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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Artefact #1: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney (2012)
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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100
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A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street (2017)
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.
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5.7
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Diddyköy (1992)
An ironic yet reverential view of a Gypsy horse fair in the 'wilds' of the English countryside
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5.1
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Acumen (1991)
Various characters appear stranded on a beach buried under large piles of their own memorabilia and self-importance.
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Mapping Perception (2002)
A documentary examining the causes and effects of Joubert syndrome – a rare hereditary brain disorder, which affects both the motor and intellectual development of its sufferers.
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6.6
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An History of Civilisation (2010)
As families enjoy the May Day sun at a funfair in a south-east London park, overlooked by the skyscrapers of the financial district, Martin Donegan reads philosophical quotes from Mao Tse Tung on the future of society.
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Sea Swallow'd (2010)
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 titles from Moby Dick. The film is image and urge-driven, giving the viewer the feeling of beach-combing for different fragments of treasure on the shoreline. A highly experiential journey mixing 16mm B&W footage shot by filmmaker Ben Rivers with video and archival footage. Sea Swallow'd is created by Andrew Kotting and Curious Performed by Leslie Hill, Helen Paris, Rene Newby and Geoff McGarry.
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Klipperty Klöpp (1984)
"A post punk piece of pagan sensibility, complete with beastiality buggery and boundless energy. Maniacal filmmaking at its best. He takes his horse with him everywhere." Andrew Kötting
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Lek and the Dogs (2018)
An adaptation of Hattie Naylor's play, Ivan and the Dogs, which follows the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs.
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Edith Walks (2017)
Edith Walks is a 60 minute 66 second feature film inspired by a walk from Waltham Abbey in Essex via Battle Abbey to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex. The film documents a pilgrimage in memory of Edith Swan Neck. The 108 mile journey, as the crow flies, allows the audience to reflect upon all things Edith. A conversation in Northampton between Alan Moore, Iain Sinclair and Edith Swan Neck is also a key element to the unfolding 'story'. With images shot using digital super 8 iPhone's and sound recorded using a specially constructed music box with a boom microphone the film unfolds chronologically but in a completely unpredictable way. The numerous encounters and impromptu performances en route are proof, as if needed, that the angels of happenstance were to looking down upon the troop, with EDITH as their hallucination
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By Our Selves (2015)
Andrew Kötting's film retraces John Clare's journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.
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Louyre: This Our Still Life (2011)
A deliciously eccentric, yet touching portrait of director Andrew Kotting's daughter Eden as a young woman in their tumbledown Pyrennean farmhouse. Last seen in Gallivant (1996) as a plucky kid touring the coastline of Britain with her Big Granny, Eden, now 23, is here shown painting still lifes and singing along to the radio as the seasons ebb and flow around her. Reminiscent of Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man, this lo-fi marvel features music by Scanner's Robin Rimbaud and a range of voices from Kotting's sound archive to explore notions of nostalgia, memory and place.
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35
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Cement the Land (1983)
Made with a standard 8 Bolex camera and possibly Andrew Kötting’s first film. Shot alongside a wall in Mottingham with Danny Baker whilst they were still students at Ravensbourne College of Art in Elmstead Woods. Music by Being Karnal, Kötting’s music band with Heilco Van der Ploeug.
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10
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Fleshfilm (1992)
Ken Nordine’s jazz spoken-word soundtrack was the inspiration for this work and a collection of body parts that Andrew Kötting had accumulated over the years of friends and family on super 8. "The true colour that flesh should be is the colour that flesh is".
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10
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Forgive Me (1984)
Made for a piece of music that David Burnand had given to Andrew Kötting. He had sent a copy on cassette to Miles Davis in the hope that he might hear back from him. He never did. Remixed for the film with additional voices on the director's 4 track “Portastudio”.
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This Filthy Earth (2001)
The tragic story of two sisters whose lives are disrupted by two men. Amidst a landscape of rural hardship and a community consumed with superstition, events unfurl which threaten their sibling bond.
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30
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Of an Ode to a Deadad (2006)
The film was made in one take over a period of four hours, using a manual time-lapse facility on a Sony PD170 DV Camera. It was shot up in the Faroe Islands whilst looking down onto the small village of Tjornuvík. The voice over is an ode to Andrew Kötting's dead father, which was written and recorded earlier in the morning in one of the small Faroese crofts that the camera looks down upon.
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5.7
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H.B. 1829 (his bad blöOd) (1992)
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 which then becomes back drop to Heilco Van der Ploeug’s beautiful rendition of the folk song: ‘I wish I was a little birdy’.
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Swandown (2012)
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.
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Ivul (2010)
IVUL is the extraordinary story of Alex (Jacob Auzanneau), a young man who climbs on to the roof of his house and refuses to ever come back down to earth. His actions devastate his beloved family and we watch as their world falls apart. A dark and mysterious gardener (Tchili from This Filthy Earth) keeps watch over the family but is powerless to exorcise the curse that he feels has befallen them. Meanwhile the twin sisters (Manon and Capucine) provide light but sometimes macabre relief. The world of IVUL is a world of both fairytale and nightmare with the family manor house and forest landscape providing a compelling backdrop to the story.
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The Whalebone Box (2019)
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.
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Mireuil Meander (2010)
Commissioned through L’Astrolabe and the International Film Festival of La Rochelle I spent a week in Mireuil during the winter of 2010. Waking early and walking late, I wandered hither and dither throughout the area. I took with me a simple digital camera, a sophisticated sound recorder and a very unreliable narrator. The finished piece is called ‘Mireuil Meander’ and might be viewed as a dadaesque romp through the townscape.
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Self Heal (1987)
A sad tale that waxes lyrical, replete with the diabolical bastardisation of various Greek myths.
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Skinned Alive
Shot at an old butchers in Lee Green, South East London with Leila McMillan. We lived above the abandoned shop and had newly discovered each other and many of the delights that love might bring. Designed to run as a super 8 projection for the performances that we were making in and around London as BEING KARNAL. Music BEING KARNAL (Heilco Van der Ploeug and Andrew Kotting)
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Dont Shout (1983)
Shot at an old butchers in Lee Green, South East London with Heilco Van der Ploeug. Designed to run as a super 8 projection for the performances that we were making in and around London as BEING KARNAL. Music BEING KARNAL (Heilco Van der Ploeug and Andrew Kotting)
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Dead Relatives (1983)
Shot in Nunhead Cemetery, South East London with Heilco Van der Ploeug and Leila McMillan. Designed to run as a super 8 projection for the performances that we were making in and around London as BEING KARNAL. Music BEING KARNAL (Heilco Van der Ploeug and Andrew Kotting)
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The Memory Blocks (2025)
An experimental reflection on the changeable and complex nature of memory through the lens of neurodivergence.
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Edith Loops (2016)
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.
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Dry My Hair My Feer Are Clean
DRY MY HAIR MY FEET ARE CLEAN was made for friend and angel MacGillivray. kirstennorrie.com She is the poet, musician and artist Kirsten Norrie. Author of three collections of poetry published by Bloodaxe in the UK and Red Hen in the US, she has made nine records, working with producer and musician James Young (Nico, John Cale) and her music features in the soundtracks of three of my films. I trawled back through super 8 footage shot in Scotland and The French Pyrenees as well as family archive shot in The Yemen which was salvaged by Anonymous Bosch. The track DRY MY HAIR MY FEET ARE CLEAN left me stranded in a pool of awe. It is taken from the album IN MY END IS MY BEGINNING kirstennorrie.com/in-my-end-is-my-beginning and was funded by Creative Scotland, it was inspired by the words of Mary Queen of Scots. The lyrics are set to dulcitone and embedded with air recorded at many of the places Mary lived, was imprisoned and died in.
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La Rochelle est une ville (2011)
"In the summer of 2010 I was artist-in-residence at Intermondes and the International Film Festival of La Rochelle. My ambition was to try and capture some of the town’s psyche and a little bit of its’ geography. To this end I was aided by the photographer Sebastian Edge, his ancient wet collodion photographic techniques, a mobile dark room and his assistant Gloria Lin. I documented the making of a series of photographs that managed to capture a sense of ‘place’. Ever alert to the spirit of ‘timesgone’ I have edited sounds and images that evoke a somewhat off-kilter reading of all things Rochellaises." – Andrew Kötting
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Offshore (Gallivant) (2007)
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 This Filthy Earth) and the actor Tchili (This Filthy Earth and Ivul). The attempt was witnessed by the writer and wordsmith Iain Sinclair and is narrated by Eden Kötting. The film came about in 2006 (the 10 year anniversary since the release of the original film Gallivant) and the chance discovery of a boat called The Gallivant, which offered to shadow us across the Channel as a support vessel. Flotsam and jetsam in the form of conversations, field recordings and the voices of Gladys and Eden from the original film invade. The film shows scenes of explicit vomiting.
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Dog Ate Dog (2018)
A companion piece to Andrew and Eden Kötting’s FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN except this time we are sailing into a male storm, a place of make believe and disaster where dog eats dog. This world is teeming with hidden dangers, orchestrated by voodoo, pooh, men in frocks and dogs. Yet many a man is making friends with death, even as we speak, because it proves to be a lot easier than logic. So, let the scatological begin….


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