Movies: Andrew Kötting

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....

An ironic yet reverential view of a Gypsy horse fair in the 'wilds' of the English countryside...

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...

In a world of make-believe anything is possible and yet Men are still stuck in their dark holes. Eden Kötting's drawings of trees and animals that make up the work are magical, minimal and Miro-comic. They are a moving image celebration of the collag...

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....

Neuro-diverse artist Eden Kötting’s remarkable drawings, paintings and collages create an illusory, animated world where the rules change and everything is possible....

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 ...

"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 ...

"The film attempts to invoke a sense of the past via the here-and-now. Drawing on my own extensive Super 8 archive and a growing body of Mini DV footage the film portrays a fragmented and nostalgic view of a part of the world that has proved vital to...

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 musi...

FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN is a short animated film that digs into themes inspired by the life of Edith Swan Neck. Eden’s drawings and collages are brought to life by Glenn Whiting and tossed into the time-line like flotsam from a demented passion. Meantime...

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...

A site specific performance piece for camera, filmed on location at Beachy Head, a metaphor for our collective headlong rush over the edge when it comes to our dealings with the environment. But rather than a decisive leap off the cliff, the piece h...

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...

Iain Sinclair walks a section of Watling Street, the Roman road said to have much older origins, from Canterbury to London....

Super 8 footage collected over many years of visiting the French holiday resort of Lourdes is reduced to just one minute as a commission for Dazed and Confused TV. An homage to Bernadette Soubirous, deemed insane by the church until she got around t...

A brief portrait of frailty and hanging on...

A companion piece to the film IT’S ALL IN THE MIND commissioned through Channel 4 for their RANDOM ACTS strand. This time however we are not land-locked, we are all-at-sea. Eden Kötting’s drawings and collages are aquatically themed featuring fish, ...

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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 mad...