Movies: Andrew Kötting

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....

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...

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...

A sad tale that waxes lyrical, replete with the diabolical bastardisation of various Greek myths....

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...

In a hinterland within the 'elsewhere', a lone character meanders in search of meaning and understanding. Hither and dither doth he wander reflecting upon all things that came before and all things hereafter. The work is a companion piece to Kötting'...

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

Andrew Kötting’s short film ‘That’s the Way to Do It’ is based on Farquhar’s life-size Punch & Judy performance The Cabinet of Horribly Violent Glove Puppets. This is a feminist work. It is not sanitised. Both Judy and the baby die....

The work might be seen as a mash-up of the films “It's All In The Mind”, “All At Sea”, “Combat - Black Apples” and “Bouyed By The Irrelevance Of Their Own Insignificance”. Drawings and paintings by Eden Kötting and animations by Glenn Whiting. The so...

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....

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 ...

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 Pl...

An introduction to Jarman's 'The Garden'....

Historical voices and images relay the experiences of tuberculosis, Knightwick Sanatorium and London Fever Hospital....

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 ...

Three monitors played Mini DV footage that had been edited specifically for the Installation. Broken down into three elements: Landscape, People and Animals, it was then edited into three separate vhs time lines and presented on three separate monito...

"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."...

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...

Raw HD time-lapse sequences made for the feature film SWANDOWN re-edited and manipulated....

'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 '...