Andrew Kötting

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Kötting at an event for his Swandown film, in 2011

Andrew Kötting (born 16 December 1959) is a British artist, writer, and filmmaker. Kötting made numerous experimental short films, which were awarded prizes at international film festivals. Gallivant, was his first feature film, a road/home film about his four-month journey around the coast of the UK, with his grandmother Gladys and his daughter Eden, which won the Channel 4 Prize at the Edinburgh Film Festival for Best Director and the Golden Ribbon Award in Rimini (Italy). In 2011 the film was voted number 49 in Best British Film of all time by Time Out. Kötting has frequently collaborated with Ian Sinclair,[1][2] Jem Finer and his daughter Eden Kötting. He is currently a Professor of Time Based Media at the University for the Creative Arts Canterbury.[3]

Early life[]

Kötting was born in Kent on 16 December 1959.[4][5] He studied BA Fine Art at the Ravensbourne College of Art and Design in 1984 and MA in Mixed Media at the Slade School of Art in 1988.[6]

Life and career[]

Kötting released Gallivant, his first feature-length film, in 1996.[7] It premièred at the Edinburgh Film Festival, where it won the Channel 4 Best New Director prize.[8][9] Kötting released his second feature, ,[10] in 2001.[5] It was loosely adapted from Émile Zola's novel La Terre.[10]

In July 2010, Kötting was an artist-in-residence at the La Rochelle International Film Festival in south-west France, creating work and collaborating with the photographer Sebastian Edge.[11] In 2011 he directed This Our Still Life, which premièred at the Venice Film Festival and was acquired by the BFI for distribution in the UK[12] and Ireland.[13]

Gareth Evans,[14] Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, called Andrew Kötting one of Britain’s most intriguing artists, currently practising who “could be said to have taken to heart the spirit of visionary curiosity and hybrid creativity exemplified by the late Derek Jarman. His forty year oeuvre to date has moved from early live-art inflected, often absurdist pieces, through darkly comic shorts teasing out the melancholy surrealism at the heart of contemporary Englishness to nine resolutely independent feature films that take landscape and journeys as the springboards for visually striking and structurally inventive enquiries into identity, belonging, history and notions of community. It is his openness and outlaw intelligence and compelling wit that marks out his work as both vital and important.’

Filmography[]

Performances[]

  • 2017 EDITH Performance with Iain Sinclair, Jem Finer, David Aylward, Claudia Barton TOWNER Gallery, Eastbourne.[22]
  • 2017 EDITH Performance with Claudia Barton at Alchemy Festival Hawick, Scottish Borders.
  • 2016 EDITH Performance with Iain Sinclair, Jem Finer, David Aylward, Claudia Barton at Root 1066 Arts Festival, Hastings.
  • 2016 EDITH Performance with Claudia Barton at Electric Spring Huddersfield University.
  • 2015 BY OUR SELVES Performance with Iain Sinclair, Kirsten Norrie, Jem Finer and David Aylward at Dilston Grove, Battersea Arts Centre, Whitechapel Gallery, Colchester Arts Centre, Whitechapel Gallery and Oxford Brookes University.
  • 2013 SWANDOWN - Performance with Iain Sinclair, Jem Finer, Kirsten Norrie at Shoreline Literature Festival Aldeburgh, Dilston Grove London

Writing[]

  • 2019 ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE IN BRITAIN SINCE 1989 – Chapter on Andrew Kötting. Yale University Press
  • 2018 THE UNWANTED SOUND OF EVERYTHING WE THINK WE WANT – Chapter in Documentary Film and the Listening Experience – Published by University of Huddersfield Press - ISBN 978-1-86218-156-4
  • 2018 EARTHWORKS Bookwork Published by Badbloodandsibyl - Distributed by BFI, LUX & Cornerhouse Publishing
  • ISBN 978-0-9568733-7-8
  • 2016 EDITH (THE CHRONICLES) Bookwork with Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore Published by Badbloodandsibyl - Distributed by BFI, LUX, Cornerhouse Publishing & Swedenborg House ISBN 978-0-9568733-4-7
  • 2015 BY OUR SELVES Bookwork with Iain Sinclair, Dr Simon Kovesi, Toby Jones and Alan Moore. Published by Badbloodandsibyl - Distributed by BFI, LUX and Swedenborg House  ISBN 978-0-9568733-61
  • 2013 HOW LONG AGO THIS REMEMBRANCE - Essay for PHOTOWORKS Journal.
  • 2013 SHOCK CORRIDOR - Essay for Film International – Cornerhouse Publishing.
  • 2013 SWANDOWN Bookwork with Iain Sinclair. Published by Badbloodandsibyl - Distributed by BFI, Cornerhouse Publishing and LUX - ISBN 978-0-9568733-30

References[]

  1. ^ "Edith Walks - Andrew Kötting, Iain Sinclair and their band of Mummers". the lost byway. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Swandown (Dual Format Edition)". shop.bfi.org.uk. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  3. ^ "University for the Creative Arts - Kotting Professor Andrew - UCA". Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Sandhu, Sukhdev (18 November 2011). "Scenes from Andrew Kötting's life". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d "BFI Screenonline: Kötting, Andrew (1958-) Biography". Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Andrew Kotting - Works, Articles, Clips and Stills | Luxonline". Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  7. ^ Evans, Gareth (Summer 2007). "VERTIGO | Andrew Kötting's Gallivant". Vertigo. . Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  8. ^ "Buy Gallivant - Gallivant". BFI. Retrieved 4 July 2017. Gallivant scooped the Best New Director Award at its Edinburgh Film Festival premiere.
  9. ^ "Gallivant - Awards - IMDb". Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b GA. "This Filthy Earth, directed by Andrew Kötting | Film review". TimeOut. TimeOut London. Retrieved 4 July 2017. The follow-up to Kötting's road movie/autobiographical essay Gallivant recounts a fictional tale of familial and social strife inspired by Zola's La Terre.
  11. ^ "KOTTING AND EDGE LAND New Publication out now - LUX". Lux. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2017. collaboration between the artist and film maker, Andrew Kotting and the photographer, Sebastian Edge [who worked] together at La Rochelle in 2010, where Kotting was an artist-in-residence at The Centre Intermondes.
  12. ^ "DVD press release - This Our Still Life - A film by Andrew Kötting" (PDF). BFI. 9 February 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2017. This Our Still Life by Andrew Kötting ... Premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and released in cinemas by the BFI
  13. ^ "University for the Creative Arts - KOTTING Professor Andrew - UCA". Retrieved 4 July 2017. 'Louyre - This Our Still Life' premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in competition 2011 and distributed in the UK and Ireland by the BFI.
  14. ^ "At Play in the Ideas of the World: Curator Gareth Evans on the films of Mike Dibb". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  15. ^ "Films - In The Wake Of A Deadad". Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  16. ^ Jonathan Romney (October 2009). "Ivul | The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival". BFI. Archived from the original on 11 October 2009. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  17. ^ Rose, Steve (18 July 2012). "Swandown: two men in a pedalo | Film | The Guardian". Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  18. ^ Bradshaw, Peter (1 October 2015). "By Our Selves review – disturbing journey through John Clare's poetry | Film | The Guardian". Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  19. ^ "Lek and the Dogs dir. Andrew Kötting – Screen Archive South East". Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  20. ^ "Film of the week: Edith Walks makes England loopy again | Sight & Sound". British Film Institute. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  21. ^ "Edith Walks review – eccentric trek in pursuit of Englishness". The Guardian. 22 June 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  22. ^ "Andrew Kötting: Who You Walk With Alters What You See". Towner Eastbourne. Retrieved 26 February 2021.

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