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Andrew Kotting

Andrew Kötting was born between the mountains and the sea in Elmstead Woods in 1959. After some early forays into market trading and scrap-metal dealing he travelled to Scandinavia to become a Lumberjack. He returned home in the 80’s to study for a BA Honours Degree in Fine Art at Ravensbourne College of Art and Design and then graduated with a Masters Degree from The Slade, London.

He currently lives and works between Hastings in England and Fougax-et-Barrineuf in the French Pyrenees. He teaches part-time at the University for the Creative Arts where he is Professor of Time Based Media.

He has made numerous experimental short films, which were awarded prizes at international film festivals. Gallivant (1996), was his first feature film, a road/home movie about his four-month journey around the coast of Britain, 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). The film went on in 2011 to be voted number 49 as Best British Film of all time by the UK publication Time Out.

In 2001 he directed the first of his Earthworks Trilogy; This Filthy Earth, in 2009 Ivul, and in 2018 Lek And The Dogs. All three films were released theatrically throughout the UK and France. As well as exhibitions of his work in the UK he has also presented retrospectives of his work in Belgium, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland and Switzerland.

His twenty-eight 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 eight resolutely independent feature films that take biography, landscape and journeys as springboards into the making of visually striking and structurally inventive enquiries into identity, belonging, history and notions of the folkloric.

Works by Andrew Kotting

THE BUZZ OF THE PAST

Andrew Kotting

UK, 2022
7 minutes

BECAUSE THE REST IS SILENCE

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, 2020
13 minutes

IN FAR AWAY LAND

Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting

UK, 2019
6 minutes

DOG ATE DOG

Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting

UK, 2018
14 minutes

THEIR RANCID WORDS STAGNATE OUR PONDS

Andrew Kotting

, 2018
8 minutes

HAND ME DOWN

Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting

UK, 2017
5 minutes

FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN

Andrew Kotting

, 2017
10 minutes

KLIPPERTY KLÖPP2

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, , 2017
12 minutes

A WALK BACK TO THE LAST LONDON BY WAY OF WATLING STREET

Andrew Kotting

UK, 2017
18 minutes

EDITH LOOPS

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, , 2016
6 minutes

EDITH WALKS

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom,, 2016
60 minutes

All At See

Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting

United Kingdom, France, 2015
3 minutes

It’s All In The Mind

Andrew Kotting, Eden Kotting

United Kingdom, , 2015
3 minutes

BUOYED BY THE IRRELEVANCE OF THEIR OWN INSIGNIFICANCE Andrew Kotting

BUOYED BY THE IRRELEVANCE OF THEIR OWN INSIGNIFICANCE

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, 2015
4 minutes

COMBAT

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, France, 2015
5 minutes

BLACK APPLES

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, , 2015
10 minutes

THIS ILLUMINATED WORLD IS FULL OF STUPID MEN

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, , 2014
9 minutes

Above Them The World Beyond

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, 2013
13 minutes

This Our Still Life

Andrew Kotting

, 2011
57 minutes

An History of Civilisation

Andrew Kotting

UK, 2011
7 minutes

Offshore

Andrew Kotting

UK, 2007
21 minutes

In the Wake of a Deadad

Andrew Kotting

UK, 2006
60 minutes

MAPPING PERCEPTION

Andrew Kotting

United Kingdom, , 2002
37 minutes

Kingdom Protista

Andrew Kotting

UK, 2000
5 minutes

Donkeyhead

Andrew Kotting, Andrew Lindsay

UK, 1998
2 minutes

La Bas

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1995
20 minutes

Jaunt

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1995
5 minutes

Gallivant Trailer

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1994
6 minutes

Smart Alek

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1993
18 minutes

Diddykoy

Andrew Kotting, Nick G Smith

, 1992
7 minutes

Fleshfilm

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1992
5 minutes

H.B. 1829 (His Badblood)

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1991
6 minutes

Hoi Polloi

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1990
10 minutes

Acumen

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1990
20 minutes

Hubbub In The Baobabs

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1989
30 minutes

Klipperty Klopp

Andrew Kotting

UK, 1984
12 minutes

Diseased and Disorderly

Eden Kotting, Andrew Kotting

UK,
13 minutes

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