Andrew Kötting Explained

Andrew Kötting (born 16 December 1959) is a British artist, writer, and filmmaker.

He 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. Gallivant 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 Iain 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] Kötting released his second feature, This Filthy Earth, in 2001. It was loosely adapted from Émile Zola's novel La Terre.[9]

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.[10] 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[11] and Ireland.[12]

Gareth Evans,[13] Curator, Whitechapel Gallery, called 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

Publications

Publications by Kötting

Publications with contributions by Kötting

Publications with content about Kötting

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2017-06-22. Edith Walks - Andrew Kötting, Iain Sinclair and their band of Mummers. 2021-02-26. the lost byway.
  2. Web site: Swandown (Dual Format Edition). https://web.archive.org/web/20210831122327/https://shop.bfi.org.uk/swandown-dual-format-edition.html. dead. 31 August 2021. 2021-02-26. shop.bfi.org.uk.
  3. Web site: University for the Creative Arts - Kotting Professor Andrew - UCA. 3 Jul 2017.
  4. News: Sandhu . Sukhdev . 18 Nov 2011 . Scenes from Andrew Kötting's life . The Guardian . London . 3 Jul 2017 .
  5. Web site: BFI Screenonline: Kötting, Andrew (1958-) Biography. 3 Jul 2017.
  6. Web site: Andrew Kotting - Works, Articles, Clips and Stills | Luxonline. 3 Jul 2017.
  7. News: VERTIGO | Andrew Kötting's Gallivant. Gareth . Evans. Summer 2007. Vertigo. Close-Up Film Centre. 4 Jul 2017.
  8. Web site: Buy Gallivant - Gallivant. https://web.archive.org/web/20150908043321/http://shop.bfi.org.uk/gallivant-dvd-bluray.html#.WVtKUTeQw8o. dead. 8 September 2015. BFI. Gallivant scooped the Best New Director Award at its Edinburgh Film Festival premiere.. 4 Jul 2017.
  9. Web site: This Filthy Earth, directed by Andrew Kötting | Film review. GA. TimeOut. 10 September 2012. TimeOut London. 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.. 4 Jul 2017.
  10. Web site: KOTTING AND EDGE LAND New Publication out now - LUX. 9 Feb 2012. Lux. 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. . 4 Jul 2017.
  11. Web site: DVD press release - This Our Still Life - A film by Andrew Kötting . 9 Feb 2012. BFI. This Our Still Life by Andrew Kötting ... Premiered at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and released in cinemas by the BFI . 4 Jul 2017.
  12. Web site: University for the Creative Arts - KOTTING Professor Andrew - UCA. '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.. 4 Jul 2017.
  13. Web site: At Play in the Ideas of the World: Curator Gareth Evans on the films of Mike Dibb. 2021-02-26. Whitechapel Gallery. 31 January 2021 .
  14. Web site: Films - In The Wake Of A Deadad. 4 Jul 2017.
  15. Web site: Ivul | The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival . Jonathan Romney . Oct 2009 . BFI . https://web.archive.org/web/20091011011638/http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/414 . 11 October 2009 . 4 Jul 2017 . dead .
  16. News: Swandown: two men in a pedalo | Film | The Guardian. Rose. Steve. 18 Jul 2012. Guardian. 4 Jul 2017.
  17. Web site: By Our Selves review – disturbing journey through John Clare's poetry | Film | The Guardian. Bradshaw. Peter. 1 Oct 2015. Guardian. 4 Jul 2017.
  18. Web site: Lek and the Dogs dir. Andrew Kötting – Screen Archive South East. 4 Jul 2017.
  19. Web site: Film of the week: Edith Walks makes England loopy again Sight & Sound. 2021-02-26. British Film Institute. 23 June 2017 .
  20. Web site: 2017-06-22. Edith Walks review – eccentric trek in pursuit of Englishness. 2021-02-26. The Guardian.
  21. Web site: Andrew Kötting: Who You Walk With Alters What You See. 2021-02-26. Towner Eastbourne.

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