By Our Selves documents a four-day walk made by the English Poet John Clare from an asylum in the Epping Forest up into Northamptonshire. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death. En route they bump into Highland musician and poet MacGillivray, and graphic novelist Alan Moore. Captured in black & white photography, they discover the only truth of the road: whatever our hopes and delusions, we are always By Our Selves.
A whalebone box found washed up on the shore. Is it an enigmatic object containing a secret? A survivor from a shipwreck? It was given to Iain Sinclair, Kötting's walking companion on his latest jaunt themed film. They set out on an expedition to take this box to its place of origin, a beach on the Isle of Harris in Scotland's Outer Hebrides. Artist Eden Kötting helps shape the film, and in many ways it's an ode to her indomitable spirit. Shot using mainly super 8 and super 8 apps and incorporating elements of archive and pinhole photography, The Whalebone Box celebrates the notion of the home-made but is also an idiosyncratic road map. Elements of the Box: THE WHALEBONE BOX TRAILER 1 minute 30 seconds 2019 - Andrew Kötting BECAUSE THE REST IS SILENCE 13 minutes 30 seconds 2020 - Andrew Kötting An hauntological gadabout inclusive of images and out-takes from the films EDITH WALKS, GALLIVANT, LEK AND THE DOGS & WATLING STREET. IN FAR AWAY LAND 6 minutes 2019 Andrew Kötting with Eden Kötting & Glenn Whiting Back stroke butterfly, front crawl and bras, we are awash in an ocean of bubbles. We are deep in the cloud of our own making but help is at hand, and everything might yet be alright. All is not well in the world but Eden is there to help. WHAT CAN YOU SEE? 3 minutes 2019 - Andrew Kötting The film examines the notion of hindsight and foresight through the act of seeing with one's own eyes. THE ROOF IS MY EYES 1 minute 30 seconds 2019 Andrew Kötting with Isabel Skinner The climax to The Whalebone Box that never was . HAND ME DOWN 5 minutes 2017 - Andrew Kötting Super 8 project for Coastal Currents 2017. 1 roll of super 8 film 'everything' shot in camera. Produced by Mark French. A WALK BACK TO THE LAST LONDON BY WAY OF WATLING STREET 18 minutes 2017 Andrew Kötting A film documenting a walk made with Iain Sinclair from Dover to London along Watling Street to coincide with Iain's book THE LAST LONDON RELATED SHORTS: ACROPHOBIA 2 minutes 2014 - Isabel Skinner Isabel Skinner was a student of Andrew Kötting at UCA for many years but surpassed him on all fronts technological within moments... Acrophobia is an extreme fear of heights, irrational but very real and frightening for those who experience it. ROCK N' ROLL STATION 5 minutes - 2020 - Simon Barker (with Jason Wood). I'm in the rock'n'roll session and I'm waiting for michael he's not here brand new cadillac.
Ah! Sunflower: Filmed in 1967 by Robert Klinkert and iain Sinclair Ah! Sunflower is a record of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg's visit t o London. Ginsberg then at the height of his fame as a roving ambassador for the counter-culture stopped off to attend the congress of the dialectics of liberation (for the demystification of violence) which was being held at the roundhouse in Camden Town. Debriefing: Back at the refurbished Roundhouse in Novemb
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