Iain Sinclair
Directing
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Known For
A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street
A film shot on an iPhone with a super 8 app documenting a walk made by Andrew Kötting with Iain Sinclair from Dover to London along Watling Street, sometimes in the company of John Rogers and sometimes in the company of Anne Caron-Delion.
The Whalebone Box
From London to the far reaches of Scotland, the journey in the form of a quest for a whalebone box, related to its place of origin.
Artefact #2: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
London Orbital
A filmmaker sets out to make a voyage of discovery on London's orbital motorway, the M25. He enlists the help of several others to film the motorway from several points, drive endlessly around it and dig up stories and potential beauty behind the motorway.
By Our Selves
Andrew Kötting's film retraces John Clare's journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.
Artefact #5: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
Bunhill Fields Artefact: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
Artefact #4: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
Swandown
Director Andrew Kötting and writer Iain Sinclair sail a swan-shaped pedalo from Hastings to Hackney in London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games.
Offshore (Gallivant)
Beginning in the pitch-black early hours of a September morning, the film follows a 14hr 17min cross-channel relay swim that I made along with my brothers Mark and Joey, a friend Ian Dale, the actor and comedian Sean Lock (Smart Alek and co-writer of This Filthy Earth) and the actor Tchili (This Filthy Earth and Ivul). The attempt was witnessed by the writer and wordsmith Iain Sinclair and is narrated by Eden Kötting. The film came about in 2006 (the 10 year anniversary since the release of the original film Gallivant) and the chance discovery of a boat called The Gallivant, which offered to shadow us across the Channel as a support vessel. Flotsam and jetsam in the form of conversations, field recordings and the voices of Gladys and Eden from the original film invade. The film shows scenes of explicit vomiting.