ANDREW KÖTTING’S BIO-FILMOGRAPHY
Born in Kent in 1958, video artist Andrew Kötting trained at College of Art and Design in Ravensbourne and at Slade School of Fine Arts in London. In the early 1980s, while working on several performances filmed in super 16, Andrew directed several experimental short films, which were awarded at numerous film festivals.
Gallivant is a sensitive portrait of family ties, but also of eccentric 1990s England. The film is fantastically well received by critics and audiences alike, and it wins the Channel4 Award for Best Director at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Golden Ribbon Award in Rimini (Italy).
In 2001, Andrew directs his second feature This Filthy Earth, an adaptation of The Earth by Emile Zola. The film is premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, and later it wins the Digital Prize at the Hamburg International Film Festival.
Throughout the years Andrew never stopped his performance work. In 2002, he finishes the Mapping Perception project. Inspired by his daughter Eden, the piece freely mixes cinema, art, and hard science.
Several exhibitions and retrospectives have exposed Andrew’s works and performances, among them the International Film Festival of La Rochelle and the Curzon Soho in London in 2004.
Andrew Kötting is one of Britain’s most intriguing artists, and perhaps the only film-maker 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. Formally exploratory and aesthetically innovative, like Jarman he is also a great collaborator, building around his various projects a community of shared interest, while anchoring his prolific production in an ongoing report on the lives of those closest to him.
His twenty year oeuvre to date has moved from early live-art inflected, often absurdist pieces, ripe with their own internal logics and skewed mythologies, through darkly comic shorts teasing out the melancholy surrealism at the heart of contemporary Englishness to two resolutely independent features that take landscape (rare among contemporary artists, he is most engaged beyond the urban) and journeys as the springboards for visually striking and structurally inventive enquiries into identity, belonging, history and notions of community. Throughout his art works he has also written and performed, created for digital platforms and for the gallery (two- or three-dimensional pieces and installations) and is increasingly working directly with sound and music, in concert and on cd.
Such activity reflects both his wide-ranging formal interests but also his refusal to adopt conventional ideas of closure around artworks in any medium. Ideas and images frequently migrate between media, being echoed and amplified in these translations. It is this openness, underpinned by an outlaw intelligence and pranksterish wit that marks out his work as both energising and important.
Gareth Evans
Websites
- www.luxonline.org.uk/artists/andrew_kotting/index.html
- www.deadad.info
- www.mappingperception.org.uk
- www.ucreative.ac.uk/index.cfm?articleid=16160
- www.animateonline.org/films/kingdomprotista
- www.frieze.com/shows/review/andrew_koetting
- www.timeout.com/london/art/events/557281/andrewkotting.html
- www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/578008/index.html
Filmography
FEATURES
2009 IVUL Feature Film, 96’, 35mm
World Premiere Locarno IFF, Filmmakers of the Present Competition
2007 IN THE WAKE OF A DEADAD Feature Film, 62’
Rotterdam IFF, Edinburgh IFF, Karlovy Vary IFF, Cork IFF, La Rochelle IFF
2001 THIS FILTHY EARTH Feature Film, 108’, 35mm
Edinburgh IFF, Digital Prize Hamburg IFF, Vancouver IFF, Dublin IFF
Retrospective Curzon Soho London, Retrospective La Rochelle IFF
1996 GALLIVANT Documentary feature, 35mm, 104’
Berlinale Forum Runners Up Prize, Sundance IFF, Golden Ribbon 1st Prize Rimini IFF
Channel 4 Director’s Award Edinburgh IFF, Rotterdam IFF
SHORTS & VIDEOS (SELECTION)
2007 THAT’S THE WAY TO DO IT (With Marcia Farquhar)
2007 OFFSHORE (Gallivant)
2006 SHANGHAI FROLIC
2004 VISIONARY LANDSCAPES with Jem Finer
2003 ME
2002 MAPPING PERCEPTION
2002 TOO G
2000 INVALIDS
2000 KINGDOM PROTISTA
1998 DONKEYHEAD
1995 JAUNT
1994 LA BAS
1993 SMART ALEK
1991 ACUMEN
1990 HOI POLLOI
1984 KLIPPERTY KLOPP
avec JEAN-LUC BIDEAU AURELIA PETIT JACOB AUZANNEAU ADELAIDE LEROUX TCHILI CAPUCINE AUBRIOT MANON AUBRIOT – scénario JOHN CHEETHAM ANDREW KÖTTING ANDREW MITCHELL image NICK GORDON-SMITH GARY PARKER – premier assistant réalisation DAVID DUSA – montage DAVID DUSA BAPTISTE EVRARD musique CHRISTIAN GARCIA – chef opérateur son BRUNO AUZET – sound design PHILIPPE CIOMPI – mixage PHILIPPE CIOMPI HANS KÜNZI producteur délégué ÉMILIE BLÉZAT – coproducteurs ELENA TATTI THIERRY SPICHER
une coproduction Sciapode & Box Productions, avec Télévision Suisse Romande – une entreprise de SRG SSR idée suisse, Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains, avec la participation de CinéCinéma, avec le soutien de l’Office Fédéral de la Culture (DFI), Suisse, la Région Aquitaine, la Région Midi-Pyrénées, Fonds régional d’aide à la création audiovisuelle & Commission du film, le Centre National de la Cinématographie, un scénario développé par Tall Stories Ben Woolford & Dan Weldon en association avec BBC Films & le soutien du Film Council