ANDREW KÖTTING

Andrew is an award-winning artist, filmmaker and Professor of Time-Based Media at UCA in Canterbury. After leaving school he worked as a scrap metal dealer and then as a failed lumberjack in Scandinavia before returning to study for a BA in Fine Art at Ravensbourne and thereafter graduating with an MA from The Slade in London. He has made over a hundred short films, which have been awarded prizes at international film festivals before making his idiosyncratic first feature film Gallivant (1996) a four-month journey around the coast of Britain on which he was accompanied by his grandmother Gladys and daughter Eden. Subsequent feature films include This Filthy Earth, Ivul, This Our Still Life, Swandown, By Our Selves, Edith Walks, Lek And The Dogs and this year’s The Whalebone Box, which was released by HOME and streamed on MUBI throughout the UK and Ireland. He currently tries to live and work between Hastings on the south coast of England and Fougax-et-Barrineuf in the French Pyrenees, producing Films, Performances, Installations, Bookworks, Cds and Vinyls. His new film for PLACE 2020, BECAUSE THE REST IS SILENCE, reconfigures aspects of his previous moving image works, which focus on the idea of place and the potential for temporal disjunction, memory, mis-remembrance and the persistence of the past within much of his work. He describes the film as ‘a hauntological gadabout inclusive of images and out-takes from my journeying and the films EDITH WALKS, GALLIVANT, LEK AND THE DOGS & WATLING STREET. However, the glue that holds much of the film together is the sound and music gleaned from my INSIDEOUT CD published through Sonic Arts Network many moons ago. Films of memory breed more films of memory. Ultimately Memory begets more memory.’