Iain Sinclair
Director
Movies13
Movie4.2Director 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.
Swandown
2012 · 9 votes
MovieAn abstract film, collecting together the 6 rooms Dave McKean made for Chris Petit to reshoot, cut-up, and generally abuse, in pursuit of images for his film 'Asylum', made in collaboration with the writer Iain Sinclair.
Displacements
2006
MovieBeginning 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.
Movie5.5DocumentaryDramaAndrew Kötting's film retraces John Clare's journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.
By Our Selves
2015 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaFrom 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.
The Whalebone Box
2019 · 3 votes
- Movie7.0
Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the liminal spaces at the city's fringe, it's Edgelands, through the work of enigmatic and downright eccentric writer and researcher Nick Papadimitriou - a man whose life is dedicated to exploring and archiving areas beyond the permitted territories of the high street, the retail park, the suburban walkways.
The London Perambulator
2009 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryA 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.
London Orbital
2002 · 2 votes
- Movie7.5Documentary
The Golden Temple - Olympic Regeneration of East London.
The Golden Temple - Olympic Regeneration of East London
2012 · 1 votes
Movie4.0Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
Movie6.5Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
- Movie9.0Documentary
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean & reminiscences from various countercultural characters. A fitting epitaph for an English margin walker.
The Falconer
1998 · 1 votes
- MovieDocumentary
Abandoned Goods is an essay film exploring the journey of one of Britain’s major collections of Asylum Art containing about 5,500 objects (paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and works on stone, flint and bone) created between 1946 and 1981, by about 140 people compelled to live in the Netherne psychiatric hospital in South London. Blending archive, reconstruction, animation, 35mm rostrum, and observational photography, the film explores the transformation of these objects from clinical material to revered art objects examining the lives of the creators and the changing contexts in which the objects were produced and displayed.
Abandoned Goods
2014
Movie5.3Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.