Eden Kötting
Actor
Movies15
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.
MovieDocumentaryA collection of films from an eclectic array of contributors commissioned to raise funds for the Bristol independent cinema The Cube.
Movie5.0A documentary examining the causes and effects of Joubert syndrome – a rare hereditary brain disorder, which affects both the motor and intellectual development of its sufferers.
Mapping Perception
2002 · 3 votes
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
MovieAnimationFantasyBack stroke butterfly, front crawl and bras, we are awash in an ocean of bubbles. Meanwhile Captain Ahab sets sail on his magic carpet in search of the whale. All is not well in the world but Eden is there, fresh from her garden, tuning into “The Far Away Land”. We are deep in the cloud of our own making but help is at hand, and everything might yet be alright.
In Far Away Land
2019
Movie7.1DocumentaryPart home movie, part road movie, Kötting's riveting and eccentric film stars his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys - opinionated, bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminiscences – and Eden, his eight-year-old daughter with Joubert syndrome, as they take a zig-zagging 6,000 mile trip in their campervan around Britain's coastline.
Gallivant
1996 · 11 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
Movie5.0In the Wake of a Deadad is Kötting's powerful, often uncomfortable reflection on the recent death of his father. His Deadad.
In the Wake of a Deadad
2006 · 3 votes
MovieAnimationNeuro-diverse artist Eden Kötting’s remarkable drawings, paintings and collages create an illusory, animated world where the rules change and everything is possible.
MovieAt the threshold of the last mystery you have looked into the eyes of your creature self and watched the sun come dripping a bucket full of gold.
Movie5.3Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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A deliciously eccentric, yet touching portrait of director Andrew Kotting's daughter Eden as a young woman in their tumbledown Pyrennean farmhouse. Last seen in Gallivant (1996) as a plucky kid touring the coastline of Britain with her Big Granny, Eden, now 23, is here shown painting still lifes and singing along to the radio as the seasons ebb and flow around her. Reminiscent of Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man, this lo-fi marvel features music by Scanner's Robin Rimbaud and a range of voices from Kotting's sound archive to explore notions of nostalgia, memory and place.
Louyre: This Our Still Life
2011 · 6 votes
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Filmed over the course of a week in October 2010, the film captures the everyday life of its Joubert syndrome-suffering protagonist, taking in her daily routines of work, play, and therapy, whilst also capturing her admirable joie de vivre against the backdrop of her loving family life.
Portrait of Eden
2011
Movie4.0Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
MovieAn experimental reflection on the changeable and complex nature of memory through the lens of neurodivergence.