Andrew Kötting at the Electric Palace
This weekend, Electric Palace present an Andrew Kötting weekend, a celebration of films by the Hastings-based, internationally recognised filmmaker and artist.
Andrew shares a studio with his daughter Eden on The Ponswood Estate (between Screwfix and Toolstation) from where they send out their creative missives into the world.
He has made numerous experimental short films, many of which have been awarded prizes at international film festivals. Gallivant (1996) was his first feature film, a road/home movie about his four-month journey around the coast of Britain with his grandmother Gladys and his daughter Eden. It won the Channel 4 Director’s Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival for best new director, and the Golden Ribbon Award in Rimini. In 2011, the film was voted number 49 in the list of 100 Best British Films of All Time by Time Out.
The weekend festival will be kick-started on Friday with a selection of award-winning short films followed by a director’s Q and A, hosted by writer Nicholas Johnson. Saturday sees an exclusive showing of The Memory Blocks, Kötting’s complex docu-essay about his daughter Eden, who has Joubert’s syndrome (a genetic disorder affecting brain development during gestation).
On Sunday afternoon there is a screening of his award-winning film Gallivant. Along with Time Outmagazine, The Telegraph and the BFI, the comedian and writer Stewart Lee has frequently championed Andrew Kötting’s Gallivant as one of the ten best films ever made.
Full details from The Electric Palace website: electricpalacecinema.com. See the entries for the weekend of 22-24 May.
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