Screening
Klipperty Klopp Andrew Kötting
09 Apr 2016 – 10 Apr 2016
The Goods Shed
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Screening
By Our Selves, Film screening and Q&A with Andrew Kötting
13 Apr 2016
Event times
7.30pm
Cost of entry
£4 advance and £5 on the door
Address
- 4 John Street
- Gloucestershire
- Stroud
- GL5 2HA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Stroud
Event map
By Our Selves documents a four-day walk made by the English Poet John Clare. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death.
About
By Our Selves documents a four-day walk made by the English Poet John Clare. Toby Jones, Iain Sinclair and a Straw Bear follow in his footsteps exactly 150 years after his death.
En route they bump into Macgillivray, Dr Simon Kovesi and the wizard Alan Moore. Meantime the journey is narrated by Toby’s father Freddie, a maverick actor who featured in numerous David Lynch films. John Clare’s escape from Epping Forest, an epic march through hunger and madness, is an English journey to sit beside A Pilgrim’s Progress. Andrew Kötting, hyperkinetic camper-van captain of Gallivant, sets out in hot pursuit, dressed as a Straw Bear. Father and son, Freddie and Toby Jones, are possessed by the spirit of Clare, and locked in Beckettian embrace: one all-voice and one all-mute. The writer Iain Sinclair watches from the shadows, Alan Moore waits like a bearded figure of fate in Northampton and Dr Simon Kovesi hands out the medicine. Captured in lustrous black and white photography, they discover the only truth of the road; whatever our hopes and delusions, we are always By Our Selves.
Andrew Kötting is an award winning filmmaker, artist and Professor of Time Based Media at UCA Canterbury. Klipperty Klopp will be screened for the Site Festival on Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th April.
