Kingdom Protista (Andrew Kötting, UK, 2000)
Runtime: 5 min
Synopsis:
A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments, seen under a microscope can quickly confirm the existence of another world. In dimensions that fall between those of bacteria and the smallest of animals, there exists a realm of life so diverse that you have to sit and wonder. This is the Kingdom of Protista and like all living things, it needs to suck itself off.
Andrew Kötting
After a BA 1st Class Degree in Fine Art from Ravensbourne College of Art and Design, and a Post Graduate Mixed Media The Slade, University College, London, he set up BadBLöOd&siBYL studios in the French Pyrenees. Performances, art installations, screenings, retrospectives and lectures on film and video work throughout Europe and America followed, including Tate Modern, Tate Britain, the ICA and the NFT. His feature films Gallivant and This Filthy Earth received festival awards, and he is now Senior Lecturer Time Based Media, Kent Institute of Art Design. His most recent project mixing video and live performance has culminated in a book In the Wake of a Deadad.
animate!:
animate! tv is commissioning its 17th annual slate of personal projects for television, with running times of up to 6 minutes, and production budgets between £5,000 and £20,000. Individual works will be premiered on Channel 4 in autumn 2008, and will enjoy a long and highly visible international profile.
To be eligible for the competition, you must be an artist or animator with experience of experimental practice in film or digital media, and be based in the UK. Celluloid, tape and digital technologies are all acceptable, in pure or hybrid form. For further information please visit www.animateonline.org.
| Credits:
Director: Andrew Kötting |
