• Greek Title Η Οστεοθήκη Της Φάλαινας
  • Original Title The Whalebone Box
  • Year: 2019
  • Genre: Experimental
  • Country: UK
  • Duration: 83'
  • Director: Andrew Κötting
  • Scriptwriter: Philip Hoare - Intertitles taken from Philip Hoare's book Leviathan or The Whale
  • Cinematography: Anonymous Bosch, Andrew Kötting, Nick Gordon Smith
  • Editing: Andrew Kötting
  • Music / Score: Andrew Kötting
  • Cast: Andrew Kötting, Eden Kötting, Iain Sinclair, Anonymous Bosch, Philip Hoare, Macgillivray
  • Production: Andrew Kötting
  • Color: Color / Black & White
  • Audio: Sound
  • Language: English
  • Format: Μη διαθέσιμη πληροφορία
  • Subtitles: Greek
  • Print Source: Andrew Kötting, Badblöod & Sibyl

Some time ago, a whalebone box that was found washed up on a remote beach was given to writer Iain Sinclair. Once touched the box can change lives. In 2018 filmmaker Andrew Kötting, photographer Anonymous Bosch and Sinclair take the box on a reverse pilgrimage from London back to the Isle of Harris.


Andrew Kötting

Andrew Kötting, born in Elmstead Woods in 1959, is a British award-winning artist, filmmaker and Professor of Time-Based Media at the University for the Creative Arts in Canterbury. After leaving school he worked as a scrap metal dealer and then as a failed lumberjack in Scandinavia before returning to study for a BA in Fine Art at Ravensbourne College of Art & Design and thereafter graduating with an MA from The Slade in London. He has made over a hundred short films, often in collaboration with artists, writers, dancers and performers, which have been awarded prizes at international film festivals. He currently tries to live and work between Hastings on the south coast of England and Fougax-et-Barrineuf in the forests of the French Pyrenees, producing performances, installations, bookworks, Cds and vinyls, often in collaboration with his daughter Eden. 

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