Movies: Iain Sinclair

  • 2017
    A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street

    A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street (2017)

    A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street

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    A film shot on an iPhone with a super 8 app documenting a walk made by Andrew Kötting with Iain Sinclair from Dover to London along Watling Street, sometimes in the company of John Rogers and sometimes in the company of Anne Caron-Delion....

    A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street
  • 2019
    The Whalebone Box

    The Whalebone Box (2019)

    The Whalebone Box

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    From 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
  • 2014
    Abandoned Goods

    Abandoned Goods (2014)

    Abandoned Goods

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    Abandoned Goods is an essay film exploring the journey of one of Britain’s major collections of Asylum Art containing about 5,500 objects (paintings, drawings, ceramics, sculptures and works on stone, flint and bone) created between 1946 and 1981, by...

    Abandoned Goods
  • 2016
    London Overground

    London Overground (2016)

    London Overground

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    London Overground retraces legendary London writer Iain Sinclair’s journey with film-maker Andrew Kötting around the Overground railway on foot for the book of the same name. The film follows Sinclair reprising the walk over the course of a year rat...

    London Overground
  • 2006
    Displacements

    Displacements (2006)

    Displacements

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    An abstract film, collecting together the 6 rooms Dave McKean made for Chris Petit to reshoot, cut-up, and generally abuse, in pursuit of images for his film 'Asylum', made in collaboration with the writer Iain Sinclair....

    Displacements
  • 1967
    Ah, Sunflower

    Ah, Sunflower (1967)

    Ah, Sunflower

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    Allen Ginsberg in Britain....

    Ah, Sunflower
  • 1964
    They

    They (1964)

    They

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    16mm footage of life in 1960s Dublin, with music and sound effects from Westerns on the soundtrack....

    They
  • 1998
    Maggid Street

    Maggid Street (1998)

    Maggid Street

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    A vagrant is taken in by a south London surgeon, who subjects him to a series of violent procedures, in the hope of recovering the inner daimon, the spark of light....

    Maggid Street
  • 2007
    Offshore (Gallivant)

    Offshore (Gallivant) (2007)

    Offshore (Gallivant)

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    Beginning 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...

    Offshore (Gallivant)
  • 2015
    Black Apples

    Black Apples (2015)

    Black Apples

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    This work is inspired by the BLACK APPLES OF GOWER – a book by Iain Sinclair. The film investigates the ideas of travel, memory, history and place by cutting off a horses head and sticking it over a middle aged man's face. Made in collaboration with ...

    Black Apples
  • 2009
    Edgeland Mutter

    Edgeland Mutter (2009)

    Edgeland Mutter

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    "The film attempts to invoke a sense of the past via the here-and-now. Drawing on my own extensive Super 8 archive and a growing body of Mini DV footage the film portrays a fragmented and nostalgic view of a part of the world that has proved vital to...

    Edgeland Mutter