Iain Sinclair

Iain Sinclair

Movies for Iain Sinclair...

The Whalebone Box
Title: The Whalebone Box
Released: July 11, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street
Title: A Walk Back to the Last London by Way of Watling Street
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Unearthings – On and Off Watling Street
Title: Unearthings – On and Off Watling Street
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Iain Sinclair walks a section of Watling Street, the Roman road said to have much older origins, from Canterbury to London.
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London Overground
Title: London Overground
Released: July 2, 2016
Type: Movie
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 rather than the day’s walk of the book.
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A Walk By Waiting
Title: A Walk By Waiting
Character: Reader (voice)
Released: June 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A short super-8 film walking several of Harold Pinter's poems about East London.
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By Our Selves
Title: By Our Selves
Character: Himself
Released: October 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Andrew Kötting's film retraces John Clare's journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.
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Black Apples
Title: Black Apples
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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 Iain Sinclair and Anonymous Bosch with music by Buster Grey-Jung and support from Common Ground.
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Abandoned Goods
Title: Abandoned Goods
Character: voice
Released: August 14, 2014
Type: Movie
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 about 140 people compelled to live in the Netherne psychiatric hospital in South London. Blending archive, reconstruction, animation, 35mm rostrum, and observational photography, the film explores the transformation of these objects from clinical material to revered art objects examining the lives of the creators and the changing contexts in which the objects were produced and displayed.
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The Golden Temple - Olympic Regeneration of East London
Title: The Golden Temple - Olympic Regeneration of East London
Character: Iain Sinclair
Released: August 30, 2012
Type: Movie
The Golden Temple - Olympic Regeneration of East London.
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Swandown
Title: Swandown
Released: July 19, 2012
Type: Movie
Director Andrew Kötting and writer Iain Sinclair sail a swan-shaped pedalo from Hastings to Hackney in London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Bunhill Fields Artefact: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Title: Bunhill Fields Artefact: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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Artefact #4: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Title: Artefact #4: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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Artefact #5: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Title: Artefact #5: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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Artefact #2: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Title: Artefact #2: Swandown – Culled from a Waterbound Journey from Hastings to Hackney
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Each piece was edited from material that was from the SWANDOWN shoot and named Artefacts 1-5.
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Postmodernism: The Substance of Style
Title: Postmodernism: The Substance of Style
Character: Self - writer and filmmaker
Released: September 24, 2011
Type: Movie
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Robert A M Stern and Sir Terry Farrell among them, and asks them how and why Postmodernism came about, and what it means to be Postmodern. This film was originally made for the V&A exhibition 'Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 - 1990'.
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The London Perambulator
Title: The London Perambulator
Character: Himself
Released: May 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Leading London writers and cultural commentators Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand explore the importance of the liminal spaces at the city's fringe, it's Edgelands, through the work of enigmatic and downright eccentric writer and researcher Nick Papadimitriou - a man whose life is dedicated to exploring and archiving areas beyond the permitted territories of the high street, the retail park, the suburban walkways.
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Edgeland Mutter
Title: Edgeland Mutter
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
"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 the very fabric of my existence. Amongst the sonic flotsam and jetsam lie littoral truths, half-truths and coastal myths. Both melancholic and absurd the ‘coastcard’ is a confusing missive from a place of hope. It is a reminisce and flawed celebration. Hastings as a place where both memories and people are pulled towards the sea in a strange state of ‘reverse evolution’." – Andrew Kötting
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Offshore (Gallivant)
Title: Offshore (Gallivant)
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
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 This Filthy Earth) and the actor Tchili (This Filthy Earth and Ivul). The attempt was witnessed by the writer and wordsmith Iain Sinclair and is narrated by Eden Kötting. The film came about in 2006 (the 10 year anniversary since the release of the original film Gallivant) and the chance discovery of a boat called The Gallivant, which offered to shadow us across the Channel as a support vessel. Flotsam and jetsam in the form of conversations, field recordings and the voices of Gladys and Eden from the original film invade. The film shows scenes of explicit vomiting.
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Displacements
Title: Displacements
Character: himself
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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London Orbital
Title: London Orbital
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
A filmmaker sets out to make a voyage of discovery on London's orbital motorway, the M25. He enlists the help of several others to film the motorway from several points, drive endlessly around it and dig up stories and potential beauty behind the motorway.
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The Blood Beast: The Films of Michael Reeves
Title: The Blood Beast: The Films of Michael Reeves
Character: himself
Released: December 19, 1999
Type: Movie
The 12th Episode from the "Eurotika" documentary series, made for the UK Channel 4 about European exploitation cinema. This one looks at the films of British director Michael Reeves, who died under mysterious circumstances at age 25. Interviews include TV star and longtime fellow Ian Ogilvy, who starred in all three of Reeves's features, award winning author Iain Sinclair and Paul Maslansky, who produced Reeves's first movie.
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The Falconer
Title: The Falconer
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Chris Petit & Iain Sinclair's liminal, laminal tribute to underground filmmaker Peter Whitehead, featuring image manipulation by Dave Mckean & reminiscences from various countercultural characters. A fitting epitaph for an English margin walker.
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Terror and Magnificence
Title: Terror and Magnificence
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A short film made for BBC2, it features insight into the inspiration that Christ Church, Spitalfields gave the composer/performer, John Harle, in the composition of the piece 'Terror and Magnificence'. Writer Iain Sinclair and Professor of Architecture Keith Critchlow contribute with fascinating detail about the structure of the building, the neighbourhood and the overwhelming presence of this huge-scale Hawksmoor church, built after The Great Fire of London.