SEA SWALLOW’D
2010
Video Colour & B/W 16mm and Archive - 18 Minutes

The film charts the choppy waters of gut feelings, capturing the flotsam and jetsam of impulse, desire and fights to the death.

A film by Andrew Kötting and Curious shot as a series of lapping and flowing, irregular chapters, which borrow their titles from Moby Dick. The film is image and urge driven, giving the viewer the feeling of beach-combing for different fragments of treasure on the shoreline. A highly experiential journey mixing 16mm B&W footage shot by filmmaker Ben Rivers with video and archival footage.

Sea Swallow’d is about dark green secrets dragged from the belly of the sea. Fishermen who went out one day in the early morning and they never came back, stories of fights, of fights to the death, of setting sail, never to return. Of stories of staying fast, of holding on, of taking the last dance in the setting sun on the prom.  It’s about things that were cast off and hidden and tossed into the ocean and regurgitated. It’s about GUT FEELING and LOVE.

Written by
Helen Paris - Leslie Hill

Cameras
Andrew Kötting - Leslie Hill - Ben Rivers

Sound
Andrew Kötting - Leslie Hill

Edit
Andrew Kötting - Leslie Hill

Music                       
Graeme Miller

Producer                       
Cheryl Pierce, Artsadmin

Cast                                    
Leslie Hill - Helen Paris - Rene Newby - Geoff McGarry

COLLECTIONS

Arts Admin – London – UK
Lux London - UK