John Rogers takes a trip to St Leonards-on-Sea in East Sussex to go for a walk around this seaside town with the great filmmaker Andrew Kötting.
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.
Iain Sinclair walks a section of Watling Street, the Roman road said to have much older origins, from Canterbury to London.
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.
Andrew Kötting's film retraces John Clare's journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.
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.
Andrew Kötting is a British artist, writer, and filmmaker
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