Their Rancid Words Stagnate our Ponds
Kotting, Andrew (2018) Their Rancid Words Stagnate our Ponds. [Film]
Their Rancid Words Stagnate our Ponds is a companion moving image piece to Kötting's feature film Lek and the Dogs. Missing scenes from the original feature film were reconfigured to be presented as an installation or for single screen projection.
The central character Lek is seen to be living in a hinterland or an 'elsewhere', reminiscent of Krapp from Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape, minimal in dialogue and using a made up language or ‘gramlot’ the film might be seen as a contemplative landscape film and belongs to an ever growing body of Köttings work which have become known as ‘Journeyworks’.
The film grew out of a project which was initially instigated by the BFI and a collaboration with the writer Hattie Naylor to adapt her prize winning play Ivan and the Dogs for cinema. Having completed the feature film Lek and the Dogs, Kötting reworked footage to produce a thematically connected shorter piece of work. This film is consistent with much of Kötting’s oeuvre and in particular his investigations into the ideas of ‘spillage’ in which we find one project consists of numerous multifarious outcomes.
The installation has been presented at Towner Gallery and the single screen version in Film Festivals around the world including London Short Film Festival, Winterthur Switzerland, Oberhausen Germany and Swedenborg International film festival in London where it won a best film prize.
The film was also short listed for an AHRC Inspiration Award
The film is distributed by LUX in the UK and is also on the Lek and the Dogs DVD and DVD Blu-ray as part of the extras.
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