„The Whalebone Box“ is a film about a box made of whale bone. Entangled in a fisherman’s net and washed up on a remote beach in the Outer Hebrides. Once touched the box can change lives. The box was given to Iain Sinclair almost thirty years ago by Steve Dilworth, a sculptor based on the Island of Harris. In 2018 the box was taken on an 800 mile reverse pilgrimage from London back to the Isle of Harris, in the company of the film-maker Andrew Kötting, the photographer Anonymous Bosch. The films is a documentation of this trip, the physical and the metaphysical one.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 24 min.
- Country, year
- United Kingdom, 2019
- Genre
- Documentary, Experimental
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Andrew Kötting
- Screenplay
- Andrew Kötting
- Producers
- Andrew Kötting
- Cinematography
- Anonymous Bosch
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
Director
Andrew Kötting
Andrew Kötting graduated from the Ravensbourne College of Art & Design and has made several 8mm and 16mm films for e.g. the BBC and Channel Four. „Gallivant“ (1996) was his first feature film. The film went on in 2011 to be voted number 49 as Best British Film of All Time by the UK publication Time Out. Kötting also teaches at the University for the Creative Arts as professor of Time Based Media.
