Andrew Kötting

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Eraserhead

First otherworldly cinematic experience I had ever had and memories of which still linger today.

Stalker

Philosophically and atmospherically transfixing composed of zonal edgelands that still creep into my psyche when least expecting.

SÅNGER FRÅN ANDRA VÅNINGEN

Always a favourite, exemplary in its bleakness and self-sufficiency but moreover in memory of Sean Lock and its influence on his soaring 15 Storeys High.

Asylum

When cinema becomes fugue, drift poem and cerebral cacophony.

The Piano

Having spent time on that beach and tinkered with pianos all my life there is no way that this sensual délire wouldn’t have made the list.

The Colour of Pomegranates

It doesn’t matter how many times I watch the film with my UCA students there is always something new to discuss thereafter.

Black Sun

The enormity of the subject matter and the overwhelming libretto as performed by the victim continues to provide hope for humanity.

The Moon and the Sledgehammer

A familial love/hate story that unfolds like no other documentary.

HOW TO INVENT REALITY

Perhaps best seen in the wake of IT’S NOW OR NEVER but either way an essay on how to invent reality.

Bodysong

As a precursor to Christian Marclay’s The Clock, which should also have been on this list, but compiled with ecstatic rigour and careful insight à la Peter Greenaway's Drowning By Numbers which might also have been on this list.

Further remarks

On the bench:

THE ARBOR – Clio Barnard

For when friends move across difficult mountains and beguile all at the same time.

TWO YEARS AT SEA – Ben Rivers

Oppositional defiant disorder manifest by way of living a life that is at once both familiar and inspired.

SLEEP FURIOUSLY - Gideon Koppel

Biography by way of landscape and solidarity.

BAIT - Mark Jenkin

For the audacity of materiality and the power of clockwork and post sync.