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SWANDOWN

By Andrew KOTTING

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Documentary - Completed 2012

A filmmaker and a writer take a philosophical acquatic journey pedaling a swan shaped pedalo via the sea and through rivers and canals from the English coast to London.

- Year of production
- 2012
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Duration
- 94 mn
- Director(s)
- Andrew KOTTING
- Writer(s)
- Andrew KOTTING, Iain SINCLAIR
- Producer(s)
- Lisa Marie RUSSO (Fly Film), Kate OGBORN (Fly Film)
- Synopsis
- Swandown is a travelogue and odyssey of Olympian ambition in which Andrew Kötting (the filmmaker) and Iain Sinclair (the writer) pedal a swan-shaped pedalo from Hastings on the south coast of England via the sea, rivers and canals to London. With modest references to Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo mixed with a little Dadism, the film documents their epic journey, on which they are joined by invited guests who share in the pedaling. En-route they encounter travellers, river-dwellers, outsiders, refuseniks and ordinary passers-by whose reactions are a mixure of amusement, puzzlement and ridicule.