https://mrqe.com Thu, 12 Nov 2026 16:49:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/the-whalebone-box-m100130831/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-whalebone-box-m100130831/ 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.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/by-our-selves-m100115207/ Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/by-our-selves-m100115207/ Andrew Kötting’s film retraces John Clare’s journey from Epping Forest to Northamptonshire accompanied by a straw bear.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/swandown-m100102084/ Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/swandown-m100102084/ Director Andrew Kötting and writer Iain Sinclair sail a swan-shaped pedalo from Hastings to Hackney in London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympic Games.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/louyre-this-our-still-life-m100104943/ Sun, 17 May 2026 04:00:00 +0000 https://mrqe.com/movie/louyre-this-our-still-life-m100104943/ A deliciously eccentric, yet touching portrait of director Andrew Kotting’s daughter Eden as a young woman in their tumbledown Pyrennean farmhouse. Last seen in Gallivant (1996) as a plucky kid touring the coastline of Britain with her Big Granny, Eden, now 23, is here shown painting still lifes and singing along to the radio as the seasons ebb and flow around her. Reminiscent of Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man, this lo-fi marvel features music by Scanner’s Robin Rimbaud and a range of voices from Kotting’s sound archive to explore notions of nostalgia, memory and place.

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