Published: 22 July 2010
by DAN CARRIER

DOES this man have form or what? Andrew Kotting is known for such gems as Klipperty Klop, a movie he made as part of his arts degree that featured him trotting round and round and round and round a ­Gloucestershire field on the back of an imaginary horse. 

Then there was the project involving iron filings, his hairy bits and Christian iconography (don’t ask – look it up on the internet yourself). And then there was his round Britain tour with six-year-old daughter and 85-year-old grandmother in tow, a kind of avant garde British version of Trains, Planes and Automobiles. 

So when you talk about Kotting, you have a hugely imaginative artist with the time to create some pretty hilarious films. Now his latest – which is a more traditional story in terms of the fact that it has a plot, characters and a beginning, middle and end – is on the cinemas. And my chums at the Renoir have managed to land the man himself to come along and talk about it. Set in the French Pyrenees, Ivul wins from the outset by simply having a gorgeous background for the story to play out across. 

It is a family drama studying the close and often strained relationship between two siblings Alex (Jacob Auzanneau) and Freya (Adelaide Leroux), with some uncomfortable undercurrents that he approaches with a grand sense of stagemanship.

• Kotting will be at a Q&A at the Renoir from Friday July 23, following a 6.30pm showing of Ivul