Andrew Kötting’s Gallivant belongs to a cinema of psychogeography, exploring the British landscape and culture with wit and imagination by way of a 6000-mile trip around its coastline.

Part home movie, part road movie, Kötting’s playful and eccentric film features his 85-year-old grandmother Gladys — opinionated, bursting with anecdotes and contradictory reminiscences – and his eight-year-old daughter Eden.

Throughout their journey, Kötting looks not for an essential quality of British life, but for its symptoms: folk culture and songs. Between pagan traditions, eccentric locals, and impromptu renditions of inherited music, Kötting paints a lively picture of Britain’s coastal fringes.

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