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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, digital animation, microscopic life, sexuality, experimental short film, filmmaker

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**Kingdom Protista** a film by Andrew Kötting

[Andrew Kötting](http://www.andrewkotting.com)

2000, 5 min 18 sec

[watch this film ›](https://animateprojectsarchive.org/films/by_date/1999_2001/kingdom)

![Kingdom Protista, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/kingdomprotista01.jpg)

### animate! synopsis

Life on Earth was never like this. Pond life with attitude gets it on in a digital debauch. New forms, same old problems. Orifice politics, you could say.

### short synopsis

A few drops of pond water rich in bottom sediments, seen under a microscope can quickly confirm the existence of another world. In dimensions that fall between those of bacteria and the smallest of animals there exists a realm of life so diverse that you have to sit and wonder. This is the **Kingdom of Protista** and like all living things it needs to suck itself off.

### key credits

**director**
Andrew Kötting

**animator**
Andrew Lindsay

**cgi animator**
Andrew Lindsay

**editor**
Russel Stopford

**music**
Toby McMillan

### Andrew Kötting

#### artist’s photo

![Andrew Kotting, portrait](https://animate.org.uk/films/downloads/animate_andrewkotting_portrait01.jpg)

2001

### a film by Andrew Kötting

### direction

**director**
Andrew Kötting

### image personnel

**animator**
Andrew Lindsay

**cgi animator**
Andrew Lindsay

**editor**
Russel Stopford

### sound personnel

**music**
Toby McMillan

### support

**primary funding**
Arts Council of England/Channel Four Animate! award

© Andrew Kötting 2000

[![Kingdom Protista, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/kingdomprotista01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/kingdomprotista01.jpg)

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[![Kingdom Protista, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/kingdomprotista02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/kingdomprotista02.jpg)

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### master copy format

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
BetaSP

**screen aspect ratio**
4:3

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Kingdom Protista** film, stills and other materials © Andrew Kötting 2000