# animate! › Films › Kingdom Protista by Andrew Kötting

Canonical: https://animate.org.uk/films/kingdomprotista/

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)

### a film by Andrew Kötting

### 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.

### key credits

**director**
Andrew Kötting

**animator**
Andrew Lindsay

**cgi animator**
Andrew Lindsay

**editor**
Russel Stopford

**music**
Toby McMillan

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