# animate! › Films › Kingdom Protista by Andrew Kötting › synopses

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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

2000, 5 min 18 sec

### 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.

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