"Lek and the Dogs" is the most overtly experimental of Andrew Kotting's films, the one closest to the art-gallery rather than the art-house. It is based loosely on the play "Ivan and the Dogs" about a boy who leaves his home in Russia and goes to live with a pack of wild dogs though there is nothing theatrical or even concrete about Kotting's handling of the material which is composed of a ...

Lek And The Dogs may be uneven and self-indulgent but it is also full of moments of startling lyricism and originality. Jun 6, 2018 ...

Lek And The Dogs may be uneven and self-indulgent but it is also full of moments of startling lyricism and originality. Full Review. Nigel Andrews Financial Times. June 6, 2018 ...

Lek and the Dogs review – a boy’s best friends revisited 4 / 5 stars 4 out of 5 stars. Based on the true story of a Moscow street child raised by dogs, the latest enigmatic film from Andrew ...

“Lek and the Dogs is sort of like contemporary art, but its also, crucially, a film, with a narrative that even a dunce like you can follow, and enjoy!” Shortlist “It’s a remarkable audio-visual experience.” Little White Lies “A complex and intriguing collage of imagery and myth…

Lek and the Dogs is a dense and challenging film, but it’s also a rewarding one that carries a powerful emotional charge thanks to Tchili’s spellbinding lead performance. The film is about the legacy of childhood trauma, and how it can scar and warp an entire life, and as played by Tchili, Lek appears to be a genuinely tormented soul; it ...

Lek and the Dogs. Synopsis. Experimental artist and auteur Andrew Kotting creates a groundbreaking crossover between narrative film and contemporary art piece, based on the award-winning play by Hattie Naylor. The film is inspired by the true story of Ivan Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years ...

Lek and the Dogs is written and inspired by Hattie Naylor’s play about Ivan’s remarkable experience of hunger, desperation and survival, growing up amid a society devastated by recession, under threat of nuclear war.In Kötting’s reimagined version of the story, Ivan has matured into a forty-year-old man named Lek, played by the French performance artist and actor Xavier Tchili.

Desolate wanderings … Andrew Kötting’s Lek and the Dogs. Like all the recent work by the artist and film-maker Andrew Kötting, this straddles the boundary between cinema and installation – and also, it should be said, the boundary between inspiration and dullness.