Country: Italy
Year: 1993
Duration: 20'


Smart Alek is a film about an ordinary English family and their summer holidays at a seaside resort. We watch as their cosy world slowly disintegrates about them. It starts and ends in nightmare. "Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside".

Biography

film director

Andrew Kotting

B.A. Fine Art Ravensbourne College of Art 1981-84. M.A. Fine Art Slade 1986-88. Among his works: Klipperty Klopp (Super8, 1984), Anvil Head the Hun (Super8, 1986), Hub Bub in Baobabs (16mm, 1988), Hoi Polloi (Super8, 1990), Acumen (16mm, 1991), H.B. 1829 Fleshfilm (Super8, 1992).

Cast

& Credits

Regia e Screenplay: Andrew Kotting.
Director of photography: Nick GordonSmith.
Music: David Burnard, Andrew Kotting.
Sound: Tobias McMillan.
Editor: Jim Carey.
Cast: Sean Lock, Patricia Varley, Bill Monks, Penny Prosser, Stan Nelson, Gavin Wilkinson, Amy Hodge, Simon Munnery.
Produzione e Italian distribution: British Film Institute, 29 Rathbone Street, London W1P 1AG, tel. +44-71-6365587, fax +44-71-5809456, in associazione con Channel Four Television.

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