In February the National Film Theatre will play host to a duo of special screenings showcasing the works of LAFVA-funded artist film-makers Andrew Kötting and Carol Morley. The two events will include the London premiere’s of Morley’s The Madness of The Dance and Kotting’s Offshore (Gallivant), both of which were funded by LAFVA in 2005 and 2006 respectively.

On Tuesday 13 February (6.30pm, NFT 3) Carol Morley: The Film-making Years presents a selection of rarely seen early works alongside the London Premiere of The Madness of the Dance.

Internationally acclaimed artist Carol Morley makes provocative films that cross boundaries between fact and fiction, exploring extraordinary things that happen to ordinary people. Morley earned widespread notoriety for the raucous prize-winner The Alcohol Years, which charts her alcohol-soaked life on the Manchester scene from the perspective of those she encountered in her sorties round the city.

Morley’s latest film The Madness of the Dance (2006) was supported through a London Artists' Film and Video Award and shot by leading contemporary cinematographer Chris Doyle (In The Mood for Love, Hero).

The Madness of the Dance is a celebration of mass manias and individual obsessions, which journeys through an array of bizarre incidents. Including the 'biting mania' which started in a convent in Germany in the 15th Century and spread through Europe, the 'dancing mania' which lasted three hundred years from the 13th Century, and the 'laughing mania' which broke out in a village in Tanzania in the 20th Century.

Following the screening Morley will be in discussion with Helen de Witt, Festival Producer at the BFI.

On Tuesday 27 February (6.30pm) NFT 1 will host the London premiere of Andrew Kötting’s 2006 LAFVA-funded Offshore (Gallivant).

Beginning in the pitch-black early hours of a September morning, Offshore follows a 14hr 17min cross-channel relay swim by film-maker Andrew Kötting, his brothers, friends and family.

The attempt was witnessed by Iain Sinclair and is narrated by Eden Kötting. Ten years on from completion of the coastline road-movie Gallivant, this film starts with Kötting's coincidental discovery and hire of the light vessel 'Gallivant', and revisits the original film.

Flotsam and jetsam in the form of conversations, field recordings and sea debris are gleaned from both the new and old. (Warning: the film shows scenes of explicit vomiting). Offshore was supported through the London Artists' Film and Video Awards, and will be accompanied by a selection of Kötting's radical and highly original short films.

Following the screening Andrew Kötting will be in discussion with writer Iain Sinclair.

Tickets for both events are available from the NFT box office or online.