glasgow short film festival brochure 2012
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Listings for the Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012TRANSCRIPT
9–12 FEBRUARY 2012
GLASGOWSHORT FILMFESTIVAL
`lkqbkqpIntroduction 3
International Jury 4
International Competition 5–12
Scottish Jury 13
AwardWinners Screening 13
Scottish Competition 14–15
Calendar 16–17
Scottish Competition 18–20
Enter the Archive 21
FrankMarshall 21
Margaret Tait’s Films for Children 21
Surreal / Political: Animations fromOberhausen 22
Ben Russell: Trypps 1–7 23
‘I Hate Iceland’: A Short Film Focus 1999–2011 24–25
Slacker 2011 26
Douglas Hart Music Videos 26
GYFF Youth Shorts 27
Panel Discussions andWorkshops 28–29
Parties and Performances 30
Social Events and Family Screenings 31
qf`hbqpSTANDARD PRICE TICKETS£8 full price / £6 concessions
SOME SPECIAL EVENTS,TALKS AND WORKSHOPS:£4 (see individual listings for details)
To reward the loyalty of GFT CineCard and CineworldUnlimited Card holders, we're offering £1 off standard pricetickets. Tickets must be purchased in advance from theCentral GFF Box Office at GFT orwww.glasgowfilm.org/festival.
INTERNET SAVER DEALSLove Glasgow Film Festival? Take advantage of one of ourInternet Saver Deals. You can share the offer with anotherperson and get two tickets per eligible event, includingGlasgow Short Film Festival, Glasgow Youth Film Festivaland Glasgow Film Festival screenings. Only available atwww.glasgowfilm.org/festival from Thursday 19 January.Internet Saver: 5 Films – £30Internet Saver: 10 Films – £50Internet Saver: 20 Films – £90
Certification: Films not certified by the BBFC are marked N/Cand accompanied by an age recommendation i.e. N/C 15 +(suitable for ages 15 and older, no-one under 15 will be admitted).
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Tickets can be purchased online until 9pm the daybefore the screening.
IN ADVANCEFrom Thursday 19 January you can purchase tickets for mostevents from the Central GFF Box Office at GFT (12 RoseStreet, G3 6RB). You can call Box Office on 0141 332 6535.
You can collect advance tickets from the GFF Central BoxOffice at GFT up until 9pm the day before the performance.
Please note advance purchases can only bemade onlineat www.glasgowfilm.org/festival or via the GFF CentralBox Office.
ON THE DAYOn the day of the event, tickets can be collected orpurchased at the screening venue. Tickets will onlybe available for that day, not for future days.
Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions.
GSFF AT THE SHEDTickets for GSFF at The Shed only:£6 full price / £5 concessions
Tickets for screenings at The Shed can also be bought inadvance from Young's Interesting Books, 18 Skirving St,Shawlands, Glasgow G41 3BG / 0141 649 9599.
The Shed screenings are presented in association withSouthside Film Festival www.southsidefilmfestival.net
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sbkrbpGlasgow Film Theatre (GFT)12 Rose Street, G3 6RBBox Office: 0141 332 6535
Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA)350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JDBox Office: 0141 352 4900
The Berkeley Suite237 North Street, G3 7DL
The Shed, 26 Langside Ave, Shawlands, G41 2QSAdvance tickets from Young’s Interesting Books, 0141 649 9599
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fkqolar`qflkSo Glasgow Short Film Festival returns, bursting at the seams. We’re taking advantage of our expansion to fourfull days to bring you for the first time a second competition dedicated to newwork from Scotland. Whilst webelieve passionately that Scottish short film competes on an international stage, this second competition allowsus to promote a far wider range of local films than ever before, whilst continuing to bring you the most excitingnew shorts from across the world.
For the purposes of the competition we’ve defined a Scottish film to be one that is either made by someone wholives in Scotland, or made through a Scottish college or production company; or, if produced outside Scotland,twomembers of the writer/director/producer teammust be Scots. In forming this definition, we pondered onbroader questions of national cinema. In a globalised economy and an ever-expanding festival circuit, is it stillpossible to see distinct characteristics in the emerging cinema of different nations? The last significant newwavecame from Romania, beginning in 2005 and showing no sign of running out of steam yet – look at last year’sGSFF award winner The Cage, or this year’s gripping thriller Silent River. But will such a nationally-specific surgeof creativity ever be repeated?
This year’s programme tackles the concept of national cinema in several ways. Our Iceland focus attempts to finddistinct national qualities shared by films emerging from one of Europe’s smallest countries. Yet whilst it’s clearthat Iceland is home to many talented new filmmakers, their international outlook is arguably their greateststrength. Meanwhile our series of talks and screenings exploring moving image archives touches on the subjectof national canons, and the reasons why certain works are preserved and others excluded.
Bill Douglas was excluded from the Scottish canon for many years, because he didn’t fit easily into anypreconceived category of Scottish cinema. Only now, twenty years after his death, is he really receiving the widerecognition he deserves as Scotland’s greatest filmmaker. We are proud to rename our international short filmaward in his honour.
Enjoy the Festival.
Director:Matt LloydProgrammer:Gail TolleyFestival Assistant: Alba Cruells Roger
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qe^khpAll staff and volunteers of Glasgow Film; Francis McKee, Jamie Kenyon, KennyMacLeod and all staff of CCA; Paul Smith and the staff ofSaramago Cafe Bar, CCA; Meryl Gilbert and the staff of The Berkeley Suite; Karen O’Hare at Southside Film Festival; Paul Macgregor andthe GYFF Youth Team; All at Creative Scotland; Stuart Elliott, creator of the GSFF12 trailer; Beverley Murray at Glasgow Film Office;Marlies Pfeifer at the Goethe-Institut; Melissa Andretta at Icelandair; Christof Wehmeier at the Icelandic Film Centre; Sunna Guðnadóttir atIcelandic Cinema Online; BjörnÆgir Norðfjörð at University of Iceland; RuthWashbrook at National Library of Scotland Scottish ScreenArchive; Bryan Poyser at Austin Film Society; Peter Jewell; Andrew Noble; SeanMartin; Emily Munro; MitchMiller; Shona Thomson; JohnCavanagh; Ben Cook at LUX; Lindsey Hanlon at BBC Scotland; Suzy Glass at Trigger; Emily Roff at Tracer Trails; Sonja Henrici at ScottishDocumentary Institute; Julia McLean at Scottish Animation Network; Paula Larkin at Document Festival; Colin Chaloner and Rob Jones atFlatrate; Kirstin Innes at Words Per Minute; Nick Herd at BrawGigs; Nick Higgins; Andy Green and Peter Gerard at Distrify; JonnieWilkesand Rachel Graham at Optimo; Campbell Mitchell (AL Kennedy image); Neil Thomas Douglas (Frames Per Second image); All ourfilmmakers, speakers, performers, guests and jury members.
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_fii alrdi^p ^t^oaclo fkqbok qflk^i peloq cfijFor the third year, an international jury will select the film they consider the most innovative and outstanding workin the programme. The award-winning film will reflect the qualities found in the work of Bill Douglas: honesty,innovation and the supremacy of image and sound in cinematic storytelling. You will have the chance to votefor your favourite to win the Audience Award.
2011 Short Film Award winner: The Cage (Colivia) Adrian Sitaru / Romania / The Netherlands / 20092011 Audience Award winner: The Pedestrian Stuart Elliott / UK / 2010
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Åsa Garnert has worked as a journalist and as head of the Uppsala International Short Film Festival.In 2003 she joined the Swedish Film Institute, working for a while with film policy coordination andas Festival Manager for documentary films, before moving to the Communications department.She became Head of Communications in 2007. She has served on several juries includingBrief Encounters and the nomination jury for the Swedish national film awards, short film anddocumentary categories. She is an enthusiastic admirer of the films of Margaret Tait.
A L KENNEDY
A L Kennedy is the author of twelve books: five novels, five books of short stories and two booksof non-fiction. She also writes for the stage, radio, film and TV and a number of national andinternational newspapers. She has won a number of awards including the Costa Prize, a LannanAward and the Austrian State Prize for International Literature. She has twice been included in theGranta list of Best of Young British Novelists. Her work is translated into over 20 languages.She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.A L Kennedy also performs in a variety of media including stand-up comedy.
DANIELMETZ
Daniel Metz is currently working as a producer – his first feature is the omnibus film Slacker 2011,a re-imagining of Richard Linklater’s iconic 1991 film with twenty-four Austin-based directors. Hepreviously worked as a programmer for the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Austin, Texas, where hespecialised in indie and revival films. He was also involved in the US-wide distribution of DrafthouseFilms' first theatrical release, Four Lions. He has functioned in other fields within show business,including as a sales agent, an academic writer, a publicist and as the programmer of a fewalternative theatres in Austin.
IAN SELLAR
Ian Sellar is a Scottish filmmaker who began his career as an assistant to Bill Douglas. He went on,via design and editing, into directing shorts and then studying at the National Film and TelevisionSchool. His first features, Venus Peter and Prague, were in official selection at Cannes and went onto be distributed worldwide. Ian has also continued his involvement with shorts, writing thescreenplay for the award winning animation,Home RoadMovies. Alongside continuing to write anddirect, Ian teaches at the NFTS and runs feature writing and directing workshops internationally.
CARSTEN SPICHER
In September 2001, Carsten Spicher became head of the German Competition and Archive at theShort Film Festival Oberhausen. He has organised several retrospective programmes at the Festival,and in 2009 he curated the historic programme 'Sarajevo Documentary School' with Gaby Babic.Since 2009 he has also been responsible for the new Regional Competition, and nowmanagesOberhausen Film Distribution. Since 2002 he has represented the Festival in the German Short FilmAssociation, until 2006 as Chairman of the Association. For over fifteen years he has been a jurymember at numerous international film and video festivals.
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dlla_vb j^kafj^ Eht^ ebof j^kafj^FUKPremiere / Robert-Jan Lacombe / Switzerland / 2010 / 11min / [email protected]
Childhood pictures, the departure from Zaire when I was 10, my friendsWatumu,Angi and Amosi, the big shift from one culture to another, identity, memories andfootage…
tebob ^ob qebv klt\Joanna Coates / UK / 2011 / 14min / Fiction / [email protected]
An emotionally loaded exchange between two strangers who wake up together.Alternative music scenes, local heroes, high excitement and the long aftermath,when the bravado of youth starts to fade.
obmobppba Ec£oqoûkdaFScottish Premiere / JimmyOlsson / Sweden / 2010 / 15min / Fiction / [email protected]
Kristoffer is on a night bus with his girlfriend and another couple. When a verydrunk young couple board the bus, something is stirred within him.
SSPNNQUKPremiere / IsamuHirabayashi / Japan / 2011 / 8min / [email protected]
I am a 66-year-old cicada. There was a big earthquake. There was a big tsunami.There was also a big accident.
pbodb^kq Ek^obakfhFUKPremiere / Nikola Ljuca / Serbia / 2011 / 21min / Fiction / [email protected]
One night in Belgrade twomenmeet each other. By morning, everythingwill change.
NR prjjbop i qboScottish Premiere / Pedro Collantes / Spain / 2011 / 5min / Fiction / [email protected]
Although it has been fifteen years since Halvard and Laila last saw each other,one seems to recall muchmore than the other.
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ofsbo ofqbpUKPremiere / Ben Russell / USA/Suriname / 2011 / 11min / Experimental / [email protected]
Trance dance and water implosion, a kino-line drawn between secular freak-outsand religious phenomena. At a sacred site on the Upper Suriname River,Saramaccan animist everyday secrets are revealed as time itself is undone.
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In the final days of the summer holidays, a grandfather awaits the arrival of hisgrandson in the BieszczadyMountains. Surrounded by wild nature, they try toreach an understanding of each other.
erj^W _foa lc cloqrkb Eelj vbe p^^a qFUKPremiere / Alireza Rofougaran / Iran / 2010 / 4min / Documentary / [email protected]
Legend has it that the symbol of Ancient Persia flew invisibly in the sky,casting its auspicious shadow on the land beneath…
ql j^hb ^ mo^fofbUKPremiere / James Nares / USA / 2010 / 13min / Experimental / [email protected]
A filmmade with the filmmaker’s daughter.
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Romania, 1986: Gregor and Vali want to get away. Each one needs the other, yetthere is mutual distrust. One night Gregor finds his doubts confirmed. In the endonly hope is left.
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hfiifkd qeb `ef`hbkp ql p`^ob qeb jlkhbvpUKPremiere / Jens Assur / Sweden / 2011 / 24min / Fiction / [email protected]
An examination of how a state chooses to communicate with citizens of differentopinions and how a woman suddenly finds herself in the middle of an ongoingpolitical game.
gfjjvMartin Smith / UK / 2011 / 12min / Documentary / [email protected]
An intimate portrait told from Jimmy’s point of view, a wheelchair bound cerebralpalsy sufferer.
tbI qeb j^ppbpUKPremiere / Eoghan Kidney / Ireland / 2011 / 13min / Animation / [email protected]
Aman falls into a landscape and gets lost.
qeb tfka fp _iltfkd lk jv pqobbqEa^o hlr`eb _^^a jf v aFScottish Premiere / Saba Riazi / Iran / 2010 / 15min / Fiction / [email protected]
A young girl in Tehran accidentally gets stranded without a headscarf in anenvironment where her mishap could equal trouble.
^pvirjJoern Utkilen / UK / 2010 / 17min / Fiction / [email protected]
A failed asylum seeker dreams of a bio-dynamic farm.
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_foqe lc ^ k qflkUKPremiere / Daya Cahen / Netherlands / 2010 / 10min / [email protected]
At a cadet school in Moscow, girls from eleven to seventeen years oldlearn how to sew, march, cook, sing, shoot, how to usemake up andhow to prepare for military action.
qeobb t^iipUKPremiere / ZaheedMawani / Canada / 2011 / 26min / [email protected]
A history of the office cubicle from its inception in the late 1960s to itscurrent status as the dominant form of office furniture in North America.
VNMTNO ebbgrkdUKPremiere / YOOWon-Sang / South Korea / 2010 / 17min / [email protected]
Hee-Jung is a nineteen-year-old high school girl. She visits a citizenregistry office to apply for her ID card. However, she looks anxious.
mltbo>UKPremiere / Christina Ebelt, Mischa Leinkauf / Germany / 2010 / 28min / [email protected]
The comeback of slavery or reducing world hunger? Anything goes.Searching for investors the self-proclaimed elite of the German economyare trying to optimise their selling skills.
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klt cliiltp Ekrk pbebk pfb clidbkabpFScottish Premiere / Erik Schmitt, StephanMüller / Germany / 2010 / 5min / [email protected]
In this film you will see the following: black screen and close-ups; a young niceguy, an older man with a moustache…
qeb j^hfkd lc ilkd_foaScottish Premiere /Will Anderson / UK / 2011 / 15min / Animation / [email protected]
A behind-the-scenes look at an animator/filmmaker as he struggles withhis character.
mflkbboScottish Premiere / David Lowery / USA / 2011 / 16min / Fiction / [email protected]
A father tells his son the most epic bedtime story ever.
hfkUKPremiere / L’Atelier Collectif / Belgium / 2010 / 11min / Animation / [email protected]
A social portrait of the city of Kinshasa, made with African-style toys.
ab`^mla^ pel`hScottish Premiere / Javier Chillón / Spain / 2011 / 9min / Fiction / [email protected]
An astronaut returns to Earth after a fatal accident on a distant planet.
dr^oa ald dil_^i g^jScottish Premiere / Bill Plympton / USA / 2011 / 6min / Animation / [email protected]
In 2004, Bill Plympton created the Oscar nominated animated short Guard Dog.In 2010, he decided to remake the film via the internet, with 70 artists from aroundthe world creating each shot of the film in their own style.
qrjriqJohnny Barrington / UK / 2011 / 13min / Fiction / [email protected]
A tribe of Norse warriors traipse across a barren land after battle. Bloodied andwounded, their chief is near death. Suddenly an army of a completely differentkind descends upon them.
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j^of^European Premiere / Erik Bostedt / UK / 2011 / 15min / Fiction / [email protected]
Molly and her father James are on their way home when they drive past a womanwalking alone along a desolate country road. Molly is convinced the woman lookslike the image of her mother, whom she only remembers fromold photographs.
mlppbppbaUKPremiere / FredWorden / USA / 2010 / 9min / Experimental / [email protected]
A sequence with a passing train, passengers in motion and a woman standingstill on the platform becomes a study of illusionary movements.
molmlp^iInternational Premiere / Chris King / USA / 2011 / 16min / Fiction / [email protected]
Haunted bymemories of a lost love, a lonely man finally decides to move on withhis life. With wedding ring in hand, he gathers the last bit of courage he needsbefore asking the biggest question of his life.
delpqp Ec kq pj^pFUKPremiere / André Novais Oliveira / Brazil / 2010 / 11min / Experimental / [email protected]
A conversation between two people about the big and small things in life, witha gas station as a backdrop.
tefqb qrokfmp j^hb fq e^oa ql pibbmEibp k^sbqp _i^k`p bjmŽ`ebkq ab alojfoFUKPremiere / Rachel Lang / France/Belgium / 2011 / 27min / [email protected]
1. Find a reassuring explanation for a bout of sleeplessness: the eating of whiteturnips; 2. Observe the mechanisms of passion; 3. Escape inadequate ideas.This is the story of a breakup.
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dobbk `o vlkpScottish Premiere / Kazik Radwanski / Canada / 2010 / 10min / Fiction / [email protected]
Themore they spit, the more they enjoy themselves. But when the teacherarrives, Xavier and Liam are moulded by their actions.
fÛj pl e^mmv Eplv q k cbifwFUKPremiere / Vladimir Durán / Argentina/Colombia / 2011 / 14min / [email protected]
Fragments of a Saturday winter day. Mateo stops by to pick up Bruno andCamilo and drive them to the country house where their mother awaits.A sudden stop brings them into the intimacy of a wasteland.
cfkfScottish Premiere / Jacob Secher Schulsinger / Denmark / 2010 / 29min / [email protected]
Fini is in his bed. It is dark outside and he doesn’t want to get up. Fini likes to say‘yes’ and that leads him on to a series of small adventures all reminding us aboutliving in the moment.
qeb pqo^kdb lkbp Eabru fk`lkkrpFScottish Premiere / LaurenWolkenstein, Christopher Radcliff / France / 201115min / Fiction / [email protected]
Aman and a boy, traveling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motelswimming pool. On the surface all is normal, but nothing is quite what it seemsto be.
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Amiddle-aged lady on holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and havea good time.
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pefofkWorld Premiere / Stephen Fingleton / UK / 2011 / 13min / Fiction / [email protected]
Shirin has dinner alone with her father in their small north London home.With hermother absent, little is said between them – until Shirin reveals she is going out forthe evening.
fÛj klq qeb bkbjvUKPremiere / BjørnMelhus / Germany / 2011 / 13min / Experimental / [email protected]
Home is a place of comfort, of security and peace. But for a Post-Traumatic StressDisorder suffering war veteran the home becomes alien and family members cometo encapsulate the demons against whom the veteran has to fight.
`ljb ql e^ojScottish Premiere / Börkur Sigþórsson / Iceland / 2011 / 18min / [email protected]
When Stefan senses an intruder in his home, panic quickly turns to grimdetermination as he arms himself for the inevitable confrontation.
qfav rmEuropean Premiere / Satsuki Okawa / Japan/USA / 2011 / 15min / [email protected]
A Japanese brother and sister quarrel over their deceasedmother’s house thathas become a hoarder’s paradise.
qeb c `qlov E^ cž_of`^FUKPremiere / Aly Muritiba / Brazil / 2011 / 15min / Fiction / [email protected]
A prisoner convinces his mother to take a risk smuggling a cell phone for himinto prison.
ilkd afpq k`b fkcloj qflkScottish Premiere / Douglas Hart / UK / 2011 / 8min / Fiction / [email protected]
Da always said not to talk to strangers... But you've got to phone homesometimes.
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p`lqqfpe peloq cfij ^t^oaThe inaugural Scottish Short Film Award honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema. It is judgedby a jury of industry insiders. You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to win the Audience Award.The winner of this year’s Scottish Audience Award will be invited to create the GSFF13 trailer.
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Alex Norton grew up in the southside of Glasgow and started acting at the age of fourteen. In1973 he became one of the founder members of the 7:84 Scotland Theatre Company, touring theHighlands and Islands with The Cheviot, the Stag, and the Black Black Oil. He regularly appears onstage and screen; his films includeGregory’s Girl, Local Hero and Clint Eastwood'sWhite Hunter,Black Heart.He played fourteen roles in Bill Douglas' final filmComrades. He has written fortelevision and directed theatre, though he is best known for his role as DCI Matt Burke in thelong-running TV series Taggart.
DAWNSHARPLESS
Dawn Sharpless is founder and creative director of DAZZLE, a London-based independent shortfilm label handling the exclusive distribution, exhibition and sales rights for a selective catalogue ofaward-winning, critically acclaimed UK and international titles. Dawn was previously Co-Head ofSales & Acquisitions for The Short Film Bureau. She started off in the theatre as a stagehand andfront of house assistant before working in Paris and London for Disney, Buena Vista, Mainstream,Celluloid Dreams, Union Pictures and Lifetime Productions International. She also ran the Sohofilm club Peeping Toms for several years.
LORRAINEWILSON
LorraineWilson is a Senior Arts Officer for Glasgow Life. She has over fifteen years experienceof working in Glasgow's contemporary arts sector with a range of different arts organisations.As Coordinator of Glasgow Sculpture Studios (1998–2004) she established the organisation's firstgallery and exhibition programme, profiling work by a range of artists including filmmaker DariaMartin. As Visual Art Programmer at Tramway (2004–2011) she curated film works by BarbaraKruger, Graham Fagen, Duncan Campbell, Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer, and initiatedtheMargaret Tait Award for artist's moving image.
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A chance to catch the prize-winners of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2012. We will screen the recipients of the BillDouglas Award for International Short Film and the Scottish Short Film Award, both selected by jury, as well as thefilms voted the favourite of the audience in each competition. End the Festival on a cinematic high!
Free but ticketed. Tickets only available fromCCA Festival Box Office on the day.
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qeobbJibddba elopbpWorld Premiere / Felipe Bustos Sierra / UK / 2011 / 20min / Fiction / [email protected]
A rickshaw driver’s last night in Edinburgh. As the night threatens to end withnothing to show for it, he reluctantly agrees to take three men on a pointless tripup to the castle.
mlrk`boScottish Premiere / Louis Paxton / UK / 2011 / 15min / Fiction / [email protected]
Roddy loves his job as a ‘Jumper-Outer’ on Edinburgh’s ghost tours… probablytoo much. Join him on a fear odyssey into the heart of his craft, learn the tricks ofhis trade and the philosophy of ‘The Pounce’.
kl jlob pe^ii tb m^oqScottish Premiere / Shaun Hughes / UK / 2011 / 25min / Fiction / [email protected]
Rural Canada, 1840s. A desperate and isolated Scottish immigrant with anunshakeable devotion to God and to his wife struggles to maintain routine untilan unexpected arrival threatens to shatter his world completely.
qeb cfpeboj^kÛp a^rdeqboTomChick / UK / 2011 / 7min / Fiction / [email protected]
‘She’s out every night’, the villagers gossip until Mary’s parents can’t take itanymore. So when her father follows and discovers where she’s going, he findsher more lost to them than they could ever imagine.
qrjriqJohnny Barrington / UK / 2011 / 13min / Fiction / [email protected]
A tribe of Norse warriors traipse across a barren land after battle. Bloodied andwounded, their chief is near death. Suddenly an army of a completely differentkind descends upon them.
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p`lqqfpe `ljmbqfqflk OWmo^`qf`b j^hbp mbocb`qCCA THEATRE I Friday 10 February (21.00)THE SHED I Saturday 11 February (14.00)1h30m, N/C 15+
alddbaScottish Premiere / Jo Shaw / UK / 2011 / 9min / Experimental / [email protected]
In a world where Bogeymen roam freely, devouring people randomly and the onlycreatures they fear are dogs… are you Dogged enough?
gfjjvMartin Smith / UK / 2011 / 12min / Documentary / [email protected]
An intimate portrait told from Jimmy’s point of view, a wheelchair bound cerebralpalsy sufferer.
glhfkd ^m^oqWorld Premiere / Ronald Forbes / UK / 2011 / 5min / Experimental / [email protected]
Three philosophers, Plato, Hume and Descartes, get together to share a joke.
_foaWorld Premiere / Alasdair Bayne / UK / 2011 / 13min / Fiction / [email protected]
A bird lies dead in a hayfield. A boy finds it. A girl watches. What happens on thisday will change them forever.
qeb mbocb`q cfqTali Yankelevich / UK / 2011 / 9min / Documentary / [email protected]
A film about two characters who live very different lives but have a unique tie to oneanother. This is a story of a dancer and her shoemaker.
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A story about moths, an intruder watching a young pianist and a cat with afondness for cigarettes, doing its best to foil the stranger.
^pbur^i eb^ifkdEuropean Premiere / Martha Appelt / UK / 2010 / 15min / Fiction / [email protected]
Sam’s genitals gomissing. Doctor Love prescribes her somemedicine but thereceptionist swaps it for Alex’s, the handsomeman Sammet in the waiting room.
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After failing to ask out the pretty volunteer at a fundraiser for the Govanhill Baths, ayoungman sets off a surf rock-fueled chain of events to get the girl and save the day.
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A behind-the-scenes look at an animator/filmmaker as he struggles withhis character.
mefifmm^ C k^k`vWorld Premiere / Paul White, Ciara Barry, ClaireMcInnes, Nora Smyth / UK / 2011 / 8minFiction / [email protected]
Fed up of internet dating, friends Philippa and Nancy try an unconventionalapproach to finding love.
qeb dliabk _foaCat Bruce / UK / 2011 / 12min / Animation / [email protected]
An adaptation of a Brothers Grimm fairy tale.
qeb melkb _luIan Robertson / UK / 2011 / 5min / Fiction / [email protected]
One telephone conversation that costs a fortune.
tfka lsbo i^hbJeorge Elkin / UK / 2010 / 34min / Fiction / [email protected]
This film did not set out to be about anything in particular, but it is aboutsomething. Most probably it is about the people that feature in the filmand the man that made it.
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A failed asylum seeker dreams of a bio-dynamic farm.
kfdeq pefcqRuth Reid / UK / 2011 / 9min / Documentary / [email protected]
AnneWallace once had a dream to help Glasgow’s working women. Soon after,she had a double decker bus and theMinistry of Salt and Light.
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An eleven-year-old girl struggles to save herself as her world is suddenly tornapart by a deadly virus.
hfoh`^iav j^kUKPremiere / Julian Schwanitz / UK / 2011 / 18min / Documentary / [email protected]
Who is JockyWilson? Once the world’s best darts player, now a fallen hero.In search of his myth, we follow the forces that shaped Jocky’s hometownKirkcaldy and its inhabitants as we discover lost memories of the man whoonce inspired the nation.
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The surroundings of a woman are slowly revealed.
qeb orib lc qerj_Gregor Johnstone / UK / 2011 / 18min / Fiction / [email protected]
Barrow’s attempts to impress his mum lead to a disastrous stand off at the localschool.
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Da always said not to talk to strangers…But you’ve got to phone home sometimes.
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In a shadowy caravan on a Scottish island, teenage lovers Sorley andMaggiespend time awkwardly, stalked by the haunting presence of Sorley’s father.
qeb i^av tfqe qeb i^jmWorld Premiere / Duncan Cowles / UK / 2011 / 4min / Documentary / [email protected]
There are downsides to living at home when you are twenty-one. Mymother’sconcern about the quality of my bedside lamp is one of them.
drfiqUKPremiere / Hákon Pálsson / UK / 2011 / 14min / Fiction / [email protected]
With the loss of his youngmistress, Justin needs to reconcile his feelings abouthis past and who he is. An examination of the power women hold over men,the choices wemake and the ones we wish we hadmade.
cfufkd irh^Jessica Ashman / UK / 2011 / 11min / Animation / [email protected]
Lucy thinks her brother Luka is broken. His obsessive, meticulous, infuriatingarrangements of sugar cubes and thimbles prove it. Lucy thinks he should be fixed,but not in the way she imagines…
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A family day out takes an unexpected turn when young Alex is forced to shareher secret.
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Professional safe crackers meet on a simple job, but the catch is a light activatedalarm system impelling the men to embark on a pitch black heist.
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Moving image archives are vital repositories of film heritage and communalmemory. But with limited resources, the archivist is faced with a series of dilemmas.Which films to save or exclude? How to balance the sometimes contradictory aimsof preservation and promotion? And how should the re-use of archive material becontrolled? GSFF presents a series of discussions and workshops exploring issuessurrounding film archives and their responsibilities to filmmakers, researchers,curators and the general public. Featuring speakers from Scottish Screen Archive,the archive of Oberhausen Film Festival, LUX and Archives for Creativity amongstothers, this event promises lively and engaging debate.Free but ticketed. See www.glasgowfilm.org/enter_archive for programme detailsand to register.
To accompany the Enter the Archive symposium, we are staging severalarchive-related screenings and performances throughout the Festival, includingFrankMarshall, Margaret Tait (both this page), Butcher Boy, Hanna Tuulikki (bothpage 30), Iceland 2: Paradox (page 24) and Surreal/Political (page 22).
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FrankMarshall (1896–1979) is one of Scotland's lesser-known film talents.Hemade the family story film his own particular reserve, firstly with his son anddaughter and then later his grandchildren providing the willing actors. He wrote,directed, produced, edited, and sometimes acted in his films which are oftenpervaded with his wry and gentle humour. He also built and designed his own setsand props. During his lifetime he produced over 120 films of different genres,achieving frequent national and international success at amateur film festivals.
This screening will be introduced by Professor Karen Lury of University of Glasgow.
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The Orcadian filmmaker Margaret Tait was a true pioneer of Scottish cinema;several recently rediscovered works have deepened our understanding of thisextraordinary film talent. Even thoughmany of Tait’s films feature children astheir subjects, she made the important distinction that these films were made‘for children, not too much about children’. This programmewill look at four of Tait’sfilms that focus on the child and/or the child’s point-of-view:Happy Bees (1955),Orquil Burn (1955), and two of the rediscovered films, Splashing (1966) and AllThese New Relations (1953). Suitable for children of all ages from 5–95.
This screening will be introduced by Dr Sarah Neely of University of Stirling.
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SCHWARZ-WEIS-ROT (BLACK-WHITE-RED)Helmut Herbst / Germany / 1964 / 6 minThree times, the Germansmarch past in rank and file: under the coloursof the Kaiser, the Fuehrer and Axel Springer.
LES JEUX DES ANGES (ANGEL’S GAMES)Walerian Borowczyk / France / 1964 / 12min‘A report in the city of angels.’ (Walerian Borowczyk)
HOBBY Daniel Szczechura / Poland / 1968 / 8 minIn a strange, surrealistic landscape, men are held prisoner in birdcagesby women.
ASPARAGUS Suzan Pitt / USA / 1978 / 18minVisual poetry: a woman contemplates and consummates the variouslevels of sensual and artistic discovery.
TANGO Zbigniew Rybczynski / Poland / 1981 / 8 minAmetaphorical film about human fate in which all people are movingsimultaneously but independently.
KNOPKA (THE BUTTON) Robert Saakjanz / USSR / 1990 / 8 minThe bureaucracy, in its indifference, pays no heed to severe catastropheslike Chernobyl. Power-hungry and cynically irresponsible, it pushes thebutton. The USSR perishes.
THE DEATH OF STALINISM IN BOHEMIAJan Švankmajer / CSSR / 1990 / 10minA condensed survey of Czechoslovakia's forty-two years undercommunist rule – as seen through the eyes andmind of surrealistJan Švankmajer.
FÉSZEK (NEST) Ferenc Cakó / Hungary / 1997 / 5 minNestbuilding. Our human nest, the pulsation of our societies, theirtensions and contradictions in poetic metamorphoses with sandanimation.
CCA CINEMAThursday 9 February (19.00)1h30m, N/C 15+
The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen runs one of theworld’s most notable, largest and oldest short film archives. This specialselection features eight award-winning animations dating from 1964 to1997 in which filmmakers don’t shy away from taking a political stance.The programme takes a journey through time, tracing the history of theanimated short, particularly those of the surreal variety. Many of theworks on view have long since attained the status of classics; as such,they also reflect the history of the Oberhausen Festival.
We are delighted to welcomeOberhausen archivist Carsten Spicherto introduce this screening and discuss the films.
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BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER ONE 2005 / 7 minA psychedelic op-art film that references the traditions of hand-paintedAvant-Garde cinema by replacing it with something entirely different.Hypnosis is imminent.
BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER TWO 2006 / 8 minA fine example of spaces between existing as objects themselves.A patternistic andmemorialising offering to natural totems.
BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE 2007 / 12minShot during a performance by Rhode Island noise band Lightning Bolt,this film documents the transformation of a rock audience's collectivefreak-out into a trance ritual of the highest spiritual order.
BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER FOUR 2008 / 11minThis extended Rorschach assault on the eyes moves out of a flickeringchaos created by incompatible film gauges into a punchline involvinghistorically incompatible racial stereotypes.
TRYPPS #5 (DUBAI) 2008 / 3 minA short treatise on the semiotics of capital, happiness andphenomenology under the flickering neon of global capitalism.
TRYPPS #6 (MALOBI) 2009 / 12minFrom theMaroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America,a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic.It's Halloween at the Equator, Andrei Tarkovsky for the jungle set.
TRYPPS #7 (BADLANDS) 2010 / 10minA young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park descends intoa psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive desert landscape.
CCA CINEMAFriday 10 February (19.00)1h30m, N/C 15+
Ben Russell is a Chicago-based experimental filmmaker whose workengages with the very essence of cinema, drawing on the history of film,scrutinising the act of looking and playfully considering the conventionsof the camera. The seven 16mm films in Russell’s Trypps series, madebetween 2005 and 2010, each take a different approach to what Russellrefers to as ‘Psychedelic Ethnography’. Referencing both Jean Rouchand Richard Pryor, the series explores naturally-derived psychedelia,from the repetitive flashing signs of contemporary cityscapes, to themanipulation of found footage, to the trance-like intensity of a LightningBolt gig.
We are delighted to welcome Ben Russell to introduce the screeningand discuss his work.
Ben’s newworkRiver Rites appears in International Competition 2.Programme contains strobing effects.
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The first programme in our Icelandic focus traces the unusual ways inwhich love is demonstrated, from childhood to old age.
2 BIRDS Rúnar Rúnarsson / 2008 / 15minA group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to the stark realityof adulthood.
ANNA Helena Stefánsdóttir / 2007 / 14minA rare syndrome keeps Anna in a world of isolation. Desperate for humancontact, she attempts to break free from the shackles of her uncontrollablebody with surprising results.
WRESTLING Grímur Hákonarson / 2007 / 20minDenni is a tunnel-maker and Einar is a farmer. They both practise the sportof Icelandic wrestling, which allows them to escape their daily routine andto express their true selves.
FAMILY REUNION Ísold Uggadóttir / 2006 / 19minAmodern-day coming out story about a young Icelandic woman livingtwo separate lives.
THE LAST FARM Rúnar Rúnarsson / 2004 / 17minThe stage is a remote valley and all the farms except one have beenabandoned.
f`bi^ka cl`rp OW m^o^aluCCA THEATREThursday 9 February (21.00)Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, Sigurður Skúlason / Iceland / 201154m, N/C 12+
In 1967 two youngmen set out to make a short film. The film was neverfinished, but the experience kept haunting one of the actors in the film.Many years later he hired a composer and an editor from a youngergeneration to finish what had been started over forty years earlier. Butcould the differing notions of two generations be resolved? Or would theaesthetic gap be too wide? Paradox restores to life unique and forgottenfootage shot at a time when short films were almost unheard of in Iceland.The film raises questions about time, generational conflict and the fragilityof a creative process. Thanks to Mystery Ísland ehf.
Attempting to find common traits in the work of disparate filmmakerssimply by virtue of their shared nationality is about as daft as crashinga live Sky News interview whilst wearing a Hooters hoodie to declare thatyou hate an entire country (http://bit.ly/accoFa). Like that regrettablebroadcast, this survey of recent Icelandic fiction shorts, gleaned from over200 titles, is unashamedly selfish and subjective. We can at least concludethat the creativity erupting from Iceland is colossal.
Formore information on our Iceland Focus, visit the GSFF blog athttp://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival
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The final programme in our Iceland focus takes an oblique look atIceland before and after the economic upheaval of 2008. A sense oftrouble brewing can be detected in certain filmsmade earlier in thedecade, whilst post-crash works in various genres make reference toIceland’s unenviable status as the first casualty of the world economiccrisis.
FARMER JOHN’S WORLD Una Lorenzen / 2004 / 5 minA filmmade from illustrations by an Icelandic farmer in the 19th century.Hemade his own encyclopedias about the world as he saw it.
THE MAN ON THE BACK Jón Gnarr / 2004 / 20minTwo strangers meet in the middle of nowhere.
THE NAIL Benedikt Erlingsson / 2008 / 15minRobert is an important man with big responsibilities. One day he has anaccident that blurs the border between the man and the beast within.
THE WILD ONE Hákon Pálsson / 2009 / 11minAn office clerk sets out to lose himself.
COME TO HARM Börkur Sigþórsson / 2011 / 18minWhen Stefan senses an intruder in his home, panic quickly turns to grimdetermination as he arms himself for the inevitable confrontation.
BAD APPLES Hallur Örn Árnason / 2010 / 10minGuðrún is a ten-year-old girl. One day at school she is called in to theprincipal s office on suspicion of arson and fraud.
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With a population of only 300,000, Iceland has always had limitedresources to sustain an indigenous film industry. Filmmakers regularlytravel abroad to study and work, making films in languages other thantheir own.
ANNA’S DAY Árni Ólafur Ásgeirsson / Denmark / 2003 / 27minThere comes a day when the whole world seems to collide with you.Anna is a thirty-year-old single mother, living in Copenhagen with herfive-year-old son Emil.
GUILT Hákon Pálsson / UK / 2011 / 14minWith the loss of his youngmistress, Justin needs to reconcile his feelingsabout his past and who he is.
CLEAN Ísold Uggadóttir / USA / 2010 / 11minA young dance instructor for the elderly must go to extrememeasuresto fund a growing habit.
LOST WEEKEND Dagur Kári / Denmark / 1999 / 35minThe DJ is stranded. But where?
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GFT 2Friday 10 February (20.30)USA / 2011 / 1h44m, N/C 12+
Each year Glasgow Short Film Festival features an Americanindependent filmmaking scene or collective, past or present.In 2010 we showcased the work of the Court 13 collective,whose debut feature Beast of the SouthernWild has just had itsworld premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. In 2011 welooked back to the NoWavemovement of late 1970s New York.This year GSFF celebrates the Texan filmmaking scene that hasformed around Austin Film Society and its founder memberRichard Linklater.
Linklater’s debut feature Slacker (1991) reanimated Americanindependent cinema. Portraying a generation of over-qualifiedunder-achievers, the film followed a series of hipsters andoddballs over a twenty-four-hour period, taking in weirdobsessions, projects, rituals and evenmatricide along the way.Tomark the film’s 20th anniversary, Austin Film Societyinvited twenty-four groups and filmmakers, all stalwarts ofthe city’s independent film scene, to remake a scene each.Some chose to update the script, others tracked down originalcast members. What emerges is a smart and funny loveletter to a city whose laid-back spirit, despite two decadesof change, remains the same.
Presented by GSFF and Glasgow Youth Film Festival.
We are delighted to welcome producer Daniel Metz to introducethis European premiere screening.
CCA THEATRESaturday 11 February (21.00)1h30m, N/C 15+
A founder member of The Jesus andMary Chain, Douglas Hartfirst beganmaking music videos in the late 80s for the likes of MyBloody Valentine and The Stone Roses. Over the last thirty yearshe has worked with everyone from Pete Paradise to The Horrors.Drawing on aesthetic influences ranging from Paul Morrissey’sWarhol films to the early 80s New York club scene, he hasdeveloped a distinct style recognisable for its stripped-downtheatrics and bold use of colour.
For GSFF, Douglas is making his own selection from over 100music videos. The programmewill be as much a surprise to usas to you, but we do at least know that it will include his shortfootball documentary from 1990, Brazil 1970: The Sexiest Kick-Off,with music by Primal Scream. Don’t miss this firstretrospective of possibly Scotland’s most prolific filmmaker!
We are delighted to welcomeDouglas Hart to introduce thescreening and discuss his work.
Douglas’ new film Long Distance Information can be seen inInternational Competition 8 and Scottish Competition 5.
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The Glasgow Youth Film Festival's Youth Team has scoured the planet for the coolest shorts to showcase at Glasgow ShortFilm Festival 2012. Come along to see badly-behaved toddlers, mutant birds, strangers locked in suitcases, bloodycamping trips andmore... All tickets £4
ifqqib _olqeboCallumCooper / UK / 2011 / 7min / Fiction / [email protected]
A teenage boy uses his hearing impairment to escape his daily routineand the responsibility of looking after his wheelchair-bound little brother.
afj^k`ebPatrick Doyon / Canada / 2011 / 10min / Animation / [email protected]
Every Sunday, the train clatters through the village and almost shakes the picturesoff the wall. Dad dreams about his toolbox, Grandma will get a visit and the animalswill meet their fate.
_foa_lvPedro Rivero, Alberto Vázquez / Spain / 2011 / 13min / Animation / [email protected]
A terrible industrial accident changes Little Dinki's life forever. Now Dinki's fate mayride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy.
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Amiddle-aged lady on a holiday in the sun tries to make new friends and have agood time.
qeb obkqboJason Carpenter / USA / 2011 / 10min / Animation / [email protected]
A young boy is dropped off at an elderly woman’s home for the day. Her house sitsamongst fields of weeds and rotting pears, and a lone tenant adds to the unsettlingatmosphere.
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When three kids find a suitcase floating on the river, their lacklustre afternoon takesa surprising turn.
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The story of Jasper O'Leary, a boy with an obsession for junk food, and theimportance of following your gut instinct!
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Sitting around the camp fire of an evening, a summer camp group leader picks up hisguitar and begins singing the tale of ‘Stumpy Sam’.
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Crowdfunding is fast becoming a staple of independent production, and filmmakers are increasingly recognising the benefitsof using social media to engage with a wide audience at all stages of pre-production, production and distribution. But doescrowdfunding change your filmmaking? Do directors find themselves tailoring their work to a particular expectation or demand?And how sustainable is all this mutual crowdfunding anyway? Join a panel of production and social media experts fromScottish Documentary Institute, Netribution and Trigger as they discuss the implications for creativity of the social media boom.
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The Scottish Animation Network is dedicated to promoting and celebrating the Scottish animation industry. We aim to raisethe profile of all animation produced in Scotland from freelance animators to studio productions. For GSFF12 the ScottishAnimation Network brings together a panel of animators and industry experts to discuss the creative and practical differencesbetween short film and commercial work, how the processes differ and what the relative challenges and rewards might be.
All tickets £4
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In the last twelve months barely a week appears to have gone by without news of protests in different corners of the globe.Unsurprisingly these events have inspired filmmakers to reach for their cameras to document a new, emerging restlessness.GSFF and Document International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival present a selection of films responding to politicalprotests past and present in order to examine the overlap between art and activism, asking questions about the role of film in anew age of political activism and provoking lively debate from a panel of filmmakers and activists.
All tickets £4
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We consider Scotland’s greatest director to be an honorary short filmmaker. Why? Because he never made a film thatconformed to commercial standards of duration. His films are whatever length he felt was artistically appropriate. To celebratethe renaming of our international award in his honour, we are screening his student filmCome Dancing and gathering togetherthree people who knew himwell to discuss his life and work – the director Ian Sellar, who got his first break working on theTrilogy, actor Alex Norton, whomemorably played fourteen roles inComrades, and Bill’s lifelong friend and fellow collector offilm ephemera, Peter Jewell.
All tickets £4
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Could youmake a film that changes the way we see the future? In an epoch of doom and gloom it takes both imagination andcourage to imagine alternative futures. Open to all genres – fiction, artists' moving image and documentary – Films For TheFuture challenges Scottish filmmakers to creatively engage with our present and possible futures. With funding and productionsupport available, this is a unique opportunity within the Year of Creative Scotland. Part of the Northern Lights project incollaboration with A ScottishWave of Change. Come along andmeet producers Nick Higgins, Lisa-Marie Russo andPaul Welsh to find out more.
Free but ticketed
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LUX is an international arts agency, based in London, for thesupport and promotion of artists’ moving image practice.Director of LUX Benjamin Cook will be conducting informalhour long sessions with local artists working with the movingimage who are no longer in full-time education, offering adviceand guidance on areas such as developing your practice;exhibition possibilities and appropriate organisations/eventsto approach; self-promotion; funding; production.
All tickets £4. Space extremely limited. To book please [email protected]
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Thursday 2 – Saturday 18 February
Re-contextualising a series of performances filmed at CCAand Glasgow School of Art in 2010, Simone Hutchinson,Alexander Kennedy and Conal McStravick havecollaboratively developed amoving image and soundinstallation. (SAC) Ongoing bodies: Syndrome de ParisSuite explores ideas of Orientalism and gender, referencingJapanese Kabuki Opera and Samuel Beckett.
Free entry
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Matthew Collings makes ‘music from the ends of theearth’. And what beautiful music it is – gorgeous lo-fisounds created through an eclectic range of instruments,from tapes to battered guitars, influenced bymany yearsspent in Iceland. Matthewwill be performing excerptsfrom his soundtrack to Hákon Pálsson’sGuilt (showingin both GSFF's Scottish and Icelandic programmes),with Lorcan Doherty on violin and Ally Winford on guitar,and following this with an Icelandic themed DJ set.An atmospheric celebration of our focus on Iceland anda great opening to this year’s Festival.
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Butcher Boy is a Glasgow-based band known for gentleindie popmusic and wistful, evocative lyrics. The band’sinfluences stretch far beyondmusic, citing filmmakersincluding Bill Douglas and Robert Bresson asinspirations. In 2009 Butcher Boy performed a livesoundtrack to Scottish director Enrico Cocozza’s filmChick’s Day at Glasgow Film Theatre. GSFF is delightedto invite the band to perform to film again, in a specialevent for this year’s Festival.
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Short film takes to the stage for an evening of spokenword, theatre andmusic, specially curated byWords perMinute and Flatrate for this year’s Festival. We bring youperformances by the city’s most exciting writers, artists,musicians and theatremakers, all of whom are exploringmoving image beyond the boundaries of the cinema.Featuring musician and filmmaker Adam Stafford, writersAlan Bissett, EwanMorrison and Kapka Kassabova andtheatremaker Harry Wilson, with manymore acts still tobe confirmed. A truly diverse event that recasts short filmin a whole new light.
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Hanna Tuulikki is a Glasgow-based vocalist whoexperiments with ways of dissolving language anddistinctions between separate phenomena. For GSFFshe will be performing Air falbh leis na h-eòin (Away withthe Birds) a work-in-progress composition for threevoices, with Nerea Bello and Lucy Duncombe. In theScottish Gaelic oral tradition, melody and rhythm areoften used in song to emulate birdsong. Hanna hasdeconstructed these songs in order to weave togethera new composition that evokes several species of birdswithin a Hebridean landscape. The performance willincorporate short films selected by Hanna from theScottish Screen Archive. http://bit.ly/Birdsong
All tickets £4.Air falbh leis na h-eòin is produced by Trigger
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The Berkeley Suite is our late night Festival hub, open after screenings until 3am. Justshow a GSFF ticket stub for discounted entry on Friday and Saturday night. For moredetails go to www.berkeleysuite.com
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Join the GSFF team for Sunday brunch and a chance tomeet the various people attending the Festival. Quiz thefilmmakers, make new connections or just ease yourselfinto a busy day of short film viewing!
Free entry
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Once all the competition films have screened this isyour chance to put your questions to the filmmakersattending, in an informal Q&A led by Festival directorMatt Lloyd. There may even be a free drink or two.
Free entry
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We present an hour and a bit of highlights from our eightinternational competition programmes specially chosenfor parents and babies. The selection will remain a secretuntil the curtains open, but we guarantee entertainingand thought-provoking drama, documentary andanimation from around the world. No sudden loud noisesand the lights will remain on low to allow easy movementduring the screening.
All tickets £4. Babiesmust be eighteenmonthsor younger (and go free, obviously!)
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A lovely bunch of animated shorts perfect for wee ones,selected from this year’s London International AnimationFestival. Featuring films from all over the world that areguaranteed to spark the imaginations of our youngeraudience. Somuch better than Sundaymorning TV and nota toy advert in sight! These films are suitable for children ofall ages but are specifically intended for 3-7-year-oldsPresented by GYFF.Special ticket price: £4 for one adult and one child.
