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IN ADVANCE ONLINE From 11am on 21 January tickets can be purchased from the website: www.glasgowfilmfestival. org.uk. Tickets can be purchased online until 9pm the day before the performance.

IN PERSON & OVER THE PHONE From 21 January you can purchase tickets for most events from the central GFF Box Office at GFT (12 Rose Street) during opening hours (see below for full box office details).

COLLECTION You can collect your advance tickets from the GFF central box office at GFT up until 9pm the day before the performance. On the day of the event, tickets must be picked up at the venue where the film is being shown or the event is being held.

ON THE DAY On the day of the event tickets must be collected or purchased at the venue where the film is being shown or the event is being held.

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CCA (www.cca-glasgow.com) 350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD tel: 0141 352 4900

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Novotel (www.novotel.com) 181 Pitt Street, G2 4DT tel: 0141 222 2775

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Sub Club (www.subclub.co.uk) 22 Jamaica Street, G1 4QD tel: 0141 248 4600

For details about getting to Glasgow and for getting around when you’re here go to: www.glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk/travel

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TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE

INTRODUCTION In 1962 the American film critic Manny Farber drew a distinction between what he termed ‘white elephant art’ and ‘termite art’. The former is doomed by its need to be taken seriously, conforming to an inert tradition of great art. Termite art, in contrast, has no grand ambitions. It is created out of necessity and moves constantly forward, concerned only with eating its own boundaries, leaving ‘nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity’.

We believe that within the rather nebulous category of ‘short film’ the best examples of termite art are found. Short film allows for expression that is as singular and as iconoclastic as the filmmaker desires. The Glasgow Short Film Festival places the most innovative of this work against the diverse backdrop of Glasgow’s art, film and music scenes. In doing so we are celebrating Glasgow’s uniquely collaborative creative community and the boundaryeating cross-disciplinary idea-sharing work that emerges from the city, positioning it as one of Europe’s most relevant art scenes.

The all-consuming messy path of termite art can be traced right across this year’s programme, from Radio Magnetic’s charting of Glasgow’s unique musical heritage, via the obsessive revisiting/remaking of architectural/ historical/personal works by Cynthia Beatt and Murray Grigor, to the irrepressible rise of the no-budget American collective Court 13, whose vision has won them the support of both Spike Jonze and Barack Obama. Our core competition programme promotes emerging international filmmakers, whose innovative, experimental and rulebreaking work introduces them as the strong new voices of cinema, alongside new work by heavy-weight auteurs Werner Herzog and Tsai Ming-Liang. This year GSFF introduces a Best International Short Film Award, judged by a jury of international and local guests, with all 33 invited filmmakers competing for the cash prize.

And it doesn’t stop there. We bring you guest programmes by local curators Gregor Johnstone and New Media Scotland; sessions with the internationally reputable artists’ film & video agency LUX; discussion with the Glasgowfounded online cross-creative platform Central Station; workshops by local film institutions RSAMD and Skillset Screen Academy; parties and the best of new music from LuckyMe, Radio Magnetic, Huntleys & Palmers and Optimo; and even a mobile cinema in a caravan. In Manny Farber’s words, commit yourself to a weekend of ‘buglike immersion’ and join us in a celebration of termite art!

GSFF is curated and produced by Rosie Crerar and Matt Lloyd of The Magic Lantern www.themagiclantern.org The Magic Lantern would like to thank the following for their support: Jaki McDougall, Allison Gardner, Seonaid Daly, Jen Davies, Justine Shapiro and all staff & volunteers of the GFF & GFT / Francis McKee, Louise Shelley, Kenny MacLeod and all staff of the CCA / Mark Daniels at New Media Scotland / Jacqui Davies at Animate Projects / Amy Birchard and Juliet Fellows-Smith at the Mutual / Dominic Flannigan at LuckyMe / Suzy Glass at Central Station / Gregor Johnstone / Andy McColgan at Radio Magnetic / Adam McIlwane at Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama / Mitch Miller / Karen O’Hare at Skillset Screen Academy / Marlies Pfeifer at Goethe-Institut / Barry Price at SubClub / Brian Scott at Glasgow City Council / Ewan Sinclair and his Mobile Picture Salon / Mike Sperlinger at LUX / Brian Suttie at Arc / Andy Thomson at Huntleys & Palmers / Gerald Weber at sixpackfilm / Paul Welsh at The Story Room / Jonnie Wilkes at Optimo and our jurors Cynthia Beatt, Ray Tintori and Louise Welsh.

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GSFF BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD The inaugural GSFF Best International Short Film Award honours inspiration and innovation in new cinema. It carries a cash prize of £500 and will be judged by an international jury. The winner will be announced at 8pm on Sunday 21 February at the CCA followed by music from Huntleys and Palmers (see p15).

GLASGOW BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD

JURY CYNTHIA BEATT Cynthia Beatt is a director, writer and curator. She grew up in Jamaica and later the Fiji Islands. Cynthia studied art in England, before travelling in the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan and India. She joined the experimental film sales and distribution company 24 Frames in London, and has been based in Berlin since 1975. Her films include the ethnographic feature Study of an Island (1978-80), Fury Is A Feeling Too (1983) and The Party: Nature Morte (1991). She has returned to Glasgow several times to shoot scenes for her ongoing project A House In Berlin, describing the city as one of her favourite places.

RAY TINTORI Ray Tintori is an American director and screenwriter. His undergraduate thesis film Death to the Tinman premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival where it received an Honorable Mention for Short Filmmaking. Along with Benh Zeitlin, Ray is a founding member of the Court 13 filmmaking collective. His music video credits include four videos for the band MGMT as well for Chairlift, The Cool Kids, The Killers, and Boy Crisis. Ray currently lives in New Orleans where he is working on the script for his first feature, an adaptation of the novel ‘Light Boxes’, produced

by Spike Jonze. This is his first visit to Glasgow.

LOUISE WELSH After studying history at Glasgow University, Louise Welsh established a second-hand bookshop, where she worked for many years. Her first Glasgow-set novel, ‘The Cutting Room’, won several awards, including the 2002 Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Memorial Dagger, and was jointly awarded the 2002 Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award. Two further novels ‘Tamburlaine Must Die’ (2004) and ‘The Bullet Trick’ (2006) were also highly acclaimed.

She recently received the City of Glasgow Lord Provost’s Award for Literature. Her fourth novel, ‘Naming the Bones’, will be published in March 2010 by Canongate Books. Louise lives in Glasgow.

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GLASGOW BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD

GLASGOW BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD

COMPETITION 1: STANDSTILL A collection of characters trapped by external forces, by their fear of the future or by lust and deception. Physical and mental constraints spark creativity, invention and drama in our first international competition selection.

Including the Cannes Palme D’Or winning Arena and EIFF Best International Short Princess Margaret Boulevard.

CCA 4, Saturday 20 February (12:00) 1hr 21, N/C 15+

Curated by The Magic Lantern

DRIVER Scottish Premiere / Stephen Fingleton / UK / 2009 / 10min / stephen@driverfilms.com

Nelson is tasked with driving his best friend’s estranged wife to her new home. During the tense car journey, he finds his loyalties tested.

AANAATT Max Hattler / UK/Germany / 2008 / 5min / me@maxhattler.com

The ever-shifting shape of Analogue Futurism (100% digital-effects free).

ARENA Scottish Premiere / Joao Salaviza / Portugal / 2009 / 15min / festival@filmesdotejo.pt

Mauro is under house arrest. Tattoing helps him while away the time. Three local kids taunt him through his window. Outside, the midday sun beats down.

PETER IN RADIOLAND Johanna Wagner / UK / 2009 / 10min / f.pretsell@eca.ac.uk

Comforted by his analogue radios, his memories and his loving wife, Peter is left yearning for the old days.

PRINCESS MARGARET BOULEVARD Kazik Radwanski / Canada / 2008 / 14min / dan@mdff.ca

An introduction to Isabelle, as she defiantly confronts the frustration, confusion and loneliness that are the effects of Alzheimer’s.

ROSA ROSA UK Premiere / Félix Dufour-Laperrière / Canada / 2008 / 9min / felixdlap@yahoo.ca

A married woman has an affair. She gets pregnant by her lover and they live serenely together, although war is thundering towards their city.

SCOPE Scottish Premiere / Volker Schreiner / Germany / 2008 / 5min / mail@volkerschreiner.de

Sounds come through a multiplicity of speakers, as unclear communications and dialogue, distorted music and announcements, transmissions, noise.

I LOVE LUCI Scottish Premiere / Colin Kennedy / UK / 2009 / 13min / brian@sigmafilms.com

A comedy of missing teeth, unrequited love and one dog’s potential to shape the fortune of a couple destined never to be together.

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GLASGOW BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD

GLASGOW BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD

COMPETITION 2: WORLDS COLLIDE The clash of cultures is the focus of our second international competition programme. Differences are challenged in both form and content, in a series of films both personal and the political. Including Werner Herzog’s La Boheme and Scottish BAFTA nominated The Bedfords.

CCA 4, Saturday 20 February (14:00) 1hr 23, N/C 15+

Curated by The Magic Lantern

WHEN WORLDS COLLUDE UK Premiere / Fred Worden / USA / 2008 / 13min / Babyleg@aol.com

A kind of specialized playground in which highly representational images are freed from their duties to refer to things outside of themselves.

HUNGER Scottish Premiere / Carolina Hellsgård / Germany / 2009 / 17min / info@filmgestalten.eu

Neglected siblings Roland and Paul watch the deportation of their immigrant neighbours. After the police have left, they enter the abandoned apartment.

LA BOHEME Scottish Premiere / Werner Herzog / UK / 2009 / 4min / isobel.gray@westparkpictures. com

A moving yet enigmatic interpretation of Puccini set among the Mursi people of south-west Ethiopia.

CHANTIER UK Premiere / Damien Dufresne / France / 2009 / 29min / damiendufresne@gmail.com

Pascal has turned his back on the past and works alone on a building site. When Kevin arrives asking for work, Pascal sees his old devils reappearing.

THE BEDFORDS Scottish Premiere / Henry Coombes / UK / 2009 / 20min / ciara@digicult.co.uk

An audacious and haunting new take on aristocratic Victorian culture and the veneration of the Scottish Highlands.

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COMPETITION 3: NO YESTERDAYS Our third international programme explores the erasure of the past and the reinvented present. Characters seek to transform or escape from landscapes of their own making. Others attempt to recall long-forgotten histories.

Including Oberhausen Short Film Festival award-winning A Letter to Uncle Boonmee.

CCA 4, Saturday 20 February (16:45) 1hr 19, N/C 15+ The event will be followed by networking drinks in association with Glasgow FIlm Office.

Curated by The Magic Lantern

DROPPING FURNITURE Harald Hund & Paul Horn / Austria / 2008 / 5min / gerald@sixpackfilm.com

The destruction of a habitat, symbolizing the loss of existence.

A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE Scottish Premiere / Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Thailand / 2009 / 18min / distribution@animateprojects.org

Part of the multi-platform PRIMITIVE project, focusing on a concept of remembrance and extinction, filmed at the site of a political massacre.

KANIZSA HILL Scottish Premiere / Evelyn Lee / USA / 2008 / 8min / evelyncorea@gmail.com

A man is shot and can only survive as a head and a body who exist independently from one another.

DIE SCHNEIDER KRANKHEIT Scottish Premiere / Javier Chillon / Spain / 2008 / 10min / javierchillon@hotmail.com

The Fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country...

WITHOUT YOU Tal Rosner / UK / 2008 / 5min / jane@janecolling.co.uk

A visual exploration of London’s industrial suburbia, where the natural and manmade environments lie side by side in harmonic indifference.

YOU’RE THE STRANGER HERE Tom Geens / UK / 2009 / 17min / zp@zerodoubleone.com

Margot has a crazy leg. She lives in a fascist regime where they shoot people with crazy legs.

MEMOTECH Scottish Premiere / Marianna Mørkøre & Rannvá Káradóttir / Faroe Islands / 2009 / 6min / mariannamoerkoere@gmail.com

An experimental dance film, exploring the contrast between a minimalistic movement vocabulary and the overwhelming nature of the Faroe Islands.

CHOREOMANIA Scottish Premiere / Louis Paxton / UK / 2009 / 10min / louispaxton@hotmail.co.uk

The story of Hector’s journey into dance hell as Glasgow is overwhelmed by a hysterical body-popping plague.

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GLASGOW BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD

GLASGOW BEST INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM AWARD

COMPETITION 4: LEARNING TO BREATHE Loss, rejection and trauma have brought the protagonists of our fourth international selection to the brink. Only rebirth and baby steps can bring them back to safety. By turns funny, melancholic and shocking, this is an emotional one. Including the Locarno Golden Leopard winning Believe and Berlin Golden Bear winning Please Say Something.

CCA4, Sunday 21 February (14:00) 1hr 20, N/C 15+

Curated by The Magic Lantern

BELIEVE Paul Wright / UK / 2009 / 20min / rhianna@youngfilms.co.uk

The story of one man’s grief following the death of his wife, played out against a beautifully isolated highland landscape.

THE CONSERVATORY Matilda Tristram / UK / 2008 / 2min / matilda.tristram@network.rca.ac.uk

A series of quick-fix solutions to problems of an emotional nature seen through the prism of immediate home renovation.

WINTERING Scottish Premiere / Iain Finlay / UK / 2009 / 17min / iain@ifinlay.com

A woman witnesses a man setting fire to clothes on a secluded bridge.

She follows him into the night, watching as he engages in more acts of destruction.

CLAMP & GRIND Scottish Premiere / Prasanna Puwanarajah / UK / 2008 / 8min / ppuwanarajah@googlemail.com

A black comedy about an ordinary man with superhero aspirations who takes to the streets to rid the world of wheel clamps.

MISS THIS AT YOUR PERIL World Premiere / Brent King / USA / 2009 / 23min / sharksandhalos@gmail.com

A story of addiction to the 21st century. A group of eleven come together to try a new experimental medication and get the devils out.

PLEASE SAY SOMETHING Scottish Premiere / David O’Reilly / Ireland/Germany / 2009 / 10min / mail@davidoreilly.com

A troubled relationship between a cat and mouse set in the distant future.

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COMPETITION 5: LEAVE A TRAIL Travel broadens the mind they say. Well perhaps for some. Others just get lost, tricked or abandoned along the way. Take a walk into the unknown in our final international selection. Including BAFTA Scotland nominated Little Red Hoodie and Tsai Ming-Liang’s unique interpretation of Madame Butterfly.

CCA4, Sunday 21 February (16:30) 1hr 24, N/C 15+ This screening will be followed by networking drinks courtesy of Central Station.

Curated by The Magic Lantern

LOOPLOOP Scottish Premiere / Patrick Bergeron / Canada / 2008 / 5min / patbergeron@yahoo.com

The view from a train to Hanoi runs forwards and backwards in the search for forgotten details, mimicking the way memories are replayed in the mind.

RUMBO A PEOR Scottish Premiere / Àlex Brendemühl / Spain / 2009 / 12min / albert@voodooproductions.net

Two men dressed in football stripes wander through nature. They meet a woman on the road. The beginning of something or nothing, perhaps.

LIFT Scottish Premiere / Nathan Rae / UK / 2009 / 10min / nathanraeproductions@googlemail.com

A unique portrait of Britain on the move, told from the perspectives of a hitchhiker and the strangers who invite him into their cars and lives.

LITTLE RED HOODIE Jørn Utkilen / UK / 2009 / 15min / csk@hopscotchfilms.co.uk

In this modern re-working of a classic fairytale, a young girl discovers that the adult world can be a dangerous place.

WINGS AND OARS Scottish Premiere / Vladimir Leschiov / Latvia / 2009 / 6min / nfc@nfc.goc.lv

A former pilot looks back over his life - everything that took place on the journey from an airstrip to an abandoned boat house.

MADAM BUTTERFLY UK Premiere / Tsai Ming-Liang / Italy/Taiwan/France / 2008 / 36min / hgfilms@ispeed.com.tw

Puccini’s heroine in a bus station in Kuala Lumpur, without enough money to pay for her ticket.

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OPENING SCREENING: THE INVISIBLE FRAME + CYCLING THE FRAME

CLOSING SCREENING: SPACE & LIGHT REVISITED

In 1988 director Cynthia Beatt invited Tilda Swinton and sound artist Simon Fisher Turner to join her on a filmic adventure, cycling along the Berlin Wall. They wanted to document the places the Wall had cut through, but also tried to capture West Berlin’s introspection as well as glimpses of East Berlin on the other side of the Wall.

In the summer of 2009 they returned to re-trace the now ‘invisible frame’ in a second film - this time meandering between its two sides, looking for what has changed.

St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross is Scotland’s neglected modernist masterpiece, a triumphant creation of ‘sacred space’.

Designed by two graduates of Glasgow School of Art, Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan, following the inspiration of Le Corbusier and the more expressive forms of Mackintosh’s GSA building, St Peter’s Seminary was considered without rival in Great Britain on its completion in 1966, a match even for Le Corbusier himself. But whether as the result of a decline in the intake for the priesthood or for other external reasons, the seminary was closed and abandoned in 1980.

Beatt’s deceptively simple and free-flowing two-part document, driven by the flâneuse-on-wheels, raises questions of collective memory and healing, and of how to capture history and the invisible on film. At the same time it cannot help but be a portrait of Tilda Swinton, in 1988 a little-known avant-garde performer, now a Hollywood star and household name.

At Cynthia Beatt’s request we will screen the 2009 film first, exploring the barely traceable city history, before unearthing a past that seems both alien and oddly familiar.

We are delighted to welcome Cynthia Beatt to introduce the screening.

CCA 5, Friday 19 February (19:30) 1hr 45, N/C 15+

In 1972 filmmaker Murray Grigor celebrated the building in a near-wordless 20-minute film, with music by Frank Spedding. In February 2009 he returned to the derelict, graffiti-ridden site with Oscarnominated cinematographer Seamus McGarvey to film an exact shot-for-shot remake. We present the new film projected simultaneously alongside the restored original in a remarkable time-spanning cinema diptych, with a new recording of the score by students of RSAMD. We are delighted to welcome Murray Grigor to introduce this screening.

CCA 5, Sunday 21 February (19:30) 20min, N/C all ages £

All tickets £3.50.

Two further non-ticketed screenings will take place without Murray at 20:15 and 20:45.

Image: Seamus McGarvey

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‘THIS IS NOT A BOAT’: THE IMPROBABLE STORY OF THE COURT 13 COLLECTIVE A menace to fire marshals and coast guards from New York to New Orleans, Court 13 is a rule-breaking lo-fi collective producing some of the most visionary images anywhere in the world today. Formed at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, by founders Ray Tintori and Benh Zeitlin, and originally based in Brooklyn, the collective have created a series of fantastical dream-like films, drawing on the support of artists and marginalised communities, whilst running after-school kids’ filmmaking programmes. They also have music video credits for MGMT and The Killers among others. They have won a wealth of awards, and even had the honour of their distinctive soundtracks being adopted for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.

The collective’s crowning achievement is the colossal Glory At Sea, a modern myth filmed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. The collective relocated to New Orleans to recruit cast and crew amongst the communities directly affected by the tragedy, and found locations and props in the debris. The production required that they build a boat from scratch; the Louisiana Coast Guard declared it the ‘least seaworthy vessel’ they’d ever seen, but against the odds it floated, and we present the long overdue UK premiere of the resulting film tonight.

Join Ray Tintori (soon to be directing his Spike Jonzeproduced feature debut) as he presents a masterclass of Court 13’s unique and dynamic collaborative method, including screenings of some of the collective’s films, after-school projects and music promos.

We are delighted to welcome director Ray Tintori to present this masterclass.

CCA 5, Saturday 20 February (19:00) 1hr 45, N/C 15+ WWW.GLASGOWFILMFESTIVAL.ORG.UK/SHORTS

RADIO MAGNETIC PRESENTS:

IMAGES FROM THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC SCENE IN GLASGOW Glasgow has undoubtedly one of the finest independent music scene heritages in the UK, if not the world. From the early days of Postcard Records and the hugely influential early records of Orange Juice, through to pivotal acts featured on the legendary NME C86 cassette tape and the subsequent scene and bands it spawned; from Chemikal Undergound and Soma Recordings, two of the most important and revered independent record labels in existence, to esteemed worldwide exports of this decade such as Franz Ferdinand, Belle and Sebastian and Camera Obscura. Right now, Glasgow is once again at the epicentre of groundbreaking and cutting edge independent music with a certain Hudson Mohawke, one of the most forward thinking and dynamic producers on the planet.

Brought to you by Radio Magnetic, the UK’s longest running internet radio station, this showcase is a chronological audiovisual tour through the lineage of Glasgow’s independent music scene, focusing on the artistic music video productions of those close to the featured acts.

CCA 5, Saturday 20 February (21:00) 1hr 30, N/C 15+ The screening will be immediately followed by a Radio Magnetic-hosted party. See page 15 for details. www.radiomagnetic.com

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ARTISTS’ FILM & VIDEO PROGRAMME

New Media Scotland presents a programme of animated shorts with a CGI focus. Each film reveals the effects of life’s little tremors through a variety of trails and transformations, both physical and emotional. Imagine a world made of logos overrun by the characters of various corporations, a man coming to terms with a sense of displacement after he’s dramatically hit by a meteorite, or a new perspective on society caused by the loss of a wallet and a lot of caffeine. Thankfully the day will be saved in a swoosh.

Curated by local artist, filmmaker and curator Gregor Johnstone, this programme showcases wide-ranging approaches to the moving image, from filmed performance to experimental documentary and pop art. The democratization of the medium afforded by digital technology allows artists to move back and forth between narrative cinema and their own practice. How will the breaking down of these boundaries affect the future of film?

Alma / Rodrigo Blaas / Spain/USA / 2009 / 6min As One / Makoto Yabuki / Japan / 2009 / 3min Skhizein / Jérémy Clapin / France / 2008 / 14min Way Home / Erick Oh / Korea/USA / 2008 / 9min French Roast / Fabrice O. Joubert / France / 2008 / 8min Oktapodi / Various / France / 2007 / 3min Logorama / H5 / France / 2009 / 16min

CCA 5, Saturday 20 February (15:30) 60 mins, N/C 15+ Curated by New Media Scotland www.mediascot.org

This programme will provide an opportunity for a cinema audience, who may be less familiar with artists’ film, to engage with this exciting and often challenging area of filmmaking.

Featuring work by Luke Fowler / Lila De Magalhaes / Jeff Keen / Shelly Nadashi / Steve Sutcliffe / Carla Easton / Kate Burton / Andrew Kötting / Ross Sinclair

CCA 5, Sunday 21 February (14:30) 1hr 45, N/C 15+ This programme includes a panel discussion with Gregor Johnstone, Mike Sperlinger (LUX), Steve Sutcliffe and Mitch Miller (How’S the Ghost).

THE MUTUAL: CCA SHOWCASE The Mutual, formerly GSA Mutual, is an organisation of early career Glasgow based artists formed in an attempt to thwart post-graduate hopelessness. In CCA Foyer and Courtyard five practitioners present a collection of recent work. Dry with derision, the work of Jamie Carter critiques the concept of the self-fulfilled prophecy. Films presenting him whimsically attired in Court Jester dress have evolved from draconian documents on school duels.

Vickie McDonald produces insistent, repetitious films with a skin crawling, stomach churning quality to induce a state of dread. Mechanically constructed illusions and subliminal animation explore the transformative nature of the moving image in Katie Gallacher’s work.

Maximilian Swinton makes macabre movies featuring composite characters and Jonathan Long produces meticulous paper cutout, stop motion animations.

CCA Foyer & Courtyard all weekend Free exhibition www.agsamutual.org.uk

The Mutual will be staging an event at CCA as part of Glasgow Film Festival on Thursday 25 February (14.00)

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LUX WORKSHOPS LUX is an international arts agency, based in London, for the support and promotion of artists’ moving image practice and the ideas that surround it. LUX exists to provide access to, and develop audiences for, artists’ moving image work; to provide professional development support for artists working with the moving image; and to contribute to and develop discourse around practice.

LUX: ONE-TO-ONE Mike Sperlinger and Benjamin Cook from LUX will be conducting short one-to-one sessions with local artists working with the moving image who are no longer in full-time education.

These are informal sessions aimed at developing a wide-ranging dialogue around your practice and can involve any or all of the following areas: •

THE MOVIE TRAILER A special programme of shorts, fragments and filmic artifacts, The Movie Trailer takes 100-year old movies, the fair and all its dark arts as inspiration. Mitch Miller - a showman - and Chris Dooks - a frequent punter of the fairground - will be turning the Mobile Picture Salon into a cinema where fact and fabrication vie for supremacy. With a cast of elephants, Lynchian clowns and the travelling showpeople of Dalmarnock and Shettleston, this outsider-insider soiree will illuminate the unseen corners of the carnival on the edge of town.

Mobile Picture Salon, Garnethill Park, Rose Street Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 February (12:30 and 16:30) 1hr 30, N/C 15 £

All tickets £3.50.

Looking at and discussing your work Advice on developing your practice Advice on exhibition possibilities, appropriate organisations and events to approach Self-promotion advice Funding advice Production advice

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CCA Clubroom Sunday 21 February Appointments available between 10:30 and 13:30

LUX: DISPERSION Mike Sperlinger and Benjamin Cook will lead a small group in discussion about how questions of distribution affect artists working with film and video. The discussion will take as its starting point the artist Seth Price’s short essay ‘Dispersion’.

CCA Clubroom, Sunday 21 February (17:00) 1hr 30

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HOW’S THE GHOST? PRESENTS:

All tickets £3.50.

Spaces for both sessions are limited. To sign up for one of these please contact: shorts@glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk www.lux.org.uk

CENTRAL STATION PRESENTS :

ART / ROC / DOC Art, music, screenings, talks, conversation and a glass or two of wine.

Join Central Station for the preview screening of Art / Roc / Doc, shot in London at Frieze 2009 and featuring Glasgow-based band Isosceles as they play their way round the country’s best-known art fair.

Alongside Art / Roc / Doc we’ll also be showing a selection of art and music shorts made by Central Station members. Afterwards, the teams behind the films will be talking about their work: ten minutes each to tell us something about their process and inspiration. You’re then invited to join us all for a couple of drinks and some conversation.

Central Station is a creative social network for art, film and design. Find out more at www.thisiscentralstation.com. We’ll be selecting member work to screen up until the event itself. If you have any work based on the themes of art and/or music and you’d like to be considered, we’d love to hear from you. Visit www.thisiscentralstation.com/projects for more information.

CCA 5, Sunday 21 February (17:00) 1hr 30, N/C 15 This event will be followed by networking drinks.

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THE STORY ROOM: DISCOVERING CHARACTER Led by screenwriter, producer and commissioner Paul Welsh, The Story Room is a process-based workshop for story and script development in film.

The Story Room has now worked with over 200 film-makers with support from partners including EM Media, Film Four / Cinema Extreme, North West Vision, Screen South, DigiCult and LFF’s Think Shoot Distribute. For GSFF, Paul will present a half-day workshop on character, combining discussion, short screenings and practical exercises.

The workshop is targeted at emerging screenwriters and writer/directors with at least one short film credit to date.

Novotel, Pitt Street Saturday 20 February (10:00) 4hrs £

All tickets £10

Spaces are limited. To sign up for one of these please contact shorts@ glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk.

INTRODUCING THE RED The RED ONE Digital Cinema camera is taking the industry by storm. Steven Soderbergh is a fan of RED and used it for his acclaimed Che. Other directors to have enthusiastically embraced this cutting edge camera include Peter Jackson and Lars von Trier.

The Digital Film and Television course at the RSAMD is the first institution in Scotland to train its graduates on the RED ONE Digital camera. Come and see what the industry is getting so excited about. This workshop will feature a demonstration of the camera, an insight into the production process, and a chance to see the quality of image that can be generated.

CCA 5 Saturday 20 February (13:45) 1hr 30

SHORT DOCUMENTARY FILM CASE STUDY:

THE INNER SHAPE

BY JOHANNA WAGNER The Inner Shape was Johanna Wagner’s graduation film from the MA Directing course at Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Screen Academy at the Edinburgh College of Art (eca). The film went on to win the Best Short Film award at BAFTA Scotland New Talent Awards in 2008.

In conversation with Emma Davie, documentary filmmaker and Head of Film & TV at Edinburgh College of Art, Johanna describes the process of making the film from idea to distribution and the support that she received from the Screen Academy along the way. She will also discuss subsequent projects.

Johanna’s recent film Peter in Radioland, made through the Bridging the Gap scheme in 2009, won the Best Short Scottish Documentary award at Edinburgh International Film Festival, and features in our competition programme 1.

CCA 5, Saturday 20 February (16:45) 1hr 30, N/C 15+ An Edinburgh Skillset Screen and Media Academy event www.essama.org / www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk

The event will be followed by networking drinks in association with Glasgow Film Office.

A Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama event www.rsamd.ac.uk

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NETWORKING BREAKFAST CCA Courtyard Cafe Sunday 21st February (10.30-12.30) Join Glasgow Short Film Festival programmers, guests and partners for a mid-festival breakfast. Meet the filmmakers, network with key industry representatives or just recover from last night’s party before Sunday’s packed programme.

To sign up for this free event please contact shorts@glasgowfilmfestival.org.uk

Hosted by Glasgow Film Office and Scottish Screen

GSFF OPENING NIGHT PARTY

LUCKYME PARTY LuckyMe is a genre blurring record label and artist collective based in Glasgow who throw and play parties and art-direct in fashion and music. They produce new electronic hip hop, pop, post-rock and underground dance music. Members include Hudson Mohawke, American Men, Rustie, Mike Slott, The Blessings, Dema & Lunice.

Join us for the launch night of GSFF with live and synthetic music and bespoke visuals. Featuring American Men (Live), The Blessings (Live), Eclair Fifi & David Barbarossa.

CCA Courtyard Friday 19 February (22:00 till late) Over 18s / Entry £7/£6 / Half-price entry on door with The Invisible Frame ticket www.thisisluckyme.com

RADIO MAGNETIC PARTY The UK’s longest running internet radio station Radio Magnetic hosts, creates and produces a wide variety of on-demand specialist music shows, features and podcasts. RM celebrates the very best of Glasgow’s vibrant music scene, promoting it to music fans worldwide. Radio Magnetic is the definitive and most comprehensive online destination for music in Scotland. To celebrate the Radio Magnetic GSFF programme Images from the Independent Music Scene in Glasgow, RM will host the GSFF Saturday party with music from celebrated Glasgow DJs Divine and more.

CCA Courtyard Saturday 20 February (22:30 till late)

BEST SHORT FILM AWARD PRESENTATION

HUNTLEYS & PALMERS AUDIO CLUB Join us for the Glasgow Short Film Festival closing night award presentation and pre-club party.

Huntleys and Palmers Audio Club was established in December 2007 with the earnest ambition simply to throw a memorable party - with an emphasis on good music - and to bring their favourite artists / DJs to Glasgow. Parties are staged in numerous and unique venues throughout the city. Amongst others, previous guests have ranged from Silver Apples, James Holden, Pilooski, Congregation, Daedelus, Joakim and Marissa Nadler, not to mention local talent including Jackmaster, David Barbarossa, Dollskabeat and Fox Gut Daata.

CCA Courtyard Sunday 21 February (20:00 till 23:00) Over 18s / Free Entry / GSFF closing night pre-club party with visuals curated by The Magic Lantern. www.myspace.com/huntleysandpalmers

This event is supported by Muvizu

GSFF CLOSING PARTY

OPTIMO (ESPACIO) No strangers to the oeuvre of Cinema and its controversies, Optimo (Espacio) are thrilled to work in association with GSFF to host the closing event for the 2010 festival. Optimo will create musical entertainments and collaborate with The Magic Lantern’s visual programme – which will screen inside and outside of the Sub Club - to celebrate the conclusion of this year’s exceptional programme.

The Sub Club, 22 Jamaica Street, Glasgow Sunday 21 February (23:00 to 03.00)

Over 18s / Entry £7/£6 / Half-price entry on door with Court 13 or Radio Magnetic screening ticket

Over 18s / Entry £7 (discount with any GSFF ticket £6)

www.radiomagnetic.com

www.optimo.co.uk / www.subclub.co.uk

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subCLub

GARNetHILL PARK

MOVIE TRAILER MOBILE PICTURE 12.30 - 14.00 /p13

NETwORKING B/FAST 10.30 - 12.30 / p15

CCA CouRtYARD

13.00

LUx ONE TO ONE CCA CLUBROOM / 10.30 - 13.30 / p13

12.00

15.00

15.00

COMPETITION 2 14.00 - 15.30 /p6

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14.00

15.00

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KNIC...p12 15.30-16.30

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16.00

ARTISTS’ FILM + VId 14.30 - 16.20 / p12

COMPETITION 4 14.00 - 15.30 / p8

14.00

THE REd...

13.45 - 15.15 /p14

MOVIE TRAILER MOBILE PICTURE 12.30 - 14.00 /p13

CCA CLubRoom

CCA 5

CCA 4

11.00

13.00

13.00

COMPETITION 1 12.00 - 13.30 /p5

12.00

12.00

THE STORY ROOM 10.00 - 14.00 / p14

suNDAY 21 FebRuARY

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GARNetHILL PARK

CCA CouRtYARD

CCA 5

CCA 4

11.00

sAtuRDAY 20 FebRuARY

CCA CouRtYARD

CCA 5

11.00

FRIDAY 19 FebRuARY

18.00

18.00

18.00

MOVIE TRAILER MOBILE PICTURE 16.30 - 18.00 /p13

LUx: dISPERSION 17.00 - 18.30 /p13

CENTRAL... p13 17.00 - 18.30

COMPETITION 5 16.30 - 18.00 / p9

17.00

MOVIE TRAILER MOBILE PICTURE 16.30 - 18.00 /p13

SHORT dOCU...

16.45 - 18.15 /p14

COMPETITION 3 16.45 - 18.15 /p7

17.00

17.00

GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 20.00

20.00

THE INVISIBLE...

19.30 - 21.00 /p10

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24.00

GSFF CLOSING PARTY 23.00 - 03.00 / p15

23.00

RAdIO MAGNETIC PARTY COURTYARD / 22.30-LATE /p15

23.00

LUCKYME PARTY / COURTYARD 22.00 - LATE / p15

22.00

RAdIO MAGNET...

21.00 - 22.30 /p11

21.00

21.00

HUNTLEYS ANd PALMERS 20.00 - 23.00 / p15

SPACE & LIGHT See p10 for details

20.00

COURT 13 19.00 - 20.45 / p11

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