GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
7–10 FEBRUARY 2013
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International Jury
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STANDARD PRICE TICKETS
Award Winners
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£5 (no concessions) Aged 15-21 years old? See films for only £4.50 with our Youth Card. For more details, go to www.glasgowfilm.org/youthcard Some special events priced individually, please see event listings for more details.
Scottish Jury
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CERTIFICATION
International Competition
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Scottish Competition
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Calendar
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Scottish Competition
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Caroline Sascha Cogez
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The MFA Film Program at Columbia University
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Films not certificated by the BBFC are marked N/C and 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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From Thursday 17 January tickets can be purchased from www.glasgowfilm.org/festival
George Kuchar
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Don Hertzfeldt Trilogy
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Tickets can be purchased online up until one hour before the screening.
Focus on Croatia
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IN ADVANCE
Women & Film
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Workshops
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Performances
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Youth and Family Screenings
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Social Events
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From Thursday 17 January you can purchase tickets for most events from the Central Festival Box Office at GFT (12 Rose Street, G3 6RB). You can collect advance tickets from the Central Festival Box Office at GFT up until 9pm the day before the performance.
Please note advance purchases can only be made online at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival or via the Central Festival Box Office.
DURING THE FESTIVAL www.facebook.com/glasgowshortfilmfestival Twitter: @GlasgowSFF #GSFF13 Cover Image: It’s Such a Beautiful Day / Don Hertzfeldt / 2011 / bitter films / USA
On the day of the event or screening, tickets can be collected or purchased at CCA. Tickets will only be available for that day, not for future days. Please note that tickets for events at The Flying Duck and The Berkeley Suite can only be purchased on the door, cash sales only. Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions.
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237 North Street, G3 7DL www.berkeleysuite.com
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The competition line-up of last year’s Cannes Film Festival infamously included no film directed by a woman. At the time of writing, this year’s Sundance Film Festival has just proudly announced a 50:50 split between male and female directors. In the months between these two festivals, issues of gender inequality and women’s rights have been hotly argued in mainstream discourse in a range of spheres, possibly more so than at any time in the last decade. Some of the debates have been toxic, revealing entrenched and narrow attitudes amongst many apparently progressive thinkers. In this climate, a focus on women in film seems timely and necessary. We’re inviting several feminist writers, artists and filmmakers to debate questions of female authorship, to chew over the realities facing women working in film, and to bust some myths. We’re also showcasing the recent output of the MFA Film Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts in New York, a school that has a particularly strong track record of producing successful female directors. And we’re proud to be screening the work of Danish filmmaker Caroline Sascha Cogez, who cut her filmic teeth working for Lars von Trier and who regularly collaborates with performance artist Peaches – so she might have something to say about gender politics... Elsewhere in the programme Canadian artist Alex MacKenzie takes us on an expedition to observe marine life off the shores of British Columbia and sadly departed underground maestro George Kuchar gives us a tour of his deliciously unrestrained imagination. New Queer Cinema pioneer Tom Kalin and BAFTA-winning designer Lisa Marie Hall present unmissable workshops, and we party hard with Lock Up Your Daughters and Miaoux Miaoux. Massive thanks as ever to funders Creative Scotland, to accommodation sponsor Glasgow Film Office and to indispensable venue partner CCA. We’re indebted to the Scottish Government for their direct support this year, and we warmly thank Monir Mohammed for generously sponsoring the Scottish Short Film Award through his restaurant Mother India (whose curries have kept us going throughout the Festival preparations). Enjoy the Festival. Director: Matt Lloyd Coordinator: Morvern Cunningham Symposium Organiser: Sarah Neely Submission Viewers: Helen Wright, Jamie Dunn, Laura Shand, Lucy Holmes-Elliott, Marjolein den Bakker, Nav Noorbakhsh, Sean Greenhorn GSFF trailer: Ciara Barry, Claire McInnes, Nora Smyth, Paul Whyte
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All staff and volunteers of Glasgow Film; Francis McKee, Ainslie Roddick, Kenny MacLeod and all staff of CCA; Paul Smith and the staff of Saramago; Alex Misick at Glasgow School of Art Students Association; Sophie & Lucy Holmes-Elliott at Lock Up Your Daughters; Meryl Gilbert and the staff of The Berkeley Suite; all at Creative Scotland; Samantha Groessler at the Culture Division, Scottish Government; Beverley Murray at Glasgow Film Office; Monir Mohammed at Mother India; MeCCSA Womens’ Media Studies Network; MeCCSA Practice, Scottish Media and Communication Association, Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies; Emma Quinn; Hope Dickson Leach; Trey Ellis, Lydia Cavallo, Eric Mendelsohn at the MFA Film Program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, NYC; Gemma Mitchell and Helen Jack at Underwire Film Festival; Philip Ilson at London Short Film Festival; Laura Dolan at Glasgow Women’s Library; Kate Kinninmont and Belle Doyle at Women in Film & TV (UK); Karen O’Hare at Screen Academy Scotland; Claire Jackson at Tramway; Chris Cameron Jr at Cameron Presentations; STV Creative; Peter Jewell; all our filmmakers, speakers, performers, guests and jury members.
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For the fourth year, an international jury will select the film they consider the most outstanding work in 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. The award carries a cash prize of £1,200. You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to win the Audience Award. 2012 Bill Douglas Award winner: Fini Jacob Secher Schulsinger / Denmark / 2010 Special Mention: Ghosts (Fantasmas) André Novais Oliveira / Brazil / 2010 2012 Audience Award winner: Tumult Johnny Barrington / UK / 2011
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PENELOPE BARTLETT Penelope Bartlett is a programmer and panels manager for Chicago International Film Festival, an associate programmer for Palm Springs International Film Festival, and a short film programming advisor for Tribeca Film Festival. She previously worked in the Learning department at Glasgow Film Theatre and Glasgow Youth Film Festival, and as Founding Co-Director of Glasgow Short Film Festival. She also co-curated short film programmes for The Magic Lantern in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and throughout the UK. Penelope has served on several short film juries, most recently at the Starz Denver Film Festival in Colorado. JOHN CANCIANI John Canciani has recently taken the position of Artistic Director of the Short Film Festival Winterthur, Switzerland. Before this he was a programmer of the international competition and youth section, and curator of several special programmes such as Focus on Africa and Kino Balkan. John was a programmer for four years at the Swiss Youth Film Festival and for touring short film exhibitor Kurz & Knapp. John is a freelance photographer and has directed several short films, which have screened at festivals including Leeds, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paolo, EMAF Osnabrück and Art le Havre. VAHNI CAPILDEO Vahni Capildeo was born in Trinidad, and has lived in the UK since 1991. She writes both poetry and prose. Her four poetry books are Dark & Unaccustomed Words (2012), Undraining Sea (2009), No Traveller Returns (2003) and Utter (Peepal Tree, forthcoming 2013), which was inspired by working for the Oxford English Dictionary. She enjoys artistic collaboration, recently on a short film with Karen Martinez of Riposte Pictures, and on a photography/text exploration of Trinidad’s urban space with Andre Bagoo. Vahni teaches at the University of Glasgow. CAROLINE SASCHA COGEZ Born in Paris, Caroline Sascha Cogez began her career in films working as assistant director to Lars von Trier on The Idiots, Dancer in the Dark and Dogville. She went on to the Copenhagen based Film School Super 16 from where she graduated as a director. She also has a BA in Sociology & Economics. Caroline has written and directed numerous award-winning short films. Her interest in storytelling has also drawn her to working with narrative performances and installations for IMO Copenhagen (DK), and Shoshanna Whayne Gallery in Los Angeles (US). LILA RAWLINGS As of January 2013, Lila Rawlings is an Executive Producer for Film and TV at Left Bank Pictures. Previously she was a Development Executive at Film4 where she worked with a wide range of writers, directors and producers. Lila is a mentor to the MA Screenwriting Students at The London Film School and was Assistant Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
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Scottish Premiere / Franck Dion / France/Canada / 2012 / 15 min / Animation contact@papy3d.com
When his co-workers tease him by crowning him with a pair of donkey ears, Edmond suddenly discovers his true nature.
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Kemi lives and works in the murky slipstream of a North London pub. As the booze flows, the line between who belongs behind and in front of the bar becomes increasingly blurred.
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Tim is twenty-three-years-old. He’s intelligent, rather good looking, but he stammers. Seducing a girl is an ordeal. Egged on by his brother, he dares to approach Victoria. However, he has trouble stringing two words together…
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Scottish Premiere / Mark Chapman / UK / 2012 / 7 min / Experimental/Documentary chapmanmm@talk21.com
An introduction to Kali’s thoughts, feelings and imaginings as she reflects on the pain of her metamorphosis.
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UK Premiere / Saskia Gubbels / Netherlands / 2011 / 18 min / Documentary lisa@hollandsehelden.tv
Eleven-year-old Ellen is deaf. She has to decide which secondary school to attend. She would like to go to the school for the hard of hearing, with her best friend Myrthe. But will she be admitted there?
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Scottish Premiere / Conor Finnegan / Ireland / 2012 / 9 min / Animation conor@fearofflyingfilm.com
A small bird with a fear of flying tries to avoid heading south for the winter.
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Scottish Premiere / Fyzal Boulifa / UK/Morocco / 2012 / 16 min / Fiction / info@quarkfilms.com
Fatine has ventured far from the village to meet her older lover. When she is caught by a small boy, all she wants to do is go home.
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International Premiere / Alex MacKenzie / Canada / 2012 / 6 min / Experimental alexgmackenzie@gmail.com
A water-damaged found footage educational film from the 50s, repurposed. Its original message, of the risks of entering marriage without fully knowing your partner, is transformed into a shifting landscape of visual abstraction.
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In July 2004 a young gay man, Scotty Joe Weaver, was killed in Alabama, the victim of a horrific hate crime.
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A group of Iranian soldiers confront a mystery: a red skirt that arrives with the wind.
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UK Premiere / Sofia Djama / Algeria/France / 2011 / 29 min / Fiction / sofiadjama@gmail.com
One evening in Algiers, Myassa is the victim of an attempted rape. In the morning, she intends to report the assault to the police. But instead she finds herself face to face with her rapist.
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UK Premiere / Isabel Penoni & Leonardo Sette / Brazil / 2012 / 10 min / Fiction contact@figafilms.com
After they find that their husbands have mysteriously transformed into raging pigs, the women of a village decide to take action.
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Scottish Premiere / Alice Colomer-King / France / 2012 / 24 min / Experimental/Documentary colomer.alice@gmail.com
In 2002 Georges Mondésir died after an encounter with the police. He was crazy, or just simple-minded. When face to face with the police, Mondésir was the Other.
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The past, or the future: advertising, public outrage, state crackdown and the monumental rape of nature.
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Chico Pereira / UK / 2012 / 15 min / Documentary / chicopereirafilms@gmail.com
Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. The sea can be a lonely place. The sea can swallow your words.
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UK Premiere / Marcelos Matos de Oliveira & Wallace Nogueira / Brazil / 2012 / 20 min / Fiction celo.matos@gmail.com
Ricardo is a lonely boy with no friends. One day while he's playing alone, he meets a puppy and its homeless child owner.
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Scottish Premiere / Lewis Arnold / UK / 2012 / 18 min / Fiction / lewis@lewisarnold.co.uk
Caroline receives a call delivering news that her father’s been in an accident.
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Scottish Premiere / Summer DeRoche / Australia / 2012 / 7 min / Documentary ae.distefano@gmail.com
The incredible world of a light bulb collector, a world where a passion for electronics is all-consuming and a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome is nothing more than a label.
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European Premiere / Karla Gómez Keep / Argentina / 2012 / 11 min / Fiction gomezkeep@gmail.com
Two women are taking care of a household full of children. There is no time to answer all their questions, and that only feeds one child’s curiosity.
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International Premiere / Abhijit Mazumdar / India / 2012 / 40 min / Fiction amala.popuri@gmail.com
Two friends, Aurko and Sachin, are looking for locations for a short film that they are planning to make. Most importantly, a specific kind of village bus stop. The journey derails...
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Ainslie Henderson / UK / 2012 / 7 min / Animation / ainslieainslie@gmail.com
A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing.
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UK Premiere / Sergio Oksman / Spain / 2012 / 26 min / Documentary / soksman@gmail.com
After appearing in Roman Polanski’s film Rosemary’s Baby, Elmer Modlin ran away with his family to a distant land.
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Scottish Premiere / John Smith / UK / 2011 / 12 min / Experimental / info@johnsmithfilms.com
John revisits the locations of his 1976 film The Girl Chewing Gum.
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UK Premiere / Mich’ael Zupraner / Israel/Palestine / 2011 / 16 min / Experimental zupraner@gmail.com
Watching home movies with the Al-Haddad family, Hebron, West Bank: snow, settlers, and souvenirs.
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UK Premiere / Hannes Vartiainen & Pekka Veikkolainen / Finland / 2012 / 6 min / Experimental hannes@pohjankonna.fi
Brief moments of life stolen from passing-by strangers form a sequence of events hidden in plain sight.
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UK Premiere / Anda Puscas & Dragos Dulea / Romania / 2012 / 13 min / Documentary dragos.dulea@gmail.com
In 1989, people in Stremt were eagerly awaiting army tanks, terrorists and glory. Today, though partly forgotten, partly imagined, the past is crystal clear.
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UK Premiere / Matt Hulse / UK/USA / 2012 / 6 min / Experimental / anormalboy@gmail.com
A visceral response to Max Richter’s re-composition of Vivaldi’s ‘Summer’ (Four Seasons).
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UK Premiere / Tom Tagholm / UK / 2012 / 15 min / Fiction / tom@various-films.com
A parachutist crash-lands in a suburban garden, present day. Claiming to be a German pilot from the Second World War, this is the story of his journey home.
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UK Premiere / Taj Jenkins Musco / Singapore / 2012 / 11 min / Fiction / tajmusco@gmail.com
An unlikely friendship develops between Teck, a grieving widower, and Kevin, an earnest young Singaporean policeman.
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UK Premiere / Antoine Bourges / Canada / 2012 / 46 min / Documentary / info@mdff.ca
The chronicle of a typical pharmacy of the Vancouver Downtown Eastside, where most clients are on a treatment that requires taking daily doses of methadone witnessed by the pharmacist.
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Johan Oettinger / Denmark / 2012 / 8 min / Animation / ellen@basmatifilm.dk
An eight-year-old boy tries to pull a carrot through a hole in the wall, unaware that two SS officers are following his every move.
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UK Premiere / Volker Schreiner / Germany / 2012 / 7 min / Experimental / mail@volkerschreiner.de
A transformation of Nam June Paik’s text Film Scenario into a movie. Hollywood stars speak Paik: ‘You can make any Hollywood movie interesting, if you...’
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Mehrnaz Saeedvafa / USA / 2012 / 38 min / Documentary / msaeedvafa@colum.edu
Mehrnaz Saeedvafa traces the significance of Jerry Lewis movies throughout her life, first as a viewer then as a filmmaker and a film teacher, both in her home country Iran and in her adopted country the US.
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International Premiere / Jeremy White / USA / 2012 / 12 min / Fiction / jeremywhite9@gmail.com
After seeing Leia kiss Luke on his VHS copy of The Empire Strikes Back, a young boy unwittingly develops an inappropriate crush of his own.
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UK Premiere / Virgil Widrich / Austria / 2011 / 7 min / Experimental / office@widrichfilm.com
A found footage film about the destructive love triangle between a man, a woman and her car, leading to a duel between flesh and steel.
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Scottish Premiere / James McFay / Japan / 2011 / 15 min / Fiction / wearebeaufort@gmail.com
A heartbroken girl gets in the car of a washed-up taxi driver. Hearts and bones are broken.
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Scottish Premiere / Gunhild Enger / Norway / 2012 / 17 min / Fiction / amb@nfi.no
Martin’s parents collect him and his pregnant Spanish girlfriend Lucia from the airport. It is Lucia’s first encounter with this new culture and her in-laws.
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Scottish Premiere / Tony Donoghue / Ireland / 2012 / 8 min / Documentary tonydonoghue@gmail.com
Repair and recycling in rural Ireland.
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Scottish Premiere / Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels Belgium/France/Netherlands/Luxembourg / 2011 / 17 min / Animation emmadeswaef@gmail.com
Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.
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Layke Anderson / UK / 2012 / 20 min / Fiction / littlecricketfilms@gmail.com
A mother finds solace in her son's bedroom, rummaging through drawers, making discoveries and confronting the past.
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Scottish Premiere / Adrian Sitaru / Romania / 2011 / 18 min / Fiction / monica@4prooffilm.ro
Neli returns from Bucharest and her neighbours are keen to welcome her with gossip about the party that her son organised while she was away.
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The Scottish Short Film Award is sponsored by Mother India restaurant, and honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema. It carries a cash prize of £1,000. 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 GSFF14 trailer. 2012 Scottish Award winner: The Making of Longbird Will Anderson / UK / 2011 Special Mentions: Asylum Joern Utkilen / UK / 2010 and Night Shift Ruth Reid / UK / 2011 2012 Audience Award joint winners: Kirkcaldy Man Julian Schwanitz / UK / 2011 and Philippa & Nancy Paul Whyte, Ciara Barry, Claire McInnes, Nora Smyth / UK / 2011
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ANDREA GIBB Andrea Gibb wrote the feature films Dear Frankie and Afterlife, which won her the Scottish Screen Filmmaker of the Year award and the Women in Film and Television script award in 2005. Since then she has worked on a range of projects including adaptations of Rose Tremain’s The Road Home and Vikram Seth’s An Equal Music. Current projects include another Rose Tremain novel, Music and Silence, which will be directed by Lone Scherfig. Andrea is a member of the Writers’ Guild film committee and BAFTA in Scotland. She was an actress for many years before starting to write. Andrea lives and works in Glasgow. ANJA KUČKO Anja Kučko graduated in journalism in 2007 from University of Zagreb. While studying she made three short documentary films about human trafficking, public kitchens in Zagreb and the Scout movement in Croatia. She subsequently worked on a variety of broadcast productions. Since 2005 she has been a member of the team producing Tabor Film Festival, Croatia’s only international short film festival. In 2011 with her colleague Nenad Borovčak, she founded Kiki, a short film festival for children. In addition to her festival work, Anja is a freelance journalist, and is currently working on her fourth short documentary. ZAM SALIM Zam Salim is an award-winning filmmaker based in Glasgow. Originally from Manchester, he has made a number of short films as well as documentaries and commercials. He recently completed his debut film Up There which won Best Feature Film and Best Director at the BAFTA in Scotland Awards. Zam’s work was given a retrospective screening at the first Glasgow Short Film Festival in 2008.
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World Premiere / Ian Waugh / UK / 2013 / 15 min / Fiction / mail@ianwaugh.net
Tracy flees into the wilderness of the Highlands. Defeated by the land, she’s discovered by a passing runner. She soon doubts his intentions.
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Calum Nielsen & Helen Wright / UK / 2012 / 10 min / Fiction helen@lockupyourdaughtersmagazine.co.uk
Alex wakes up after a one-night stand to find herself in a bit of a bind.
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World Premiere / Ben Pace / UK/Italy / 2012 / 15 min / Fiction / benedetto.pace@hotmail.it
Nino is a retiring mafia boss isolated from the world in a small attic. A family looking for somewhere to squat stumble upon Nino’s hiding place.
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Vitali Sichinava / UK / 2012 / 11 min / Animation / bigfishanimation@googlemail.com
Stork used to give the best tea parties in the meadow. Abandoned by his friends, he is now alone.
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Stuart Elliott / UK / 2012 / 17 min / Fiction / elliottcast@yahoo.co.uk
When a recluse takes in a parcel for his next-door neighbour, he has no idea how much it will change his life.
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Uisdean Murray / UK / 2012 / 7 min / Fiction / laquinn27@googlemail.com
Backstage at The Faustian Music Hall, a singer prepares to takes to the stage but never quite makes it…
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World Premiere / Shaun Hughes / UK / 2013 / 13 min / Fiction / shaun@factotumfilms.co.uk
An exploration of the darker side of human nature, delving into the contamination of destructive psychology.
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Duncan Cowles & Anita Norfolk / UK / 2011 / 3 min / Documentary / dcowles@live.co.uk
If your memories change, does your past change? The reliability of memory is questioned in this film about a woman trying to remember past love.
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Scottish Premiere / Russell Davidson / UK / 2012 / 20 min / Fiction russellanthonydavidson@gmail.com
Jackson drives around town in a BMW selling meal deals of cocaine twenty-fourseven. When a chance to follow his dream arises, his girlfriend intervenes.
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World Premiere / Louis Paxton / UK / 2013 / 14 min / Fiction / louispaxton@hotmail.co.uk
Lilly has been seeing Henry for a while now, and she suspects that tonight Henry will declare his love for her. But Henry has a far more unsettling confession; he’s going to introduce Lilly to his... family.
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Zack Copping / UK / 2012 / 24 min / Fiction / info@digicult.co.uk
A lyrical romance set in the not-so-romantic world of drug addiction. A boy from Skye flirts with the idea of giving up and returning home to the islands.
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World Premiere / Karoliina Pulkkinen / UK / 2012 / 3 min / Fiction / pulkkinen.karoliina@hotmail.fi
Meet-cute: a situation in which a future romantic couple meets in a way that is considered adorable, entertaining or amusing.
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12.30 – 16.30 Tom Kalin Directing Workshop
13.15 – 14.45 International 4 Adrift
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15.15 – 16.45 International 5 Traces
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15.15 – 16.45 International 2 Bottled Up
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12.30 – 17.00 Expanded Cinema: Apparatus & Methodology
11.00 – 16.45 Female Authorship Symposium
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17.00 – 18.30 Meet The Filmmakers
17.00 – 18.30 Her Take
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19.15 – 20.45 International 8 Coming Home
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19.00 – 20.15 Don Hertzfeldt Trilogy
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Tom Chick / UK / 2012 / 16 min / Fiction / info@digicult.co.uk
A folk tale about a son caring for his dying mother and what happens when a mysterious figure arrives one day calling out her name.
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Claire Lamond / UK / 2012 / 8 min / Animation / info@clairelamond.com
As Clare moves from childhood, she strives to create a personal way of dealing with her Dad’s illness from asbestosis.
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Chico Pereira / UK / 2012 / 15 min / Documentary / chicopereirafilms@gmail.com
Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. The sea can be a lonely place. The sea can swallow your words.
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Henry Coombes / UK / 2012 / 11 min / Experimental / henry_coombes@yahoo.co.uk
Clive's iPad malfunctions, creating a vortex of energy and sucking him into the hard drive, where he becomes a victim of his own utopian architectural vision.
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Katri Walker / UK / 2012 / 5 min / Documentary / info@katriwalker.com
A moving-image portrait offering an enigmatic glimpse into the memories, lives and apocalyptic beliefs of the sibling owners of an Edinburgh bookshop.
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Scottish Premiere / James Barrett / UK / 2012 / 15 min / Documentary / james@deerstalkerfilms.com
A poetic documentary that weaves stories, songs and memories from across Scotland, and places their testament in counterpoint to the richly evocative landscape of the Machars in Wigtownshire.
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Ainslie Henderson / UK / 2012 / 7 min / Animation / ainslieainslie@gmail.com
A surreal trip through the subconscious of a stifled musician as he struggles to sing.
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Paul Fegan / UK / 2012 / 17 min / Documentary / info@scottishdocinstitute.com
A modern day story of undying commitment, rivalry, family and friendship interwoven with the underground and idiosyncratic Scottish sport of doo-fleein’.
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Sara Ishaq / UK/Yemen / 2012 / 26 min / Documentary / sarahjishaq@gmail.com
The story of the day that changed the course of the Yemeni revolution and shook a nation to its core, through the lenses of two cameramen and two fathers.
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Scottish Premiere / Ruth Paxton / UK / 2012 / 25 min / Fiction / ruth@ruthpaxton.com
A psychological portrait of two lovers who have grown to hate one another, who are well beyond breaking point and who must separate.
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World Premiere / Neil Hartop / UK / 2011 / 19 min / Fiction / neilhartop@gmail.com
The story of best friends Sonny and Luke and the breakdown of their friendship in the lead up to their first competitive boxing match.
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Scottish Premiere / Stuart Elliott / UK / 2012 / 3 min / Fiction / elliottcast@yahoo.co.uk
David’s just discovered that he has an estranged kid called Ollie. But will he turn out to be his long lost son? Or new found nemesis?
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The protagonists of Caroline Sascha Cogez’s fiction films make quiet protests. They rail against life’s injustice and banality by making minute adjustments to expected patterns of behaviour, refusing to get off a bus or a cruise ship, or choosing to switch sides of the marital bed. Their actions might seem ineffectual or awkward, but not only are their protests vital expressions of personal freedom, at best they also uncover petty-mindedness and prejudice in others. ‘Damn you Copenhagen people,’ declares the hapless Swedish internet dater of Les Amours Perdus when his married companion has a crisis of conscience and calls a halt to the date just as it begins, ‘you are so bloody arrogant.’ This theme of well-mannered anarchy seems appropriate for a graduate of the Super 16 film school, a student-run organisation without staff or administration. Every three years a new class of sixteen filmmakers determine the school’s direction according to their own needs and vision. Which in turn seems the most appropriate education for someone whose first experience of filmmaking was as an assistant to the iconoclastic Lars von Trier. But whilst the world grows increasingly wary of a celebrity anarchist like von Trier, doors open into some unexpected places for Cogez, the well-mannered anarchist. Her documentaries take the viewer backstage at a sex club, or into the studios of the fledgling TV industry of secretive Bhutan. Her experimental approach prioritises visual poetry over narrative, whilst retaining her subjects’ dignity and humanity. The worlds of fiction and documentary collide in Show Stopper, in which the irrepressible Canadian performer Peaches clashes with actress Charlotte Munck, playing a version of her diffident character in Bus. We find ourselves caught between the obnoxious but undoubtedly appealing hedonism of Peaches and Munck’s character – bullshit-free, principled, but uptight. Cogez just winds them up and sets them off, refusing to comment or take sides, gently unsettling us with her well-mannered anarchy. We’re delighted to welcome Caroline to introduce both screenings and discuss her work.
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Denmark / 2003 / 17 min
Karina gets on the bus as usual to go to work. After a couple of unpleasant experiences, Karina decides that today she will not get off the bus. On the bus she meets a pensioner called Else, who decides to join Karina and not get off the bus either.
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In the twenty four hours surrounding the concert of world famous flute player Michala Petri, three people are trying to grasp on to love.
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Denmark / 2006 / 30 min
Emmalou works as a waitress on a cruise ship filled with lonely people. She mourns the loss of her boyfriend who died in an accident the year before. One day, a small boy wearing a blue costume boards the ship and stubbornly tries to contact Emmalou. Their meeting ultimately forces Emmalou to start a new chapter of her life.
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A girl waits in a sex club between two customers. Empty rooms waiting for business. Fragments from a conversation with Helle, a prostitute. Where do you place yourself, when you rent out your body?
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UK Premiere / Denmark/Bhutan / 2011 / 48 min
An unusual coming of age story that takes us through a journey of mermaid encounters, magic monkeys, drunken grannies and Bhutanese pop music. Nineteen-year-old Dechen dreams of becoming a famous singer, and has been selected to be a contestant in the Bhutan TV singing contest Druk Super Star.
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Peaches books a masseuse whilst on tour.
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Three years ago GSFF showcased the short films of Behn Zeitlin and the Court 13 collective, then virtually unheard of outside the US. Behn is now globally known for his multi award-winning debut feature Beasts of the Southern Wild. Feeling pretty smug about that, this year we’re upping the ante by cherry-picking ten of the most exciting new American and international talents emerging from the one of the world’s preeminent film schools. The MFA Film Program at Columbia University's School of the Arts in NYC has produced many successful filmmakers over the years, amongst them Lisa Cholodenko (High Art, The Kids Are Alright), Greg Mottola (The Daytrippers, Superbad) and Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry). Let GSFF bring you the next generation of Oscar winners today!
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Two grown-up brothers return home for their widowed mother's birthday, only to find they are competing with a strange man for her attention.
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Fellipe Barbosa / Brazil / 2007 / 18 min
On a secluded island off Rio, a carefree forty-five-year-old struggles to bring his recently engaged best friend back to the good life.
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Ísold Uggadóttir / Iceland / 2011 / 19 min
As Iceland sinks into economic meltdown, fifty-eight-year-old Gudfinna tries, against all odds, not to do the same.
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A lonely, socially awkward woman with assertiveness issues finds her problems multiplied in therapy.
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Lauren Wolkenstein & Christopher Radcliff / France / 2011 / 15 min
A man and a boy, travelling to an unknown destination, find respite in a motel swimming pool. On the surface all is normal, but nothing is quite what it seems to be.
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Christopher Radcliff / USA / 2009 / 15 min
While working the late shift at a twenty-four-hour diner, Bonnie's world is disrupted by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
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Kyota, a ten-year-old boy, lives in a small town in Japan with his mother Kinuko. There are two items he cannot live without - a worn out English vocabulary book and a disaster prevention hood.
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Abbie is the centre of her mother’s world, their days are full with the time they spend together. This pair are always on the move.
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Hope Dickson Leach / USA / 2006 / 15 min
It’s been seven years since the plane crash, but Bonnie and Lloyd are still searching for their parents in the wreckage.
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Shawn Wines / USA / 2011 / 17 min
Hank is just an ordinary guy, trying to get his wife pregnant, when his mother-in-law shows up and threatens to ruin everything.
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George Kuchar was a genuinely unclassifiable film artist. He produced literally hundreds of luridly titled films and videos between the mid-1950s and his death in September 2011. The term that is most often assigned to him – underground – suggests a political stance, but the unpretentious, lo-fi, sexy, hilarious exuberance of his work, somewhere between Kenneth Anger and John Waters, has no truck with political posturing. In belated commemoration, we’re screening four of Kuchar’s early works – three of them from rare 16mm prints. In these four titles, we see how Kuchar’s kitsch style is enthralled by the glamour of classic Hollywood. But to an earthy Bronx nebbish with chronic constipation, glamour doesn’t come so easy...
PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF USA / 1961 / 9 min HOLD ME WHILE I’M NAKED USA / 1966 / 15 min COLOR ME SHAMELESS USA / 1967 / 30 min I, AN ACTRESS USA / 1977 / 9 min
As part of GFF’s Crossing the Line strand, a further programme of later Kuchar works will screen at Tramway on Thursday 21 February.
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We present three short films about a man named Bill. The crudely drawn stick figure at the centre of Don Hertzfeldt’s animated trilogy may not look like much. But in charting Bill’s troubled journey through life over the course of three short films, Hertzfeldt has created an astonishing epic, genuinely one of cinema’s most profound and transformative achievements. The final film of the trilogy, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, took two years to complete, and is Don’s longest and most ambitious short film to date: blending traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hybrids printed out one frame at a time.
EVERYTHING WILL BE OK USA / 2006 / 17 min A series of dark and troubling events forces Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life – or lack thereof. I AM SO PROUD OF YOU USA / 2008 / 22 min Bill’s slow recovery is haunted by his troubled family history. IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY USA / 2011 / 23 min Bill finds himself in a hospital struggling with memory problems.
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In collaboration with Tabor Film Festival, GSFF has selected some of the finest Croatian short films of recent years. Dalibor Matanić’s Party brilliantly captures the sadness which haunts a generation in the Balkan states, whilst Ana Hušman’s Football improbably dissects the infamous 1986 England-Argentina quarter final. These films have chalked up screenings at Berlin, Rotterdam, Cannes Critics’ Week and Clermont-Ferrand, and have collected awards at the likes of Annecy, Aspen Shortsfest, Brussels, Animafest Zagreb and Sarajevo Film Festival.
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Zvonimir Jurić / Croatia / 2009 / 17 min
A door bell rings. Lana, a young pregnant woman, opens the door to find her new neighbour Marija on the doorstep. Marija accepts Lana’s invitation to share a cup of coffee.
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Veljko Popović / Croatia / 2008 / 7 min
Are we truly free? Are our desires our own or just a construct of the society we were born in? Is there a chance to escape after all?
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Juraj Lerotić / Croatia / 2010 / 34 min
Sixteen-year-old Željko has his mind set on two things: to finally take the initiative to meet Tanja and to earn some money to buy his Mum a wig.
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Ana Hušman / Croatia / 2011 / 15 min
Mexico City. Two squads. Us and them. Playing for 51 minutes. 1:0.
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Dalibor Matanić / Croatia / 2009 / 15 min
A girl is enjoying a careless summer day with her friends on the sunlit streets of Vukovar, where light-heartedness and leisure make everything seem nice and simple.
The programme will be introduced by Anja Kučko, Programme Manager of Tabor Film Festival, Croatia’s short film festival. The 11th edition will be held in the medieval castle of Veliki Tabor, 13 – 16 June 2013. www.taborfilmfestival.com. This programme is supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre.
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CCA CLUBROOM Friday 8 February (11.00) 5h45m, 15+
What happens when women tell their own stories in film? GSFF, MeCCSA and Stirling Centre for Scottish Studies present a series of discussions considering the currency and significance of feminism in film today, from the work of artist filmmakers to mainstream cinema, and chewing over the realities, challenges and/or misconceptions facing women working in film in Scotland. Speakers include Professor Sue Thornham, artists Ann Vance and Louise Crawford, filmmakers Morag McKinnon and Amy Hardie, curator Lucy Reynolds and writers Andrea Gibb and Denise Mina. Suitable for filmmakers, artists, students, curators and anyone interested in discussing ideas around the moving image. Free but ticketed. See www.glasgowfilm.org/female_authorship for full programme details and to register.
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CCA THEATRE Friday 8 February (17.00) 1h, N/C 12+
Curated by artists Louise Crawford and Ann Vance, a programme of Scottish women filmmakers from the 1930s to the 1990s. The selection expresses a strength and diversity of form and subject from the strong documentary tradition that Scotland is well-known for to the more experimental. Screening from 16mm where possible, the programme explores the extent to which women filmmakers were interested in documenting their immediate environment and recording a sense of place. Jenny Gilbertson filmed everyday life and tradition on Shetland, whilst Margaret Tait documented Orkney throughout her life. Annabel Nicolson filmed the first London Filmmakers Co-op building when it was housed in an old Victorian Dairy. The programme also includes work produced for the General Post Office (Gilbertson), and for Glasgow Schools and Museums (Louise Annand). All of these filmmakers were represented in two programmes of Early Scottish Work as part of Her Take International Womens’ Film Festival & Conference held in Glasgow in 1990 for the Year of Culture.
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Two filmmakers, a critic and a programmer look at the gender gap, roll up their sleeves and get myth-busting on common misconceptions about female filmmakers and the struggles they face in making the transition from short films to features. Noe Mendelle (Scottish Documentary Institute), Hannah McGill (Sight & Sound, The List), Kate Taylor (Independent Cinema Office) and Tom Kalin, who has collaborated with US directors Mary Harron, Cindy Sherman, Rose Troche and Guinevere Turner, will take a series of familiar complaints, rip them to shreds, and then read the shreds like tea leaves, looking forward to a time when the question ‘How does it feel to be a woman filmmaker?’ is never asked again.
This informal discussion event promises lively debate, developing the ideas generated at a similar event in London in November 2012. See www.glasgowfilm.org/female_authorship for more details. Presented in association with Underwire Film Festival and London Short Film Festival.
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Artists Emilia Muller-Ginorio and Julia Scott present an event somewhere between a screening, a discussion, a re-enactment, and a performance around feminist film and/or distribution. Pulling together material from archives, the internet, and other places, the intention is to create a space to speak and communicate the material, together. This event is a response to Hang on a Minute (Jo Davis & Lis Rhodes, 1983 –1985), thirteen one-minute films which grew out of a series of short poems written by artist Lis Rhodes. The films reflect on the traditional patterns of oppression in women's lives and the many forms that resistance takes. Commissioned by Channel 4, they were intended to be broadcast unexpectedly between programmes. A selection of these films will be screened throughout GSFF13 prior to screenings.
Free but ticketed, tickets available on the day from CCA.
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Glasgow Women’s Library will be popping up at GSFF13 this year. Two of the 21 Revolutions writers, Denise Mina and Helen Fitzgerald, will be participating in the Female Authorship Symposium and there will be a GWL book lending out-post at the CCA throughout the Women & Film events. GWL will be displaying a selection of books including a range that celebrate the diverse and pioneering achievements of women in film. If you’re attending the Festival, why not come along and have a browse?
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For GSFF13, Columbia University professor Tom Kalin will present a directing workshop focused on the relationship between short films and the subsequent first features made by their directors. In a series of practical and creative case studies, he will give an in-depth guided view of an eclectic range of films from script to screen. Chock full of hands-on information about pre-production, visualisation, director's notebooks, camera staging or working with actors, the workshop will also consider the evolution of the medium and the impact factors like budget, audience or technology have had on both short and first feature films. Tom Kalin is known as a prominent figure in the New Queer Cinema. His features include Swoon (1992) and Savage Grace (2008); he collaborated on the screenplay for Cindy Sherman’s 1997 feature film Office Killer; and was the producer of films including I Shot Andy Warhol and Go Fish. Kalin was also a founding member of the AIDS activist collective Gran Fury, known for its provocative public art projects. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to meet and discuss projects with a key figure from the New York independent film scene. All tickets £10.
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Canadian experimental filmmaker and expanded cinema artist Alex MacKenzie will present a closer look at the original engine of expanded cinema: the projector. Participants will explore how to work with 16mm projection devices to allow an expansion of their potential. Discussion and examination of the various elements of projection – light, lens, focal plane, film gate, speed, shutter, motor, bulb, and screen – will all be explored in an up-close and hands-on approach. The work of contemporary media artists and historically significant figures will be discussed. Participants will be given the opportunity to try out various techniques, and will leave with a better understanding of the primary instrument of the motion picture. All tickets £15. Limited to twelve spaces. To book please contact shorts@glasgowfilm.org
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An unconventional experience for creative filmmakers to explore the maps, music and mirrors of Production Design. BAFTA award-winning designer Lisa Marie Hall (This Is England ’86) takes you on an interactive journey showing how stories are painted onscreen, how set design can transform you and your characters, and when it turns their house into a home.
The workshop has two parts: 10.30–12.30 Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary (or all the things no one told you about Production Design) 13.00–15.00 Life as a Storyteller (or all the things no one told you about becoming a Production Designer) An unmissable workshop for anyone interested in narrative filmmaking.
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qeb ab^a j^kÛp t^iqwW pqlovÛp bka CCA THEATRE Thursday 7 February (21.30) 2h, N/C 15+
When is the end not the end? The Dead Man’s Waltz are a pioneering group of musicians based in Glasgow and on the Isle of Skye. Since 2009 they have created a series of bizarre and imaginative shows involving spoken word, live action and film that have been performed across the country including the Insider Festival, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Southbank Centre’s Death: A Festival for the Living. In Story’s End they lead a group of writers, actors and artists, including filmmaker Johnny Barrington, author Hal Duncan, animator Mark Weallans and visual artists Cat Ingall and Kate McMorrine, on an investigation into how we tell stories about death. Death narrated, death unspoken, death foreseen, death as a gesture, death the scythe-bearing cameo… In song, spoken word and film, we come face to face with the one plot-twist that none of us can ignore.
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CCA CINEMA Sunday 10 February (20.00) 1h, N/C 15+
Inspired by the work and thought of 1940s marine scientist Ed Ricketts, artist Alex MacKenzie presents a submersive exploration of the tidal zones and marine life off the shores of Western Canada. His performance-based work presented on two analytic 16mm projectors speaks to the fragility of both the film medium and the marine environment explored. Travelling as far west as Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island and north to the tip of Naikoon on Haida Gwaii, this route expressly emulates that which Ricketts intended to revisit prior to his untimely death in 1948. The scope and materiality of both emulsion and environment are explored using elements as wide-ranging as photograms, alternative film chemistry, live manipulation, and the very movement of the tides themselves. At once personal, political, visual and ecological, the work gives equal weight to representation and abstraction. A project of process through exploration, Intertidal is a marine ecology for emulsion: teeming and tenuous, fleeting and alive.
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We present an hour of highlights from across the GSFF13 programme specially chosen for parents and babies. The selection will remain a secret until the curtains open, but we guarantee entertaining and thought-provoking drama, documentary and animation from around the world. No extreme content or sudden loud noises, and the lights will remain on low to allow easy movement during the screening. All tickets £4.50. Babies must be 18 months or younger, and go free, obviously!
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CCA THEATRE Sunday 10 February (11.30) 1h, N/C 5+ (some subtitles)
Animation and live action shorts chosen with families in mind. The perfect introduction to films from around the world, providing creative inspiration for budding Spielbergs as well as food for thought. Beats Sunday morning television hands down! Presented in association with Glasgow Youth Film Festival. All tickets £4.50. One ticket admits one adult and one child under 12.
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The Saramago Café Bar serves fresh, tasty food every day, with homebaked bread and cakes every morning. Saramago stocks a range of quality beers, ciders, wines and juices at reasonable prices within a relaxed atmosphere, and offers free wifi. After dark the courtyard and terrace bar become (free) Festival clubs with a range of great DJs playing til late.
Your chance to put your questions to the international filmmakers attending GSFF13, in two informal Q&A sessions led by Festival Director Matt Lloyd. The first session will cover programmes already screened: International Competitions 1–5 and 7. The second session will cover the whole International Competition and other aspects of the GSFF13 programme. There will even be a free drink or two available!
CCA COURTYARD & TERRACE BAR 10.00 until late Food served until 23.30
CCA CLUBROOM Friday 8 February (17.00) Sunday 10 February (17.00) 1h30m, 18+
Free event, no ticket required.
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Lock Up Your Daughters, Glasgow's finest straight-friendly queer bash, take to the floor once more for a special GSFF13 dandies’ dance party. So look sharp, don your bowtie or cravat, and come suitably milliner’d in bowlers, trilbies or your best top hat! The night includes a live performance from HRH (Her Royal Highness), serenading our dandies with their own unique brand of electrorockabilly punk sleaze. Plus DJ sets from Lock Up Your DJs, Kaleidoscope Girl and Pearl Necklace – this is one royal bloody show that you definitely do not want to miss! Tickets £5 or £4 with GSFF ticket stub. Tickets available on the door only. Lock Up Your Daughters run Glasgow’s very first queer filmmaking collective, open to everyone. www.lockupyourdaughtersmagazine.co.uk
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Once all the awards have been given out, why not shuffle down Sauchiehall Street to The Berkeley Suite, where we’ll be kicking back and letting loose at the GSFF13 afterparty. We are over the frickin’ moon to be able to welcome Glasgow’s Miaoux Miaoux to the decks to play GSFF13 out in banging style! Miaoux Miaoux is the effortlessly cool electronica artist/producer Julian Corrie, who makes hypercolour electronic pop recalling the best of artists like Caribou and Four Tet. Entry is a mere £3 on the door, and nobody leaves until 3am. Get your Monday sicknote ready now.
All tickets £3. Tickets available on the door only.
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PROUD SPONSOR OF THE SCOTTISH SHORT FILM AWARD, GSFF13