GSFF17 brochure by Glasgow Film

TENTH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

TICKETS

£6.50 (£5.00 concessions) Some events are individually priced or free of charge – see listings for details.

A Wall Is A Screen

CERTIFICATION

Scottish Competition

Opening Screening: 10th Anniversary Shorts

The Magic Lantern Returns

Calendar 8–9

Films not certified 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).

Festival Club

HOW TO BUY

An Evening With Bukowski

Jazz Is Our Religion

When I Say Vagina…

Round Midnight

VR Movie House

Symposium: Immersive Filmmaking

Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts

Blueprint: B-Roll

Ceòl’s Craic presents Briseadh Na Cloiche

Reel to Rattling Reel

Short Matters!

Oska Bright Film Festival and SQIFF present Matthew & Matthew

Visible Cinema: Sign of the Times

Quantum Shorts

Short Stuff: Parent and Baby Screening

Family Shorts

Industry Sessions

Meet The Filmmakers

IN ADVANCE From Thursday 2 February you can purchase tickets for most events from Glasgow Film Theatre (12 Rose Street, G3 6RB). You can call Box Office on 0141 332 6535 (£1.50 booking fee applies to telephone bookings). You can collect advance tickets from Glasgow Film Theatre up until 9pm the day before the performance. Please note that advance purchases can only be made online at www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff or at GFT. DURING THE FESTIVAL Between Wednesday 15 March and Sunday 19 March, tickets for any GSFF event can be collected or purchased at the screening venue. Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions. NE

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In September 2006 Penelope Bartlett and Rosie Crerar launched The Magic Lantern, a quarterly short film night at CCA. Over the coming months and years The Magic Lantern built up a loyal following, and during the 2008 Glasgow Film Festival Penny and Rosie hosted a whole weekend devoted to shorts. Repeated in 2009, that weekend was to grow into the leading short film event in Scotland. This March we mark the 10th edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival. We’re still young, particularly in the country which boasts the oldest continually running film festival in the world. But ten years is not too shabby, and it’s thanks to the passion and commitment of too many individuals and organisations to list here, both in Glasgow and around the world, and of course to the support of our lovely loyal audience, that GSFF continues to serve up a yearly blowout of boundary-devouring offbeat cinematic visions. To mark that modest achievement we’re staging a few 10th anniversary events, including the very welcome

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return of one of our favourite collaborators A Wall Is A Screen, and a one-night-only reunion screening from the original Magic Lantern duo themselves. Whoop! Celebrations aside, we’re living through an increasingly confrontational period, and our programme addresses that in several ways. Our collaborative programme with indigenous film festival imagineNATIVE and Dokufest in Kosovo offers various perspectives on sovereignty, in response to the expected invocation of Article 50. Filmmaker in focus Gunhild Enger revels in cross-cultural misunderstandings. Virtual Reality is growing in reach, and we take a critical look at VR storytelling – does total immersion enable empathy with or escape from the world around us? Thanks as ever to Creative Scotland, to venue partners CCA and Joytown Grand Electric Theatre, to the Goethe Institut and Glasgow Film Office and to the brand new sponsor of our Scottish Short Film Award, Blazing Griffin. We invite your total immersion in this year’s programme.

Facebook: @glasgowshortfilmfestival Twitter: @GlasgowSFF Instagram: @glasgowshortfilmfest #GSFF17 GSFF will publish a catalogue with full listings of all films, as well as exclusive articles and filmmaker interviews. The catalogue will be available at CCA and GFT during the festival. Full programme listings will also appear on our website www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff Glasgow Short Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT). GFT is registered as a charity (No SC005932) with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator.

Scottish Documentary Institute

MLG McAllister Litho Glasgow Ltd.

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10TH ANNIVERSARY EVENTS

OPENING SCREENING: 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHORTS Wednesday 15 March (20.15) GFT Cinema 2 // 1h45m // N/C 15+ Now we are ten! Let’s span time together, indulging ourselves with nine films handpicked from each previous edition of GSFF. No obvious choices – none of our award winners will be included and we’ll steer clear of anything too serious… for the most part at least. We’ll show you what we think constitutes the perfect GSFF film – honest, questioning, fresh and inventive, making a virtue of limited means and above all fun. Join us for great movies, maybe a glass of something and a fistful of cake.

A WALL IS A SCREEN Saturday 18 March (20.00) Argyle Street rail station (meet outside Osborne Street entrance) // 1h30m // N/C 12+ Both guided city tour and outdoor short film screening, Hamburg collective A Wall Is A Screen returns to Glasgow, inviting you to see your city in a whole new way. This guerrilla mobile screening takes over neglected spaces, familiar buildings and commercial facades for ten minutes of lovingly curated short film before moving on to the next location – the ultimate pop-up cinema! When A Wall Is A Screen visited Glasgow in 2015, we smashed their record for attendees in a new host city, with six hundred folk gradually joining us on the streets – almost twice as many as the previous record-holder. Let’s see if this year we can beat their hometown record of 1,200 attendees! Please come dressed for March weather, and bear in mind there may be points where the route is inaccessible to wheelchair users. We will provide detour directions. Free, unticketed event. Made possible by the generous support of the Goethe-Institut Glasgow.

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THE MAGIC LANTERN RETURNS Friday 17 March (19.00) CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+ For one night only, we’re reforming The Magic Lantern, an eclectic short film showcase which took place at CCA and Stills Gallery in Edinburgh from 2006 to 2010, sowing the seeds of Glasgow Short Film Festival. Featuring a series of our favourite films from The Magic Lantern archives, along with some more recent discoveries, the programme will encompass classic and contemporary shorts from the silly to the surreal to the sublime, with an emphasis on women filmmakers. Presented by Rosie Crerar and Penelope Bartlett.

SCOTTISH SHORT FILM AWARD SPONSORED BY BLAZING GRIFFIN

As the largest annual showcase of new work emerging from across Scotland, the GSFF Scottish Short Film Award honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema. Thanks to the generous support of independent production company Blazing Griffin, the award carries a cash prize of £1,500. 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 GSFF18 trailer. GSFF16 SCOTTISH SHORT FILM AWARD WINNER: Isabella | Duncan Cowles & Ross Hogg | 2015 GSFF16 SCOTTISH AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER: Dear Peter | Scott Willis | 2016

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 2: THE PARENT TRAP

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 3: PRIVILEGE

Friday 17 March (21.15) CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+

Saturday 18 March (18.45) CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+

They f**k you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. And let’s be honest, boys and girls, You f**k them right up too.

In the final Scottish competition programme, the reading of images, signs or sounds lays bare each reader’s privilege, experience or struggle.

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BILL DOUGLAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM Named in honour of Scotland’s greatest filmmaker, our international prize will be awarded to the film that best reflects the qualities found in the work of Bill Douglas: honesty, formal innovation and the supremacy of image and sound in cinematic storytelling. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance to take part in short Q&As after each screening. The award carries a cash prize of £1,000. You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to win the Audience Award, which this year is sponsored by MUBI.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1: TRIBAL INSTINCTS Thursday 16 March (18.30) Saturday 18 March (13.15) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

GSFF16 BILL DOUGLAS AWARD AND AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER: A Short Guide to Re-entry | Anwar Boulifa | UK | 2015

Integration is attempted and resisted in refreshing takes on one of the most pressing of contemporary issues. A Bosnian refugee family settles into a small town in the Netherlands whilst a Roma filmmaker takes a stand against an ingrained Portuguese tradition. A tightknit group struggles with an uninvited guest and a Palestinian migrant attempts to lead an ordinary life in the refugee camp he thought he had escaped.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2: NO MAN’S LAND

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3: MOTHER’S LOVE

Thursday 16 March (20.45) Saturday 18 March (15.30) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

Friday 17 March (13.15) Saturday 18 March (18.30) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+

Seven tales of people living under pressure, whether in the Korean DMZ, in an English former mining community, in a Siberian industrial wasteland or in the path of giant radioactive fire-breathing monsters. The programme includes the award-winning Ears, Nose & Throat by American artist Kevin Jerome Everson and, fresh from Sundance, Kaiju Bunraku, the latest film from the Miami-based Borscht Corporation (showcased at GSFF14).

A fifty year old woman gives birth to her twenty-second child, whilst a Chinese mother attempts to reconnect with the French adult she gave away as a baby, and three brothers quarrel over the recreation of a childhood photo. Featuring What Tears Us Apart, the latest film from Hu Wei (Butter Lamp – winner of GSFF14 Audience Award) and a stunning Polish animation about a woman taking control of her somnambulist existence.

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4: THE LIMITS OF CONTROL

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5: TEAM PLAYER

Friday 17 March (15.30) GFT Cinema 3 Saturday 18 March (21.00) CCA Theatre 1h45m // N/C 15+

Friday 17 March (18.30) GFT Cinema 3 Sunday 19 March (13.15) GFT Cinema 2 1h45m // N/C 15+

When our assumptions are confounded – about the stability of language, culture, or class, about what is safe or physically possible – then extraordinary things happen, with tragic or beautiful consequences. A cross-border committee of Scandinavian commissioners struggle hilariously with competing notions of public art, whilst vertigo-suffering swimmers attempt high diving. Featuring new films by British artists Ben Rivers and John Smith and the extraordinary Love by Hungarian animator Réka Bucsi.

Cliques and clubs, with their unspoken rules and habits, provide comfort and support for their members. But what happens when a club closes its doors? And what of those who are excluded? An ageing leatherman stalks his former hunting grounds whilst a common soldier seeks a battalion to join on the eve of Waterloo. And we learn about the origins of Canadian superstar Peaches, in a Jewish girls’ summer camp folk band.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: DOUBLE VISION

GSFF17 AWARD WINNERS

Friday 17 March (20.45) GFT Cinema 3 Sunday 19 March (15.30) GFT Cinema 2 1h45m // N/C 15+

Sunday 19 March (20.30) Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 2h // N/C 18+

The mechanical – or digital – meets the spiritual as ghosts are captured on screen, whether through early colour photography techniques, green screen trickery or large-scale DVD piracy. A classic Thai teen movie is projected in a forest as an offering to an ancient spirit, whilst a Bulgarian animator shows us the beginning and end of time simultaneously. Finally, our international competition closes with Rainer Kohlberger’s transcendent digital experience, Not Even Nothing Can Be Free of Ghosts.

First chance to catch the prize-winning films of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017. We will announce and screen the recipients of the jury awards for Scottish and International short film, as well as the films voted the favourite of the audience in each competition, and maybe a few surprises. End the festival on a cinematic high, in the presence of the winning filmmakers and our other special guests, then stick around for the GSFF17 afterparty!

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GSFF17 DAILY DIARY 10.00 15 30 45

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SHORT STUFF (p15)

GFT JOYTOWN GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE

FRI 17 MARCH CCA CINEMA

CCA THEATRE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3 (p6)

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4 (p7)

GLASGOW SCIENCE CENTRE VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

JOYTOWN GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE

VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

SAT 18 MARCH MATTHEW AND MATTHEW (P14)

CCA CINEMA

CCA THEATRE

SYMPOSIUM: IMMERSIVE FILMMAKING (p12) INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1 (p6)

GFT VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

JOYTOWN GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE

VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2 (p6) VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

REEL TO RATTLING REEL (p13)

KELVIN HALL

ARGYLE STREET STATION

SUN 19 MARCH VISIBLE CINEMA: SIGN OF THE TIMES (p14)

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FAMILY ANIMATION WORKSHOP (p15)

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CCA THEATRE

FAMILY SHORTS (p15)

THE ILLINOIS PARABLES (p11) INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5 (p7)

GFT JOYTOWN GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE

SHORT MATTERS! 3 (p14)

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VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6 (p7) VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

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OPENING SCREENING: 10TH ANNIVERSARY SHORTS (p4)

GUNHILD ENGER 1 (p11)

REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY 1 (p11)

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 1 (p5) INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1 (p6) VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

SHORT MATTERS! 1 (p14)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2 (p6) VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

GUNHILD ENGER 2 (p11)

MAGIC LANTERN (p4) INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5 (p7)

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BLUEPRINT (p13)

WHEN I SAY VAGINAâ&#x20AC;¦ (p12)

BRISEADH NA CLOICHE (p13) SCOTTISH COMPETITION 2 (p5)

ROUND MIDNIGHT (p12)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6 (p7)

QUANTUM SHORTS (P14) VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI (p10)

REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY 2 (p11)

SHORT MATTERS! 2 (p14)

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 3 (p5) INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3 (p6)

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VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

BLUEPRINT: B-ROLL (p13) INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4 (p7) JAZZ IS OUR RELIGION (p10)

VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

JAZZ PARTY (p10)

A WALL IS A SCREEN (P4)

REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY 3 (p11) MEET THE FILMMAKERS (p15)

) VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

VR MOVIE HOUSE (p12)

AWARD WINNERS (p7)

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AN EVENING WITH BUKOWSKI Friday 17 March (21.00) Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 3h // N/C 18+ Based on a previously unseen video interview with Charles Bukowski at his home in California in 1981, You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski invites viewers to a long night of smoking cigarettes and drinking wine, discussing sex, love and humanity with the writer and friends. We present the UK premiere alongside live readings from Tam Dean Burn and poets Stephen Watt and Nisha Bhakoo, and live sets by Chrissy Barnacle and purveyors of ‘doom wop’, Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lockpickers. Tickets £12 (£10 concessions). Tickets available on the door from 22.40 for Jacob Yates and the Pearly Gate Lockpickers (£5).

JAZZ IS OUR RELIGION SCREENING & PARTY Saturday 18 March (20.45) GFT Cinema 2, followed by Joytown Grand Electric Theatre 5h (screening 1h30m) // N/C 18+ Drawing on the photography of Val Wilmer and the poetry of Langston Hughes and Ted Joans, John Jeremy’s rarely seen Jazz is Our Religion (1972) has been described as one of the very few total jazz movies ever made. Featuring the words of Joans, Rashied Ali and Dizzy Gillespie amongst others, Jazz Is Our Religion brilliantly captures the essence of a musical form spanning several generations. The screening will be accompanied by Louis van Gasteren’s short Jazz & Poetry (1964) and a reading by Jim Carruth, Glasgow’s 2014 poet laureate. Following this special 35mm screening there will be a party at Joytown featuring live acts tbc and DJ Donna Leake (brilliant corners, London). Tickets to film and party £12 (£10 concessions). Tickets for film only £8 (£6 concessions). Party-only tickets available on the door (£7) from 22.00.

FESTIVAL CLUB: JOYTOWN GRAND ELECTRIC THEATRE Thursday 16 — Sunday 19 March (12.00–02.00)

Previously serving as an exhibition hall, theatre, early cinema, zoo and snooker club, the newly reopened Joytown Grand Electric Theatre is our dedicated Festival Club, with food, drink, screenings and late night parties. Situated a short walk from Cowcaddens subway station, Joytown is home to our VR Movie House (see page 12) and provides chilled beats and free events each afternoon – check our website for latest details.

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WE WERE STRANGERS ONCE, TOO: REFLECTIONS ON SOVEREIGNTY

GUNHILD ENGER PROGRAMME 1: EARTHLY DELIGHTS Thursday 16 March (19.00) PROGRAMME 2: ENLIGHTENMENT Friday 17 March (19.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Since graduating from Edinburgh College of Art a decade ago, Norwegian filmmaker Gunhild Enger has built up a large body of work across short fiction and experimental documentary. Her two fascinations – cross-cultural misunderstandings and the absurdity of late capitalist consumerism – are explored in a series of humane yet caustically satirical films, shot through with her distinctive honesty and humour. We are delighted to welcome Gunhild back to Glasgow to present her most comprehensive retrospective to date.

In the month in which the British government is expected to invoke Article 50 and commence EU exit negotiations, GSFF takes a wider view, considering notions of nationhood and borders both physical and cultural. We have invited curators from imagineNATIVE, the world’s largest showcase of Indigenous-made screen content, and Dokufest, the leading film festival in Kosovo, to propose programmes of short films exploring sovereignty in distinctive ways. PROGRAMME 1: CITIZENS OF NOWHERE Thursday 16 March (21.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ GSFF’s programme examines Scottish and British identity in the wake of the Brexit vote, and considers whether the positive debate surrounding the 2014 referendum has given way to factionalism and entrenchment. PROGRAMME 2: POWER TO THE PEOPLE Saturday 18 March (19.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

DEBORAH STRATMAN: THE ILLINOIS PARABLES Sunday 19 March (15.15) CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+ Chicago-based artist Deborah Stratman brings her latest work to Glasgow. The Illinois Parables is an hour-long experimental documentary, spanning over one thousand years of history in the Midwestern state, and considering the role of faith and belief in forming ideologies and American identity. Shot in glorious 16mm, the film captures the history of violence, resistance and exodus inscribed in an apparently unremarkable landscape.

In three films, Dokufest presents the ambiguities of identity inherent in a young country, and the complexity of relations between Kosovo and her neighbours Serbia and the EU. PROGRAMME 3: STAND TALL AND LEAD Sunday 19 March (17.45) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ imagineNATIVE explores First Nations’ relationship with the Canadian state, and contemplates the future of Indigenous people and communities in Canada in the year of the 150th anniversary of confederation.

The Illinois Parables screens alongside Deborah’s previous work Hacked Circuit (2014), and will be followed by an extended conversation between Deborah and Glasgow-based artist Stina Wirfelt.

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WHEN I SAY VAGINA…

ROUND MIDNIGHT

Thursday 16 March (21.00) Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 18+

Friday 17 March (23.30) CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 18+

A programme all about lady bits, muffins, beavers, flowers, tacos, cooches, bearded clams, honeypots, pussies, love boxes, cherries, and pink canoes. With films exploring female body image, masturbation, sexual oppression, social expectations, empowerment, friendship, and talking vaginas. Including cheeky animations and confronting documentaries highlighting different aspects of female sexuality and solidarity. Respect the pussy!

Too hot for daylight! Too cool for competition! Too hilarious to ignore! It’s impossible to include all our favourite submissions in competition, and so we’ve rounded up some of the funniest, darkest, sexiest films we received this year for a special late night show. Discover what it’s like to have a Satanist for a neighbour, what really goes on in a porn audio dub studio and what furries like to do. Also featuring killer tortilla chips and a sweary jogger.

TOTAL IMMERSION! GSFF DOES VR Increasing numbers of narrative filmmakers and moving image artists have begun to explore the potential of VR and 360° filmmaking, finding ways to structure narratives and create experiences that incorporate the unique sense of agency that VR affords the viewer/participant.

VR MOVIE HOUSE Thursday 16 — Sunday 19 March (hourly sessions) Joytown Grand Electric Theatre // 45m // N/C 15+

SYMPOSIUM: IMMERSIVE FILMMAKING

Immerse yourself in a showcase of VR shorts, including the premiere of a new VR moving image art project. Digital artists Dennis & Debbie Club have collaborated with Scottish moving image artists to create VR environments for their work. Short videos by Stephanie Mann, and Beagles & Ramsay are presented in virtual animated spaces, opening a dialogue with the works and inviting the viewer to explore.

Saturday 18 March (11.00) CCA Theatre // 6h30m

Supported by Creative Edinburgh, Creative Dundee, We Throw Switches and Creative Scotland. All tickets £5. Advance booking essential.

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In collaboration with the Creative Media Academy at the University of the West of Scotland, GSFF presents a symposium exploring the challenges of VR storytelling, interactivity and the psychology of immersion. This free event is open to anyone with an interest in the potential of recent technological advances to tell stories in new immersive ways. Free event. To book a space, and for more details go to www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff

BLUEPRINT: SCOTTISH INDEPENDENT SHORTS

CEÒL’S CRAIC PRESENTS BRISEADH NA CLOICHE

Thursday 16 March (21.15) CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+

Friday 17 March (21.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+

Blueprint is a quarterly programme promoting the weekend warriors making films in Scotland without institutional or commercial support. This special programme focuses on the Glasgow Film Crew. Started in 2013 as a way to pool resources and skills with no barriers to join, this collective of independent filmmakers has collaborated on almost thirty short films to date. This retrospective programme will range from the beginnings of the group to some exclusive premieres. This is what indie filmmaking is all about.

John Murray’s landmark Gaelic short story, reinterpreted for stage and screen by playwright Iain Macrae and director Duncan MacDonald. Macrae and Mairi Morrison convey the progression of a post-war romance to its harrowing conclusion with a dynamic blend of drama, dance and mime while percussionist Alex Neilson provides an inventive, interactive soundtrack. This premiere screening will be followed by a Q&A session with cast and crew.

BLUEPRINT: B-ROLL

REEL TO RATTLING REEL

Saturday 18 March (21.15) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 18+

Saturday 18 March (14.00) Kelvin Hall // 1h30m

Award winning filmmaker of last year’s Flamingo (and general weirdo) Bryan M. Ferguson has teamed up with Blueprint and GSFF to curate a night of films dedicated to the strange and uncomfortable. From car-crash comedy and rebelling human bodies to the adolescent love of wearing blood – Ferguson has stitched together a series of films that will mangle your mind and warp your sense of humour. So straitjacket yourself to the seat and prepare for a night of freakish behaviour.

An afternoon of readings, archive film and rural cinema memories. Newly-commissioned short works by Alison Miller, Aonghas MacNeacail, Christie Williamson and Kevin MacNeil will be performed by their authors alongside an illustrated talk on creative responses to cinema memories. This event is presented as part of a project exploring the history of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild and involves the launch of a cinema memories writing competition by Gutter Magazine and Freight Books.

Ceòl’s Craic invite you to arrive from 8pm and enjoy a drink on us before the show. Slàinte mhath!

Free entry, tickets available in advance via our website.

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SHORT MATTERS! 2017 PROGRAMME 1: Friday 17 March (17.00) PROGRAMME 2: Saturday 18 March (17.00) PROGRAMME 3: Sunday 19 March (15.30) CCA Cinema // 1h40m // N/C 15+ SHORT MATTERS! is the European Film Academy’s short film tour, bringing together fifteen award winners at top European festivals in 2016. The tour includes work from Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK. Now more than ever it seems important to showcase the most critically acclaimed contemporary European shorts, and to celebrate UK film’s place amongst them. Cut to the chase and see the crème de la crème right here!

VISIBLE CINEMA: SIGN OF THE TIMES Sunday 19 March (13.30) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ For many deaf people deafness is not a disability, yet this is how it is often represented on screen, the struggle with hearing loss forming the narrative conflict. Curated in partnership between Encounters Film Festival Bristol and Visible Cinema, the short films in this programme celebrate deafness and the deaf community through positive onscreen representation. Visible Cinema is GFT’s monthly Deaf and Hard of Hearing friendly film programme, all are welcome. This event includes BSL interpretation and a speech to text service.

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OSKA BRIGHT FILM FESTIVALAND SQIFF PRESENT: MATTHEW & MATTHEW Saturday 18 March (15.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ “Hey Matthew, I hear you’re a gay filmmaker?” “Yes Matthew, I am. And you’re a queer/femme filmmaker – maybe we should have a chat sometime?” Join LGBTQ learning disabled filmmakers Matthew Hellett (Brighton) and Matthew Kennedy (Glasgow) as they screen their films and share their experiences of how identity shapes their work. Also featuring a selection of films from other queer, disabled artists. Films screening with English subtitles plus BSL interpretation for discussion.

QUANTUM SHORTS Friday 17 March (19.00) Glasgow Science Centre // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Prepare to be entertained, surprised and intellectually stimulated! QuantIC and Glasgow Science Centre invite you to experience the ideas of quantum physics with a lively talk and screening of quantum inspired films from the international Quantum Shorts Film Festival. Run by the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore, the festival was open internationally for entries in 2016. Free entry, tickets available in advance via our website.

SHORT STUFF: PARENT AND BABY SCREENING Thursday 16 March (11.45) CCA Theatre // 1h15 // N/C 12+ Short Stuff returns for an hour and a bit of highlights from across the GSFF17 programme, specially chosen for short film lovers with babies. We guarantee entertaining and thought-provoking films and animations from around the world, but nothing too taxing for sleep-deprived parents. No extreme content or sudden loud noises, and the lights will remain on low to allow easy movement during the screening.

FAMILY SHORTS Sunday 19 March (11.30) CCA Theatre // 1h15m // N/C 4+ Once again our ever-popular family programme brings you the most exciting new animation from around the world, up on the big screen. By turns daft, silly, sad, spooky and uplifting, this programme will showcase a wide range of stunning animation techniques and take you on journeys you never thought possible. After the screening you can make your own animation at a free drop-in workshop suitable for all ages, led by filmmaker Kate Burton between 13.30 and 15.30 in CCA Clubroom.

Babies must be 18 months or younger (and go free, obviously!)

One ticket admits one adult and one child.

INDUSTRY SESSIONS

MEET THE FILMMAKERS

Friday 17 March CCA

Sunday 19 March (17.15) CCA Clubroom // 2h

GSFF runs a series of workshops, panel discussions and screenings designed for emerging filmmakers, active professionals, film students and anyone with a serious interest in filmmaking. The full programme will be announced online in mid-February, but will include a masterclass with our retrospective guest Gunhild Enger, a short film pitch competition and discussions on distribution and female directors.

All Scottish and International competition screenings will include brief Q&As with the filmmakers attending. However, once all the competition programmes have screened, but before the winners are announced, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your chance to participate in an informal discussion session with some of the filmmakers attending the festival, led by Festival Director Matt Lloyd. Free entry, no ticket required.

For more details, or to request an industry pass, please go to: glasgowfilm.org/glasgow-short-film-festival/industry

BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF