GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL 13 –16 FEBRUARY 2014
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Scottish Competition
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Award Winners Screening
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International Competition
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Calendar
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PULSE
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Alex Neilson Scores
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Film & Music Discussion Day
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NITEFLIGHTS
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Zoviet France / Konx-Om-Pax
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Independence and the Scottish Film Industry
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Focus on Ireland
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Mayer/Leyva and the Borscht Corporation
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Notes from Underground: Queer Russian Cinema
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Takashi Ito: Other Rooms
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Europe in Focus: A Franco-German Short Film Evening 14 Short Com with Josie Long
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Festival Focus: Magma
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Tiny Geographies
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Family Screenings
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Low Budget VFX Workshop
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Meet the Filmmakers
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www.facebook.com/glasgowshortfilmfestival Twitter: @GlasgowSFF #GSFF14 Cover Image: Anomalies / Ben Cady / 2012 / UK
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STANDARD PRICE TICKETS £5 (no concessions) Some events are individually priced or free of charge – see listings for details. CERTIFICATION 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).
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ONLINE From Friday 24 January tickets can be purchased from www.glasgowfilm.org/festival. No booking fee. Tickets can be purchased online until one hour before the screening. IN ADVANCE From Friday 24 January you can purchase tickets for most events from the Central Festival Box Office at GFT (12 Rose Street, G3 6RB). You can call Box Office on 0141 332 6535. Please note there is a £1.50 transaction fee for telephone bookings. You can collect advance tickets from the Central Festival Box Office at GFT up until 8pm the day before the performance. Please note that advance purchases can only be made online at www.glasgowfilm.org/festival or via the Central Festival Box Office, except for Zoviet France / Konx-Om-Pax. Tickets for this event can only be purchased from The Art School.
DURING THE FESTIVAL Between Thursday 13 February and Sunday 16 February, tickets for any GSFF event can be collected or purchased at the screening venue. Please see www.glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions.
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350 Sauchiehall Street, G2 3JD www.cca-glasgow.com 0141 352 4900
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12 Rose Street, G3 6RB www.glasgowfilm.org/theatre 0141 332 6535
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253 Argyle Street, G2 8DL www.thearches.co.uk 0141 565 1000
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20 Scott Street, G3 6PE www.theartschool.co.uk 0141 353 4530
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134 Renfrew Street, G3 6ST www.undergroundcarpark.com We regret there is no disabled access to the car park
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fkqolar`qflk 2014 arrives already straining under the weight of expectation – the Commonwealth Games, the First World War centenary, another Year of Homecoming… and isn’t there something happening in September? Confronted by all these momentous topics, Glasgow Short Film Festival has chosen to face the music and dance. This year’s Festival is devoted to the relationship between film and music, whether as a collaboration of equals, or as one art form in service to another, or as a fluid hybrid form, bleeding across boundaries of projection, recorded sound and live performance. Filmmaker Ruth Paxton and composer Dobrinka Tabakova join forces in our extraordinary live opening event PULSE, whilst the various musical projects of the restlessly inventive Alex Neilson share the stage for a night of his film scores. The Wire’s Frances Morgan moderates a series of conversations between filmmakers and composers, and Michelle Hannah takes a special NITEFLIGHT into an underground car park. We’re thrilled to welcome all the way from Miami the collaborative duo Mayer/Leyva, responsible for outrageous costumes, vagina puppetry, and a kickass Florida filmmaking collective, the Borscht Corporation. We screen the mind-frying shorts of Takashi Ito and a survey of new Irish short film. And we’re tackling at least one of 2014’s pivotal events with a look at what independence might mean for Scottish filmmakers. Massive thanks as ever to funders Creative Scotland, to catalogue sponsor Glasgow Film Office, to programme supporter Goethe-Institut, and to indispensable venue partner CCA. We’re indebted to the Scottish Government for their support of our delegate facilities this year, and we warmly thank Monir Mohammed for once again generously sponsoring the Scottish Short Film Award, this time through Mother India’s Café, which marks its glorious 10th anniversary this year. So while there’s moonlight and music and love and romance… enjoy the Festival. Matt & Morvern This year GSFF will publish a catalogue with full listings of all films, as well as texts and interviews with some of the filmmakers. The catalogue will be available to buy for £3 at CCA during the Festival. Full listings will also appear on our website www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff
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p`lqqfpe peloq cfij ^t^oa With so much great talent emerging locally, we couldn’t contain our selection within the usual four programmes – this year a mighty thirty films screen across five programmes of new Scottish work. The Scottish Short Film Award is sponsored by Mother India’s Café, 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 GSFF15 trailer. Many of the filmmakers will be present and will take part in short Q&As after each screening.
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Urban alienation is the theme of the first selection. In the first of two films made with Doug King, Josie Long arrives in the ‘indie band theme park’ of Glasgow and attempts to make friends, whilst an overburdened housewife has a surprising visitor in Ewan Stewart’s Getting On. Chris Leslie profiles The Bird Man of Red Road and Jane McAllister returns to GSFF with The Registrars, several lives in a day of the Central Edinburgh Registry Office. Films by Rose Hendry and Colin Healy complete the programme.
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Bad behaviour has momentous consequences. A comic book-obsessive becomes cartoon villain in Bryan M Ferguson’s The Misbehaviour of Polly Paper-Cut, whilst ex-partners nearly come to blows in The Things That Are Important To Us, a timely satire on cross-border attitudes by Richard and Frances Poet. Also includes two graduation films from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, the second part of Josie Long’s Glasgow odyssey and Ross Butler’s epic declaration of worship, I Love You So Hard.
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The third programme examines lives on the fringes, or pushed to the limit. Adam Stafford and Claire Lamond offer contrasting takes on the challenges facing close-knit mining communities, whilst Gianpiero Vannucci imagines a bleak future in an abandoned village. Alex Neville’s four portraits in the remote village of Scoraig screen alongside Sam Firth’s year-long Knoydart experiment Stay the Same and Gavin C Robinson’s gorgeous BAFTA winning animation Hart’s Desire, in which an aspiring hermit meets an aspiring socialite.
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In the fourth Scottish programme, parents cause friction whether present or absent. Finnish and Scottish families grapple over a double-booked cottage in Katri Vanhatalo’s Loma, and GSFF regular Duncan Cowles tackles his awkward relationship with his father in Radio Silence. Jamie Stone’s Orbit Ever After imagines a son cutting the family ties in space, whilst in Mark Buchanan’s Mission an astronaut father remains grounded. Peter Shaw’s Lagan and Martin Smith’s Liar complete the programme.
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Solidarity against the odds, whether pollution from a North Lanarkshire steelworks in Ilona Kacieja’s Red Dust or homophobia in a tough youth prison in Graham Fitzpatrick’s Colours. Workers in East Kilbride protest against the 1973 coup in Chile in Nae Pasaran. The regulars of the Port O’Leith bar band together in bitchiness in Rory Stewart’s lyrical documentary whilst Ross Hogg’s animation Spectators captures the details within a football crowd. Finally a couple bickering throughout their holiday possibly get their just deserts in Nathan Hollis’s Harry & Avis.
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A chance to catch the prize winners of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2014. We will announce and screen the recipients of the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film and the Scottish Short Film Award, both selected by jury, as well as the films voted the favourite of the audience in each competition. End the Festival on a cinematic high, in the presence of the winning filmmakers and our other special guests. _rv qf`hbqp lkifkb ^q tttKdi^pdltcfijKlodLdpcc
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Memories and echoes are contained within objects, images and song in the first international selection. Autobiography is constructed from press clippings, Super 8 film and household tools, whilst a reverberation chamber becomes the site of a unique performance. This programme includes the latest work from British experimental filmmaker John Smith, and a touching tale of redemption from Columbia.
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This programme draws inspiration from reality in startling ways. Whether placing conversations in strange new contexts or secretly capturing the sinister banality of state power on camera, each of these films investigates the ethics of the moving image. The programme includes works from China, Finland and the USA, as well as a revelatory film featuring a cast of first time performers, all inmates in a Scottish youth prison.
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In the third competition programme characters become obsessed by an image glimpsed or captured, that they can’t explain or fully understand. Cinéphilia, archive collections, pornography – all are fraught with danger for the unsuspecting collector of images. This programme includes films from Kenya and China alongside a brilliant pastiche of classic Italian art house cinema from British film critic Jonathan Romney, and the award-winning thriller SLR, from GSFF regular Stephen Fingleton.
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Endings are explored in the fourth competition selection, whether messy, comic, tragic, sudden or hopeful. A family breaks up in the midst of Hurricane Irene, whilst a grandson sets off on a final adventure with his beloved grandfather, and a son decides against following his bohemian father’s path. The programme also features Adam Stafford’s No Hope For Men Below, an elegant and haunting retelling of the Redding Pit Disaster of 1923 in Falkirk.
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When does defending your turf become stagnation? The fifth competition programme considers resistance, inertia and fear of the unknown. From Greece comes a powerful portrayal of a woman stuck in a cycle of servitude to her criminal family, whilst a Russian teenager rails against the older generation in a whirlwind of petty violence and vandalism. Pandas finally evolve beyond languor in the blackly comic Pandas, whilst Sam Firth’s Stay the Same is a moving self-portrait, filmed every day for a year on the remote Knoydart peninsula.
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The body is the canvas for the final selection in this year’s international competition, featuring works from Canada, Brazil and Switzerland. Two HIV/AIDS survivors remember the battles that ravaged their bodies and took the lives of their friends, whilst a long distance runner pushes himself to the limit in the ultimate endurance test. Despite his deafness, sound pulses through a Brazilian father’s veins, whilst a young couple making love are interrupted by an army of snails. _rv qf`hbqp lkifkb ^q tttKdi^pdltcfijKlodLdpcc
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19.00 – 20.30 Focus on Ireland 1
18.30 – 20.00 International 5 Standing Ground
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19.15 – 20.45 Scottish 1: Lonesome Tonight
19.00 – 20.30 Europe in Focus
18.30 – 20.00 International 1 Past Performance
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21.15 – 22.45 Scottish 2: Playing Up
21.00 – 22.30 Notes from Underground
Written on the Body
20.45 – 22.15 International 6
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22.30 – 01.00 NITEFLIGHTS
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16.30 – 18.00 Meet the Filmmakers
16.15 – 17.45 Scottish 5: Together We Stand
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16.00 – 18.30 Independence & the Scottish Film Industry
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Borscht Corporation
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19.00 – 22.15 Alex Neilson Scores
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Endgames
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19.30 – 21.00 Focus on Ireland 2
In His Image
17.30 – 19.00 Takashi Ito: Other Rooms
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The evening begins with a set by Death Shanties, including their score to Lucy Stein and Shana Moulton’s film Polventon. Next up is The Crying Lion and Oliver Mezger revisiting the 1966 Margaret Tait film The Big Sheep. Finally Trembling Bells will perform alongside The Port, Rory Stewart’s affectionate portrait of the lovers and fighters of the Port O’Leith pub. An appropriately rabble-rousing climax for this one-night-only powerhouse supergroup appearance.
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Frances Morgan, deputy editor of The Wire, former editor of plan b magazine, and the author of Sight & Sound’s Soundings column, moderates a series of conversations between filmmakers featured in this year’s programme and the composers with whom they have collaborated. At 11am, Ruth Paxton and Dobrinka Tabakova will discuss the creative processes that led to the realisation of their Royal Philharmonic Society commission PULSE. At 1pm, Adam Stafford will discuss his approach to filmmaking as a musician, and introduce his collaborators on No Hope For Men Below, sound designer Marcin Knyziak and composer Daniel Padden. Finally, at 3pm, Sam Firth and Fraya Thomsen will describe how their intense collaboration to create the score for Sam’s self-portrait Stay the Same helped enormously in transforming sixty hours of footage into a compelling 14 minute film. One ticket gives access to all three discussions (£5).
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A special Valentine’s Day event! NITEFLIGHTS is a regular evening of film and performance curated by Glasgow-based artist Michelle Hannah, taking its theme from the fractured dystopia of Scott Walker's song ‘Nite Flights’. Hosted for one night only in a disused underground car park on Renfrew Street, GSFF14’s NITE will be a visual presentation of vocal and cosmic noise as form, featuring local and international artists whose work expands the moving image through sound, sculpture and vision.
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An idiosyncratic collective of anonymous dronologists and pseudo-ethnomusicologists, Zoviet France’s investigations have taken them into fictional cultures where reality often slips into the hypnagogic. They have developed a radical relationship with the cheap technologies of old-fashioned tape recorders, primitive looping and sampling devices and basic dub trickery. Support comes from Konx-om-Pax, performing an Audio/Visual live set, JD Twitch and Rubadub’s Mark Maxwell. An unmissable rare live performance, with collaborative films especially for Glasgow Short Film Festival. Tickets only available from The Art School. £7 or £5 with GSFF ticket stub (or GSA students).
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fkabmbkabk`b ^ka qeb p`lqqfpe cfij fkarpqov CCA THEATRE Saturday 15 February (16.00) 2h30m It is just seven months until a vote that, whatever the outcome, will have significant ramifications for all aspects of Scottish cultural, social and political life. Yet if several of our leading producers are to be believed, the Scottish film industry might not last to see that day. Glasgow Short Film Festival is gathering key individuals from Scottish film and television production to examine and debate what independence might mean for our film culture. Chaired by Dr David Archibald (University of Glasgow) the session will consider whether nationhood has any bearing on an industry which is based increasingly on international collaboration. We will hear from an expert on Irish film, to see what lessons might be learnt from another small, predominantly English language film culture, placed precariously between Hollywood and European traditions. And we will examine the prospects of the many freelancers who depend on local and international productions shooting in Scotland for their livelihood. Free entry, tickets available on the day from CCA box office. For full line-up of speakers, go to www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff. In association with the University of Glasgow's School of Culture and Creative Arts
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Kicking against the grain somewhat, Irish short film has increasingly found success on the worldwide stage, with proportionally high numbers being nominated for Academy awards and other barometers of success. This first programme includes some modern greats. Undressing My Mother by Ken Wardrop was an early forerunner of a more personal approach in Irish filmmaking and notably two Northern Irish films, Even Gods by Phil Harrison and A Removals Job by Nicholas Keogh, round out a broad view of some of the recent success stories.
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Included in this programme are the key filmmakers contributing to the art form in Ireland. Tony Donoghue’s ethnographic yet stylised animation Irish Folk Furniture details a way of life in Ireland slowly passing away. Contemporary themes are addressed eloquently in Mairtín de Barra’s Atrophy and Ian Thulliers’ Driven. Cathy Brady has been a leading light in strong narrative drama and is represented here by Morning. Our final film presents David Quin, Ireland’s most talented satirist and animator having a day off his more usual political targets. Both programmes will be introduced by Mick Hannigan of IndieCork Film Festival.
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‘Is the Next Great Hope of American Film Hiding In Florida?’ asked Indiewire magazine in November. If so, it’s probably Mayer/Leyva. Visual artist Jillian Mayer and playwright Lucas Leyva have collaborated on a series of satirical no-budget short films which defy any attempt at classification. Try Life and Freaky Times of Uncle Luke, a lo-fi day-glo remake of Chris Marker’s La Jetée starring 2 Live Crew’s Luther Campbell. Or #postmodem, a kaleidoscopic retro-fantasy nightmare in which the viewer is invited to upload their entire being into the digital realm, condemning worldly problems to the Vortex. Mayer and Leyva also run the Borscht Corporation, a collective of like-minded filmmakers telling Miami stories that reject the typical portrayal of the city as a vapid party town. GSFF is delighted to welcome Jillian and Lucas to Glasgow, to present a programme of their own work and a Borscht showcase.
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Cinema as identity, cinema as resistance. As the state of LGBT rights in Russia continues to worsen even beyond its already infamous 2013 law banning ‘propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations’, making queer cinema increasingly becomes an act of defiance. In collaboration with Edinburgh Film Guild New Cinema, this screening presents recent Russian films variously depicting the surprising facets of an emerging LGBT culture, proving decidedly that the attempts at its repression have yet to defeat it. Guests in attendance include Olgerta Kharitonova, editor of underground Russian lesbian journal Ostrov, and Dr Francesca Stella, Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow, who has worked extensively on LGBT rights in Russia.
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Takashi Ito burst onto the experimental film scene in 1981 with Spacy, a vertiginous journey through a gymnasium made up of 700 still images. Driven by a desire to create ‘fascinating nightmares’, his films seem to follow a bizarre interior logic of their own, endlessly generating new techniques as they forge ahead. This is a rare chance to see some of Ito’s work on 16mm bookended by a selection of his influences and artistic descendants, chosen for GSFF14 by Ian Francis of Flatpack Festival, Birmingham.
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European filmmaking has always drawn inspiration from the differences as well as commonalities between nations and filmmakers with a fascinating range of aesthetic approaches and cultural backgrounds. To mark the 10th anniversary of the cohabitation of Goethe-Institut and the Alliance Française in Glasgow this programme reflects the diverse creativity of the Franco-German film scene, whilst highlighting common themes and shared creative interests in contemporary Europe. Presented by GSFF in partnership with Alliance Française and Goethe-Institut Glasgow.
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Making its Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2013, before going on to London’s Pleasance Theatre, Short Com is a regular showcase of the finest independent comic shorts around, chosen from submissions. For GSFF, the programme will be compèred by the fantastic Josie Long, and will be followed by an award ceremony staged with considerable decorum and gravitas in the CCA bar. “An hour-long bill that offers some of the best underground short comedy films you’re likely to see this year.” ★★★★ Ed Fest Mag 2013
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Magma – mostra di cinema breve is an international short film festival based in Acireale, Sicily, and stands out as one of the best in Italy. First started in 2002 by Associazione Culturale Scarti, Magma has always focused exclusively on the short film, building a bridge between the audience and the endless forms of expression of the short format. This selection of narrative, documentary and animation from the 2013 edition presents a unique snapshot of emerging international film talent.
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Chris Dooks is an Ayr-based interdisciplinary artist. His practice is in part concerned with creative strategies to cope with chronic ill health. Commissioned to create a work for the Year of Natural Scotland 2013, Chris devised a series of six landscape films drawing on accessible environments just a few square metres in size. These ‘tiny’ geographies were made to see if there was any advantage to being unable to scale a Munro or even a small hill – and to try and make the best of limited energy.
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The ever-popular Short Stuff returns for an hour and a bit of highlights from across the GSFF14 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. Babies must be 18 months or younger (and go free, obviously!)
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Forget TV cartoons. This year our annual 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. Feel free to turn up in your jammies, wrapped up in a duvet. Sunday mornings couldn’t be more cosy! One ticket admits one adult and one child.
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Mr Kaplin is the award-winning digital filmmaking and design partnership of Robert Glassford and Daniel Zucco, established in 2012 and responsible for commercials, music videos, animations and live action shorts. In this workshop they will discuss their recent exploration into VFX, demonstrating their work on PULSE and Orbit Ever After and explaining how low budget VFX can be made accessible to short filmmakers with smaller budgets.
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This year all competition screenings will include brief Q&As with the filmmakers attending. However, once all the Scottish and International competitions have screened, but before the winners are announced, here’s your chance to participate in an informal discussion session with all the filmmakers, led by Festival Director Matt Lloyd. Free entry, no ticket required, and there will even be a free drink or two available! _rv qf`hbqp lkifkb ^q tttKdi^pdltcfijKlodLdpcc
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MOTHER INDIA’S CAFÉ
CELEBRATING OUR 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND PROUD SPONSOR OF GSFF SCOTTISH SHORT FILM AWARD 2014.