Scalarama 2017 brochure by Scalarama Glasgow

DIY CINEMA ACROSS SCOTLAND | SEPTEMBER 2017

FILL THE LAND WITH CINEMAS!

ScAlArAmA The Scala was a legendary cinema, music venue and monkeyhouse. Every September, we celebrate its legacy of eclectic programming with a season of DIY film programming across the UK. The building that would house the Scala originally opened as the King’s Cross Cinema in 1920, seating 1,000 people for 3-hour film programmes, incorporating a 20-piece orchestra. It changed owners and branding a few times, becoming the Gaumont and then the Odeon until, in 1971, it briefly became an exclusively adult cinema. By 1974, it was also a live, all-night rock venue. Hawkwind and Throbbing Gristle played there, while Iggy & The Stooges’ only UK show was at the Scala (in fact, the iconic photograh on the cover of Raw Power was taken that night). The Scala’s late licence was revoked after a petition by local residents and it closed, only to reopen as a Primatarium, with monkeys and waterfalls and the stalls reconstructed to resemble a forest. That bold endeavour only lasted a year and, in July 1981, the Scala reopened as a repertory cinema. It was intended as an alternative National Film Theatre and took its name from the Scala Film Club, which ran 1979-1981 and took its name from Scala House just up the road. The Scala had been a classical old-school movie house, a modern mainstream cinema, a porn theatre, a rock venue and a monkey house. Somehow, all of those past lives still haunted the space. They opened with KING KONG, and soon became known for screening cult classics, Hong Kong action and Chinese ghost horror, famous for their double and triple bills, seasons and all-nighters. They programmed films by Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyers and William Castle. When they screened THE TINGLER, they even electrified the seats. But it wasn’t just genre films they showed. Part of the magic of the Scala was their

mixing of high- and low-brow programming, cross-pollination inspired by film clubs and co-ops. You’d have nazisploitation triple bills alongside Czech arthouse classics, Andrei Tarkovsky followed by Jörg Buttgereit. For a time, it was the best cinema in the world. John Waters, a regular feature of the programme and sometime customer, explained, “It was like joining a club, a very secret club, like a biker gang or something. I remember the audience was more berserk than any midnight show I had ever seen in America. Maybe they were on ecstasy, I don’t know, but it was a really raucous audience. It was so great - but it was almost scary.” The Scala finally closed in 1993, out of business partly down to an expensive lost legal battle with Warner Bros over illicit screenings of Stanley Kubrick’s A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (which they’d advertise with titles like MECHANICAL FRUIT), but also because of the dual threat from home video and satellite TV. The venue reopened after a restoration in 1999, but it wasn’t the same and nor was it intended to be. Nevertheless, the legend grew and, in 2011, a DIY season, Scala Forever, paid tribute with screenings across London and events under motorways, on boats and in cemeteries. It was followed in 2012 by the UK-wide Scala Beyond and in 2013 the first Scalarama season. Director Peter Strickland described it as “a chance to collectively experience a wide range of seldom-seen films on the big screen and to find like-minded souls.” These were celebrations of the eclectic programming at the Scala, the DIY spirit and the alternative venues. And, of course, the berserk audience.

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GlAsGoW Barras Art and Design (BAaD) 54 Calton Entry, Glasgow G40 2SB Wheelchair; accessible toilet +44 (0)141 237 9220 Britannia Panopticon Music Hall 113-117 Trongate, Glasgow G1 5HD Limited wheelchair access due to stairs, no acccessible toilet, no heating. +44 (0)141 553 0840 Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3JD Wheelchair access; accessible toilet; hearing loop +44 (0)141 352 4900 The Flying Duck 142 Renfield St, Glasgow G2 3AU No wheelchair access +44 (0)141 564 1450

Moving Image Archive National Library of Scotland, Kelvin Hall 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow G3 8AW Wheelchair accessible; accessible toilet +44 (0)845 366 4600 Nice N Sleazy 421 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3LG Limited wheelchair access due to stairs; no accessible toilet +44 (0)141 333 0900 Radical Home Cinema Various locations, citywide For details, email cinemaupcollective@gmail.com The Rum Shack 657-659 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow G41 2AB Wheelchair accessible; no accessible toilet +44 (0)141 237 4432

Grosvenor Cinema 24 Ashton Lane, Hillhead, Glasgow G12 8SJ Wheelchair accessible; accessible toilet +44 (0)845 166 6002

Sloans 62 Argyle Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, Glasgow G2 8BG Limited wheelchair access due to stairs; no accessible toilet +44 (0)141 221 8886

BLUEPRINT: THE CREWS + SANDWICH

RADICAL HOME CINEMA: WEE SHED PICTURE HOOSE

To launch its pilot of feature films Blueprint – Scottish Independent Shorts presents, for the first time, Glasgow cult classic THE CREWS with SANDWICH, the short prequel which started it all. Colin Ross Smith directs both films as one of Glasgow’s most fearsome gangsters struggles to reestablish family bonds and escape the nihilistic life of crime which haunts him. Featuring a musical score by Teenage Fanclub drummer Francis Macdonald and photographed by Glasgow’s own rising star John McPhail, director of WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? and the forthcoming apocalyptic zombie musical comedy ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE.

A small selection of short documentary films from the videotheque archive of the ten year long Radical Independent Bookfair project, available to choose and watch. Sit back and soak up an independent film in a small space – be inspired, moved, angered or made aware. Cutting edge independent films that are an important antidote to the mainly anodyne film industry and biased mainstream media.

Fri 01/09 | 7.30pm CCA | £4 + booking fee English language; no subtitles

Sat 02/09 | 12, 1, 2, 3, 4 + 5pm Green Shed Project | Free English language; no subtitles

Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes or private spaces.

RADICAL HOME CINEMA: HOW THE WEST WAS WON A landmark MGM epic western, made using the three-camera Cinerama process for projection onto a curved screen. Billed as a ‘star-fest’, the film is a coming together of celebrity, technological gimmickry and myth making. For Scalarama, the bay window space of a tenement living room will be converted for use as a cinerama. The film runs throughout the day from 12pm, with a full free-butticketed screening at 4pm.

EATFILM: LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE The Hoover family - a man, his wife, an uncle, a brother and a grandfather - puts the fun back in dysfunctional by piling into a VW bus and heading to California to support a daughter in her bid to win the Little Miss Sunshine Contest. The sanity of everyone involved is stretched to the limit as the group’s quirks cause epic problems as they travel along their interstate route.

Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes or private spaces.

£13.95 for TWO people to enjoy a movie and main meal from Sloans’ EatFilm menu: Macaroni and chips, hot dog and fries or chilli nachos. A selection of desserts will also be available. Due to licensing restrictions, EatFilm patrons must be 18 years or over.

Sun 03/09 | 4pm Richard’s Living Room, Shawlands | Free/ticketed English language; no subtitles

Tues 06/09 | 6.30pm Sloans | £13.95 for two English language; no subtitles

SILENT MOVIES WITH GLADSTONE’S BAG

BLUEPRINT: ANNA UNBOUND

Silent movies with live musical accompaniment by the Britannia Panopticon’s in-house light orchestra, Gladstone’s Bag! The films are:

Blueprint continues its collaboration with Scalarama Glasgow, presenting ANNA UNBOUND, a psychological drama which explores a local story in a global setting. When Anna relocates to Glasgow from Greece she is determined to start a new life. She discovers she can leave her country but not her past behind when a new work colleague may solve the riddle of a past trauma.

ONE A.M. (1916) A hilarious drunken affair, starring Charlie Chaplin I DO (1921) Comic adventures of newly-weds and children, starring Harold Lloyd THE HIGH SIGN (1921) A murderous gang and a wild chase through a house filled with secret passages, starring Buster Keaton

Winner of multiple international awards and written by BBC EastEnders, Doctors and BBC River City scribe Martin Brocklebank. Director Bernd Porr is also a leader in neurosciences, having invented the world’s fastest walking robot.

Wed 06/09 | 7pm Britannia Panopticon Music Hall | £5 Silent, English intertitles

Wed 06/09 | 7.30pm CCA | £4 + booking fee English language; no subtitles

MATCHBOX CINECLUB + VIDEO NAMASTE: VIDEO BACCHANAL

TRANSIT ARTS PRESENTS UNCANNY LOOP: THE BIRD WITH THE CRYSTAL PLUMAGE

The ‘90s in cinema were an amazing nightmare. A sugar-syrup throb of VHS scanlines, dire fast food tie-ins and probably the weirdest time in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s life. Come join the Video Namaste boys in a wee trip through the weird videoshop hellscape of 90s cinema and all the amazing stuff that orbited it. Have a drink, gawk at us forgetting to remember and then have a wee dance with us as we play some Exxtra Special ‘90s soundtrack songs afterwards.

In Dario Argento’s 1970 giallo debut, Sam Dalmas, an American writer living in Rome, inadvertently witnesses a brutal attack on a woman in a contemporary art gallery. Powerless to help, he grows paranoid and obsessed with the incident. Convinced that something he saw that night holds the key the killer’s identity, he launches his own investigation, heedless of the danger to both himself and his girlfriend Julia. Presented by Transit Arts with selected shorts, this screening is part of Uncanny Loop, an anthology film programme that proposes a reinterpretation of the haunted house as something much closer to home.

Thurs 07/09 | 7pm Nice N Sleazy | Free/ticketed English language; no subtitles

Fri 08/09 | 8pm CCA Cinema | £3 + booking fee Italian language; English subtitles

RADICAL HOME CINEMA: CROSSING THE BRIDGE - THE SOUND OF ISTANBUL

CINEMAATTIC: SPANISH CLAUSTROPHOBIA LA CABINA + THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

Award-winning director Fatih Akin takes us on a journey through Istanbul, the city that bridges Europe and Asia, and challenges familiar notions of east and west. He looks at the vibrant musical scene which includes traditional Turkish music plus rock and hip-hop.

It’s been forty-five years since LA CABINA (1972) changed Spanish television forever, fifty-five since the release of Buñuel’s EL ANGEL EXTERMINADOR (1962), but in a time of political uncertainty unparalleled in recent memory, our shared sense of “what next?” panic and inertia finds its echo in these people. They can barely rouse themselves to leave a room or a telephone box, unable to take any decisive action beyond attempting to survive. Both Buñuel and Mercero built these two masterworks on a common bold premise: Society is fucked up.

Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes or private spaces.

Sat 09/09 | 6pm Marzanna’s Living Room, Temple | Free/ticketed Turkish language; English subtitles

Sat 09/09 | 7pm CCA Cinema| Free/ticketed Spanish language; English subtitles

RAGNA AMLING: DEATH WATCH

EATFILM: BATMAN RETURNS

A dark, sobering piece from Bertrand Tavernier, DEATH WATCH explores the sinister lengths a morally bankrupt TV production company will go to. Much of the filming took place in and around Glasgow, including Glasgow Necropolis, Glasgow Cathedral, the former Queen’s Dock on the River Clyde, and the Glasgow City Chambers. Akin to Sidney Lumet’s Network, DEATH WATCH is a film that, as the years pass, only grows more and more unsettling with its stark, harsh message on a society in disrepair. Where death and decay is readily celebrated with ratings from a soulless production company, DEATH WATCH questions the very essence of what human compassion is.

The monstrous Penguin joins up with wicked shockheaded businessman Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck’s timid assistant, Selina Kyle, finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she is transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.

Sun 10/09 | 7pm CCA Cinema | £5 + £1 booking fee English language; no subtitles

Tues 12/09 | 6.30pm Sloans | £13.95 for two English language; no subtitles

GETTING STARTED WITH THE MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVE

PICKARD’S PICTURE HOUSE: FREAKS

Scotland’s Moving Image Archive has been collecting and preserving films since 1976. This event will introduce you to the archive and guide you through getting the most from searching our catalogue – so you can watch lots more films! All of Scots life can be seen: adverts, documentaries, home movies, promotional films, amateur comedies, educational programmes and more. Whatever you search for, you are bound to come across film that will interest and surprise you!

Wed 13/09 | 6pm Moving Image Archive| Free

Do you love movies? Do you have a favourite film that never gets shown on TV or in the cinema? Come to the world’s oldest surviving music hall, for a weekly celebration of cinema, complete with usherettes, a concession stand, and a bar! They’ll be showing classics, cult movies, musicals (complete with sing-alongs and audience participation). The movies that you want to see, in a unique venue, unlike any modern multiplex - ‘mon down! This week we will be showing the 1932 classic FREAKS! We accept you, one of us! Gobble Gobble!

Wed 13/09 | 7pm Britannia Panopticon Music Hall | Free/donation English language; no subtitles

BLUEPRINT: A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO A SPECTACULAR SUICIDE Graham Hughes writes, with Keith Grantham & Graeme McGeagh and directs his debut comedy feature which competed for the prestigious Michael Powell award for Best British Feature at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2014. Self destructive Tom has failed in life and multiple times at suicide. It’s time to think outside the box as he plans his spectacular exit from the world. Starring Patrick O’Brien, who appeared with Iain Glen in Jack Taylor and Ray Crofter from Jonathan Teplitzky’s THE RAILWAY MAN.

RADICAL HOME CINEMA: THE PUNK SINGER Kathleen Hanna, lead singer of the punk band Bikini Kill and dance-punk trio Le Tigre, rose to national attention as the reluctant but never shy voice of the riot grrrl movement. She became one of the most famously outspoken feminist icons, a cultural lightning rod.Through 20 years of archival footage and intimate interviews with Hanna, THE PUNK SINGER takes viewers on a fascinating tour of contemporary music and offers a never-beforeseen view into the life of this fearless leader. Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes or private spaces.

Wed 13/09 | 7.30pm CCA Cinema | £4 + booking fee English language; no subtitles

Sat 16/09 | 4pm Fourwalls | Free/ticketed English language; no subtitles

MATCHBOX CINECLUB: OXIDE GHOSTS THE BRASS EYE TAPES w. DIRECTOR Q&A

DOCUMENT FILM FESTIVAL: 2017 PROGRAMME LAUNCH

Made from hundreds of hours of unseen material from his personal archive, director Michael Cumming’s film shares insights into the process of making the legendary TV series Brass Eye. Celebrating twenty years since Brass Eye’s transmission in 1997, this film and Q&A session are a must for fans of the series but will appeal to anyone with a curiosity about how great comedy is made.

Be the first to get your hands on the Document 2017 brochure at our official programme launch. Featuring highlights from this year’s programme and screening of Justin Schein’s controversial documentary LEFT ON PURPOSE, which collides radical politics, mental illness, addiction and the aging process. Ultimately, it exposes the ethical dilemma at the heart of documentary filmmaking. And it tells the story of a passionate man marginalised by a changing world. Now in its 15th year, Document Film Festival is known for bold and provocative programming, interrogating the form and content of human rights documentary with open and inclusive debate.

Sun 17/09 | 7pm + 9pm CCA Theatre | £8 + £1 booking fee English language; no subtitles

Mon 18/09 | 7pm CCA Theatre | Free/ticketed English language; no subtitles

EATFILM: BIG DADDY

FILMS OF COCOZZA: STRANGE & SURREAL

Thirty-two year old Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) has spent his whole life avoiding responsibility. But when his girlfriend dumps him for an older man, he’s got to find a way to prove he’s really ready to grow up. In a desperate last-ditch effort, Sonny adopts five-year-old Julian (Cole Sprouse, Dylan Sprouse) to impress her. She’s not impressed...and he can’t return the kid. Uh-oh for Sonny!

In true Scalarama style, Enrico Cocozza was a filmmaker and cinema lover. Cocozza established the Connoisseur Film Circle – running his own cinema out of the rear of the family Italian café in Wishaw for fellow film enthusiasts in the 1950’s. Cocozza donated his eclectic and award winning artistic work to the Moving Image Archive in 1984.

Creating over 80 films across a multitude of genres – surrealist fantasies, horror, documentary and science fiction – this screening will showcase some of his strange and surreal Scottish films.

Tues 19/09 | 6.30pm Sloans | £13.95 for two English language; no subtitles

Wed 20/09 | 6pm Moving Image Archive | Free English language; no subtitles

PICKARD’S PICTURE HOUSE

SLOWWEST FILM CLUB: MAD MAX & MAD MAX 2

Join us over two separate evenings to celebrate George Miller’s iconic MAD MAX series. On the 20th & 28th of September we will be showcasing two double bill features, covering over 30 years of dystopian motor madness!

Want a clue? Here’s a quote for you: “Well, I’ve wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I’m happy to state I finally won out over it.”

Wed 20/09 | 7pm Britannia Panopticon Music Hall | Free/donation English language; no subtitles

Wed 20/09 | 8.45pm Grosvenor Cinema| £10 English language; no subtitles

BLUEPRINT B ROLL 03: CHARLIE FRANCIS Blueprint returns with its third B Roll programme, the first hosted by GFT. Charlie Francis is a Scottish BAFTA New Talent nominated and Iris Prize Festival winning director from Glasgow. His special programme focuses on both the local heroes that have inspired him to pursue his own film practice and the best LGBTQ short cinema from around the world. Charlie Francis will introduce the programme.

MATCHBOX CINECLUB: COWARDS BEND THE KNEE w. LIVE SCORE BY ELA ORLEANS This is Guy Maddin in purest form, the most concentrated and probably craziest film of his career. Never have hockey, hairdressing, homophobia and hand amputations collided to such dizzying effect, in perhaps the most authentically surrealist film of the 21st century. For Scalarama, Matchbox Cineclub have commissioned Ela Orleans to write and perform a new score.

Thurs 21/09 | 8pm (subject to change) GFT | TBC English language; no subtitles

Thurs 21/09 | 8pm CCA Theatre | £9 + £1 booking fee English language; no subtitles

CINE[STHESIA]: SYMPHONY OF THE CITY

PITY PARTY FILM CLUB: RITA, SUE & BOB TOO

Visit Auld Reekie through the lens of John Eldridge with WAVERLEY STEPS, a day in the life of Edinburgh through the eyes of a Danish sailor. First screened at the Edinburgh Documentary Film Festival in 1948, it was inspired by Arne Sucksdorff’s portrait of Stockholm RHYTHM OF A CITY. Join us for some Edinburgh on the big screen in Glasgow!

Fancy a jump? 30 years after its original cinema release, Alan Clarke’s risqué coming-of-age classic comes to the CCA for a one-off screening from Pity Party Film Club. Adapted from the semiautobiographical play by Andrea Dunbar, ‘Rita, Sue & Bob Too’ follows the sexual awakening of two working-class teenage girlfriends who shack up with an older man. What starts off as a mere fling threatens to unravel the girls’ friendship once the illicit affair becomes public knowledge. Boasting the memorable tagline ‘Thatcher’s Britain with her knickers down’, this outrageous comedy shocked and delighted viewers in equal measure upon its release in 1987.

Sat 23/09 | 11.30am + 3pm Moving Image Archive | Free English language; no subtitles

Sat 23/09 | 4pm CCA Cinema | £7 + £1 booking fee English language; no subtitles

INTERVIEW: ELA ORLEANS Ela Orleans debuts a brand-new live score for Guy Maddin’s COWARDS BEND THE KNEE for Matchbox Cineclub at Scalarama. Journalist Brian Beadie, who proposed the project, spoke to Orleans ahead of the performance. Ela Orleans is best known as an exquisite lo-fi pop miniaturist. She works integrally with images, to the extent that a journalist described her work as ‘movies for ears’, a tagline she has willingly embraced. It’s a cliché to call a musician’s work soundtrack material, but Ela’s work is imbued with a deep love of cinema. When Scalarama asked me earlier in the year if I would like to programme a screening for the festival, my first thought (and best thought) was commissioning a new soundtrack from Ela, and pairing one of my favourite musicians with one of my favourite directors, Guy Maddin. Growing up in Oswiecim (better known in the west as Auschwitz) during Communism, Ela was exposed both to Western and Communist cinema, Polish cinema going through a golden age during her childhood (she jokes that nothing noteworthy has happened in the country since 1986). The film scores of composers such as Krzystof Komeda are incredibly rich, drawing on a wide variety of musical traditions including jazz. There was a vital underground jazz scene, officially banned by the state although, as Ela notes, the state unbanned it when they recognised that it was the music of the American oppressed. Oswieicm itself would be a site of much location filming, due to its still having the infamous concentration camp in town, now running as a musuem. Ela reminisces about being on the set of a Spielberg film when she was a kid, and that you could tell when a film crew were shooting, because all the town drunks would get their heads shaved to obtain parts as extras.

After a spell in Glasgow playing in Hassle Hound with Tony Swain and Mark Vernon, she moved to Brooklyn to study composition. “My final work for the program was slaughtered by my tutor, who told me to get out of my box. The final word, however, belonged to David Shire [composer of The Taking of Pelham 123, The Conversation and, more recently, Zodiac], who said that he loved my box.” Her own favourite soundtracks make for an interesting comparison; she equally loves the spare, minimalist soundtracks of JeanPierre Melville’s films, citing the precision of the sound design on Le Samourai, and the operatic splendour of Morricone’s scores. While Ela has composed new scores for film by directors such as Carl Dreyer and Frank Borzage (an obsession of Guy Maddin’s) she states, “This is the first time I feel that I am receiving full information on the aesthetic aspect of the score. The suggested inspiration is fantastically familiar, and I feel like my music found home with someone alive for a change and that I have freedom and a sense of direction at the same time.” One of the reasons I wanted to pair Ela and Maddin was because I think they share a similar aesthetic, haunted by but not burdened by past forms. Ela agrees that, “The musical aesthetic of Guy Maddin is spookily parallel with my own. It’s not mainstream or techno or classical but oldtime music which can be played with a rusty needle and it will still bring emotions. He doesn’t ask me to sound Lynchian, which is a bloody relief!” “His enthusiasm for me scoring it is enormously encouraging, and I am over the moon. I feel like I found long lost family.”

Matchbox Cineclub present COWARDS BEND THE KNEE with live score by Ela Orleans, Thurs 21/09 at CCA, Glasgow

RADICAL HOME CINEMA: SECRET FILM

HOME CINEMA DAY

A great white hope lands in Central America, financed by the Vanderbilt empire, to spread democracy. It might sound like a modern American fable but this story is set in the 1800s. It’s based on a true story but the historical biopic has never looked liked this. Self reflexive and loaded with anachronisms, calling attention to both the production of the film itself and the production of history, this is a drama which is equally surreal and blackly comic. But one thing is for sure, it’s the whole truth and nothing like the truth! Here ends the history lesson. Radical Home Cinema is an experimental programming and exhibition event where film lovers invite you to watch films in their homes or private spaces.

A national celebration of films, a shared experience born from the simple no-cost pleasure of watching movies with your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. From choosing your programme to creating the viewing experience, the aim is for people across the country to think dynamically and creatively about what goes into an unforgettable communal film experience. Participation is easy. All you need to do is invite your guests, screen your ideal line-up of cinematic gems and share your experience with the rest of the country, either by tweeting, blogging or uploading photos, it’s entirely up to you.

Sat 23/09 | 4pm Hans’ Living Room, Westerton | Free/ticketed English language; no subtitles

Sun 24/09 Your Living Room | Free

EATFILM: SUPERBAD

GEMMA + PATRICIA: INVASIÓN TRAVESTI (TRANSVESTITE INVASION)

High-school seniors Seth (Jonah Hill) and Evan (Michael Cera) have high hopes for a graduation party: The co-dependent teens plan to score booze and babes so they can become part of the in-crowd, but separation anxiety and two bored police officers (Bill Hader, Seth Rogen) complicate the pair’s self-proclaimed mission. £13.95 for TWO people to enjoy a movie and main meal from Sloans’ EatFilm menu: Macaroni and chips, hot dog and fries or chilli nachos. A selection of desserts will also be available. Due to licensing restrictions, EatFilm patrons must be 18 years or over. Tues 26/09 | 6.30pm Sloans | £13.95 for two English language; no subtitles

A group of stellar transvestites have invaded the planet and Laura Crawford – a lethal hybrid formed by the worst of man and woman – has been able to lead both sexes to chaos and mutual contempt. Barbara Furiasse, the last living heterosexual on earth, is about to vanish, and with it the hope of a future world. She has only three days to find a real man and together flee from the…transvestite invasion! Shot in 16mm with an old camera and no sound, INVASIÓN TRAVESTI was never fully developed and screened in very few independent cinemas. The analogue footage is kept in Andalucía and there’s no official digital copy. Screening + drag shows/music/drinks! Tues 26/09 | 6.30pm BAaD| £10/8 Spanish language; English subtitles

THE FILM QUIZ Think you know your Michael Douglas from your Michael Keaton, Kathryn Bigelow from AMERICAN GIGOLO, Sausage Party from LIFE OF PI? Want to challenge your film knowledge against other die-hard film fans? Then assemble your team and join quizmasters of the universe Paul Greenwood and Paul Gallagher for a night of banter, quizzery, drinks and prizes.

SCOTTISH QUEER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (SQIFF) SQIFF 2017 is five days packed with the best in queer cinema and media from around the world. Highlights include legendary filmmaker Bruce LaBruce introducing the Scottish premiere of THE MISANDRISTS and a rare screening of HUSTLER WHITE, plus feminist vampire pornography, revolutionary documentaries, lesbian Muslim wrestlers, free industry workshops and two massive parties. All venues fully accessible, all films feat. English language subtitles, many Q&As and workshops BSL interpreted. www.sqiff.org

Tues 26/09 | 8pm VIP Bar, Cineworld Renfield Street | Free

Wed 27/09 - Sun 01/10 | Various Venues across Glasgow

PICKARD’S PICTURE HOUSE

GLASGOW SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: BORSCHT DIEZ

Do you love movies? Do you have a favourite film that never gets shown on TV or in the cinema? Come to the world’s oldest surviving music hall, for a weekly celebration of cinema, complete with usherettes, a concession stand, and a bar! They’ll be showing classics, cult movies, musicals (complete with sing-alongs and audience participation). The movies that you want to see, in a unique venue, unlike any modern multiplex - ‘mon down! Want a clue? Here’s a quote for you: “A person doesn’t change just because you find out more.”

Wed 27/09 | 7pm Britannia Panopticon Music Hall | Free/donation English language; no subtitles

2100 AD. Live from the underwater ruins of the old human city known as Miami, the only survivors, psychedelic sea creatures Edgar, Sally, Shivers, Gregor and Harold, sift through the visual artefacts of the past and share their favourites with us... Borscht is an open-source filmmaking collective dedicated to articulating the voices of the New Miami and its idiosyncratic culture, providing a global stage for underrepresented identities in film. Expect fake found footage, lizard obsession, Japanese Bunraku puppetry and a fanimaltastic TV show. Served with Brugal rum cocktails and Miami sounds in the hotbox surroundings of the Rum Shack Dance Hall. Thurs 28/09 | 7.30pm The Rum Shack | £6 English language; no subtitles

SLOWWEST FILM CLUB: MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME & MAD MAX: FURY ROAD

VIDEO NAMASTE: JOHNNY MNEMONIC ON LASERDISC

Join us over two separate evenings to celebrate George Miller’s iconic MAD MAX series.

Plug your Windows 95 OS into your neck port and wait a week for it to start up. Jump through the 0’s and slide down the 1’s in a multifarious network of gunfights and cybertravel as Video Namaste screen turbo-cool JOHNNY MNEMONIC in full futuristic and absolutely not out-dated LASERDISC. Come marvel at technology as it should be, garish, oblivious to its time and absolutely 100% soundtracked by bands like Stabbing Westward (what?) and KMFDM (oh god). Come, hang out with the boys as they take a deep dive into yer da’s auld computer. And, as per any Video Namaste night, there WILL be a raffle and prizes. 00111100 00110011.

On the 20th & 28th of September we will be showcasing two double bill features, covering over 30 years of dystopian motor madness!

Thurs 28/09 | 8.45pm Grosvenor Cinema| £10 English language; no subtitles

Thurs 28/09 | 7.30pm The Flying Duck| £5 English language; no subtitles

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INTERVIEW: BORSCHT CORPORATION The driving force behind Barry Jenkins’ Oscar winner MOONLIGHT, Borscht is an open-source filmmaking collective dedicated to articulating the idiosyncratic culture of Miami. GSFF Director Matt Lloyd spoke to Borscht’s Lucas Leyva in advance of their Scalarama screening. How did you get started? At school. A dozen of us were into making movies. We saw Lars von Trier’s Five Obstructions and loved it – we copied the model and forced each other to make films with increasingly ridiculous obstacles. When we were done we would throw a party and screen the films after hours in classrooms. We called it UnMinced. After graduation most of us planned on moving to New York or Los Angeles as most creatives do. But instead we found ourselves collaborating and making more films together in Miami. A local theatre owner offered us free use of his space if we wanted to screen the films, and UnMinced became Borscht in 2005. We built a robot to host the event and named it Paris Hilton, which confused a lot of people. The movies were pretty bad but a lot of people came. When we eventually won a grant from a private foundation and commissioned forty films, it was sort of a watershed moment for Miami culture – there had always been an underground, but this was a crossover of sorts. It announced to the city that this critical mass of young creatives existed, and there was an audience to support them, which was all very exciting. Sometime since then, the films have become watchable, and some of them even good. A lot of us realised that instead of moving to Los Angeles to work our way up the industry, we could stay home, build a unique infrastructure around us to support one another, and make movies the way we want to. This isn’t simply a support network for filmmakers in Miami. The city itself is a central element of Borscht’s identity. We self-identify as Miamians. This sounds obvious, but the city has historically been transient. Various immigrant groups waiting out economic distress or political revolutions in their home countries shaped the city, but they always identified as Cuban or Salvadorian.

To the rest of the world, the city was defined by Miami Vice and Scarface – media made by outsiders depicting the city in a specific way. While the Miami of beach, boobs and blow definitely exists, it wasn’t our experience. We found the city to have a lot more interesting stories and have mined these stories and characters for our work. There’s a fantastical element to many of the Borscht films, but it’s rooted in or draws from very specific realities. We often incorporate layered realities on top of the already-strange one that we exist in. We talk a lot about how living in Miami is like living in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel. It’s the closest thing to Macondo in the United States – a bizarre magical realist town where it rains iguanas from trees when the temperature drops below 70 degrees Fahrenheit and alligators end up in your backyard and the strangest crimes in the world are committed. We don’t need to use much imagination to make up stories, so we focus less on the what and why and more on the how. It’s an innocent, almost primitive way of approaching things: essentially explaining how these crazy things came to be. Miami myth-making.

DuNdEe Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) 152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY Wheelchair access; accessible toilet; hearing loop +44 (0)1382 909900

CRIME WAVE An awkward loner, Steven Penny, turns out bizarre scenarios for colour crime movies. Steven wants to turn in the best colour crime movie ever, but he has a problem - he can only write beginnings and ends to his scripts. No middles! One of the greatest and yet most perversely overlooked debuts in English Canadian movie history, writerdirector John Paizs’s CRIME WAVE announced the birth of a new genre: what cultural critic Geoff Pevere dubbed “prairie postmodernism.” CRIME WAVE’s recent restoration by TIFF debuted to a rapturous reception during Glasgow Film Festival 2017, programmed by Matchbox Cineclub. Still unavailable on DVD, VOD or streaming, Paizs’ lost classic now comes to Dundee for the very first time. Sun 17/09 | 9pm DCA | £7.50/£5 English language; no subtitles

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EdInBuRgH 50 George Square University of Edinburgh, George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9JY Wheelchair access; accessible toilet +44 (0)131 6515984 Alt-w LAB, City Art Centre 2 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DE Wheelchair access; accessible toilet +44 (0)131 529 3993 The Banshee Labyrinth 29-35 Niddry Street, Edinburgh EH1 1LG No wheelchair access +44 (0)131 558 8209

The Drill Hall Cafe 36 Dalmeny St, Edinburgh EH6 8RG Wheelchair access; accessible toilet +44 (0)131 555 7100 Leith Depot 140 Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 5DT Wheelchair access +44 (0)131 555 4738 Summerhall Summerhall Place, Edinburgh EH9 1PL Limited wheelchair access; accessible toilet +44 (0)131 560 1580 WHALE Arts Centre 30 Westburn Grove, Edinburgh EH14 2SA Wheelchair access; accessible toilet +44 (0)131 458 3267

NEW FLESH CINEMA: THE CREMATOR

MUDRAS CALLING

New Flesh Cinema present a late night screening of a film of twisted humours, a mix of DR STRANGELOVE and REPULSION, taking place in Prague in the time preceding the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia.

Karl Kopfrkingl (Rudolf Hrušínský) is a professional cremator for whom the political climate has allowed free rein to his increasingly deranged impulses.

A most fascinating cinematic discovery from Myanmar has finally reached the Scottish land – don’t miss it for the world! Coming from a young and very talented Burmese female director, this film gently weaves two completely different cultures into a touching story of self-discovery. Raised in the US, Jaden sets off to explore his birthplace in Myanmar. Initially aiming to research Burmese traditional music, he meets a local dancer Hnin, who takes him on a bittersweet journey into her culture, his past and their uncertain future. A journey where harsh reality turns into a psychedelic dream, where nothing is certain, but everything is possible...if you really feel it.

Fri 01/09 | 10pm Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Summerhall | £6 Czech language; English subtitles

Sat 02/09 | 6.30pm City Art Centre | £5 English language; no subtitles

Juraj Herz’s film THE CREMATOR (1968) can be described in many ways - as a surrealist horror, an expressionist fantasy, and as a black comedy.

REEL GIRL FILM CLUB: THE PUNK SINGER

ABOUT FILM: TWO-WAY STRETCH

Reel Girl Film Club is proud to present our first screening. Sini Anderson’s inspiring and impactful documentary THE PUNK SINGER explores the life of activist, singer and feminist icon Kathleen Hanna, who formed the punk band Bikini Kill and pioneered the “riot grrrl” movement of the 1990s. Told through archive footage and intimate interviews with Hanna, THE PUNK SINGER offers a never-before-seen view into the life of this fearless leader.

About Film is a monthly discussion group focused on British film. In September, we will be discussing British comedy; are there particular tropes or consistent themes? Does British comedy have particularly British markers? We will screen Peter Sellers’ TWO-WAY STRETCH (1960) before our discussion – is this a British comedy? Why?

Doors will open at 8pm, and there will be a short introduction before the film begins. The screening will also include a raffle and sweets and treats.

Our events are always free and open to all comers. There is no preparation needed but you will be encouraged to share your opinions during the discussion.

Wed 06/09 | 8pm Leith Depot | £5 on the door English language; no subtitles

Thurs 07/09 | 7pm The Banshee Labyrinth | Free English language; no subtitles

WHALE: RESTLESS NATIVES + THE BANANA REPUBLIC

BLUE GATE CROSSING + HEBEI TAIPEI

Join volunteer-led WHALE Community Cinema for an inclusive screening of cult comedy RESTLESS NATIVES (Michael Hoffman, 1985) and short film THE BANANA REPUBLIC (Scott Calonico, 2015). This screening is the first of an exciting season of ‘Scottish Comedy & Shorts’ screenings taking place at WHALE. Filmed in Wester Hailes, RESTLESS NATIVES is a Scottish gem that follows the story of two enterprising friends who become folk heroes when they carry out a series of hold ups on tour buses in the Highlands. THE BANANA REPUBLIC follows a local photographer and former resident who embark on a quest to document the triumphs and tragedies that exist inside Leith’s Banana Flats.

MENG Ker-Rou and LIN Yue-Zhen are high school friends. On the school grounds one early summer, Yue-Zhen develops a crush on the charming ZHANG Shih-Hao, and asks Ker-Rou to help her pass on a love letter to him. Ker-Rou is furious upon discovering that the letter was actually written in her name, but by then, Shih-Hao had already madly fallen in love with her. // Born in Hebei Province, the war brought LI to Taiwan. He never returns but when he dreams of his hometown, he sees blood flowing. Seeing himself in the mirror, he cannot bear his hair turning grey. Therefore, he puts on a wig and a dress, trying to make up all those wasted years. Copies and licences provided by Taiwan Cinema Toolkit.

Fri 08/09 | 7pm WHALE Arts Centre | Free English language; no subtitles

Sat 09/09 | 2pm/4pm Screening Room: G.04, 50 George Square | £4 Mandarin language; English subtitles

KINOKLUB: THE BEAST KinoKlub is Edinburgh’s world surrealist cinema collective formed by Morvern Cunningham and Malgorzata Bugaj. We are committed to showcasing some of the best in surreal and experimental film from all eras and across the globe on a regular basis. For Scalarama this year, we screen notoriously banned film LA BÊTE (THE BEAST) by Polish filmmaker and animator Walerian Borowczyk, the film that was his erotic horror fantasy masterpiece. Come see this rare screening with us!

CINEMAATTIC: SPANISH CLAUSTROPHOBIA LA CABINA + THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL It’s been forty-five years since LA CABINA (1972) changed Spanish television forever, fifty-five since the release of Buñuel’s EL ANGEL EXTERMINADOR (1962), but in a time of political uncertainty unparalleled in recent memory, our shared sense of “what next?” panic and inertia finds its echo in these people. They can barely rouse themselves to leave a room or a telephone box, unable to take any decisive action beyond attempting to survive. Both Buñuel and Mercero built these two masterworks on a common bold premise: Society is fucked up.

Sun 10/09 | 7.30pm Red Lecture Theatre, Summerhall | £5 (+ BF) French, Italian, English language; English subtitles

Tues 12/09 | 7pm Summerhall | Free/ticketed Spanish language; English subtitles

VHS TRASH FEST: SOCIETY

VHS TRASH FEST: NIGHTBREED + THE BURNING

Screening entirely from VHS, with original trailers included and tape swaps encouraged, VHS Trash Fest aims to bring you the very best in classic VHS horror trashdom. Our opening night on Friday 15th September kicks off with Brian Yuzna’s body horror yuck-fest SOCIETY (1989), taking place appropriately enough in Summerhall’s old Anatomy Lecture Theatre. Amphitheatrical in shape and over 100 years old, this is where animals would be dissected in front of an audience in this former vet school. Join us as we descend into the world of paranoid Bill who suspects his middle-class family might not be quite what they seem… Not for the faint-hearted or weak-stomached! Fri 15/09 | 7pm Summerhall | £6 / £12 two-day festival ticket English language; no subtitles

The Saturday of VHS Trash Fest brings a highlyanticipated double bill of Trash classics in the form of Clive Barker’s NIGHTBREED (1990) and infamous Video Nasty slasher THE BURNING (1981) in Summerhall’s Red Lecture Theatre. A monster movie where humans are the real monsters, with none other than David Cronenberg himself in an acting role, Nightbreed is trash movie heaven. FRIDAY THE 13TH spin-off THE BURNING is an underrated entry in the slasher canon, with special effects by gore-king Tom Savini (some of his best), a pulsing electronic music score by Rick Wakeman, and the unforgettable Cropsey on the loose… Sat 16/09 | 7pm Summerhall | £8 / £12 two-day festival ticket English language; no subtitles

FREEZE FRAME FILM CLUB: THE LOST BOYS

ATMOSPHERE: A ZED & TWO NOUGHTS

It is 30 years since Jason Patrick reluctantly arrived in Santa Carla, a coastal resort with all the usual temptations of sun, sea and carnival rides. Only problem is the gang of biker vampires terrorize the town and want to turn him and his family into the “blood-sucking Brady Bunch”. With beautifully stylised scenery and eerie fog popping up throughout, this film is a great combination of humour, action and over the top horror gore.

Peter Greenaway’s visually stunning 1985 film was the first with his “most important collaborator” cinematographer Sacha Vierny. A story of twin zoologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce who, after losing their wives in a freak car collision with a swan outside the zoo where they work, develop a curious attachment to the car’s driver Alba, who survived. Developed in collaboration with DCN Design Fellow Susana Cámara Leret, this is New Media Scotland’s first Atmosphere event in the Alt-w LAB and the first as part of Scalarama. Punctuated by the dulcet tones of Sir David Attenborough and the influence of Johannes Vermeer, the film is a rumination on life, love and sex and the inevitability of birth, death and decay.

The Drill Hall Cafe will be serving up film inspired food and cine snacks along with refreshments. £5 for film & popcorn / £15 for film, popcorn and twocourse, celluloid-inspired dinner Sat 23/09 | 6.30pm The Drill Hall Cafe | £5/£15 English language; no subtitles

IL SORPASSO + EL VERDUGO A double bill of two sorely overlooked genius comedies from Italy and Spain, dating back to the beginning of 1960s. IL SORPASSO, about an impulsive braggart who takes a shy law student on a two-day ride. EL VERDUGO, about an undertaker who gets married to an old executioner’s daughter and inherits his profession... but is too reluctant to put it to practice. Dark, elegant and hilarious. Hovering somewhere between Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave, for some bizarre reason neither ever seem to make it to anybody’s ‘must watch’ lists – how could it be? Time to (re) discover Risi and Berlanga! Fri 29/09 | 6pm Summerhall | £7/Free Italian/Spanish language; English subtitles

Thurs 28/09 | 7.30pm Alt-w LAB, City Art Centre | £10 English language; no subtitles

BeRwIcK Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival Wednesday 20th - Sunday 24th September

UZBECK RHAPSODY: THE FILMS OF ALI KHAMRAEV

The Maltings Eastern Lane, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 1AJ Wheelchair access; accessible toilet; hearing loop +44 (0)1289 330999

The first UK retrospective of one of Central Asia’s most notable directors. Khamraev became popular in the 1960s for a series of ‘Red Western’ action films. He is known for his flamboyant visual style, rock-solid humanism and courage tackling life’s most vital questions whilst walking the tightrope of Soviet censorship. “Ali Khamraev, one of those rare talents… his films burst with criss-crossing energies and insights, like a fireworks display,” Kent Jones, World Cinema Foundation. BFMAF 2017 will be screening MAN FOLLOWS BIRDS (1975), THE BODYGUARD (1979) and I REMEMBER YOU (1985). Khamraev will attend the festival to discuss his life and work.

Full Pass: £35/£29 Weekend Pass: £25/£23 Full pass with accommodation: £105/£99 Weekend pass with accommodation: £70/£68

Thurs 21-24/09 | Various times The Maltings| £7.50/£6.50; £5 (child) Russian language; English subtitles

SOUND & VISION: NO BRAKES, NO GEARS, NO FEAR WITH MARGARET SALMON

THE CRAZIES

A speedway film night, including the world premiere screening of Mm, a NFM/BFMAF commission by Margaret Salmon. Shot with the Berwick Bandits, Berwick-upon-Tweed’s own speedway heroes, Mm commemorates their 50th season and offers an imaginative take on the thrilling world of this popular motorcycle sport.

Celebrating the work of the late George A Romero, BFMAF 2017 presents a restoration of his 1973 cult classic THE CRAZIES. The greatest horror director of all time, Romero pioneered the zombie genre with masterpieces NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and DAWN OF THE DEAD, but THE CRAZIES is the film that quite literally drove him to insanity. In Romero’s rarely screened sci-fi horror, inhabitants of Evans City become crazed killers after a top-secret government bio-weapon infects the town’s water supply with a deadly virus. The Army are ordered to shoot on sight, officials threaten to nuke the area while quarantined residents tote dynamite and knitting needles in a fight for survival. Introduced by Peggy Ahwesh.

Sat 23/09 | 7pm The Maltings|£7.50/£6.50; £5 (child) English language; no subtitles

Sun 24/09 | 7pm The Maltings| £7.50/£6.50; £5 (child) English language; no subtitles

Presented at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival with Northern Film & Media.

ScOtTiShBoRdErS Behind The Curtain Thursday 14th September - Friday 8th December The Haining House Selkirk TD7 5AA Wheelchair access; accessible toilet

Behind the Curtain is a celebration of the diversity of cinema. We screen documentaries, experimental works, cult, queer, trash and the best work from independent filmmakers from around the world. Behind the Curtain is your film community, whatever your identity.

Unit 4 Towerdykeside Hawick TD9 9EA Wheelchair access, accessible toilet

Screenings in the Scottish Borders from 14th September – 8th December 2017. An Alchemy Film & Arts project in partnership with Moving Image Makers Collective. See behind-thecurtain.com for more info and the full programme.

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FEMINIST FILM CLUB: SHORTS PROGRAMME

Join us in the magnificent setting of The Haining House for a rare screening of Věra Chytilová’s classic of surrealist cinema that is perhaps also the most adventurous and anarchic Czech movie of the 1960s. Two young women, both named Marie, revolt against a degenerate, decayed and oppressive society, attacking symbols of wealth and bourgeois culture. Defiant feminist statement? Nihilistic, avant-garde comedy? It remains a cinematic enigma and its influence is still felt today.

How are we affected by inequalities related to gender, class and race? In this programme, six talented filmmakers challenge us through documentary, experimentation and play to consider how we can speak out, represent ourselves and take up space. #BTCfeministfilmclub

Programmed by Moving Image Makers Collective, as part of YES Arts Festival. #BTCfeministfilmclub

Thurs 14/09 | 7.30pm The Haining House | £5 Czech language; English subtitles

Strolling Episode 1 (Cecile Emeke, 2014) On Your Feet, Woman! (Evi Tsiligaridou, 2014) Man (Maja Borg, 2016) Self Registration (Laura Hindmarsh, 2015) Spermwhore (Anna Linder, 2016) We Need New Names (Onyeka Igwe, 2015) Strolling Episode 7 (Cecile Emeke, 2014) Thurs 28/09 | 6.30pm Unit 4 Towerdykeside | £5 English language; no subtitles

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