Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
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Introduction
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Award Winners Screening
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Scottish Competition
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International Competition
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Calendar
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Vertical Cinema
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Strange Electricity
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Jennifer Reeder
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Daniel Wolfe Music Video Masterclass
10
Focus on Ukraine
11
Let Glasgow Flourish
11
A Wall Is A Screen
11
Short Com with Greg Hemphill
11
Luminous Latitude: Artists Film Touring Programme
12
12th Player
12
Short Stuff
12
Family Shorts
12
The Art School & Big Screen present 00:01:00
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The Skinny Short Film Award
13
Filming The List
13
The Short Road to Features
13
Symposium: Short Film (and) Criticism
14
Anatomy of a Short Film Programme
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Duane Hopkins In Conversation: Directing Actors
14
Kevin B Lee: Desktop Documentary Workshop
14
Ani Jam
15
UWS Symposium: Creativity and Form
15
Panel: What Next?
15
Meet the Filmmakers
15
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ONLINE
From Wednesday 28 January tickets can be purchased
from www.glasgowfilm.org/gsff. Tickets can be
purchased online until one hour before the screening.
IN ADVANCE
From Wednesday 28 January you can purchase
tickets for most events from Glasgow Film Theatre
(12 Rose Street, G3 6RB). You can call Box Office on
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Please note that advance purchases can only be made
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141 Bridgegate, G1 5HZ
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Last year was an extraordinary time in the Peoples Republic of Glasgow, and in its aftermath 2015 cant help
but feel like a year of self-questioning and transition. GSFF is in transition too, as we wave a fond farewell to
our mother festival and wander into the faintly warmer, longer days of mid-March.
So the theme of transition is woven throughout this years programme. Our opening event imagines a new
direction for cinema; specifically, 90 clockwise. Vertical Cinema breathes new life into 35mm film projection
and creates a monolith to rival Kubricks ape-botherer. Archive strand Let Glasgow Flourish revisits the high
hopes and the low blows of regeneration in the city, considering communities in transition. Further afield,
Ukraine is undergoing a particularly violent period of transition, and we welcome programmers from the Lviv
International Short Film Festival to present new work responding directly to current events in the country.
Daniel Wolfe, the man who painstakingly recreated an early 90s warehouse rave for Chase & Status Blind
Faith, will present his music videos and talk about his transition to features. Were delighted to welcome
from Chicago the King of the Video Essays, Kevin B Lee, to introduce us to the emerging genre Desktop
Documentary. And our competition selection showcases the cutting edge of new filmmaking, devouring
the boundaries of filmmaking conventions.
Massive thanks as ever to funders Creative Scotland, to catalogue sponsor Glasgow Film Office, to programme
supporter Goethe-Institut Glasgow, and to indispensable venue partner CCA. Were indebted to Film Hub
Scotland and Bar 91 for supporting our monumental opening event, and we warmly thank Monir Mohammed
of Mother India, for once again generously sponsoring the Scottish Short Film Award. This is the fourth year of
Mother Indias support for emerging Scottish film talent, and we applaud Monirs loyalty and commitment to
the Scottish film industry! Enjoy the Festival.
GSFF will publish a catalogue with full listings of all films, as well as exclusive articles and filmmaker interviews.
The catalogue will be available to buy for 2 at CCA and GFT during the festival. Full 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.
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Once again we showcase the most exciting new work emerging from across Scotland. Twenty-seven
films screen across four programmes of new Scottish work. The Scottish Short Film Award is
sponsored by Mother India, and honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema. It 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 years Scottish Audience Award will be invited to create the GSFF16 trailer.
GSFF stages its international competition in GFTs state-of-the-art third screen, and we expect
many of the filmmakers to attend and take part in short Q&As after each screening. Forty-two films
have been selected from over 1,100 submissions to compete for the 2015 Bill Douglas Award for
International Short Film. Named in honour of Scotlands greatest filmmaker, this 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. The award carries a cash prize of
1,200. You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to win the Audience Award.
A shortlist of ten films drawn from the Scottish competition and from UK films within the
international competition will compete for the Award for Innovation in Storytelling, supported
by Channel 4s Alpha Fund and worth 500.
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CCA THEATRE
Sunday 15 March (20.30)
2h, N/C 15+
For all our flaws and quirks, love blooms in the final Scottish programme.
New connections are tentatively made whilst others are severed once
and for all. One couple enjoys a wee night in, and another goes out
shooting. Kate Burtons BB captures the awkwardness of first attractions;
Rory Stewarts Wyld explores the pressing need for change. Also
featuring the new film by GSFF14 Scottish Short Film Award winner
Ewan Stewart, What Happens After Six.
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A life-sized dolls house burns to the ground in the opening film of this
programme, and the films that follow variously celebrate and reject
conventions of young womanhood, innocence and sisterhood. From
the ethics of exploitation in the name of art, to misguided parenting
and teenage solidarity, this is a sharp, self-reflexive and often hilarious
selection of films. Featuring brand new works by Adrian Sitaru (GSFF11
award winner) and Jennifer Reeder.
We live in a restless world. Those who strike out for a better life, or
who are chased from their homes, as often as not end their journey in
disappointment, stasis or tragedy. For some, a short trip across town
is an epic voyage, whilst others think nothing of cross-border bargain
hunting. This programme charts such journeys, from devastation off the
coast of Lampedusa, via limbo in Greece, to Nordic squabbles and an
exhaustive super-cut of New York City on the move.
Bad behaviour from kids is one thing, but the grownups should know
better. Some will never learn, others are trying to make amends, others still
are damned whatever they do. All fun and games, until it isnt. Featuring
Earth Over Wind, the latest work from Glasgows own Joern Utkilen, this
time working in his native Norway, plus The Noise, a cutting edge Iranian
study of paranoia, surveillance and judgemental neighbours and Parking,
a masterful drama from Bulgaria.
The past is not another country, we can never truly leave it behind. A
programme of five films which bring repressed memories both personal
and collective bubbling to the surface, even in the act of living fully in the
present. Visualising historical forces in very different ways, the films take
us from Ramallah seen through the eyes of a gay Lebanese couple,
to Taiwan under Dutch rule, the former East Germany, and finally to the
heady spiritual fervour of a gospel church in Florida.
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11.00 13.00
Duane Hopkins
In Conversation
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11.00 12.15
Short Stuff
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13.30 15.00
Panel: What Next?
13.15 15.00
International 7
Past Historic
13
13.15 15.00
International 3
Sugar & Spice
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15.30 17.15
Kevin B Lee
Workshop
15.30 17.15
International 8
Field Studies
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15.30 17.15
International 4
A Job Well Done
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19.30 21.15
Scottish 2
Dark Days
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21.30 23.00
Daniel Wolfe
Masterclass
20.45 22.30
International 4
A Job Well Done
21
21.15 23.00
Scottish 1
Parenthood
21.00 22.30
Jennifer Reeder
20.45 22.30
International 6
Trouble Brewing
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21.00 23.00
Vertical Cinema
20.45 22.30
International 2
19.30 21.15
Anatomy of a Short
Film Programme
18.30 20.15
International 3
Sugar & Spice
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18.30 20.00
The Art School/
Big Screen: 00:01:00
19.15 20.45
The Skinny
Short Film Award
19.00 20.45
Focus on Ukraine 1
18.30 20.15
International 5
Motion Sickness
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18.30 20.15
International 1
Help Me
17.30 19.00
The Short Road
to Features
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11.30 12.45
Family Shorts
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13.15 15.00
International 5
Motion Sickness
13.00 15.00
Filming The List
13.00 15.00
Let Glasgow Flourish 2
13.15 15.00
International 1
Help Me
13
10.30 18.00
Symposium: Short Film (and) Criticism
11
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15.30 17.15
International 6
Trouble Brewing
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15.15 17.00
Scottish 4
Soulmates
15.30 17.15
Focus on Ukraine 2
15.30 17.15
International 2
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15.15 17.00
Let Glasgow Flourish 1
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17.30 19.30
Meet the
Filmmakers
17.30 19.00
12th Player
Jennifer Reeder
18.00 19.30
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20.30 22.30
Award Winners
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21.15 23.00
Short Com
with Greg Hemphill
20.45 22.30
International 8
Field Studies
20.30 02.00
Strange Electricity
19.30 21.00
A Wall is A Screen
19.15 21.00
Scottish 3
Off the Path
18.30 20.15
International 7
Past Historic
17.30 19.00
Luminous Latitude
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THE BRIGGAIT
Wednesday 11 March (Doors 20.30, event starts 21.00)
2h, N/C 15+
Tickets 8.
Please note that The Briggait is a covered outdoor space dress warmly!
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CCA CINEMA
Thursday 12 March (21.00)
Sunday 15 March (18.00 repeat screening)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Midwestern filmmaker and artist Jennifer Reeders most recent film A Million
Miles Away was the undisputed hit of the short film circuit in 2014. Reeder
channels Miranda July and David Lynch in her bittersweet tale of an insecure
supply teacher and a choir of savvy schoolgirls. To accompany the first UK
screening of her new film Blood Below The Skin (International Competition 3),
GSFF presents A Million Miles Away and three previous works, the
Forevering Trilogy.
Genius is an overused word, but Daniel Wolfes videos for Chase & Status
Blind Faith, Paolo Nutinis Iron Sky, The Shoes Time to Dance and Plan Bs
The Defamation of Strickland Banks come close. Each one a technically
brilliant piece of visual storytelling, they elevate the songs to new emotional
levels without overwhelming them. Dont miss this chance to hear Daniel
show and talk about his promo work, as well as his recent move into feature
direction with the critically acclaimed Catch Me Daddy (GFF2015).
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PROGRAMME 1: BABYLON 13
CCA Cinema, Thursday 12 March (19.00)
PROGRAMME 2: CRY, BUT SHOOT!
CCA Cinema, Sunday 15 March (15.30)
1h45m, N/C 15+
Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art presents two specially curated
programmes of new work from Ukraine. The first programme showcases the
work of Babylon 13, a collective making web-docs in response to current
events, and founded on the idea that documentary can change peoples views
on the reality around them. The second programme takes its title from the
words of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, Ukraines most famous filmmaker, and
showcases a wide range of new fiction produced in the country.
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Both guided city tour and short film night, Hamburg collective A Wall Is A
Screen invites you to see Glasgow in a way youve never previously
experienced the city. 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!
Free unticketed event: meet outside CCA Terrace Bar, Scott Street,
prepared for March weather.
Short Com is delighted to make its return to Glasgow Short Film Festival for
2015. Short Com is a regular showcase of the finest independent comic
shorts around, by new comedic filmmaking talent, chosen from open
submissions. Showcasing the best films from its tour of 2014, this screening
will be hosted by obscure Scots-Canadian performance artist Gregor
Hemphill. Short Com supports the mental health charities CALM and SAMH
and will be collecting voluntary donations after the screening.
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CCA CINEMA
Saturday 14 March (17.30)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Twelve short films inviting broad questions around how a sense of place may act
as a grounding for our individual and collective creative identity. Highlighting the
rich diversity of contemporary Scottish experimental film practice, these
filmmakers explore a range of landscapes, techniques, themes and attitudes; from
poetic lyricism, through representation and abstraction, to political appropriation.
Is there, perhaps, a distinctive diversity emerging from this very place?
Luminous Latitude is an Alchemy Film & Arts project and is supported by The Craignish Trust.
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CCA THEATRE
Sunday 15 March (17.30)
1h30m, N/C 15+
Turning the camera away from the pitch, this specially curated programme
celebrates any football teams greatest asset: the fans. Ranging from animation to artists moving image, from documentary to fiction, films made about
and by the most obsessive of devotees take us on a near transcendental
journey, from the border between Austria and Germany to Maradonas
infamous goal against England in Mexico 1986. Expect laughs, chanting,
the odd punch thrown and maybe a wee bit of fitba.
The ever-popular Short Stuff returns for an hour and a bit of highlights from
across the GSFF15 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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CCA THEATRE
Sunday 15 March (11.30)
1h15m, N/C 5+
Forget TV cartoons. Once again 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 couldnt be more cosy!
One ticket admits one adult and one child.
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There are movements over at The Art School... a great mass of students gather
together to show off their one-minute transitions! The Art School and Big
Screen, GSA's film society, invite you to step into the chrysalis of the Assembly
Hall and journey with us through a non-stop barrage of student-made
ultra-shorts. Help us choose the favourites to be shown at the GSFF15 Award
Winners screening on Sunday 15th of March. See you there caterpillars!
Free entry, no ticket required
Last year, The Skinny launched a competition to find the best new micro-budget
short film made in Scotland. The winning entry was Rory Alexander Stewarts
genre-hopping mockumentary Good Girl. Were delighted to present the debut
screening of Misery Guts, the film Rory made with his prize money courtesy
of partners Innis & Gunn, alongside Good Girl, as well as some of the best
submissions we received, ranging from a meta sex comedy to a claustrophobic
sci-fi fantasy.
Free entry, tickets available on the day from CCA box office.
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Sunday 15 March (13.00)
2h, N/C 15+
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How do short film programmes shape the films they contain? Kickstarting
the discussion on short film curation as criticism in Saturdays symposium,
students of Film, Exhibition and Curation at the University of Edinburgh
present a programme of short films alongside their analysis of every curatorial
decision, considering their reasons for both selection and rejection. This
dissection of curatorial creative processes aims to lay bare implications
of criticism, contextualization and taste-making in short film curation.
Kevin B Lee is a master of the online video essay, with over 200 works to his
name. Recently he and others at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
have developed a form of filmmaking called Desktop Documentary, which
treats the computer screen as both a camera lens and a canvas. Desktop
documentary seeks to both depict and question the ways we explore the
world through the computer screen. Kevin will present his fresh approach to
capturing lifes reality in this vital workshop.
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CITIZENM
Kick-off Friday 13 March (18.30)
All weekend, N/C 15+
The Ani Jam is a 48-hour animation competition held over a whirlwind weekend
in which animators and creatives are invited to produce an animated film. The
concept is easy; teams between 2 and 10 people create an animated film between
30-90 seconds long, based around a particular theme. 48 hours to produce an
animation from start to finish? Seems ridiculous? Come join us and find out!
The path from short to feature is a road most filmmakers eventually take.
But how do you make the transition from capturing a short fragment of life
to developing character and narrative over ninety minutes? In this one-day
symposium filmmakers Duane Hopkins and Shalimar Preuss, documentarians
Nick Higgins and Peter Snowdon, and producer Paul Welsh discuss their
experience of working across shorts and features.
Free entry. For more information or to register please go to
www.uws.ac.uk/schools/school-of-media-culture-and-society/conferences/
So youve made a short. Good work. Now what? Theres no clear path to
success (whether thats untold riches, critical acclaim or just the chance to
make another one). This panel brings together several industry experts to
present the various opportunities for short filmmakers and help you decide
what next step is best for you and your film: festival screenings, online
distribution, sales, broadcast and/or further commissions. A rare opportunity
to corner the powerbrokers!
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