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Introduction 3 £7.00 (£5.00 concessions) Opening Screening: What Makes A Glasgow Short? 3 Concessions apply to children under 16, full-time International Competition 4–5 students, over-60s, Jobseekers Allowance or Income Support recipients and registered disabled people. Please Award Winners 5 produce proof of eligibility when purchasing or collecting Scottish Competition 6 tickets. Some events are individually priced or free of Blueprint: Scottish Independent Shorts 7 charge – see listings for details. GFT CineCard and 15–25 NFTS Scotland presents Eva Riley 7 Card discounts apply.

Ten Years of FilmG 7 CERTIFICATION The Forgotten Films of Falconer Houston 7 Films not certified by the BBFC are marked N/C and Calendar 8–9 accompanied by an age recommendation e.g. N/C 15 Kalampag Tracking Agency: 10 + (suitable for ages 15 and older, no-one under 15 will Experimental Films & Videos from the Philippines be admitted). Screenings marked with this icon are Nguyễn Trinh Thi 10 captioned for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, with BSL interpreters for Q&As. Death and Killing in Southeast Asia 10 Symposium: Archives, Activism, Aesthetics 10 HOW TO BUY

Apichatpong Weerasethakul 11 In Advance Kevin Jerome Everson: now y’all have to look at us 11 From Thursday 1 February tickets can be purchased Babe live + New Scottish Music Videos 12 from glasgowfilm.org/gsff. Tickets can be purchased online until one hour before the screening. Alternatively, Big Fun In The Big Town + Hip Hop Shorts 12 from Thursday 1 February tickets can be purchased + after party with Tomboy from Glasgow Film Theatre box office, in person or by Transit Arts presents Soft Cells 13 telephone (£1.50 booking fee applies to telephone Don Hertzfeldt: World of Tomorrow 1 & 2 13 bookings). Advance tickets can be collected from Ladies of the Night 13 Glasgow Film Theatre up until 9pm the day before the performance. Please note that advance purchases can Round Midnight 13 only be made online at glasgowfilm.org/gsff or at GFT. We Need to Disagree 14 During The Festival Short Matters! 2018 14 Between Wednesday 14 March and Sunday 18 March, Visible Cinema: Deaf Shorts Showcase 14 tickets for any GSFF event can be purchased or collected Short Stuff: Parent & Baby Screening 15 at the screening venue. Family Shorts 15 Please see glasgowfilm.org for full terms and conditions. Industry Sessions 15 CORN ST CIVIC Breakfast with the Filmmakers 15 ST

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ARGYLE ST What exactly is a short film? A film that is year’s focus on Southeast Asian cinema, we’re screening short? A short story filmed? A sketch, an twenty-five of his lyrical shorts overnight, in a seven hour experiment, a doodle, a noodle? Short film has dreamscape of talking monkey ghosts, shapeshifting always been something of a nebulous concept creatures, sleeping soldiers and the deep, dark forests of – it’s far easier to describe what it isn’t. northern Thailand. Short film isn’t determined by the conventions of the And we return to the work of one of our favourite market. It doesn’t fit tidily into a two and a half hour slot animators, Don Hertzfeldt, with a rare big screen outing (including ads and trailers) allowing cinema exhibitors to for his fabulous World of Tomorrow (GSFF 2015 Audience screen it four times daily. Once that essential truculence Award winner) alongside its brand new sequel. In these has been acknowledged, that refusal to play by even the two films, with a total duration of under 40 minutes, most straightforward of rules, short film can do and be Hertzfeldt packs more pathos, profundity and belly laughs pretty much whatever it wants. That’s why this year’s than most feature filmmakers could ever dream of. programme includes an eight hour short film, Park Lanes Massive thanks to our parent organisation Glasgow Film by the American artist Kevin Jerome Everson. and to Creative Scotland, to venue partners CCA and Civic Kevin will be joining us to present three further (and more House, to our many programme partners and supporters, manageable in length) programmes of his work giving and to Blazing Griffin, returning to sponsor our Scottish voice to black working class communities. Kevin’s films Short Film Award for a second year. Remember – size isn’t sit at a fascinating intersection between documentary, important. Short film is a state of mind. performance, abstraction and poetry, refusing to be tethered to any one definition. Facebook: @glasgowshortfilmfestival Another hard to define filmmaker, whose work both Twitter: @GlasgowSFF appears in galleries and takes top prizes at Cannes, is Instagram: @glasgowshortfilmfest Thai artist Apichatpong Weerasethakul. As part of this #GSFF18

OPENING SCREENING: WHAT MAKES A GLASGOW SHORT?

Wednesday 14 March (20.15) GFT Cinema 2 // 1h45m // N/C 15+ No idea where to start with this year’s programme? Then join us from the beginning for a whistle-stop tour through some of the highlights, showcasing a wide range of cinematic visions and offering an introduction to GSFF’s ever-shifting interpretation of what short film is and does. With drinks courtesy of our friends at Merchant City Brewing.

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GSFF will publish a catalogue with full listings of all films, as well as exclusive articles and filmmaker Glasgow Short Film Festival is an operating name of Glasgow interviews. The catalogue will be available at CCA and GFT during the festival. Full programme Film Theatre (GFT). GFT is registered as a charity (No SC005932) listings will also appear on our website glasgowfilm.org/gsff with the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator. BILL DOUGLAS AWARD FOR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM

Named in honour of Scotland’s greatest filmmaker, our international prize will be awarded to the film that best reflects the qualities found in the work of Bill Douglas: honesty, formal innovation and the supremacy of image and sound in cinematic storytelling. Many of the filmmakers will be in INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1: attendance to take part in short Q&As after each screening. The award carries a cash prize of £1,000. PAINT YOUR OWN REALITY You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to Thursday 15 March (18.30) win the Audience Award. Saturday 17 March (13.15) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+ GSFF17 BILL DOUGLAS AWARD WINNER: This year’s international competition opens with four Green Screen Gringo | Douwe Dijkstra | fever dreams drawing us into strange, uncanny realities. Netherlands, Brazil | 2016 An invasion of hydrangeas in the Azores is the backdrop GSFF17 AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER: to a tender love story, whilst an encroaching hydroelectric Ten Metre Tower | Axel Danielson, project threatens to destroy the Colombian jungle home Maximilien Van Aertryck | Sweden | 2016 that is all an elderly couple have known. Also featuring a magical realist Greco-creole western from the Argentine pampas, and the brand new spellbinding animation from GSFF favourite Réka Bucsi (Symphony No 42, Love).

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3: FREEDOM OF CHOICE DREAM OF A GLORIOUS RETURN Thursday 15 March (20.45) GFT Cinema 3 Friday 16 March (13.15) Saturday 17 March (15.15) CCA Theatre Saturday 17 March (18.30) 1h45m // N/C 15+ GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+ In the second competition programme market forces This programme considers exile, enforced or voluntary, encroach on love, life and daily existence. Unrequited love and its physical and mental toll. Rubber Coated Steel plays out in Europe’s biggest mall, whilst Adam and Eve’s investigates the deaths of two unarmed Palestinian departure from Eden is given a new slant. In Muck City, teens, exiled by the removal of basic rights in their own Florida, rabbit hunting is a vital source of income for many. country. A grandmother returns home via Google Maps An amateur German filmmaker becomes obsessed with Streetview, whilst a refugee teen in a strange city does strange murals in the New Orleans hinterland, and a city what he can to survive. Two migrant workers betray their block of lonely night-workers hurtles through space in a ethical code when faced with a terrible discovery, and sublime animated musical. Finally an Iranian artist takes a Cuban exile learns to forge a space for herself in a stand, illicitly dancing through a crowded market. New York City.

4 BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5: PARCHED LAND TREADING WATER Friday 16 March (15.30) Friday 16 March (18.30) Saturday 17 March (20.45) Sunday 18 March (13.15) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+ GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+ Landscapes become barely habitable and bodies are put Women retain control of their lives against the odds in under terrible strain in the fourth competition programme. this selection, by turns hilarious and disturbing. After We witness a snapshot of life under siege in Aleppo and reporting a pickpocket on a bus, an Iranian woman returns the stress of crossing a checkpoint in Palestine. 2015 home in fear for her life, whilst an Argentinian woman Bill Douglas Award winner Morgan Knibbe (Shipwreck) enters her ex’s apartment and finds herself unable to returns with The Atomic Soldiers, in which former US leave. One young girl attempts to find her place in a soldiers break a half a century’s silence to share their strange adult world, and another helps her single mother unfathomable experiences of atomic bomb tests. prepare for a date. Also featuring Scottish director And a Canadian journalist investigates a controversial Rory Stewart’s funny and moving Wild Horses, which dam project. premiered in competition at Cannes last May.

AWARD WINNERS Sunday 18 March (20.30) Civic House // 2h // N/C 18+ First chance to catch the prize-winning films of Glasgow Short Film Festival 2018. We will announce and screen the recipients of the jury awards for Scottish and International short film, as well as the films voted the favourite of the audience in each competition, and maybe a few surprises. End the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: festival on a cinematic high, in the presence of the WHERE YOU LOOK FROM winning filmmakers and our other special guests, then stick around for the GSFF18 afterparty! Friday 16 March (20.45) Sunday 18 March (15.30) GFT Cinema 3 // 1h45m // N/C 15+ What might seem bizarre in the eyes of one creature is entirely normal to another. A Filipino family find themselves pulled ever further away from the wedding celebrations they have been preparing for, whilst the economic conditions of teachers in Portugal lead to a class creating their own entertainment from a broken video projector. Parades and competitions play out along the Danish/German border and Irish animator David OReilly’s extraordinary game Everything unveils the truths common to all existence.

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SCOTTISH SHORT FILM AWARD SCOTTISH CINEMA SPONSORED BY BLAZING GRIFFIN

The GSFF Scottish Short Film Award honours inspiration and innovation in new Scottish cinema. Many of the filmmakers will be in attendance to take part in short Q&As after each screening. Thanks to the generous support of independent production company Blazing Griffin, the award carries a cash SCOTTISH COMPETITION 1: prize of £1,500. You will have the chance to vote for your favourite to win the Audience Award, TAKE MY HAND the winner of which will be invited to create the Thursday 15 March (18.45) GSFF19 trailer. This year for the first time all CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+ Scottish competition screenings will be captioned A programme about help offered sincerely or not; and for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, and the about help accepted or refused. Q&As will be BSL interpreted. Not Required Back | Peter Marsden | 2017 | 6 min GSFF17 SCOTTISH SHORT FILM AWARD WINNER: The Welfare of Tomás Ó Hallissy | Flow Country | Jasper Coppes | 2017 Duncan Campbell | 2016 | 30 min Winner of the FilmG Best Industry Director GSFF17 SCOTTISH AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER: Award 2018 | approx. 5 min Hula | Robin Haig | 2016 Damned Dolls | Sara Jane Kirkwood | 2017 | 6 min I Am Not | Rosie Toner | 2017 | 7 min Blindsided | Tom Gentle | 2017 | 24 min

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SCOTTISH CINEMA

BLUEPRINT: NFTS SCOTLAND PRESENTS EVA RILEY SCOTTISH INDEPENDENT SHORTS Friday 16 March (21.00) Thursday 15 March (21.00) CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 15+ CCA Theatre // 1h45m // N/C 15+ Scottish director and screenwriter Eva Riley thrives on Scotland’s showcase of grassroots filmmaking returns challenging subject matter. To date her short films have to GSFF for the third year. This special sci-fi-themed tackled racial tension, pornography, depression and programme is a mix of philosophical speculation, high surrogacy. Her graduation film from the National Film and concept drama and action packed shorts that are – Television School, Patriot, premiered in competition at literally – globe-trotting productions. Featuring the work the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, and the following year of BAFTA Scotland-nominated and Glasgow 48 Hour Film she was named one of Screen International’s Stars of Challenge-winning filmmakers, this unique programme is Tomorrow. As Eva prepares to make the move into feature comprised of films made on shoestring budgets, but with filmmaking we are delighted to welcome her to GSFF no lack of talent, ingenuity and creativity on display. with this retrospective programme, kindly supported by NFTS Scotland.

TEN YEARS OF FILMG THE FORGOTTEN FILMS Saturday 17 March (13.15) OF FALCONER HOUSTON CCA Theatre // 1h30m // N/C 12+ Saturday 17 March (15.30) Short film competition FilmG was established in 2008 GFT Cinema 2 // 1h45m // N/C 10+ to encourage grassroots Gaelic storytelling through Paisley artist Falconer Houston is well established as film. Since then, more than 650 Gaelic short films have a painter and ceramicist, yet his many short films from been produced and submitted. For the tenth edition of the 1960s and 70s have been overlooked. He frequently the competition, the winning film of the Best Industry worked with children and young people, tackling ambitious Director Award will be screened in the GSFF Scottish historical narratives. His film about the Covenanters, Competition, and to mark the occasion, we showcase Cry of the Peewee, won Best Film at the 1969 Scottish some of the finest works of the last ten years followed Amateur Film Festival here at GFT, or the Cosmo as it by some bilingual conversation with Gaelic language was then known. Several of his works have now been filmmakers. restored for new audiences, and GSFF will present these in public for the first time, introduced by Falconer himself.

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SHORT STUFF: CCA Theatre PARENT AND BABY SCREENING (p15) INSTALLATION: CCA Intermedia Gallery EVERYDAY’S THE SEVENTIES P10

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GFT KEVIN JEROME EVERSON: PARK LANES (p11)

FRI 16 MARCH

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CCA Theatre SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA SYMPOSIUM DAY 1 (p10)

INSTALLATION: CCA Intermedia Gallery EVERYDAY’S THE SEVENTIES (p10)

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4: DREAM OF A GLORIOUS GFT PARCHED LAND (p5) RETURN (p4)

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WE NEED TO DISAGREE 2: CCA Cinema KEVIN JEROME EVERSON 2 (p11) OF ISLANDS AND SCAPEGOATS (p14) INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2: TEN YEARS OF FILMG (p7) CCA Theatre FREEDOM OF CHOICE (p4)

INSTALLATION: CCA Intermedia Gallery EVERYDAY’S THE SEVENTIES (p10)

BREAKFAST WITH THE Civic House FILMMAKERS (p15)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1: THE FORGOTTEN FILMS OF GFT PAINT YOUR OWN REALITY (p4) FALCONER HOUSTON (p7)

Kelvin Hall Theatre SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA SYMPOSIUM DAY 2 (p10)

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APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL APICHATPONG APICHATPONG CCA Theatre DISCUSSION WEERASETHAKUL 1 (p11) WEERASETHAKUL 2 (p11) (p11) WE NEED TO DISAGREE 3: VISIBLE CINEMA: DEAF FAMILY SHORTS (p15) THE PERSONAL AND THE CCA Cinema SHORTS SHOWCASE (p14) POLITICAL (p14)

CCA Clubroom FAMILY ANIMATION WORKSHOP (p15)

INSTALLATION: CCA Intermedia Gallery EVERYDAY’S THE SEVENTIES (p10)

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INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: GFT TREADING WATER (p5) WHERE YOU LOOK FROM (p5)

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WE NEED TO DISAGREE 1: SOUTHEAST ASIA 1: THE WILL OF THE KALAMPAG TRACKING PEOPLE (p14) AGENCY (p10) SCOTTISH COMPETITION 1: BLUEPRINT: SCOTTISH TAKE MY HAND (p6) INDEPENDENT SHORTS (p7)

INSTALLATION: EVERYDAY’S THE SEVENTIES P10

TRANSIT ARTS PRESENTS LADIES OF THE NIGHT (p13) SOFT CELLS (p13)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 1: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2: KEVIN JEROME EVERSON: PARK LANES (p11) PAINT YOUR OWN REALITY (p4) FREEDOM OF CHOICE (p4)

SOUTHEAST ASIA 2: SHORT MATTERS! 1 (p14) KEVIN JEROME EVERSON 1 (p11) NGUYỄN TRINH THI (p10)

SCOTTISH COMPETITION 2: NFTS SCOTLAND ROUND MIDNIGHT 1: SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA SYMPOSIUM DAY 1 (p10) THE POINT IS TO CHANGE IT (p6) PRESENTS EVA RILEY (p7) SEX (p13)

INSTALLATION: EVERYDAY’S THE SEVENTIES (p10)

BABE LIVE + NEW SCOTTISH MUSIC VIDEOS (p12)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 5: INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: PARCHED LAND (p5) TREADING WATER (p5) WHERE YOU LOOK FROM (p5)

WE NEED TO DISAGREE 2: SOUTHEAST ASIA 3: ROUND MIDNIGHT 2: OF ISLANDS AND SHORT MATTERS! 2 (p14) KEVIN JEROME EVERSON 3 (p11) DEATH AND KILLING IN VIOLENCE (p13) SCAPEGOATS (p14) SOUTHEAST ASIA (p10) INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 2: SCOTTISH COMPETITION 3: DON HERTZFELDT: APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL 1 WORLD OF TOMORROW FREEDOM OF CHOICE (p4) FOREIGN TO THE WORLD (p6) 1 & 2 (p13) ALLNIGHTER (p11)

INSTALLATION: EVERYDAY’S THE SEVENTIES (p10)

BIG FUN IN THE BIG TOWN + HIP HOP SHORTS (p12)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 3: THE FORGOTTEN FILMS OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 4: DREAM OF A GLORIOUS FALCONER HOUSTON (p7) PARCHED LAND (p5) RETURN (p4)

SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA SYMPOSIUM DAY 2 (p10)

APICHATPONG APICHATPONG APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL 2 (p11) WEERASETHAKUL 3 (p11) WEERASETHAKUL 4 (p11) WE NEED TO DISAGREE 3: THE PERSONAL AND THE SHORT MATTERS! 3 (p14) POLITICAL (p14)

INSTALLATION: EVERYDAY’S THE SEVENTIES (p10)

AWARD WINNERS (p5)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 6: WHERE YOU LOOK FROM (p5)

BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF 9 SOUTHEAST ASIAN CINEMA Since the late 1990s a vibrant film culture has emerged in Southeast Asia. In collaboration with the Southeast Asian Cinema Research Network, we explore the work of some of the key filmmakers from the region as they experiment with ideas around memory, history and fantasy.

NGUYỄN TRINH THI Friday 16 March (21.15) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a Hanoi based moving image artist. Her diverse practice, transcending the boundaries between cinema, documentary and performance, has consistently engaged with memory and history. In 2009, KALAMPAG TRACKING AGENCY: Nguyễn founded Hanoi DocLab, a centre for documentary EXPERIMENTAL FILMS & VIDEOS filmmaking and the moving image. Thi will introduce three FROM THE PHILIPPINES (1985–2015) of her works at this screening, as well as presenting a new installation, Everyday’s the Seventies, in CCA’s Intermedia Thursday 15 March (21.15) Gallery for the duration of the festival. CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Overcoming institutional and personal lapses to give attention to little-seen works – some quite recent, some surviving loss and decomposition – this programme collects loose parts in motion, a series of bangs, or kalampag in Tagalog. Featuring some of the most striking films and videos from the Philippines and its diaspora, this ongoing initiative continues to navigate the uncharted topographies of Filipino experiments in moving image practice.

SYMPOSIUM: ARCHIVES, ACTIVISM, AESTHETICS Day 1: Friday 16 March (09.30) CCA Theatre // 7h30m Day 2: Saturday 17 March (09.45) Kelvin Hall Theatre // 7h15m Southeast Asian filmmakers have increasingly turned to archive footage in order to explore the relationship DEATH AND KILLING IN SOUTHEAST ASIA between the colonial and Cold War past and the politics Saturday 17 March (21.15) of the present day. With the participation of members of CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ grassroots filmmaking collectives in Southeast Asia, this free symposium, open to all, will explore the links between Sometimes she turns into a beast, a destroyer, a monster, archives, activism and aesthetics. a kuntilanak. The innocent and timid one, in a sort of amok, kills. To retain innocence she assumes a separate This event is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research form, for shapeshifting helps outsiders differentiate her Council and the University of St Andrews and has been separate personalities. But in reality, the meek comes organised in collaboration with the Association of banded with violence. With passion comes madness. With Southeast Asian Cinemas Conference (ASEACC). kindness, destruction. This programme features 6 short Free event. To book a space, and for more details, films from Southeast Asia. go to glasgowfilm.org/gsff.

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APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL Best known for award-winning features such as Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul creates sensual and otherworldly explorations into the intimate dreamscapes of talking monkey ghosts, shapeshifting creatures, sleeping soldiers and the deep, dark forests of northern Thailand. Exploring themes of memory and myth Kevin Jerome Everson is one of the most prolific alongside issues of personal and national politics, his filmmakers currently working in America. Based works weave together diverse influences such as horror, in Charlottesville, Virginia, his overriding concern soap opera and science fiction, as well as American is with black working class communities, and the structuralist and avant garde film. For GSFF 2018, social, economic and historical forces underpinning Weerasethakul has specially curated four programmes their everyday reality. Appearing at first glance to of his short films, which we present as one continuous be observational cinema in form, his work straddles all-night dream screening, and as individual programmes documentary, performance and abstraction, more the following day. A free discussion event featuring often than not a creative collaboration with its several experts on Apichatpong’s work will introduce subject. He is less concerned with narrative than the daytime screenings. with character and gesture, as well as the act of filming itself. Having trained as a sculptor, Everson often creates ALL-NIGHTER props for his films, drawing a direct connection Saturday 17 March (23.00) between his filmmaking and its representations CCA Theatre // 7h // N/C 18+ // Tickets £9 (£7 concessions) of labour. We are delighted to welcome Kevin to For more information on this event, go to Glasgow for the first time, to introduce three glasgowfilm.org/gsff programmes of his short films, accompanied by the eight hour Park Lanes (2015), which invites an audience to commit to a full day’s work in a factory APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL producing bowling alley mechanisms. DISCUSSION Sunday 18 March (11.15) CCA Theatre // 45m // Free entry, no ticket required PARK LANES Thursday 15 March (10.00) PROGRAMME 1 Sunday 18 March (12.15) GFT Cinema 3 // 8h // N/C 15+ // PROGRAMME 2 Sunday 18 March (14.15) Tickets £9 (£7 concessions). Lunch provided. PROGRAMME 3 Sunday 18 March (16.15) PROGRAMME 4 Sunday 18 March (18.15) PROGRAMME 1 Friday 16 March (19.00) CCA Theatre // 1h40m // N/C 15+ PROGRAMME 2 Saturday 17 March (13.00) Ticket Deal: All four screenings £22 (£16 concessions) PROGRAMME 3 Saturday 17 March (19.15) CCA Cinema // 1h45m // N/C 15+ This programme is generously supported by the Film and Television Studies Department, School of Culture and Creative Arts at the University of Glasgow.

BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF 11 CIVIC HOUSE Welcome to the GSFF18 festival hub at brand new venue Civic House. Located below Speirs Wharf, a stone’s throw from Cowcaddens station, Civic House is open from 10am each day of the festival, with café-bar, screenings, live events and parties until late.

BABE LIVE BIG FUN IN THE BIG TOWN + NEW SCOTTISH MUSIC VIDEOS + HIP HOP SHORTS Friday 16 March (20.45) + AFTER-PARTY BY TOMBOY Civic House // 3h // N/C 18+ Saturday 17 March (20.45) You don’t need us to tell you how pioneering and sonically Civic House // 5h // N/C 18+ diverse the Scottish indie music scene has always been. In 1986 Dutch broadcasting organisation VPRO sent But what about the Scottish filmmakers cutting their director Bram van Splunteren and journalist Marcel teeth on music videos? Videos can be aesthetically Vanthilt off to New York to document the budding hip liberating forms of filmmaking. The rules and conventions hop scene, which was then on the brink of ascending of narrative do not apply. In collaboration with Blueprint: to its golden age peak. Cue an exclusive look inside Scottish Independent Shorts, we’ve put together LL Cool J’s grandma’s house, while other pioneers such a boundary-devouring selection of recent low- and as Grandmaster Flash, Run-DMC and The Last Poets no-budget music videos by emerging Scottish filmmakers lead Vanthilt through their natural NYC surroundings. and animators. Twenty-five years after being broadcast and gaining cult Following the screening, Glasgow/London/Brussels/ status, Big Fun In The Big Town was finally released on Bordeaux-based electropop four-piece Babe properly DVD and subsequently made it into The Guardian’s kick off Friday night. Led by front man Gerard Black (also top 10 music documentaries list. We’re showing this of François and the Atlas Mountains fame), the band gem alongside a selection of hip hop-related shorts released their R&B-disco-house-dreampop-infused – we’ve got 2 Live Crew’s Uncle Luke reinterpreting second full-length record Kiss & Tell last year, and with Chris Marker’s La Jetée, the stunning Black America Bossy Love drummer John Bailie Jnr on board, they’re Again starring Common, and more. steadily becoming one of Scotland’s most interesting Topping it all off are the ladies from Tomboy, a and unclassifiable music acts. Dancing guaranteed. Glasgow-based all female rap/grime/trap night that Tickets £9 (£7 concessions). Band only tickets supports women in the music industries, with a available on the door (£6) from 22.00. not-to-be-missed after-party including female grime MC Madders Tiff and wavy tunes tunes until late. Tickets £9 (£7 concessions). Party only tickets available on the door (£5) from 23.00.

12 BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF TRANSIT ARTS PRESENTS DON HERTZFELDT: SOFT CELLS WORLD OF TOMORROW 1 & 2 Thursday 15 March (19.15) Saturday 17 March (19.30) Civic House // 1h30m // N/C 15+ CCA Theatre // 1h // N/C 15+ A programme about soft bodies in hard places, In 2015 Don Hertzfeldt’s World of Tomorrow was six international artist-filmmakers surveil the recognised as not only ‘the best short film of the century’ eerie control of urban life. Chicago skyscrapers (IndieWire) but – more importantly – as winner of the pierce the cosmos, a ghostly torso contorts GSFF International Audience Award. Now Hertzfeldt under a communications satellite, obsolete sci-fi has released a sequel and we’re showing both films technologies strobe and enchant, an abandoned alongside some very special extras. Written around Panopticon prison yields to the landscape, city unscripted recordings of the filmmaker’s young niece, windows at night leak an anthology of private World of Tomorrow 1 & 2 tell a dark and hilarious sci-fi tale moments, and two women pace the empty streets of drenched in both thought-provoking existentialism and Glasgow. Curated by Transit Arts as partof Uncanny the curious naiveté of main character Emily Prime. Who Loop, an ongoing programme of artists’ moving says stick figures can’t be art? image connecting the contemporary urban experience with the Gothic mode.

LADIES OF THE NIGHT ROUND MIDNIGHT Thursday 15 March (21.30) Programme 1: Sex Programme 2: Violence Civic House // 1h30m // N/C 15+ Friday 16 March (23.15) Saturday 17 March (23.15) It’s clear that we’ve still got a long way to go for CCA Theatre // CCA Cinema // women to be and feel safe at any time, not to have 1h30m // N/C 18+ 1h30m // N/C 18+ to worry about where we are, who we are with, We’ve rounded up some of the freakiest films submitted or how we’re getting home, especially at night. to the festival for two special late night screenings of And so, we’ve compiled a selection of offbeat shorts dark comedy, extreme thuggery and a wee bit of kink. perfectly suited to the late hours, with strong, Programme 1 features supernatural cults, cottaging not-to-be-messed-with women taking the lead. and the progressive eco-politics of early 80s porn. There are female vampire tales from a remote Programme 2 features loneliness in Grand Theft Auto, Malaysian village and a London housing estate, a dead mouse in a tin of beans and two brothers a documentary on legendary transgender magician determined to catch the dolphin carrying the spirit of Fay Presto, a sci-fi take on Hansel and Gretel in their dead father in one of the most bonkers big budget GSFF-regular Jennifer Reeder’s latest film, and shorts we’ve ever seen. a few more surprises.

BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF 13 WE NEED TO DISAGREE

We disagree constantly: about how to shape our SHORT MATTERS! 2018 society, about the relation between freedom Programme 1: Friday 16 March (16.45) and security, about degrees of individuality and Programme 2: Saturday 17 March (17.00) solidarity. Polarisation instead of debate, taking Programme 3: Sunday 18 March (17.15) sides instead of engagement. Fifty years after the CCA Cinema // 1h40m // N/C 15+ struggles for personal liberties and free expression SHORT MATTERS! is the European Film Academy’s short of 1968 we have handed over our societal standards film tour, bringing together fifteen award winners at top and values to populists and social media filter European festivals in 2017. The tour showcases work bubbles. But we need to disagree, to argue: to from Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, listen, pause, reconsider, and then speak – and at the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, the same time resist the assault on progressive Switzerland and Turkey, including the Oscar nominated achievements. This triangle programme from Timecode by Juanjo Giménez and films by GSFF favourites festivals in the UK, Austria and Spain takes a look at Réka Bucsi and Gabriel Abrantes. Cut to the chase and three European countries in turmoil. see the most critically acclaimed contemporary European GSFF: THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE shorts right here! Thursday 15 March (19.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ National identity is a delicate concept, founded on tolerance and compromise between diverse, often competing groups. What does it mean for already marginalised communities to find their exclusion from a romantic narrative of nationhood endorsed by referendum? VIENNA SHORTS: OF ISLANDS AND SCAPEGOATS Saturday 17 March (15.00) CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ VISIBLE CINEMA: As a reaction to financial globalisation and social DEAF SHORTS SHOWCASE cut-backs, political hopes are increasingly placed in nationalism. But how can you pretend to be an Sunday 18 March (13.00) isolated island when you’re part of a large system? CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ A lesson in successful scapegoatism using the The films selected for this programme feature the example of a small country in the heart of Europe. representation of Deafness not as the main form of conflict but as part of a wider narrative. Curated in L’ALTERNATIVA, BARCELONA: partnership between Encounters Film Festival Bristol THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL and Visible Cinema, these films are variously made by Sunday 18 March (15.15) filmmakers from both Deaf and hearing backgrounds, CCA Cinema // 1h30m // N/C 15+ however the end results present a unique representation Memory, identity, gender, labour, family, sexuality of the Deaf community in the 21st Century. Visible are still at the heart of our struggle for progress and Cinema is GFT’s monthly Deaf and Hard of Hearing equality. Progression, regression, remembering, friendly film programme, all are welcome. forgetting, speaking out and holding back. And the beating heart belongs to you, me, us. This event includes BSL interpretation and a speech to text service.

14 BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF SHORT STUFF: FAMILY SHORTS PARENT & BABY SCREENING Sunday 18 March (11.30) Thursday 15 March (11.45) CCA Cinema // 1h15m // N/C Suitable for all CCA Theatre // 1h15m // N/C 12+ Once again our ever-popular family programme brings you Short Stuff returns for an hour and a bit of highlights the most exciting new animation from around the world, from across the GSFF18 programme, specially chosen for up on the big screen. By turns daft, silly, sad, spooky and short film lovers with babies. We guarantee entertaining uplifting, this programme will showcase a wide range of and thought-provoking films and animations from around stunning animation techniques and take you on journeys the world, but nothing too taxing for sleep-deprived you never thought possible. After the screening you can parents. No extreme content or sudden loud noises, make your own animation at a free drop-in workshop and the lights will remain on low to allow easy movement suitable for all ages, led by filmmaker Kate Burton during the screening. between 13.00 and 15.00 in CCA Clubroom. Tickets £5 (£4 concessions). Babies must be 18 months One ticket admits one adult and one child. or younger (and go free, obviously!)

INDUSTRY SESSIONS BREAKFAST WITH THE FILMMAKERS Thursday 15 – Sunday 18 March Saturday 17 March (10.30) CCA and Civic House Civic House // 2h GSFF runs a series of workshops, panel discussions All Scottish and International competition screenings and screenings designed for emerging filmmakers, will include brief Q&As with the filmmakers attending. active professionals, film students and anyone with a However, here’s an opportunity to kick-start your Festival serious interest in filmmaking. The full programme will Saturday by participating in an informal discussion be announced online in mid-February, but will involve session with some of the international filmmakers collaborations with Blazing Griffin, BBC The Social, attending the festival, led by festival director Matt Lloyd. LUX Scotland and NFTS Scotland, including a masterclass Come and listen to what they have to say, then go see with Scottish filmmaker Eva Riley and a short film pitch their films! Coffee and pastries will be provided. competition. Free entry, no ticket required. For more information, or to request an industry pass, go to glasgowfilm.org/gsff.

BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF 15 Are you aged 15 - 25? Do you make short films? Would you like to see your film on the big screen?

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