CONTENTS TICKETS 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 CIVIC NEW CITY RD HOUSE VENUES WEST GRAHAM ST CCA Civic House COWCADDENS COWCADDENS RD 350 Sauchiehall Street, 26 Civic St, G4 9RH SUBWAY G2 3JD Kelvin Hall cca-glasgow.com (not shown on map) ROSE ST SCOTT ST HILL ST COWCADDENS RD 0141 352 4900 1445 Argyle Street, RENFREW ST Glasgow Film Theatre G3 8AW GLASGOW CCA BUCHANAN ST FILM THEATRE BUS STATION 12 Rose Street, G3 6RB kelvinhall.org.uk SAUCHIEHALL ST glasgowfilm.org 0141 276 1450 0141 332 6535 BATH ST QUEEN ST BUCHANAN ST STATION WEST REGENT ST SUBWAY WEST GEORGE ST HOPE ST ST VINCENT ST WEST NILE ST 2 BUY TICKETS AT GLASGOWFILM.ORG/GSFF RENFIELD ST BUCHANAN ST BOTHWELL ST GEORGE SQUARE WATERLOO ST WELLINGTON ST GORDON ST CADOGAN ST QUEEN ST UNION ST UNION MILLER ST 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. AGI LE CITY FILM • GAMES • POST MLG McAllister Litho Glasgow Ltd. 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.