Glasgow Short Film Festival unveils 2015 programme
The Glasgow Short Film Festival has revealed the details of its 2015 programme, the first to take place outside the main Glasgow Film Festival.
It opens with Vertical Cinema, a screening of ten specially-commissioned works displayed on 35mm film projected vertically rather than in the traditional landscape format at The Briggait. Misery Guts, the new film by The Skinny Short Film Award-winner Rory Alexander Stewart, will get its premiere at CCA, alongside Rory’s winning film from 2014 Good Girl, and some of the best runners-up from last year’s competition.
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Elsewhere, Hamburg-based film collective A Wall Is A Screen offers a short film-packed guided tour around Glasgow, Still Game’s Greg Hemphill presents the Short Com showcase of comedy shorts, and Strange Electricity at The Glue Factory features a showing of clubbing documentary Sähkö the Movie followed by sets from Golden Teacher and JD Twitch. GSFF also host the UK premiere of Midwestern filmmaker and artist Jennifer Reeder’s most recent film, Blood Below The Skin, in the International Competion, and to celebrate they've curated a mini-retrospective of her work, which channels the likes of Miranda July and David Lynch.
As ever, GSFF's programme has a wealth of industry events: there's a music video masterclass from one of the best in the business, Daniel Wolfe; writer-director Duane Hopkins, best known for his extraordinary feature Better Things, drops by to give his tips on directing actors and non-actors; and American critic and filmmaker Kevin B Lee gives a workshop on a new form of filmmaking he's pioneered called Desktop Documentary.
Lee will also contribute to the annual GSFF symposium, which this year focuses on film criticism in the context of short film. The day long event will bring together academics, critics, curators, filmmakers and the general audience to consider three aspects of this topic: critical writing on short film, short film curation as a form of criticism, and short filmmaking as criticism.
In competition, 27 films are in the running for the GSFF Scottish Short Film Award, while 42 films from across the globe are up for the Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film, including World of Tomorrow, the new film from It's Such a Beautiful Day genius Don Hertzfeldt, and the latest from animators Ainslie Henderson and Will Anderson, Monkey Love Experiments, which also screens in the Scottish competition; the awards will be dished out on the last day of the festival in a ceremony at CCA.
The 2015 Glasgow Short Film Festival runs from 11 to 15 March; get the full programme and ticket information at glasgowfilm.org/gsff