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BLACK SPATIAL IMAGINARIES
“..alternately invisible and too prominent. So I walkcaught between memory and forgetting, betweenmemory and forgiveness.”Garnette Cadogan, Walking While Black The essay Walking While Black examines the conflicted idea of the public space. adjective: public {communal, collective, shared, joint, universal} But public for whom? Cadogan’s descriptions of the experience of walking as a Black man could be described as an act of imposed…
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BARBED WIRE LOVE: Artists and their North of Ireland troubles
Fifty-two years since the commencement of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, Barbed Wire Love presents intimate tales from those who stayed, those who left and those who passed through. Sisters and brothers, those who danced at raves, those who had good intentions and those who did not. Chance encounters, intimate first-person cinema and the unreliability of history and biography create space…
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Announcing our 2020 programme exploring the politics of place
From an interactive walk through an online shooter game environment to a focus on intimate, humorous, playful and radical stories which subvert stereotypes of Northern Ireland’s Troubles, ideas of place run throughout this year’s programme. Considering the current context of ceaselessly contested socio-political landscapes, both at home and internationally, we have chosen to explore how…
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Announcing the films competing for the 2020 Bill Douglas Award and Scottish Short Film Award
We are delighted to announce the thirty films competing for the 2020 Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film, and the twenty-four films competing for the 2020 Scottish Short Film Award. Nine films will have their World Premiere and fourteen their UK Premiere at GSFF 2020, which will also host ten Scottish Premieres, two International Premieres…
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Please leave your phones *on*! Announcing some GSFF20 special events
Film festivals are usually very strict about phones being turned off during screenings. Not this time. GSFF today announces its 2020 opening event, the Scottish premiere of live expanded cinema performance My First Film by Zia Anger, which opens with the filmmaker, seated amongst the audience, requesting via onscreen text that phones should be kept on. Anger…
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2019: GSFF’s Year in Review
2019 has been a turbulent but exciting year for GSFF. We hit our highest attendance at the 12th edition of the festival in March, were inexplicably named one of the 25 coolest film festivals in the world in July, and left the warmth of our home in the Glasgow Film family in September, striking out into the…
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Opportunity: Join the GSFF20 team!
Film Hub Scotland New Promoters Scheme Do you have a passion for film? Would you like to gain paid experience in film exhibition? Then the Film Hub Scotland New Promoters Scheme could be for you. Film Hub Scotland is offering an exciting training opportunity for people who’d like to better understand how to programme films…
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Glasgow Short Film Festival goes independent
Scotland’s flagship short film event announces an exciting new chapter. After twelve happy years within the Glasgow Film family, GSFF is stepping out as an independent charitable organisation. The first edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival took place over a weekend during the 2008 Glasgow Film Festival. Since then GSFF has successfully run as a…
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GSFF named one of 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World
We are thrilled, humbled and more than a little surprised to find Glasgow Short Film Festival included on US magazine MovieMaker’s list of the 25 Coolest Film Festivals in the World in 2019. The list, which the magazine publishes each summer, is compiled by a panel of industry insiders focusing primarily on US and Canadian events. This…
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Award-winners announced for Glasgow Short Film Festival 2019
The award-winners at the 12th annual Glasgow Short Film Festival have been announced. The winners were revealed at the closing ceremony at Civic House last night, along with the festival audience’s selection of their own favourite shorts. Decided by an international jury made up of Jacopo Chessa, director of Torino Short Film Market, French curator and…
