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Santiago Àlvarez
In the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution in 1959, one of the greatest challenges was how to educate the population in the ideals and potential embodied by the revolutionary process. Due to the massive inequalities which had prevailed under the Batista regime, many of the population were illiterate, and film was determined to be one…
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Eco-spectrality: Residual Fabulations & Tentacular Frequencies
Despite the ingeniously bogus stories of dolphins taking over Venice’s “clean” canals and our temporary re-attunement with the sounds of the more-than-human in silent quarantined cities, we are still rapidly driving towards ecological collapse and mass extinction, with a shared sense of apathy. Are we perhaps entering an eco-hangover or eco-frustration, driven by the restrictions…
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The End
One world ends and another begins… Despite what Hollywood spectacle-making would have us believe, apocalyptic disasters are not a one-size-fits-all, universal experience. The COVID-19 pandemic is the most recent case study of inequality at the end of the world. While many people found themselves made physically, mentally and socially vulnerable in 2020, with the loss…
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Techno-Fix: Obscured Connections & By Extension
Discourse around contemporary technologies more often than not tends to be split across two opposing camps: techno-optimists and a solutionist belief that tech can help overcome all big issues facing humanity and the planet, versus techno-sceptics, attuned to the inevitable corruption that capitalism, state and corporate control bring to any new tech development. While current…
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Diana Toucedo and Ane Lopez – GSFF22 Podcast: Episode 1
Spanish filmmaker Diana Toucedo, director of the 45-minute experimental and part-animated documentary Camille & Ulysse in which philosophers and writers Donna Haraway and Vinciane Despret read from their own fabulations, discusses the film with Ane Lopez from A+E Collective, who curated the Eco-spectrality strand at GSFF22.
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The full GSFF22 programme is here!
Welcome to the 15th edition of GSFF! We are back in venues for the first time in three years and delighted to be bringing programmes of home-grown and international cinema to Glasgow, between 23-27 March. Alongside the previously announced Scottish and International Competition selections, GSFF22 will show programmes of films that hold revolution in subtle and grand ideas;…
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Announcing the GSFF22 Competition Titles
We are thrilled to announce that the 15th edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival will be returning to venues, 23-27 March 2022. That means we’ll be running in person for the first time since 2019! Get ready for a jam-packed programme, taking place across Civic House, Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) and the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA). And for those of us who…
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2021: Where Did That Go?
If 2020 was – for film festivals and exhibitors – about learning new digital skills, rethinking engagement with our audiences and reinforcing networks of support, 2021 has mostly been about treading water, waiting for the vaccine to allow us to return to some form of business as usual, enhanced by these newfound engagement tools, and…
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Announcing Glasgow Short Film Festival’s 2021 award winners
The award winners of the 14th edition of Glasgow Short Film Festival were announced on Sunday 28 August during the festival’s online Closing Ceremony hosted by Jonathan Watson. The festival itself beat all previous attendance figures, with approximately 5,800 viewers in attendance, or 150 viewers per programme. The Bill Douglas Award for International Short Film winner was decided…
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Barbed Wire Love Roundtable – GSFF21 Podcast: Episode 11
Writer and curator Sara Greavu leads a discussion with Barbed Wire Love strand curators Peter Taylor and Myrid Carten, and filmmakers Mariah Garnett (Trouble), Desmond Bell (Dancing on Narrow Ground) and Margo Harkin (Hush-a-Bye Baby).
