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GSFF Online: Family Shorts Week 3
The Easter Holidays are coming to an end, but the current lockdown will continue for at least three more weeks. Far from ideal, but all the more reason to bring you another week of entertaining Family Shorts. This week our selected animations are all about parent-child relationships and how we learn from each other. Sure, parents care…
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GSFF Online: Family Shorts Week 2
We feel for all the young ones who can’t spend their holidays outside exploring and discovering new worlds, so for this second week of GSFF Online: Family Shorts we’ve chosen seven stories about characters on a mission. From a zebra trying to find his stripes to a stubborn cat with musical aspirations; and from a granny chasing her…
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GSFF Online: Family Shorts Week 1
Hello short film pals, A few weeks into lockdown and we are craving warm hugs and having friends and family all around the same table. We hope you are all taking care of yourselves and each other in these difficult times. With the Easter holidays starting, we thought we’d brighten the days with a selection of children’s…
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GSFF20 Online Day 5 Sunday Funday Extra: A Whale’s Tale + Sunday
We couldn’t let the #GSFF20online mini-fest pass by without representing one of our most popular annual programmes, the Sunday morning Family Shorts. This year the screening was to be followed by free drop-in animation and fake news workshops led by Kate Burton and Duncan Cowles, as well as delicious child-friendly vegan food courtesy of Gloss Canteen, and family-friendly tunes from…
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GSFF20 Online Day 5: Red Hawthorn + ALGO-RHYTHM
And so, the last day of #GSFF20online arrives. We’re trying not to dwell on what would have been a joyous end-of-fest celebration: the Sunday night awards at CCA followed by our closing party at Broadcast. We had a lot of good stuff in store for today. International guests were to have a whisky tasting tour…
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GSFF20 Online Day 4: The Heavy Burden + Boys Night
For those of you in self-isolation who have already lost track of what day it is: the weekend’s here! Ironically, one of today’s first events would have been an industry panel on Festival Networks in a Time of Crisis, during which we planned to reflect on the sustainability of what we do, whether that be related…
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GSFF20 Online Day 3: Cloud Forest + Jealous Alan
Friday is industry day at GSFF, and this year it was to kick off with a gaggle of international festival programmers introducing themselves to emerging Scottish filmmakers. We’d planned micro-panels on valuing filmmakers’ labour and positionality in programming, whilst five selected filmmakers would be preparing to pitch their projects to an international panel, hoping to…
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GSFF20 Online Day 2: New Land Broken Road + The Last Mermaid
GSFF Thursday, 11am – traditionally the slot for our Short Stuff screening for parents and babies. A (mostly) soothing start to the first full day of the festival. Although a relaxed screening, it’s when the team is still very much on edge, waiting for guests to arrive and sorting out logistics. It’s the day we welcome students from…
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GSFF20 Online Day 1: How The Earth Must See Itself (A Thirling) + Maneater
Today isn’t what we imagined. A week ago, we were still keeping our fingers crossed, hoping we’d be able to kick off GSFF20 as planned. But as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to escalate and our emotions over our postponement have settled (just a little bit), we try to continue GSFF from our own living rooms. …
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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…
