Things I am involved with
32nd Hamburg International Short Film Festival
Remember they screened Peter in this festival last year? Well they know a good thing when they, ahem, meet her, so I’m back, this time on the Jury of the NoBudget Competition. Love Hamburg. Love this festival – so well curated with fantastic venues and quality screenings. Extra curricular stuff this year includes works by and chosen by Rainer…
Read Moreand everything crooked will become straight – £4 only…
…while stocks last – Get your very own copy of Transit’s excellent zine, which accompanied Transit #3. Thank you to Marcus and all contributors. Get it here.
Read MoreTransit #3 Last night
From Marcus Jack: Thanks to everyone who made it down to TRANSIT #3 at the @GlasgowSFF – here’s a little behind the scenes footage. https://t.co/Bh2cCZMNBh
Read MoreWhite Wash Death Watch – It happened
WWDW screened last night. Fact. And actually, it looked good, like a nostalgic painting of Deathwatch. Thanks GSFF and audience, particularly invited special guests.
Read MoreTransit No.3 Publication
Seen here, alongside the contents of my pockets, is the TRANSIT No.3 Zine. My contribution ps 22-33. Cover definitely red, not pink. Text reads: Image adapted from Blade Runner Annual (1982) by Jane Topping. Adapted from Blade Runner (1982 Dir. Ridley Scott) by Archie Goodwin. ©Marvel Comics International Ltd., a subsidiary of Codence Industries Corporation, GRANDREAMS LTD.,…
Read MoreScottish Competition – I’m Deranged
White Wash Death Watch was one of the least deranged of this selection. To be fair, I’ve made more engaging films (on reflection, WWDW seems a little like an exercise or a test of the original), but it held up ok in this context. Funny when an ‘art film’ as they tend to be called at film festivals is popped…
Read MoreTransit #3
Of course the highlight was Peter, of course it was. But also great were Miles Joseph’s Remediation (2010), Do Not Cross (2015) by Dorine Aguerre and Lucie Rachel’s Mother Father (2015). A chilly night for it, so many thanks Marcus. Official images to follow, until then…‘Getinthebackofthevan’
Read MoreA Party…
TRANSIT#3 Invitiation
Transit Arts are delighted to invite you to TRANSIT #3: and everything crooked will become straight Thursday 17th March, 1900-2100 Peña (5 Eton Lane, Glasgow, G12 8NB) Friday 18th March, 1900-2100 CCA Glasgow (350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD) Saturday 19th March, 1900-2100 The Glad Cafe (1006A Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG)…
Read MoreCCA: GSSF Info
Visual art, performance, film, music, Gaelic culture, literature and more… Hello! Trees are blooming, frogs are spawning and the huntsman Orion is giving way in the night sky to the crouching lion of Leo. It is perhaps of no coincidence that this celestial ballet of motion and light intersects so perfectly with the calendar of cinema and, specifically, with the arrival at…
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