Party time at the Glasgow Short Film Festival
In its first year as a charitable organisation, the Glasgow Short Film Festival is to focus on the politics of place, it was announced today. The festival, which includes over 180 films screening in a variety of venues between 18 and 22 March, will showcase alternative perspectives on the Troubles in Northern Ireland and a strand looking at the ways black communities and artists relate to landscape and geography.
"We’re also proud to present some of the best new Scottish short films, as well as a fantastic selection of fresh work from around the world, with 23 countries represented in our International competition," said festival co-director Sanne Jehoul.
Guests will include international filmmakers Zia Anger, Marie Loisier and Sorayos Prapapan, and cult electronic musician Felix Kubin, with the Scottish première of Anger's My First Film to open the festival. There will be a special focus on the work of [film.
In its first year as a charitable organisation, the Glasgow Short Film Festival is to focus on the politics of place, it was announced today. The festival, which includes over 180 films screening in a variety of venues between 18 and 22 March, will showcase alternative perspectives on the Troubles in Northern Ireland and a strand looking at the ways black communities and artists relate to landscape and geography.
"We’re also proud to present some of the best new Scottish short films, as well as a fantastic selection of fresh work from around the world, with 23 countries represented in our International competition," said festival co-director Sanne Jehoul.
Guests will include international filmmakers Zia Anger, Marie Loisier and Sorayos Prapapan, and cult electronic musician Felix Kubin, with the Scottish première of Anger's My First Film to open the festival. There will be a special focus on the work of [film.
- 2/13/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Zia Anger in My First Film
This year's Glasgow Short Film Festival is to open with the Scottish première of Zia Anger's My First Film, it was revealed yesterday - and attendees are being asked to keep their phones switched on as the director introduces and interacts with her work. Music video guru and performance artist Anger will tell the story of an abandoned first feature and the experiences of female filmmakers through the big screen, live YouTube windows and sequences sent directly to the phones of audience members.
The festival has also announced a screening of Marie Losier's Felix In Wonderland, an experimental voyage through the work of cult electronic musician Felix Kubin, which will be followed by a rare musical performajnce from the star himself, supported by local R&b-disco-house-dreampop band Babe.
The festival will run from 18-22 March and the full programme will be announced on 13 February.
This year's Glasgow Short Film Festival is to open with the Scottish première of Zia Anger's My First Film, it was revealed yesterday - and attendees are being asked to keep their phones switched on as the director introduces and interacts with her work. Music video guru and performance artist Anger will tell the story of an abandoned first feature and the experiences of female filmmakers through the big screen, live YouTube windows and sequences sent directly to the phones of audience members.
The festival has also announced a screening of Marie Losier's Felix In Wonderland, an experimental voyage through the work of cult electronic musician Felix Kubin, which will be followed by a rare musical performajnce from the star himself, supported by local R&b-disco-house-dreampop band Babe.
The festival will run from 18-22 March and the full programme will be announced on 13 February.
- 1/24/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
The Museum of Modern Art has unveiled its full festival lineup of 28 features and shorts for Doc Fortnight 2020, its annual showcase of the best of nonfiction film, on Monday. The list includes the latest works from the likes of Michael Almereyda, Terrence Nance, Denis Côté, Sky Hopinka, Lucretia Martel, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Ben Rivers, Lynn Sachs, Kazuhiro Soda, Roger Ross Williams, Maya Khoury and the Abounaddara Collective.
Now in its 19th year, Doc Fortnight will run from February 5 to 19, 2020, and will include 12 world premieres, 17 North American premieres, and 14 Us premieres from 38 countries. Doc Fortnight 2020 opens with the New York premiere of “Crip Camp,” a portrait of Camp Jened—a camp for disabled teenagers near Woodstock, New York, that thrived in the late 1960s and ’70s—which established a close-knit community of campers who would become pioneering disability advocates. The film is co-directed and produced by Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht,...
Now in its 19th year, Doc Fortnight will run from February 5 to 19, 2020, and will include 12 world premieres, 17 North American premieres, and 14 Us premieres from 38 countries. Doc Fortnight 2020 opens with the New York premiere of “Crip Camp,” a portrait of Camp Jened—a camp for disabled teenagers near Woodstock, New York, that thrived in the late 1960s and ’70s—which established a close-knit community of campers who would become pioneering disability advocates. The film is co-directed and produced by Nicole Newnham and James Lebrecht,...
- 1/6/2020
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
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