Southside Film Festival 2015 Programme
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Southside Film Festival 2015 Programme
THU 08 OCT —— SUN 11 OCT 2015 • Imagined Scenes / 3rd — 17th Oct / Various cafes & shops in the Southside / FREE Sun 11 Oct: • Resistance Recipes: Palestinian food & film / 12.30pm / Toryglen Community Base / FREE • DIY Archive Workshop / 1pm-5pm / The Glad Foundation / FREE • How to write a film review with Siobhan Synot / 2pm / The Glad Foundation / FREE • Scotland on screen / 2pm / The Glad Cafe / FREE • Southside Filmmaker Screening & Award / 4.30pm / The Glad Cafe / FREE • The Harder They Come – with Jamacian food / 6.30pm / Rum Shack / £15 • Local Pick / 8pm / The Glad Cafe / £6 / £5 • Man with a Movie Camera with live Wurlitzer / 8pm / Pollokshaws Burgh Hall / £8 / £6 LOST CINEMAS OF GLASGOW: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY / IMAGINED SCENES / OPENING RECEPTION & LOCAL FILM ARCHIVE / PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP / SUNSET BOULEVARD / MADELEINE / THE GORBALS STORY / FINDING VIVIAN MAIER / BIG GOLD DREAM / MUCH ADO ABOUT GOVAN / HUGO / THE SCOTTISH CO-OP AND EARLY CINEMA / MANDY MCINTOSH AND THE WOMENS UNIT / TRANSIT ARTS / MAKING IN THE MOVIES / UNITED WE WILL SWIM...AGAIN! / THAT SINKING FEELING / RESISTANCE RECIPES: PALESTINIAN FOOD & FILM / DIY ARCHIVE WORKSHOP / HOW TO WRITE A FILM REVIEW WITH SIOBHAN SYNOT / SCOTLAND ON SCREEN / SOUTHSIDE FILMMAKER SCREENING & AWARD / THE HARDER THEY COME / LOCAL PICK / MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA WITH LIVE WURLITZER Exhibitions: • Lost Cinemas of Glasgow / 29th Sep — 26th Oct / The Glad Cafe / FREE Sat 10 Oct: • Hugo / 10.30am / Queen’s Park Church / All tickets £5 / babies FREE • The Scottish Co-op and Early Cinema / 12pm / The Glad Foundation / FREE • Mandy McIntosh And The Womens Unit / 2pm / The Glad Foundation / FREE • Transit Arts / outside Govanhill Baths / 2pm-5pm / FREE • Making in the Movies / Govanhill Baths / 10.30am-6pm / FREE • United We Will Swim... Again! / 7pm / Govanhill Baths / FREE • That Sinking Feeling / Govanhill Baths / 8.30pm / £6 / £5 Southside Film Festival started in 2011 as a response to the lack of a local cinema or film screenings in the Southside of Glasgow. Four years later the festival reflects on the continued lack of a local cinema with the theme of cinema heritage and film archive. The 2015 edition again turns Southside spaces into ‘pop up’ cinemas providing a wide range of site specific or unique film screenings, talks, exhibitions and workshops - all at affordable prices or free. Enjoy our fifth film festival! Karen O’Hare, Director, Southside Film Festival ↓ Britain on Film is supported by Unlocking Film Heritage awarding funds from The National Lottery bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film – At at Glance Guide Thu 08 Oct: • Opening Reception, Talk & Screening / 7pm / The Glad Cafe / FREE Fri 09 Oct: • Putting Pants on Philip / 2.30pm / Pollokshaws Burgh Hall / FREE • Sunset Boulevard / 3pm / Pollokshaws Burgh Hall / £6 / £5 • Madeleine – with rustic French food / Pollok House / 6.30pm / £30 • The Gorbals Story / St Francis Community Centre / 8pm / £8 / £6 • Finding Vivian Maier / 8pm / Queen’s Park Camera Club / £6 / £5 • Big Gold Dream & gig / 8pm / The Glad Cafe / £8 / £6 • Much Ado About Govan / 8pm / Kinning Park Complex / FREE THU 08 OCT: OPENING RECEPTION (Suitable for all) The Glad Cafe, 8th Oct Talk on Lost Cinemas of Glasgow exhibition & local film archive screening Reception/opening 7pm Talk/screening 8pm, FREE Former Waverley cinema, Shawlands EXHIBITIONS: LOST CINEMAS OF GLASGOW: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY The Glad Cafe 29th Sep — 26th Oct Subject to opening hours, FREE This exhibition of Southside cinema buildings is a unique insight into how cinemas once played an influential role in everyday Glaswegians lives. The fates of Glasgow’s 160 former cinema buildings range from demolition to dereliction to transformation; today functioning at times in new social roles, yet holding memories of a forgotten past. This exhibition is a special Southside selection of historical cinemas which serves as a poignant reminder of the absence of a cinema building in Glasgow’s Southside. Thanks to Glasgow City Heritage Trust. IMAGINED SCENES Various cafes & shops in the Southside 3rd — 17th Oct Subject to opening hours, FREE Come along to our opening reception to help us warm the festival, pick up a programme and enjoy a talk on Southside Glasgow cinemas and cinema going from Glasgow City Heritage Trust Intern, Erin Walter, who researched and designed the Lost Cinemas of Glasgow exhibition. Followed by a screening of local films submitted to the festival depicting the area and cinema going before the last cinema closed in the Southside in 2001. Go to: southsidefilm.co.uk for film details. SUNSET BOULEVARD PLANTATION PRODUCTIONS CREATE CREW PRESENT: MUCH ADO ABOUT GOVAN (PG, 110 mins, 1950) Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, 9th Oct 3pm £6 full price/£5 concession Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo’s job is to oil and maintain the station’s clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home. Don’t miss Martin Scorsese’s beautiful ode to Méliès and early cinema. A fun and engaging film made by a brilliantly creative bunch of teenagers from Govan and Glasgow’s Southside - Plantation Productions’ Create Crew. An adaptation of the Shakespeare classic Much Ado About Nothing, with a modern day twist, language and social media. Followed by a screening of ‘Making Of’ (10 mins), DJs and live music. Thanks to Plantation Productions. FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (15, 84 mins, 2014) Queen’s Park Camera Club, 9th Oct Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm £6 full price/£5 concession PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP (NC — PG advised, 20 mins, 1927) Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, 9th Oct 2.30pm, FREE Putting Pants on Philip, 1927 (U, 120 mins, 2011) Queen’s Park Church, 10th Oct 10.30am, £5/babies (0 — 18 months), FREE BIG GOLD DREAM FRI 09 OCT: An exhibition of imaginary film scenes set in various Southside locations that will be displayed in the windows of local independent businesses. The exhibition is a collaborative project between the Contemporary Photography Group of Queen’s Park Camera Club and the students at Shawlands Academy, and was set-up especially for this year’s Southside Film Festival. Go to southsidefilm.co.uk for further details. Thanks to Queen’s Park Camera Club. HUGO (NC — suitable for all, 30 mins, 2015) Kinning Park Complex, 9th Oct Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm/DJs & live music 9pm All ages, FREE Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an ageing silent film queen, and William Holden as the struggling writer who is held in thrall by her madness, created two of the screen’s most memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard. Winner of three Academy Awards, director Billy Wilder’s orchestration of the bizarre tale is a true cinematic classic. A post-screening discussion on issues raised by the film is presented by the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival. Finding Vivian Maier, 2014 Stan Laurel moved to Glasgow as a boy, went to school in Queens Park and lived in Mount Florida. We are celebrating Laurel’s Southside Glasgow connection with this film described as the first true Laurel and Hardy film and said to have been Laurel’s favourite of their silent shorts. Laurel’s kilt-wearing character arrives in America from Scotland to stay with an uncle, played by Hardy, and hilarity ensues! SAT 10 OCT: Finding Vivian Maier is the critically acclaimed documentary about a mysterious nanny, who secretly took over 100,000 photographs that were hidden in storage lockers and, discovered decades later, is now among the 20th century’s greatest photographers. Nominated for Best Documentary at this year’s Oscars. (NC, 94 mins, 2014) The Glad Cafe, 9th Oct Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm £8 full price/£6 concession (includes post film gig) A documentary about Edinburgh record label Fast Product in the late 1970s which pre dated and influenced Rough Trade and Factory Records. Featuring Norman Blake, Bobby Bluebell, Jo Callis, Allan Campbell, Edwyn Collins. Winner of the Audience Award at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015. With an introduction and Q&A with director Grant McPhee. Followed by live music (band TBC). THE GORBALS STORY Sunset Boulevard, 1950 The Gorbals Story, 1950 (below) (PG, 74 mins, 1950) St Francis Community Centre, Gorbals, 9th Oct Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm £8 full price/£6 concession Adapted from the phenomenally successful 1946 play, written by Robert McLeish and staged by Glasgow’s Unity Theatre, this film is a naturalistic portrait of a working-class Glasgow community. A successful artist Wullie Mutrie, played by Howard Connell, recalls his life in the tenements of the Gorbals slums in flashbacks. Screening in a 1861 A-listed building and former church we believe this is the first time the film has screened in the Gorbals since its release in 1950. Mandy McIntosh & The Women’s Unit Madeline, 1950 (Over 18) The Glad Foundation, 10th Oct 2pm — 4pm, FREE MADELEINE (U, 101 mins, 1950) With rustic French food Pollok House, Pollok Park, 9th Oct Doors 6.30pm/meal 7pm/ screening 8.30pm £30 (includes film, three course dinner and glass of Processo) Tickets must be purchased in advance of event. Menu available at: southsidefilm.co.uk Email any dietary requirements to: [email protected]. Paid bar available. Madeleine is a 1950 film directed by David Lean, based on a true story about of Madeleine Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of her French lover, Emile L’Angelier. The trial was much publicised in the newspapers of the day and labeled “the trial of the century”. Lean’s adaptation of the story stars his then-wife, Ann Todd, with Ivan Desny as her French lover, and was partly shot in Glasgow. Watch Madeleine in the grand surroundings of Pollok House, ancestral home of the Maxwell family, and enjoy a delicious rustic French meal in the servant’s quarters. Big Gold Dream, 2014 MANDY MCINTOSH AND THE WOMEN’S UNIT: MOVING IMAGES Hugo, 2011 MAKING FILMS WORK: THE SCOTTISH CO—OP AND EARLY CINEMA (Suitable for all) The Glad Foundation, 10th Oct 12pm — 1pm, FREE Commercial picture houses were not the only places were Scots encountered films during the early cinema period. The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society (SCWS) had its central offices and some manufacturing halls in Morrison Street – just south of the river Clyde-and had a cinema. This talk by Julia Bohlmann, University of Glasgow Early Cinema Researcher, will sketch out three different roles cinema played for the SCWS and its members between 1902 and 1928, and treat the audience to two of the first films the Society itself commissioned during the 1920s – Making Soap (c.1928) & How Guild Margarine is Made (c.1928). Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow (GOMA) have invited The Women’s Unit to create a new experimental moving image work for the festival. Founded by artist Mandy McIntosh in 2015 in Castlemilk, The Women’s Unit is a free feminist art space for women who have faced male violence and abuse. The Women’s Unit was born out of a year long artist residency by Mandy with Glasgow Womens Library considering the legacy of the Zero Tolerance campaign in 1994. For Southside Film Festival, women at the unit will work with Mandy in puppetry performance and sound manipulation to make a new piece of cinema. This new film will be screened alongside previous films by McIntosh which address abuses of power and control. Women from the Unit will be present to discuss their work. Thanks to GOMA. TICKET INFO: VENUES: Tickets available in advance online at wegottickets.com/southsidefilmfestival. 1. THE GLAD CAFE 1006A Pollokshaws Rd G41 2HG 0141 636 6119 Otherwise, tickets are available on the door on the night, if not sold out in advance. All FREE screenings/events are not ticketed but first come, first served so entry cannot be guaranteed if venues are full up, get there early to guarantee entry! Tickets for the movie and meals at Pollok House and The Rum Shack must be purchased in advance. 2. THE GLAD FOUNDATION 3 Abbot St G41 3XE The concession rate applies to children under 16 years old, full time students, over 60s, Job Seekers Allowance or Income Support or similar benefits recipients and people registered as disabled. 3. GOVANHILL BATHS 99 Calder St G42 7RA 0141 433 2999 4. KINNING PARK COMPLEX 40 Cornwall St G41 1AQ 0141 419 0329 Credits & thanks Southside Film Festival is programmed organised and produced by a dedicated team of volunteers. For full list of volunteers please go to: southsidefilm.co.uk Thanks to all of our venue and event partners. Full list on our website. Programme design by Graphical House. 5. QUEEN’S PARK CAMERA CLUB 54 Millbrae Rd G42 9UG This year’s festival is supported by Regional Screen Scotland, BFI Britain on Film and Glasgow City Council’s Arts Development Scheme, RIVER CLYDE 4 9. RUM SHACK 657-659, Pollokshaws Rd G41 2AB 0141 237 4432 10. ST FRANCIS COMMUNITY CENTRE 405 Cumberland St G5 0SE 0141 429 0275 9 TITWOOD RD 3 2 1 CALDER ST 5 POLLOKSHAWS RD POLLOKSHAWS WEST CRAFTIVISTS WORKSHOP 2pm — Studio TRANSIT ARTISTS’ FILM OUT THE BACK OF A VAN (NC, 18 advised, 120 mins) Transit van parked outside Govanhill Baths, 10th Oct 2pm — 5pm, FREE Transit is a nomadic programme of artists’ film screenings produced by Marcus Jack. Episode 2: The Lens is a Lyric, in partnership with Southside Film Festival, is on a screen in a van outside Govanhill Baths. In this episode, films by Jen Martin, Chris Bowman and Andy Mackinnon have been collected to reframe the film as a visual poem. At the seat of industrial decline, more space is being made for creative industries; these three films adopt poetic techniques to trace changing rhythms across the self, the city and further afield. 11 MOUNT FLORIDA BATTLEFIELD RD Engage in a spot of Craftivism with Glasgow Craftivists who use craft and creativity to reflect on issues, express views & link in with wider political movements. “Craftivism is a way of looking at life where voicing opinions through creativity makes your voice stronger, your compassion... deeper & your quest for justice more infinite” - Betsy Greer UNRAVEL (NC, suitable for all, 14mins, 2012) 4pm — Studio Unravel follows the western world’s last wanted clothes, on a journey across North India, from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the world that wants them, recycling them back into yarn. With limited exposure to western culture, the factory workers construct a picture of how the West is and who wore the cast-off clothes. ADVANCED STYLE UNITED WE WILL SWIM... AGAIN! (NC — PG advised, 25mins, 2014) The Steamie Govanhill Baths, 10th Oct Doors 6.30pm/film 7pm, FREE United We Will Swim… Again tells the extraordinary story of how a community fought to save their local swimming pool, bringing it back to life after it was closed by Glasgow City Council. This is one of Glasgow’s famous political stories and is brought to life in this inspiring documentary, with original footage from the protests and interviews with the key activists involved. With introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Fran Higson. This is a Camcorder Guerrillas film made by Fran Higson with the aim of supporting the Govanhill Baths to get water back into their pools. THAT SINKING FEELING (12, 93mins, 1979) The Steamie Govanhill Baths, 10th Oct Doors 8pm/film 8.30pm £6 full price/£5 concession Acclaimed director Bill Forsyth’s (Gregory’s Girl, Local Hero) hilarious directorial debut. Unemployed teenager Ronnie (Robert Buchanan, Gregory’s Girl) and his hapless pals spend their time hanging around the rainy parks and dingy cafes of Glasgow, but their world is about to change when Ronnie hatches a plan to make them all rich by stealing a job-lot of stainless steel sinks. Hilarious and inventive, Forsyth’s zero budget debut provides an authentic depiction of 1970s Glasgow youth culture. Introduction and Q&A with Associate Producer Paddy Higson and some of the original cast. (PG, 75mins, 2014) 4.30pm — Studio Advanced Style examines the lives of seven unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal style and vital spirit have guided their approach to aging. This film paints intimate and colorful portraits of independent, stylish women aged 62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas about beauty, aging, and Western’s culture’s increasing obsession with youth. There will also the opportunity to see craft & textile themed films Birth of a Sewing Machine, Textiles and Weave Me a Rainbow from the Scottish Screen Archive throughout the afternoon. Go to: southsidefilm.co.uk for film details. CROSSHILL QUEEN’S PARK PROSPECTHILL RD 8 Pick up unique upcycled products handcrafted by local makers at this mini version of popular Rags to Riches market. This will be a flavour of what is in store at Rags to Riches events in November. In a festival first, in partnership with Rags to Riches, Sew La Tea Dough, Glasgow Craftivists and Govanhill Baths, join us for an afternoon focused on fashion, craft, making and style, past and present, local and global with workshops, film screenings and a craft market. POLLOK PARK 7 12.30pm — 6pm — Foyer (Suitable for all) Govanhill Baths, 10th Oct 10.30am — 6pm, FREE 6 CROSSMYLOOF THIS IS A MINI CRAFT FAIR MAKING IN THE MOVIES 10 POLLOKSHIELDS WEST Learn how to repair, re-use, recreate, revamp and restyle clothing and other domestic fabrics. Unravel, 2012 GORBALS NITHSDALE RD 10.30am — 1.30pm — Studio 8. POLLOKSHAWS BURGH HALL 2025 Pollokshaws Rd G43 1NE 0141 632 5811 KINNING PARK MAXWELL DR SEW LA TEA DOUGH WORKSHOP 7. POLLOK HOUSE Pollok Park G43 1AT 0141 440 7904 11. TORYGLEN COMMUNITY BASE 199 Prospecthill Circus G42 0LA 0141 613 2777 GOVAN RD MAKING IN THE MOVIES: 6. QUEEN’S PARK CHURCH 170 Queen’s Dr G42 8QZ 0141 423 3654 southsidefilm.co.uk That Sinking Feeling, 1979 SUN 11 OCT: SCOTLAND ON SCREEN (Suitable for all) The Glad Cafe, 11th Oct 2pm — 3.30pm, FREE RESISTANCE RECIPES: PALESTINIAN FOOD AND FILM (Suitable for all) Toryglen Community Base, 11th Oct 12.30pm — 2.30pm, FREE A screening of short films that will explore the politics of food in Palestine, struggles with access and how people are coming together using food to make a difference to their lives and communities. The screening will be hosted by Urban Roots and will coincide with the end of Harvest time, giving an opportunity to think and talk about food security and sovereignty in a local as well as global context. There there will be a demonstration and tasting of Palestinian food using some locally grown ingredients before the screening. Short films include Jameela’s Kitchen and Resistance Recipe. Go to: southsidefilm.co.uk for film details. Presented by Camcorder Guerrillas and Open Jar Collective in association with Urban Roots. DIY ARCHIVE WORKSHOP MAKE OUR OWN ARCHIVE! (No experience necessary, suitable for all) The Glad Foundation, 11th Oct 1 — 5pm/brief 1pm/ screening 4pm, FREE This year’s festival theme is cinema heritage and film archive but today films are also future film archive. In 100 years time what old footage would people love to unearth? No longer the grainy footage of yesteryear but a plethora of vids and Vines. But what would make a memorable archive film, what would not be drowned out by the mass of content? Make a microfilm on your phone or tablet of what you think would stand the test of time and then screen it. Create our own Southside film archive! Please note: bring along a phone, tablet or digital camera that you can use to film the Southside on the day, no filming equipment will be provided. Resistance Recipes: Palestinian Food and Film HOW TO WRITE A FILM REVIEW WITH SIOBHAN SYNNOT (No experience necessary, suitable for all) The Glad Foundation, 11th Oct 2pm — 3pm, FREE Opinionated? Eloquent? Neither? If your views on anything you watch can’t be suppressed come along to this special workshop hosted by film, arts & currents affairs journalist Siobhan Synnot. Find out how to what goes into one hundred words of vitriol or reverence and maybe even have a go yourself! Siobhan Synnot is an award-winning film writer and broadcaster, contributing arts and topical interviews, features and profiles, plus film reviews for TV, radio, print and online. Outlets include BBC, ITV, BAFTA, Scotsman publications, Daily Record, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Herald, Best, Woman, Sunday Mail, Herlad Sun & The Lady. A year ago we were considering what an independent Scotland would look like and what it meant to be Scottish or to be living in Scotland. How we see ourselves and how others see us was an important part of the conversation about independence. Films such as Brigadoon, Whisky Galore!, Trainspotting, Braveheart and others have helped shape how the world views Scotland. But does it really matter how Scotland is portrayed on screen? And does it influence how we view ourselves in Scotland? Joining Southside Film Festival director Karen O’Hare to discuss these questions and more are Dr. Jonathan Murray, author of The New Scottish Cinema, Eleanor Yule, film director and co author of The Glass Half Full: Moving Beyond Scottish MiserablIsm and writer/ director Scott Graham, director of feature films Shell and Iona which was the closing film of Edinburgh Film Festival this year and who currently lives in Southside Glasgow. SOUTHSIDE FILMMAKER SCREENING & AWARD (18, 70mins, 2014/5) The Glad Cafe, 11th Oct Doors 4pm/films 4.30pm FREE Expect to see comedy, drama and documentary in our selection of short films made by filmmakers living in the Southside of Glasgow or making films about the Southside. Come along to see and support local film talent and vote for your favourite film - the winner will receive the Southside Filmmaker Award. Go to: southsidefilm.co.uk for full film details. LOCAL PICK-FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED The Glad Cafe, 11th Oct Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm £6 full price/£5 concession This year Southside Film Festival asked Southsiders what they would like to see at the festival and asked people to vote online. Come along to find out what people voted to watch. The local pick will be revealed just before the festival on our website and social media platforms so it will not be a total surprise on the night! southsidefilm.co.uk THE HARDER THEY COME (15, 103 mins, 1972) with Jamaican food Rum Shack, 11th Oct Doors 6.30pm/meal 7pm/screening 8pm £15 (includes film, two course dinner & DJ) Tickets must be purchased in advance of event. Menu available at southsidefilm.co.uk Email any dietary requirements to [email protected] Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff stars as Ivan Martin, an aspiring young singer who leaves his rural village for the capital city of Kingston, Jamaica hoping to make a name for himself. Robbed of his money and possessions his first day in town, he finds work with a self-righteous, bullying preacher and an unscrupulous music mogul who exploits naive hopefuls. In desperation the simple country boy turns outlaw, at war with both the police and his rivals in the ganja trade. Enjoy the film with a two course menu of Jamaican food from Caribbean Bar and Canteen at Rum Shack before the film and after the film stick around for some reggae tunes from Glasgow based DJ, Bushido. MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA The Harder They Come, 1972 (U, 67 mins, 1928) with live Wurlitzer Cinema Organ Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, 11th Oct Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm £8 full price/£6 concession This is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking, a montage of urban Russian life showing the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going. It was Dziga Vertov’s first full-length film, and he used all the cinematic techniques at his disposal at the tme – dissolves, split screen, slow motion and freeze-frames – to produce a work that is exhilarating and intellectually brilliant. Voted the Best Documentary ever made by Sight and Sound in 2012. This is a fully re-mastered digital film print accompanied by a live score from the mighty Wurlitzer Cinema Organ. Man With a Movie Camera, 1928