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SQIFF Shorts: Queer Scotland
September 27, 2015 @ 4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
We present a spectrum of styles and stories, from melodrama to animated collage, body hair to wrestling, and high camp to sobering allegory, with a selection of short films representing a breadth of filmmaking and LGBTI and queer contexts in Scotland.
We hope to be joined by a number of the filmmakers after the screening for a Q&A. Each film in this programme will be entered into an award for Best Scottish Short kindly sponsored by GMAC Film and voted for by the audience at the end of the screening.
Content note: depiction and discussion of homophobia and transphobia; discussion of suicide.
Screening with English subtitles. Post-film Q&A will be BSL interpreted.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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Full Programme
Middle Man (5m)
Dir. Charlie Francis, Year: 2014
It’s Davie’s first week in the Type2Talk call centre and management has turned up for a surprise inspection. His attempts to impress put him on the spot when he is caught up in a lovers’ spat.
Catfood (3m)
Dir. Eveliina Honkanen and Radu Tanase, Year: 2013
What if we followed our instincts and enjoyed without thinking of social rules? An experimental film dealing with lust.
High Heels Aren’t Compulsory
Dir. Annabel Cooper, Year: 2015
It’s the first day of a new term for university lecturer Carolyn Mortimer and the first day of her new life as a trans* woman. Dressed to impress in her best make-up and high heels, Carolyn bravely faces the gauntlet of unsympathetic colleagues and students but when her boss puts her unexpectedly in the firing line of a particularly hostile first year class, her trademark balance begins to totter.
Versions (2m)
Dir. Matthew Kennedy, Year: 2015
A film about individual identities and family ties, Versions takes you through the biological and the unknown using collage and silhouettes.
Erskine (11m)
Dir. Nicole O’Reilly, Year: 2015
An art film created in Glasgow by local queer artists, Nicole O’Reilly and Shelby Lafferty. Erskine makes use of visual metaphor to portray the struggle of depression and suicidality that marginalised queer youth often suffer from. Inspired by Nicole’s own experiences as a transgender woman, along with the experiences of other transgender people within her community.
Holiday (4m)
Dir. Hayley Jane Dawson, Year: 2015
Before going on a family holiday, a woman faces the dilemma of whether or not to shave her legs to please others. Holiday explores the implications of traditional gender expectations of the body.
The Space Between (12m)
Dir. Radu Tanase, Year: 2014
An anxious man waits in his flat for someone he met online for a supposedly no strings sexual encounter.
Courtship Disorder (5m)
Dir. John Walter, Year: 2015
Courtship Disorder addresses cruising and sexual risk, in particular around the ‘cottage,’ a public toilet that is repurposed as a space of sex. Cruising for sex in real space has not disappeared despite the development of online cruising apps. ‘Courtship Disorder’ refers to a controversial term used by sexologists such as John Money to describe a spectrum of human behaviours, especially in men, including exhibitionism, voyeurism, toucherism, rubbing, and sexual assault.
On Your Feet, Woman! (8m)
Dir. Evi Tsiligaridou, Year: 2014
In a minimal enclosed setting, two women are wrestling, or play-fighting. An experimental, personal approach to the process of relating to one another within space and time through some twisting, bending, sliding, breathing, expanding, contracting… A call for openness and celebration of female physical expression.
LGBTI Community Groups (2m)
Dir. Paul Cameron, Lucinda Broadbent and Scott Cuthbertson, Year: 2015
A film about the variety and diversity of LGBTI community groups across Scotland.
Dusty Does Dallas (6m)
Dir. Lock Up Your Daughters, Year: 2014
An ex-porn star is jealous after hearing banging noises coming from her neighbour’s flat. When a postwoman, pizza delivery boy, and workman come to her door, she gets a little bit carried away…