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SQIFF Shorts: Specimen
October 1, 2016 @ 2:30 pm - 3:40 pm
£4 – £5
Contemporary shorts to accompany the horror classics in our programme utilising gruesome imagery and horror movie tropes to explore LGBTQ+ issues. A terrified man deals with a dead body (that of his erstwhile lover) in his flat, blood oozes and old Taiwanese film clips flicker in surreal cinematic experiments, trippy drug-induced hallucinations lead a gay guy to imagine he is a sexual specimen in a world of foliage come alive, a friendly local on a London council estate is hiding a dark secret, and homophobic thugs in Russia get a surprise when they pick on the wrong queer.
Content note: disturbing scenes of violence.
ACCESS: Level access with Cinema plus accessible toilets all on ground floor (CCA). Films screening with subtitles for D/deaf and hard of hearing access. Hearing loop available. Films in a variety of languages.
£5/£4 Conc/Free unemployed and asylum seekers / Festival Pass £40 / £30 conc. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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Fu Guo (Floating Melon) (19m)
Dir: Xu Xiaoxi, Roberto F. Canuto, Country: China, Spain, Year: 2015
Xiao has spent the afternoon in bed with a guy who is now lying dead in his apartment from a drugs overdose. Terrified of the authorities finding out, he asks his friends to help clean up the mess.
Oğlan (The Boy) (7m)
Dir: Eyup Büyükkelleci, Country: Turkey, Year: 2015
A mother kills her own son for being gay. Flashbacks see him at university, in a cafeteria, and making love in a carwash whilst the wound from his murder is constantly visible.
Yi-Ren (the person of whom I think) (14m)
Dir: Tzuan Wu, Country: Taiwan, Year: 2015
A love letter in collage style, consisting of found footage and a queer reading of the work of Kang-Chien Chui, screenwriter of classic East Asian movies such as The Bells of Death and Twin Blades of Doom.
Specimen (3m)
Dir: Luc Mollinger, Country: UK, Year: 2015
A man makes his way into a surreal human jungle where he trips out on drugs and sexual excess.
Beyond Plain Sight (13m)
Dir: Joseph A. Adesunloye, Country: UK, Year: 2014
Ryan is young, charming, friendly, helpful, and deeply popular in his South London community. He seems like just an average guy. Only there’s nothing average about Ryan.
PYOTR495 (15m)
Dir: Blake Mawson, Country: Canada, Year: 2016
Set in present-day Moscow, 16-year-old Pyotr is baited by an ultranationalist group known for their violent abductions and attacks bolstered by Russia’s LGBT propaganda law, but Pyotr has a dangerous secret his attackers haven’t accounted for.