Sci-Fi Meets Reality
October 9 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Free – £12
Sci-Fi Meets Reality explores the border between science fiction and reality. We live in an age of extraordinary rapid technological advancements and fantasy feels eerily real. How we document, analyse and develop ourselves feels more futuristic than ever. But that ‘future’ is now. ‘Sci-Fi meets Reality’ highlights uncanny filmmaking as a tool for gender exploration and historical critique.
This screening starts with an incredible performance by Kyalo Searle-Mbullu, a Glasgow-based musician and audio-visual artist.
Curated by Nat Lall.
Tickets are on a pay what you can sliding scale of FREE, £2, £4, £6, £8, £10, or £12. To book, click here or call the CCA Box Office on 0141 352 4900.
Accessibility
This programme has:
- English and Scottish Gaelic audio with English language descriptive subtitles
- English-BSL interpretation for introduction and performance
- Live Captioning for introduction and performance
This screening is 78 minutes long and has an age recommendation of N/C 18+.
You can find out more information about accessibility at SQIFF 2024 here. If you have any questions about accessibility at SQIFF 2024, please get in touch with us at [email protected] or by phone on 07873 331 036.
Films in this programme include:
a border of flat stones, Dirs. Cáit McClay, Éiméar McClay, 2023, United Kingdom, 10 min
This film by Cáit and Éiméar McClay reflects on the Irish Potato Famine, showing how British laissez-faire policies facilitated food exports and limited aid, portraying the famine as a natural event to consolidate estates. The McClays critique this portrayal and link famines to settler colonialism, analysing the contemporary political, cultural, and economic impacts of British imperialism on Irish land reclamation and state formation.
Content notes: Discussion of capitalism, religion, famine, death, displacement. Depiction of mould.
Access notes: Throughout the film, a narrative text with no audio appears on screen with a small font.
Priob, Dir. Choirstaidh NicArtair, 2022, United Kingdom, 5 min
We meet a young woman on her windowsill in the early hours of the morning, while she is in conversation with her late grandfather, The Coal Man, who lives in the clouds above and communicates through radio waves. Priob is a film about our inner children and the people who raised them, wherever they are.
Content notes: Discussion of death.
Access notes: Glitchy imagery with some fast pace editing.
Queer Bodies, Dirs. Elin Laut, Mattia Friso, 2022, Germany, 5 min
“Queer Bodies” is a three chapters video piece that explores the process of embracing queer identity: From the death of the former self, to the searching for agency, to the creation of a community. The viewer is drawn into a reality where subjects tell about themselves and bodies manifest themselves in an unconventional way.
Content notes: Discussion of funeral, body image.
Dr. XYZ: A Medical Drag Transthology, Dir. El Jones, 2023, United Kingdom, 14 min
Dr. XYZ is a community-made trans+ healthcare training film and ethnofiction. It is an exercise in queering the public information film genre, shot in 16mm. The film weaves ethnographic healthcare accounts from Birmingham’s trans+ community with moments of drag-satire re-enactment to depict a collective vision of the UK’s healthcare system.
Content notes: Discussion of suicidal ideation, suicide attempt, mental health issues, medical neglect within NHS, transphobia, ableism, racism, passing culture, self-medicating, gender dysphoria, medical waiting lists, explicit language. Depiction of animated genitalia.
Trans-form, Dir. Luca Asta, 2023, United Kingdom, 12 min
From flesh to 3D printing, ‘TRANS-FORM’ follows the journey of five trans+ individuals.
Content notes: Discussion of body image, surgery, medical transition, gender dysphoria, transphobia. Depiction of animated genitalia, packers.
The Space Dykes and Other Adventures, Dir. Julian Konuk, 2022, United Kingdom, 11 min
This film explores dykiness and bodily abjection, examining home and unhome-liness beyond traditional kinship. Presented as a chaotic video and sonic collage, it focuses on transition by blending clips in harsh and fluid ways. The work alternates between fast and slow movements, reflecting on queer intimacy and the notion of home in relation to the queer body.
Content notes: Depiction of cigarette use, eyeball being licked, meat. Discussion of body image, medical neglect.
Access notes: Distorted imagery, distorted voice for voice-over, flashing imagery.
Maskuline, Dir. Rev Sullivan, 2023, United Kingdom, 6 min
A psychoanalytical pry through the structures that form the creation of a gendered identity.
Content notes: Depiction of body distortion, topless person.
Access notes: Distorted imagery, distorted sound and voice.
at first and then, Dir. Joanne Matthews, 2023, United Kingdom, 15 min
A speculative fiction piece set in a saline world, this work combines photographs, moving images, and sound. It explores a future or alternate dimension through a salted lens, set in an over-salinated beach town. With a queer approach and a nod to 1960s French New Wave, it layers a 35-voice choir with digital sounds, evoking past sci-fi visions of the future.
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Image Credit: Priob, Dir. Choirstaidh NicArtair, 2022