SQIFF

Johnny Guitar
2015-09-27 14:15 - 15:55 UTC | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
On the outskirts of a wild west town, saloon owner Vienna is visited by mysterious stranger Johnny and they share a few awkward snogs whilst fighting the bad guys. Never mind the hetero love story, though! This movie is all about the sparklingly tense, violently erotic relationship between Vienna and her rival Emma. Add in bisexual director Nicholas Ray’s heavily choreographed but soaring and boundary-smashing style, and you have a film ripe for reclaiming as a queer classic.
Content note: 1950s Hollywood-style gun fights and death.
Screening with English subtitles.
£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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Africa In Motion Presents: Dakan
2015-09-27 14:00 - 15:55 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Manga and Sory are two young men passionately in love but their parents forbid them to see each other. They are forced to reconcile their love for their families with their seemingly invincible feelings for one another within a society filled with taboos.
With an introduction by Joseph a. Adesunloye, filmmaker and programmer of African cinema at the South by South screening programme at South London Gallery. This event is kindly sponsored by Africa in Motion.
Content note: depiction of homophobia.
£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.

Activity: SQIFF For Kids
2015-09-27 13:30 - 16:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A mega-fun kids takeover featuring a drop-in stop-motion animation workshop, a make-up and dressing-up corner, LGBTI and queer books, and arts and crafts.
BSL interpretion is available on request. Contact alice@sqiff.org if you require this.
The stop-motion workshop will be led by experienced tutor Kate Burton and is suitable for all levels. Activities will be tailored for people aged under-14 but older kids and adults may come along providing they behave themselves!
Free, non-ticketed.

Workshop: TransActing
2015-09-27 12:30 - 15:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A 3 hour workshop for trans and/or non-binary people giving an example session from the TransActing project, a collaboration between Gendered Intelligence, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and My Genderation. The first half hour will give a brief introduction and overview of the project, its key questions, and some examples of people’s experiences while participating. Followed by a 2 and a half hour acting master class led by one of the project tutors.
BSL interpretion is available on request. Contact alice@sqiff.org if you require this.
No experience of acting is required but people with experience are also welcome to attend. For ages 16+. Free but ticketed. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
Kindly sponsored by the Scottish Transgender Alliance.

Free Family Film: Maleficent
2015-09-27 12:15 - 13:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Maleficent, a powerful fairy, lives in a magical forest realm bordering a corrupt human kingdom. As a child, she falls in love with Stefan but after he betrays her, they become enemies and Maleficent turns bitter and cranky. With the aid of Stefan’s daughter, Aurora, and gay sidekick, Diaval the raven, the angry fairy must learn to love again. A queer re-imagining of Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty, starring Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning.
Content note: battle scenes; a few scary bits!
Free. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.
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SQIFF Shorts: I, You, Her
2015-09-27 12:00 - 13:40 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
What would a programme of specifically feminist queer short films look like? We put one together and found the result focusing on relationships – between mothers and daughters, lesbian and queer romantic and sexual partners, trans women and cisgender society, black women and white society, women and their BDSM desires, women and masculinity, and between queers facing each other down over an arm wrestling match!
Each film in this programme will be entered into an award kindly sponsored by the Centre for Gender and Feminist Studies at Stirling University and voted for by the audience at the end of the screening.
Content note: discussion of misogyny, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and sexual violence.
Screening with English subtitles.
£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.

Full Programme
I, You, Her (18m)
Dir. Zeynep Oral, Country: Turkey, Year: 2012
Two women from Turkey, Demet and Selma, explore how to survive in a misogynist and conservative society whilst trans. They refuse to play by patriarchal rules and reflect on the power of religion, government, and dominant ideologies, which impact trans women in their country.
FU377 (5m)
Dir. Neelu Bhuman, Country: UK, Year: 2014
The dignity of queer people in India is under attack through Section 377, which the Supreme Court recently re-introduced, re-criminalising ‘gay sex.’ Meanwhile, an adorable Indian mother is totally down with gay sex and wheels out some choice lines for her heartbroken queer daughter in an effort to cheer her up.
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#BlackWomensLivesMatter (4m)
Dir. Xhercis Méndez, Country: USA, Year: 2014
The poetic affirmation of #BlackWomensLivesMatter shows us how to transform systemic devaluation.
Couple Time (6m)
Dir. Selina Robertson, Country: UK, Year: 2015
A suitcase full of Super 8 memories from Berlin.
Push Me (25m)
Dir. Tove Pills, Country: Sweden, Year: 2014
Siri feels frustrated about not daring to do what she wants and dreams about. Her fantasy is to dominate someone else sexually and her best friend Lee is trying to help her get rid of her fears and explore her desires.
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Female Masculinity Appreciation Society (12m)
Dir. Angie West and Jackie Nunns, Country: UK, Year: 2014
The Female Masculinity Appreciation Society is a gentlemen’s club of sorts. Follow Cookie and Foxy Ven in their quest to reach the arm-wrestling finals, discover the reason behind Rubyyy’s ginger moustache, and judge for yourself the winner of best Dapper wear. Filmed at Wotever World in London’s iconic queer pub, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

Lock Up Your Daughters
2015-09-26 22:00 | Drygate Brewing Co, 85 Drygate, Glasgow, G4 0UT, United Kingdom
Previously long-running club night Lock Up Your Daughters don’t get back on the horse for just anyone but SQIFF has def piqued our interest. In celebration of its inaugural Festival, LUYD invites all you film fatales to a one-night stand you will not forget. Hell, stick around long enough and we might even make you breakfast.
Come and get hott on the dancefloor to all the nastyass tunes, courtesy of:
LOCK UP YOUR DJS
Kaleidoscope
TrysT
£6 / £4 before 11pm or with SQIFF ticket stub. Tickets for Lock Up Your Daughters are only available on the night at Drygate. If you are unemployed or seeking asylum and would like to put your name down to attend for free, please contact alice@sqiff.org.

Lock Up Your Mothers: Desperate Living
2015-09-26 21:00 - 22:35 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Neurotic urban housewife Peggy Gravel goes on the run with her maid Grizelda after the latter smothers Peggy’s husband Bosley to death. The two are arrested by a cross-dressing policeman, who gives them an ultimatum: go to jail or be exiled to Mortville, a squalid shantytown ruled by the evil Queen Carlotta and her treasonous daughter, Princess Coo-Coo. The pair choose Mortville and become embroiled in the attempts of the town’s motley crew of criminals, nudists, and sexual deviants to overthrow Carlotta. A comedy of the truly grotesque, this is one of John Waters’ filthiest!
Content note: we wouldn’t even know where to begin…
£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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SQIFF Shorts: Anxiety Sucks
2015-09-26 20:45 - 22:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Negotiating dating when you’re genderqueer; the repercussions of modern technology on your sex and love lives; being scared to hold hands in public; trying not to squish the tomatoes you’re balancing whilst doing a waltz; working out if the person you’re snorting drugs with in a club toilet is also gay; and seeing Jesus on a young man you fancy’s swimming trunks. There is a never-ending list of anxieties the modern queer has to deal with and this selection of shorts painfully and hilariously explores just a few.
Content note: discussion and depiction of homophobia and genderqueer-phobia.
Screening with English subtitles.
£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.

Full Programme
Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure (13m)
Dir. Sam Berliner, Country: USA, Year: 2013
Dating Sucks: A Genderqueer Misadventure is Episode 1 of an animated documentary webseries about the successes, failures, and incredible confusion of trying to date as a genderqueer/trans person.
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Phone Me Don’t Write (3m)
Dir. Elly Clarke, Countries: USA/Germany, Years: 2013-15
A short film (and song) about love, sex, loneliness, and relationships in the era of instant communications.
Waltzing Tomatoes (4m)
Dir. Coffee+Sponge, Country: UK, Year: 2013
Waltzing Tomatoes sees performance collaboration Coffee+Sponge attempt to dance with each other over various terrains and under diverse conditions all while holding tomatoes between their fingertips.
I want to see you from a different perspective (3m)
Dir. Elly Clarke, Countries: Canada/UK, Year: 2014
A song about trying and failing to change a person you are in a relationship with.
Aquarium (3m)
Dir. Yonatan Tal, Country: USA, Year: 2015
A closeted guy goes with his secret boyfriend to the aquarium. A cute animation about the nerves that go with displaying affection in public when you’re queer.
Instantaneous Culture (3m)
Dir. Elly Clarke, Country: Germany, Years: 2013-14
A ballad about love in a time of mobile phones, about wanting, longing, desiring but not really getting. Talk versus action, song versus stillness, and some great lingerie to go with it.
Followers (12m)
Dir. Tim Marshall, Countries: UK/Australia, Year: 2015
When an elderly woman sees a vision of Jesus on the shorts of a young man at her swimming class, she befriends him, believing God has sent him to free her from loneliness.
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Mirrors (12m)
Dir. Neil Ely, Country: UK, Year: 2015
In the toilet of a Manchester nightclub, two young men (played by Shameless’ Jody Latham and Skins’ Liam Boyle) catch each other’s eye. As they reveal their feelings to one another, they find that their lives mirror each other in more ways than one.

Lock Up Your Mothers: What Have I Done To Deserve This?
2015-09-26 19:00 - 20:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
The life of a housewife in 1980s Madrid according to director Pedro Almodóvar. Queer cinema icon Carmen Maura plays the put- upon Gloria, who lives in a small apartment with her cold and violent husband, two kids- one of whom is gay and the other a drug dealer – her exhausting mother-in-law, and an errant lizard named Money. One day, Gloria decides to fight back…
Content note: Almodóvar’s trademark comedic and satirical approach to patriarchal violence in Spain.
Screening with English subtitles.
£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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Scottish Transgender Alliance Presents: Peace Of Mind
2015-09-26 18:15 - 20:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A document of the life of American artist Flo McGarrell, who lived in Haiti before his death in an earthquake which hit the country in 2010. Locals discuss Flo’s reception as a trans man and his impact on the community art and queer movements which were developing through the FOSAJ Art Centre in Jacmel where he worked. Director Cary Cronenwett explores the legacy of his friend in a poetic, personal look at art, politics, and love in the life of a queer activist.
We are pleased that Cary Cronenwett will join us after the film for a Q&A. Kindly sponsored by the Scottish Transgender Alliance.
Content note: discussion of homophobia, transphobia, and racism; interviewees making homophobic and transphobic comments; non-graphic discussion of death through natural disaster.
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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Leap Sports Scotland Presents: Scrum
2015-09-26 17:00 - 18:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
An intimate look at the Sydney Convicts, a gay men’s rugby team in Australia. We follow their journey as individual members share their personal experiences as gay men whilst vying for a place in the final line-up.
Screening with True Wheel, a short about Fender Bender, a queer bicycle workshop collective in Detroit.
Leap Sports Scotland will host a panel after the film exploring the ideas behind having separate LGBTI sports groups.
Content note: discussion of mental health issues, childhood bullying, homophobia, and racism.
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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SQIFF Shorts: Cruising Utopia
2015-09-26 16:30 - 18:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Featuring work from the likes of Abigail Child and Kenneth Anger, this provocative programme of experimental shorts explores queerness by way of slippery, internal rhythms, wild embodiment, black leather, and deep dreaming.
Join us as we leap into a world of new spaces, future possibilities, and queer critiques of liberal capitalism.
Screening with English subtitles.
£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.

Full Programme
O Happy Day (5m)
Dir. Charles Lofton, Country: USA, Year: 1996
O Happy Day imagines the early days of gay liberation for black gay men. Lofton juxtaposes images of black men from late 60s and early 70s films with images of Black Panther Party demonstrations as a way of intentionally revising history. The soundtrack is punctuated by a 1970 quotation from Black Panther leader Huey Newton:   ”There’s nothing to say that a homosexual cannot also be a revolutionary. Quite on the contrary, maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary…
Mercy (10m)
Dir. Abigail Child, Country: USA, Year: 1989
Abigail Child composes a rhythmic collage of found footage, drawing heavily on images of women within popular culture that foreground the treatment of the body as a mechanised instrument. She toes an exquisite line between symmetry and asymmetry, both loose and taught – articulating a movement into, through, and potentially out of the maelstrom of the modern capitalist machine.
Scorpio Rising (30m)
Dir. Kenneth Anger, Country: USA, Year: 1964
A fetishistic opera of sex and death from a high priest of queer experimental cinema. Anger’s parodic yet empathetic recasting of popular consumer culture sees rival biker gangs evoke the bygone spirit of the mythic American cowboy.
Plutonium Blonde (15m)
Dir. Sandra Lahire, Country: UK, Year: 1987
A beautiful, evocative, and quietly psychedelic work from feminist filmmaker Sandra Lahire. Part of a trilogy of mixed-genre films dealing with the potential dangers of nuclear power, Plutonium Blonde is an intensely personal film that manipulates the materiality of 16mm film – its colour, grain, and techniques of superimposition – to equate the machinery of a plutonium reactor to the human body, and question the political and economic construction of female identity.
Chumlum (23m)
Dir. Ron Rice, Country: USA, Year: 1964
A woozy and mercurial reverie through a baroque dreamscape of kaleidoscopic superimpositions. A cast of ethereal characters, unmoored from Jack Smith’s Normal Love, weave in and out of one another’s spaces, minds, and bodies. One of the queer underground’s most influential films.

Fabulous Femmes
2015-09-26 15:00 - 17:30 | Glasgow Women’s Library, 23 Landressy Street, Glasgow, G40 1BP, United Kingdom
SQIFF presents an investigation into all things femme. Documentary FtF: Female to Femme combines humour and personal history in celebrating queer femme identities, reimagining them as radical gender journeys. Screening alongside a selection of shorts examining a variety of perspectives, including trans, genderqueer, and working class femme experiences.
Featuring an introduction and discussion by SQIFF’s resident femme expert Dr Leanne Dawson and a performance by feminist artiste Bird La Bird.
Content note: discussion of femme-phobia; parody of activist support meetings.
£5 / £4 conc / Free to unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below.
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Scottish Transgender Alliance Presents: Something Must Break
2015-09-26 14:15 - 16:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Shy Sebastian is in the process of working out their gender identity when they meet and fall for rebellious Andreas. Trans-identifying director Ester Martin Bergsmark’s (She Male Snails) first fictional feature is a visually stunning and emotionally intense look at romance and eroticism through the eyes of a young queer person.
Screening with short film The Dummy and followed by a discussion about trans representation in cinema.
Kindly sponsored by the Scottish Transgender Alliance.
Content note: depiction of transphobia, including slightly graphic transphobic violence; ambiguous scenes of sexual humiliation.
Screening with English subtitles. Post-film discussion 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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Alive!
2015-09-26 14:00 - 16:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Five men who are HIV positive take a week-long course preparing them for a solo parachute jump. As they embark on the challenge, they bond and share stories about sex and relationships, and fears and anxieties about their illness. An intense but warm atmosphere develops and the men’s training builds to a climax as they prepare for the jump.
Screening with No Face, an experimental short about gay men’s self-image.
Alive!‘s director Vincent Boujon will be joining us after the film for a Q&A thanks to the kind
sponsorship of Alliance Française Glasgow.
Content note: discussion of homophobia and the mental and emotional distress caused by living with HIV.
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.

A Gay Girl In Damascus: The Amina Profile
2015-09-26 12:15 - 13:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
An online relationship between Montreal-based Sandra and Amina, a Syrian-American living in Damascus, takes a strange turn when Amina’s blog, claiming to represent a lesbian voice, goes silent and it is feared she has been kidnapped. All, however, is not as it seems… Director Sophie Deraspe works closely with Sandra to tell her story and, travelling to Istanbul, Tel Aviv, and Chicago, they unravel together a tale of politics, deceit, and internet dating gone horribly wrong.
Content note: discussion of homophobia and racism.
Screening with English subtitles.
£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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SQIFF Shorts: Escaping Into Common Places
2015-09-26 12:00 - 13:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A selection of short films by and about people who are trans, non-binary, and/or intersex.
Trans and intersex bodies float under water, clash with western history, and get inked;
a trans woman in Turkey builds her own identity whilst reacting to and rejecting that
of mainstream media; and a trans guy in Australia buys a blow-up replica version of
himself from the supermarket.
Each film will be entered into an award kindly sponsored by the Scottish Transgender
Alliance and voted for by the audience at the end of the screening.
Content note: depiction and discussion of transphobia and phobia towards non-binary, intersex, and genderqueer people.
Screening with English subtitles.
£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.

Full Programme
Black is Blue (16m)
Dir. Cheryl Dunye, Country: USA, Year: 2014
Black is Blue tells the story of Black, an African American trans man who works as a security guard inside an apartment complex in California. We quietly follow Black over the course of his typical day, a journey that reveals how Black’s past life is always in the back of his mind.
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Mymy (14m)
Dir. Anna Helme, Country: Australia, Year: 2014
In a mythic cyberfeminist universe, a frustrated young man yearns for affinity and connection. In an age of digital avatars, he crafts a version of himself that is far more corporeal – by stitching together parts of himself to become his own cyborg twin. However, his new clone has been corrupted by a techno-magick virus…
Escaping into Common Places, having Gothic Adventures in the Neoclassical and Other Ages. Or: My Life is Framed by You. (6m)
Dir. Mijke Drift / Alex Reuter, Country: Netherlands, Year: 2014
Told entirely in still frames and voice-over, a nude person appears in various poses in Amsterdam’s public spaces. Escaping into Common Places addresses the simultaneous hypervisibility and erasure of trans* bodies.
Float (5m)
Dir. Sam Berliner, Country: USA, Year: 2015
Float is a celebratory experiment shot completely underwater and depicting trans and genderqueer folk swimming naked set to music by musician Rae Spoon.
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God’s Mistake (23m)
Dir. Anna Savchenko and Eva Matarranz, Country: Slovenia, Year: 2014
Salomé, a trans woman, singer, and entertainer, discusses her childhood in Yugoslavia and her experiences as an adult. She chats to friends, her audience, the camera, and her tattooist about psychiatrists’ threats, military service, school, her mother, and religion.
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Swanicorn (9m)
Dir. Jaq Nguyen Victor, USA, 2015
A genderqueer ugly duckling emerges from the shell of oppression and heartbreak into a sparkling fairytale Swanicorn full of hope.

Discussion: Queer Film In Focus
2015-09-26 10:30 - 13:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
We invite a selection of the guests and filmmakers attending the Festival to share their experiences and thoughts on approaching queer film. Several panel discussions will look at different approaches to queer filmmaking and the role of film festivals and programming in LGBTI culture.
This aims to be an open and accessible event, providing an opportunity for people of all backgrounds and levels of knowledge to share their ideas.
This event will be BSL interpreted.
Free but ticketed. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Dive x Polyester Lick Out
2015-09-25 23:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Edinburgh’s finest purveyors of weirdo cabaret and decadent performance parties – DIVE – lock lips with sisters from a different mister POLYESTER for the first time eva!
A specially curated mix of high-octane performance, immersive live art, and eclectic music with Polyester DJs, your host Miss Annabel Sings, and a kaleidoscope of acts from all corners of the rainbow including:
Sychophantasy
Matthew Williams
Techno/anthro mixing from MODIFIER & ALTERED MODE
Bondage live art from SKINNY REDHEAD
BIRD LA BIRD presents ‘The People’s Pussy’
And King of Drag DIANE TORR
All acts will be BSL interpreted.
Expect your bits to quiver.
“Offbeat and Innovative… Dive is in at number 78 in The List TOP 100”
The List
£10 / £8 Conc (or with SQIFF ticket stub) + £1 booking fee. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Feminist Porn Night
2015-09-25 21:00 - 23:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Is it possible to make ‘feminist porn’?
By creating and watching pornography that challenges the ingrained sexual stereotypes of the mainstream adult film industry, can we use this sexually radical filmmaking as a kind of weapon? Reversing gender clichés, pushing boundaries, and empowering. And can we get off on that?! Join us for an evening of discussion, provocation… and PORN.
We will screen a selection of work followed by a discussion with directors Marit Östberg, Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, and Eric Pussyboy. Curated by Marie Lidén and hosted by Emily Benita.
Content note: hardcore porn and extreme scenarios.
Over 18’s only.
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.

Full Programme

On Your Back Woman! (5m)
Dir. Maja Borg, Year: 2009
An investigation of modern female sexuality exposing the ‘lady machismo’, a sadomasochistic contest that leaves the spectator in a burlesque dance of willpower, compassion, pain, physical, and emotional strength.
Marit (22m)
Dir. Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo, Year: 2014
A video essay featuring Marit Östberg candidly exploring the sexual politics of both mainstream ideologies and her own films as a feminist activist probing representations of the nuclear family, queer bodies, and desires that exist apart from hetero-normative practices and aesthetics. Östberg’s musings also investigate porn as a feminist activist medium and the subject of “exoticism” as a form of racism.
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Authority (16m)
Dir. Marit Östberg, Year: 2009
A women is caught by a copy in the act of painting graffiti. She runs from the scene with the cop close behind. Perhaps the police officer knows her own fate when she sets off on the chase. Perhaps she succumbs to the will of the graffiti girl. Clearly, somebody needs to be punished.
Neurosex Pornoia, Episode 2 (11m)
Dir. Eric Pussyboy & Abigail Gnash, Year: 2015
Z_1021 is caught in a spiral of desperation and frustration, imprisoned in a neurologically improved society. The only release for the likes of Z_1021 are the Neurosex-Codes, around which an underground network of users and secret online infrastructure has developed.
Watch trailer for Neurosex Pornoia, Episode 2
Shave Me, Mirror Me (33m)
Dir. Lasse Rusk, Year: 2015
A transsensual erotic movie about wanting to kill your inner man and be reborn into mother earth.
Ladybeard (2m)
Dir. Marit Östberg, Year: 2014
Hair and pearls. Everything finally ends where it belongs. The cunt has the cake and eats it too.

Ghost In The Shell
2015-09-25 19:00 - 21:15 | Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Centre, 9 University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, United Kingdom
SOLD OUT- MORE TICKETS MAY BE AVAILABLE ON THE NIGHT
A female cyborg cop and her partner hunt a mysterious and powerful hacker called the Puppet Master in a future where humanity shifts between flesh and machine. While sometimes read as subverting fixed ideas about gender and sexuality, Mamoru Oshii’s anime classic also appears to centre bodies which are always either male or (graphically) female.
Preceded by short film elf by Amy van Houten: elf – an Efficient Life Form – is an android on a quest for feeling in the City of Johannesburg.
Screening as part of Explorathon, Scotland’s European Researchers’ Night and followed by a discussion led by Dr Steven Greer on what – if anything – is queer about the cyborg.
Content note: animated depiction of graphic violence and death.
Screening with English subtitles.
Free but ticketed. To book tickets please use the button below.

Seduction: The Cruel Woman
2015-09-25 18:45 - 20:10 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Loosely inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch’s (after whom ‘masochism’ is named) book Venus in Furs, filmmakers Monika Treut and Elfi Mikesch’s take features a dominatrix called Wanda, who runs a Hamburg art gallery where audiences pay to watch sadomasochistic performances. The boundaries between Wanda’s personal and professional lives blur as three people vie for her affections and she plays them off against each other: her American ‘trainee’ Justine, shoe-fetishist Caren, and her simpering ex-husband Gregor. A bold look at the crossover between art and S&M.
Content note: surreal and ambiguous scenes of sexual humiliation.
Screening with English subtitles.
£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.

Workshop: Feminist Porn Night
2015-09-25 18:00 - 20:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
SOLD OUT – MORE TICKETS MAY BE AVAILABLE FROM BOX OFFICE ON THE DAY
Filmmaker Marit Östberg will share her experiences of creating feminist porn and lead the group through a discussion on the joys, desires, politics, and production of porn. Marit is a filmmaker and artist from Sweden. Her visual world has been described as uncompromising – uncompromisingly current and uncompromisingly sexy. She is part of the queer feminist porn scene that has developed in Europe in the last decade and her films have been featured and discussed at film festivals all over the world.
The aim of the session is to create a safe space encouraging scrutiny of alternative aesthetics of desire, body, and sexuality through the medium of film.
Over 18’s only.
BSL interpretation is available on request. Contact alice@sqiff.org if you require this.
Free but ticketed. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

This workshop is followed by our Feminist Porn Night screening, featuring films by Marit and other contemporary queer filmmakers.

SQIFF Shorts: Queer Activism
2015-09-25 16:45 - 18:15 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Films about activism and films as activism. Sins Invalid is a performance project incubating and celebrating artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, its performances have explored sexuality, beauty, and the disabled body. We’re screening Sins Invalid’s shorts Disability Justice for Palestine, Sins Invalid: an Unashamed Claim to Beauty, and Pussy Vinaigrette alongside a selection of other activism-focused work.
Ernestine Cath from Sins Invalid will join us for a Q&A after the films.
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.

Full Programme

Disability Justice for Palestine (1m)
Dir. Sins Invalid and Micah Bazant, Country: USA, Year: 2014
Disability Justice for Palestine is a Public Service Announcement created by Sins Invalid during the extended attacks on Gaza in the Summer of 2014. “We add our words and faces to a movement for global solidarity with the people of Palestine, articulating the struggle for Palestinian liberation as a disability justice issue.”
Trans*march (5m)
Dir. Simon Schultz von Dratzig, Countries: Germany/Canada, Year: 2013
As the most politicized of the three marches during Pride week in San Francisco, trans*march, which has been running for ten years, has a tradition of raising visibility of a marginalised group within queer culture. This documentary records queer voices during the 2013 march and reflects political discussions concerning trans* and LGBT movements.
Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty (33m)
Dir. Patty Berne, Country: USA, Year: 2013
A documentary about a performance project celebrating artists with disabilities, centralising artists of colour and queer and gender-variant artists. Since 2006, Sins Invalid’s performances have explored sexuality, beauty and the disabled body, providing an entryway into the taboo topic of sexuality and disability.
Watch trailer for Sins Invalid: An Unashamed Claim to Beauty
Finding Each Other (4m)
Dir. Shirley Hsin*I Liu, Country: USA, Year: 2015
A trio of queer friends discover that finding others belonging to the same marginalised identities within LGBT culture makes all the difference. A meditation on the significance of community within activism.
Until Justice Rolls (4m)
Dir. Krissy Mahan, Country: USA, Year: 2013
Faggotgirl, a butch dyke superhero action figure, and her friend Robot want to meet for a drink. But the New York City public transportation system is barely accessible for people with different kinds of bodies and their journey is thwarted by stairs, gaps, and poorly maintained curbs.
Pussy Vinaigrette (3m)
Dir. Patty Berne, Country: USA, Year: 2011
The Gimp Gourmet prepares a very special recipe! Starring, written by and with fruit carving by Puerto Rican Jewish writer and poet Aurora Levins Morales. Does activist filmmaking have room for this much sexiness…?

Open Windows
2015-09-25 14:15 - 16:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
In Madrid and Paris, Boti, Empar, Micheline, and Jocelyne, four lesbian women in their seventies, talk about their fears and desires. Their sex and love lives past and present are a focus alongside their involvement in LGBT activism and their relationship with age. A beautiful testimony on the experience of aging as a queer woman.
Screening with Are We Being Served?, a short film in which older LGBTI people in Scotland discuss their experiences.
Accompanied by a discussion after the films on the lives of older LGBTI people led by members of Glasgow LGBT Health & Wellbeing’s 50+ group.
Content note: discussion of homophobia and ageism.
Screening with English subtitles. Post-film discussion 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.
Watch trailer for Open Windows

Workshop: Filmmaking With Campbell X
2015-09-25 14:00 - 16:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Campbell X wrote their Radical Film Manifesto as an artist’s Call to Arms, so that anyone who didn’t see images of themselves represented could know it was possible to create their own film anyway. As so-called minority people, there are barriers to telling stories or owning the stories that are told.
These barriers can make us afraid to take risks in our art. It’s ok to feel afraid. It’s normal to feel your ideas aren’t good enough. This workshop will help you to go out and do it anyway. Bring your film ideas to the workshop to get inspired to go out and make something!
BSL interpretation is available on request. Contact alice@sqiff.org if you require this.
Over 18’s only. Free but ticketed. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Frangipani
2015-09-25 12:00 - 13:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
Frangipani depicts a love triangle between three young people in a small village in Sri
Lanka.
Chamath is trying to avoid a traditional marriage and is drawn to free-spirited Sarasi. When newcomer Nalin arrives in their village, Sarasi falls for him but so, in the end, does Chamath. Social pressures weigh on all three, increasing the tensions and strain of the love triangle.
Screening with short film Eden, a bisexual tale of eating the forbidden fruit.
Content note: depiction of homophobia.
£5/£4 Conc/Free to 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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Opening Gala: Dyke Hard
2015-09-24 20:30 - 22:00 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A failed lesbian rock group try to revive their fortunes by travelling to a Battle of the Bands competition in the big city. Along the way, they must fend off cyborgs, ghosts, a gang of roller derby girls, ninjas, and an evil billionaire who tries to thwart their every move. SQIFF proudly presents the UK premiere of this camp-trash John Waters-esque musical-action-horror-sci-fi-comedy.
We are very happy that director Bitte Andersson will be joining us for a Q&A after the film followed by a drinks soirée and lesbian rock and punk tunes from DJ Sycophantasy.
Content note: a few gross-out comedy violence moments.
Screening with English subtitles. Intro and 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.
Watch trailer for Dyke Hard

SQIFF Shorts: Whose Identity Is It Anyway?
2015-09-24 18:30 - 19:30 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
A gay man seeks asylum in the Czech Republic and must endure an absurd entry exam, a genderqueer woman confronts society’s prejudices when she shaves her head, members of a UK organisation for LGBT Muslim people describe the group’s history, and two football players give their best pantomime performance of heterosexuality…
A selection of shorts exploring some of the struggles, intersections, and variety of queer
identities.
Content note: discussion and depiction of homophobia, transphobia, and racism.
Screening with English subtitles.
£5 / £4 conc / Free to unemployed and asylum seekers. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

Full Programme
The Return (22m)
Dir. Yohann Kouam, Country: France, Year: 2013
Willy thought he knew everything about his big brother Théo but when the latter arrives back on the housing estate where they live after a year’s absence, Willy discovers a secret about him…
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Jean (6m)
Dir. Anna Stypko, Country: USA, Year: 2013
A delightful eccentric has a haircut that transcends age and gender expectations. Set in the run-down Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia, local artist Jean talks about her shoes, hairstyle choices, and why she changed her name.
The Usual (5m)
Dir. Ruth McNally, Country: Ireland, Year: 2014
In a small country pub, three Irish farmers are enjoying an afternoon’s drink when an unusual stranger walks in. His curious behaviour entertains them for a while but they won’t want someone like him hanging around their local for too long.
Imaan – This is the Beginning (7m)
Dir. Faizan Fiaz, Country: UK, Year: 2014
Founded in London in 1999, Imaan is a peer support group for LGBT Muslims in the UK. Director Faizan Fiaz’s film delves into the history of the group, how it evolved, and how it has met the challenges that face this particular community.
Kuhani (7m)
Dir. Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Countries: Nigeria/Uganda/USA, Year: 2013
An experimental film inspired by Ugandan Catholic priest Father Anthony Musaala’s open letter to the church titled “The Failure of Celibate Chastity among Diocesan Priests.” Father Musaala is one of many Ugandans who have been persecuted as a result of the country’s recently introduced Anti-Homosexuality Act.
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Playing the Game (8m)
Dir. Jeremy Timings, Country: UK, Year: 2014
An intriguing slice of East London life circa 1990, Playing the Game explores the thorny issue of sexual identity within working class football culture.
Das Phallometer (7m)
Dir. Tor Iben, Country: Germany, Year: 2014
A refugee is taken into custody at an open border crossing. During his interrogation, he admits to being gay and is subjected to an absurd entry examination – a so-called ‘phallometric test,’ which was used in real life up until recently in the Czech Republic.
