SQIFF

Feminist Porn Night
2015-09-25 21:00 - 23:00 UTC | 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.
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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.
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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.

Workshop: Show Don't Tell: Scriptwriting For Young People
2015-09-24 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
A screenwriting workshop led by award-winning filmmaker Lucy Holmes-Elliott.
Lucy will focus on the relationship between structure and narrative drive and how to enhance your story-telling skills. Through hands- on exercises, you will discover how to recognise the structures of contemporary film narrative. Once able to break down films into their blueprints, you will learn how and when to follow or flout these rules for maximum narrative effect in your own writing.
Sponsored by LGBT History Month Scotland with funding from Creative Scotland.
BSL interpretation is available on request. Contact alice@sqiff.org if you require this.
For ages 25 and under, suitable for beginners and those with some scriptwriting experience.
Free but ticketed. To book tickets please use the button below or call CCA box office on +44 (0)141 352 4900.

SQIFF Schools: The Year We Thought About Love
2015-09-24 13:00 - 14:45 | Centre for Contemporary Arts, 350 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3JD, United Kingdom
An LGBTQ youth theatre group tour schools in Boston performing shows based on their own personal struggles. Amongst those telling their stories are a transgender teen who has been kicked out her home, a young Christian man challenging his church’s homophobia, and a girl who is bullied for not being feminine enough. A brave, funny, and inspiring look at the lives of queer youths.
LGBT Youth Scotland will host a discussion after the film on young LGBTQ people’s lives and experiences.
The event is suitable for Secondary 1 – 6. The CCA is a fully wheelchair accessible venue. The film is in English and will screen with English subtitles to make the event more accessible for people who are deaf or hard of hearing. There will also be a BSL interpreter available for the introduction and discussion.
Content note: discussion of homophobia, transphobia, and racism; non-graphic discussion of violence.
The event is free for all schools and we are also making free buses available for Glasgow City Council schools. To book a place, email info@sqiff.org with the name of your school and the teacher supervising the trip, the number and year/age of pupils you would like to bring, and whether there are accessibility requirements for anyone attending. Please also let us know if you are a GCC school and would like to make use of a free bus.
Watch trailer for The Year We Thought About Love

Dive In Movie - Pride Hangover
2015-06-21 14:00 - 17:30 | Woodland Creatures, 260-262 Leith Walk, Edinburgh, EH6 5EL, United Kingdom
Special Pride hangover Dive In movie!
SQIFF is teaming up with DIVE Queer Party in Edinburgh to present a special screening of Dancing in Dulais, a short documentary from 1985 on the watershed alliance between queers and striking Welsh miners. The story depicted was the inspiration for the movie Pride.
A mystery feature length film will follow the short!
Hosted by Dive performer Michelle and with free rainbow popcorn included.
*ACCESSIBILITY*
Woodland Creatures is accessible for wheelchair users. We are using a space at the back of the venue about 15 metres from the main front door. Unfortunately, we don’t have a disabled toilet – we are working to find the nearest available one to the venue and will update once we do. If you use a wheelchair and are coming along, please contact Annabel (07713 392 007) so we can reserve a space for you. SQIFF also aims to screen films with subtitles or captions to make them more accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people where possible. The mystery feature will have subtitles but not the short documentary. The feature will start at 3.30pm if you’d like to just come along for that. The event is only open to people aged 18+.
Content note: depiction of homophobia; discussion of HIV- and AIDS-related illness and death; Margaret Thatcher.
If you have any comments or questions about accessibility for this event or SQIFF’s general accessibility policies, please contact info@sqiff.org.
This event is unticketed – just show up on the day!

SQIFF and LEAP Sports Scotland present: In the Turn
2015-06-02 19:00 - 22:00 | The Glad Cafe, 1006a Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41 2HG, United Kingdom
In the Turn (Erica Tremblay, 2013) follows 10 year old Crystal, who’s been banned from taking part in sports at her school because she’s trans. Facing bullying and isolation, Crystal’s life is transformed when her mum introduces her to the Vagine Regime, an international collective of queer roller derby players. A moving portrait of the positive effect inclusivity in sport has on one young person’s life.
Followed by a discussion with special guests on the model roller derby can offer for tackling discrimination in sport.
This event is taking place as part of Leap Sports Scotland Festival Fortnight, 1st to 14th June 2015. For details of more events and activities, click here.
The Glad Cafe is accessible for wheelchair users. We are using the space at the back, about 15 metres from the main front door and accessed via a ramp which is not steep. There is a disabled toilet, which you need to go back up the ramp to access from the back space. If you use a wheelchair, please contact The Glad Cafe on 0141 636 6119 so they can reserve a space for you.
We aim to screen films with subtitles to make them more accessible to deaf and hard of hearing people where possible. However, we were unfortunately not able to do this this time around.
Due to licensing laws, this event is only open to people aged 18+.
Content note: In the Turn includes discussion of transphobic violence and suicide.
For tickets, go to https://eventbrite.co.uk/event/16630927552/.
