Glasgow Short Film Festival announced the selection for the 2012 competitions. Sixty-nine films will screen across International and Scottish competitions, including five Scottish films which have been selected for both competitions. The selection includes seven World Premieres, one International Premiere, three European Premieres, twenty-one UK Premieres and twenty Scottish Premieres.
Amongst the selected films are two films by Scottish musicians: John Maclean (The Beta Band) presents Pitch Black Heist, featuring Michael Fassbender, and Douglas Hart (The Jesus & Mary Chain) presents his fiction debut Long Distance Information, featuring Peter Mullan. Anarchic American animator Bill Plympton presents Guard Dog Global Jam, an extraordinary remake of his 2005 film Guard Dog, for which he enlisted seventy animators via the internet, each recreating a shot in their own style.
Audience favourite and multi-award winning Las Palmas, by Swedish filmmaker Johannes Nyholm, features a toddler interacting with puppets to hilarious effect. Belgian filmmaker Rachel Lang presents the UK Premiere of her film White Turnips Make It Hard To Sleep, which recently won the prestigious Ingmar Bergman Award at Uppsala Short Film Festival. Kirkcaldy Man, Julian Schwanitz’s haunting documentary in search of champion darts player Jocky Wilson, makes its debut UK screening.
Each competition will be judged by an international jury of filmmakers, curators and writers, who will select the film they consider the most innovative and outstanding work in each programme. Audiences attending competition programmes will have the opportunity to vote for their favourite to win the Audience Award in each competition.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
15 Summers Later
Scottish Premiere / Perdo Collantes / Spain / 2011 / 5 min / Fiction
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UK Premiere / Isamu Hirabayashi / Japan / 2011 / 8 min / Animation
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UK Premiere / Yoo Won-Sang / South Korea / 2010 / 17 min / Fiction
Asylum
Joern Utkilen / UK / 2010 / 17 min / Fiction
Birth of a Nation
UK Premiere / Daya Cahen / Netherlands / 2010 / 10 min / Experimental
Come To Harm
Scottish Premiere / Börkur Sigþórsson / Iceland / 2011 / 18 min / Fiction
Decapoda Shock
Scottish Premiere / Javier Chillon / Spain / 2011 / 9 min / Fiction
The Factory (A Fábrica)
UK Premiere / Aly Muritiba / Brazil / 2011 / 15 min / Fiction
Fini
Scottish Premiere / Jacob Secher Schulsinger / Denmark / 2010 / 29 min / Documentary
Ghosts (Fantasmas)
UK Premiere / André Novais Oliveira / Brazil / 2010 / 11 min / Experimental
Goodbye Mandima (Kwa Heri Mandima)
UK Premiere / Robert-Jan Lacombe / Switzerland / 2010 / 11 min / Documentary
Green Crayons
Scottish Premiere / Kazik Radwanski / Canada / 2010 / 10 min / Fiction
Guard Dog Global Jam
Scottish Premiere / Bill Plympton / USA / 2011 / 6 min / Animation
Huma, Bird of Fortune (Homayeh Saadat)
UK Premiere / Alireza Rofougaran / Iran / 2010 / 4 min / Documentary
I’m Not The Enemy
UK Premiere / Bjørn Melhus / Germany / 2011 / 13 min / Experimental
I’m So Happy (Soy tan feliz)
UK Premiere / Vladimir Duran / Argentina/Colombia / 2011 / 14 min / Fiction
Jimmy
Martin Smith / UK / 2011 / 12 min / Documentary
Killing the Chickens to Scare the Monkeys
UK Premiere / Jens Assur / Sweden / 2011 / 24 min / Fiction
Kin
UK Premiere / L’Atelier Collectif / Belgium / 2010 / 11 min / Animation
Las Palmas
Scottish Premiere / Johannes Nyholm / Sweden / 2011 / 13 min / Fiction
Long Distance Information
Scottish Premiere / Douglas Hart / UK / 2011 / 8 min / Fiction
The Making of Longbird
Scottish Premiere / Will Anderson / UK / 2011 / 15 min / Animation
Maria
European Premiere / Erik Bostedt / UK / 2011 / 15 min / Fiction
Now Follows (Nun Sehen Sie Folgendes)
Scottish Premiere / Erik Schmitt & Stephan Müller / Germany / 2010 / 5 min / Fiction
A Piece of Summer (Kawalek Lata)
Scottish Premiere / Marta Minorowicz / Poland / 2010 / 25 min
Pioneer
Scottish Premiere / David Lowery / USA / 2011 / 16 min / Fiction
Possessed
UK Premiere / Fred Worden / USA / 2010 / 9 min / Experimental
Power!
UK Premiere / Christina Ebelt & Mischa Leinkauf / Germany / 2010 / 28 min / Fiction
Proposal
International Premiere / Chris King / USA / 2011 / 16 min / Fiction
Repressed (Förträngd)
Scottish Premiere / Jimmy Olsson / Sweden / 2010 / 15 min / Fiction
River Rites
UK Premiere / Ben Russell / USA/Suriname / 2011 / 11 min / Experimental
Sergeant (Narednik)
UK Premiere / Nikola Ljuca / Serbia / 2011 / 21 min / Fiction
Shirin
World Premiere / Stephen Fingleton / UK / 2011 / 13 min / Fiction
Silent River (Apele Tac)
Scottish Premiere / Anca Miruna Lazarescu / Germany/Romania / 2011 / 30 min / Fiction
The Stranges Ones (Deux Inconnus)
Scottish Premiere / Lauren Wolkenstein & Christopher Radcliff / France / 2011 / 15 min / Fiction
Three Walls
UK Premiere / Zaheed Mawani / Canada / 2011 / 26 min / Documentary
Tidy Up
European Premiere / Satsuki Okawa / Japan/USA / 2011 / 15 min / Fiction
To Make a Prairie
UK Premiere / James Nares / USA / 2010 / 13 min / Experimental
Tumult
Johnny Barrington / UK / 2011 / 13 min / Fiction
We, the Masses
UK Premiere / Eoghan Kidney / Ireland / 2011 / 13 min / Animation
Where Are They Now?
Joanna Coates / UK / 2011 / 14 min / Fiction
White Turnips Make it Hard to Sleep (Les Navets Blancs Empêchent de Dormir)
UK Premiere / Rachel Lang / France/Belgium / 2011 / 27 min / Fiction
The Wind is Blowing On My Street (Dar Kouche Baad Miayad)
Scottish Premiere / Saba Riazi / Iran / 2010 / 15 min / Fiction
SCOTTISH COMPETITION
Asexual Healing
European Premiere / Martha Appelt / UK / 2010 / 15 min / Fiction
Asylum
Joern Utkilen / UK / 2010 / 17 min / Fiction
Bird
World Premiere / Alasdair Bayne / UK / 2011 / 13 min / Fiction
A Cuillin Rising
Catriona MacInnes / UK / 2011 / 20 min / Fiction
Dogged
Scottish Premiere / Jo Shaw / UK / 2011 / 9 min / Experimental
Egg & Fag
Rose Hendry / UK / 2011 / 2 min / Experimental
Étude
Ania Hazel Leszczynska / UK / 2011 / 4 min / Animation
The Fisherman’s Daughter
Tom Chick / UK / 2011 / 7 min / Fiction
Five, Six, Seven, Eight!
World Premiere / Felipe Bustos Sierra / UK / 2012 / 10 min / Fiction
Fixing Luka
Jessica Ashman / UK / 2011 / 11 min / Animation
The Golden Bird
Cat Bruce / UK / 2011 / 12 min / Animation
Guilt
UK Premiere / Hákon Pálsson / UK / 2011 / 14 min / Fiction
James Dean
Lucy Asten Elliott / UK / 2011 / 8 min / Fiction
Jimmy
Martin Smith / UK / 2011 / 12 min / Documentary
Joking Apart
World Premiere / Ronald Forbes / UK / 2011 / 5 min / Experimental
Kirkcaldy Man
UK Premiere / Julian Schwanitz / UK / 2011 / 18 min / Documentary
The Lady with the Lamp
World Premiere / Duncan Cowles / UK / 2011 / 4 min / Documentary
Long Distance Information
Scottish Premiere / Douglas Hart / UK / 2011 / 8 min / Fiction
The Making of Longbird
Scottish Premiere / Will Anderson / UK / 2011 / 15 min / Animation
Night Shift
Ruth Reid / UK / 2011 / 9 min / Documentary
No More Shall We Part
Scottish Premiere / Shaun Hughes / UK / 2011 / 25 min / Fiction
The Perfect Fit
Tali Yankelevich / UK / 2011 / 9 min / Documentary
Philippa & Nancy
World Premiere / Paul White, Ciara Barry, Claire McInnes & Nora Smyth / UK / 2011 / 8 min / Fiction
The Phone Box
Ian Robertson / UK / 2011 / 5 min / Fiction
Pitch Black Heist
Scottish Premiere / John Maclean / UK / 2011 / 13 min / Fiction
Pouncer
Scottish Premiere / Louis Paxton / UK / 2011 / 15 min / Fiction
The Rule of Thumb
Gregor Johnstone / UK / 2011 / 18 min / Fiction
Saved
Stuart Elliott / UK / 2011 / 11 min / Fiction
Three-Legged Horses
World Premiere / Felipe Bustos Sierra / UK / 2011 / 20 min / Fiction
Tumult
Johnny Barrington / UK / 2011 / 13 min / Fiction
Wind Over Lake
Jeorge Elkin / UK / 2010 / 34 min / Fiction