Southside Film Festival 2015 Programme

THU 08 OCT —— SUN 11 OCT 2015
• Imagined Scenes / 3rd — 17th Oct /
Various cafes & shops in the Southside / FREE
Sun 11 Oct:
• Resistance Recipes: Palestinian food & film /
12.30pm / Toryglen Community Base / FREE
• DIY Archive Workshop / 1pm-5pm /
The Glad Foundation / FREE
• How to write a film review with Siobhan Synot /
2pm / The Glad Foundation / FREE
• Scotland on screen / 2pm / The Glad Cafe / FREE
• Southside Filmmaker Screening & Award /
4.30pm / The Glad Cafe / FREE
• The Harder They Come – with Jamacian food /
6.30pm / Rum Shack / £15
• Local Pick / 8pm / The Glad Cafe / £6 / £5
• Man with a Movie Camera with live Wurlitzer /
8pm / Pollokshaws Burgh Hall / £8 / £6
LOST CINEMAS OF GLASGOW: ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY / IMAGINED SCENES /
OPENING RECEPTION & LOCAL FILM ARCHIVE / PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP / SUNSET BOULEVARD /
MADELEINE / THE GORBALS STORY / FINDING VIVIAN MAIER / BIG GOLD DREAM / MUCH ADO ABOUT GOVAN /
HUGO / THE SCOTTISH CO-OP AND EARLY CINEMA / MANDY MCINTOSH AND THE WOMENS UNIT /
TRANSIT ARTS / MAKING IN THE MOVIES / UNITED WE WILL SWIM...AGAIN! / THAT SINKING FEELING /
RESISTANCE RECIPES: PALESTINIAN FOOD & FILM / DIY ARCHIVE WORKSHOP / HOW TO WRITE A FILM
REVIEW WITH SIOBHAN SYNOT / SCOTLAND ON SCREEN / SOUTHSIDE FILMMAKER SCREENING & AWARD /
THE HARDER THEY COME / LOCAL PICK / MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA WITH LIVE WURLITZER
Exhibitions:
• Lost Cinemas of Glasgow /
29th Sep — 26th Oct / The Glad Cafe / FREE
Sat 10 Oct:
• Hugo / 10.30am / Queen’s Park Church /
All tickets £5 / babies FREE
• The Scottish Co-op and Early Cinema /
12pm / The Glad Foundation / FREE
• Mandy McIntosh And The Womens Unit /
2pm / The Glad Foundation / FREE
• Transit Arts / outside Govanhill Baths /
2pm-5pm / FREE
• Making in the Movies / Govanhill Baths /
10.30am-6pm / FREE
• United We Will Swim... Again! / 7pm /
Govanhill Baths / FREE
• That Sinking Feeling / Govanhill Baths /
8.30pm / £6 / £5
Southside Film Festival started in 2011 as a response to the lack of a local cinema or film screenings
in the Southside of Glasgow. Four years later the festival reflects on the continued lack of a local
cinema with the theme of cinema heritage and film archive. The 2015 edition again turns Southside
spaces into ‘pop up’ cinemas providing a wide range of site specific or unique film screenings, talks,
exhibitions and workshops - all at affordable prices or free. Enjoy our fifth film festival!
Karen O’Hare, Director,
Southside Film Festival
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Britain on Film is supported by
Unlocking Film Heritage awarding
funds from The National Lottery
bfi.org.uk/britain-on-film
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At at Glance Guide
Thu 08 Oct:
• Opening Reception, Talk & Screening /
7pm / The Glad Cafe / FREE
Fri 09 Oct:
• Putting Pants on Philip / 2.30pm /
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall / FREE
• Sunset Boulevard / 3pm /
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall / £6 / £5
• Madeleine – with rustic French food /
Pollok House / 6.30pm / £30
• The Gorbals Story / St Francis
Community Centre / 8pm / £8 / £6
• Finding Vivian Maier / 8pm /
Queen’s Park Camera Club / £6 / £5
• Big Gold Dream & gig / 8pm /
The Glad Cafe / £8 / £6
• Much Ado About Govan / 8pm /
Kinning Park Complex / FREE
THU 08 OCT:
OPENING RECEPTION
(Suitable for all)
The Glad Cafe, 8th Oct
Talk on Lost Cinemas of Glasgow
exhibition & local film archive screening
Reception/opening 7pm
Talk/screening 8pm, FREE
Former Waverley cinema, Shawlands
EXHIBITIONS:
LOST CINEMAS OF GLASGOW:
ARCHITECTURE AND SOCIETY The Glad Cafe
29th Sep — 26th Oct
Subject to opening hours, FREE
This exhibition of Southside cinema buildings
is a unique insight into how cinemas once played
an influential role in everyday Glaswegians lives.
The fates of Glasgow’s 160 former cinema
buildings range from demolition to dereliction
to transformation; today functioning at times
in new social roles, yet holding memories of
a forgotten past. This exhibition is a special
Southside selection of historical cinemas which
serves as a poignant reminder of the absence
of a cinema building in Glasgow’s Southside.
Thanks to Glasgow City Heritage Trust.
IMAGINED SCENES
Various cafes & shops in the Southside
3rd — 17th Oct
Subject to opening hours, FREE
Come along to our opening reception to help
us warm the festival, pick up a programme
and enjoy a talk on Southside Glasgow cinemas
and cinema going from Glasgow City Heritage
Trust Intern, Erin Walter, who researched and
designed the Lost Cinemas of Glasgow exhibition.
Followed by a screening of local films submitted
to the festival depicting the area and cinema going
before the last cinema closed in the Southside in
2001. Go to: southsidefilm.co.uk for film details.
SUNSET BOULEVARD
PLANTATION PRODUCTIONS
CREATE CREW PRESENT: MUCH ADO ABOUT GOVAN
(PG, 110 mins, 1950)
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, 9th Oct 3pm
£6 full price/£5 concession
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle,
Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station
in 1930s Paris. Hugo’s job is to oil and maintain
the station’s clocks, but to him, his more
important task is to protect a broken automaton
and notebook left to him by his late father.
Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered
toy merchant Hugo embarks on a quest to solve
the mystery of the automaton and find a place
he can call home. Don’t miss Martin Scorsese’s
beautiful ode to Méliès and early cinema.
A fun and engaging film made by a brilliantly
creative bunch of teenagers from Govan and
Glasgow’s Southside - Plantation Productions’ Create Crew. An adaptation of the Shakespeare
classic Much Ado About Nothing, with a modern
day twist, language and social media. Followed
by a screening of ‘Making Of’ (10 mins), DJs
and live music.
Thanks to Plantation Productions.
FINDING VIVIAN MAIER
(15, 84 mins, 2014)
Queen’s Park Camera Club, 9th Oct
Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm
£6 full price/£5 concession
PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP
(NC — PG advised, 20 mins, 1927)
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, 9th Oct
2.30pm, FREE
Putting Pants on Philip, 1927
(U, 120 mins, 2011)
Queen’s Park Church, 10th Oct
10.30am, £5/babies (0 — 18 months), FREE
BIG GOLD DREAM
FRI 09 OCT:
An exhibition of imaginary film scenes
set in various Southside locations that will be
displayed in the windows of local independent
businesses. The exhibition is a collaborative
project between the Contemporary Photography Group of Queen’s Park Camera Club
and the students at Shawlands Academy,
and was set-up especially for this year’s
Southside Film Festival.
Go to southsidefilm.co.uk for further details.
Thanks to Queen’s Park Camera Club.
HUGO
(NC — suitable for all, 30 mins, 2015)
Kinning Park Complex, 9th Oct
Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm/DJs & live
music 9pm
All ages, FREE
Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond, an ageing
silent film queen, and William Holden as the
struggling writer who is held in thrall by her
madness, created two of the screen’s most
memorable characters in Sunset Boulevard.
Winner of three Academy Awards, director
Billy Wilder’s orchestration of the bizarre
tale is a true cinematic classic.
A post-screening discussion on issues raised
by the film is presented by the Scottish Mental
Health Arts and Film Festival.
Finding Vivian Maier, 2014
Stan Laurel moved to Glasgow as a boy,
went to school in Queens Park and lived in Mount
Florida. We are celebrating Laurel’s Southside
Glasgow connection with this film described
as the first true Laurel and Hardy film and said
to have been Laurel’s favourite of their silent
shorts. Laurel’s kilt-wearing character arrives
in America from Scotland to stay with an uncle,
played by Hardy, and hilarity ensues!
SAT 10 OCT:
Finding Vivian Maier is the critically acclaimed
documentary about a mysterious nanny, who
secretly took over 100,000 photographs that
were hidden in storage lockers and, discovered
decades later, is now among the 20th century’s
greatest photographers. Nominated for Best
Documentary at this year’s Oscars.
(NC, 94 mins, 2014)
The Glad Cafe, 9th Oct
Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm
£8 full price/£6 concession
(includes post film gig)
A documentary about Edinburgh record label
Fast Product in the late 1970s which pre dated
and influenced Rough Trade and Factory Records.
Featuring Norman Blake, Bobby Bluebell, Jo Callis,
Allan Campbell, Edwyn Collins. Winner of the
Audience Award at Edinburgh International Film
Festival 2015. With an introduction and Q&A with
director Grant McPhee.
Followed by live music (band TBC).
THE GORBALS STORY
Sunset Boulevard, 1950
The Gorbals Story, 1950 (below)
(PG, 74 mins, 1950)
St Francis Community Centre,
Gorbals, 9th Oct
Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm
£8 full price/£6 concession
Adapted from the phenomenally successful
1946 play, written by Robert McLeish and
staged by Glasgow’s Unity Theatre, this film
is a naturalistic portrait of a working-class
Glasgow community. A successful artist Wullie
Mutrie, played by Howard Connell, recalls his
life in the tenements of the Gorbals slums
in flashbacks.
Screening in a 1861 A-listed building and
former church we believe this is the first time
the film has screened in the Gorbals since
its release in 1950.
Mandy McIntosh & The Women’s Unit
Madeline, 1950
(Over 18)
The Glad Foundation, 10th Oct
2pm — 4pm, FREE
MADELEINE
(U, 101 mins, 1950)
With rustic French food
Pollok House, Pollok Park, 9th Oct
Doors 6.30pm/meal 7pm/
screening 8.30pm
£30 (includes film, three course dinner
and glass of Processo) Tickets must
be purchased in advance of event.
Menu available at: southsidefilm.co.uk
Email any dietary requirements
to: southsidefilm@gmail.com.
Paid bar available.
Madeleine is a 1950 film directed by David
Lean, based on a true story about of Madeleine
Smith, a young Glasgow woman from a wealthy
family who was tried in 1857 for the murder of
her French lover, Emile L’Angelier. The trial was
much publicised in the newspapers of the day
and labeled “the trial of the century”. Lean’s
adaptation of the story stars his then-wife,
Ann Todd, with Ivan Desny as her French lover,
and was partly shot in Glasgow.
Watch Madeleine in the grand surroundings
of Pollok House, ancestral home of the Maxwell
family, and enjoy a delicious rustic French meal
in the servant’s quarters.
Big Gold Dream, 2014
MANDY MCINTOSH AND
THE WOMEN’S UNIT:
MOVING IMAGES
Hugo, 2011
MAKING FILMS WORK: THE SCOTTISH
CO—OP AND EARLY CINEMA
(Suitable for all)
The Glad Foundation, 10th Oct
12pm — 1pm, FREE
Commercial picture houses were not the only
places were Scots encountered films during the
early cinema period. The Scottish Co-operative
Wholesale Society (SCWS) had its central offices
and some manufacturing halls in Morrison Street
– just south of the river Clyde-and had a cinema.
This talk by Julia Bohlmann, University of Glasgow
Early Cinema Researcher, will sketch out three
different roles cinema played for the SCWS and
its members between 1902 and 1928, and treat
the audience to two of the first films the Society
itself commissioned during the 1920s – Making Soap
(c.1928) & How Guild Margarine is Made (c.1928).
Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow (GOMA)
have invited The Women’s Unit to create a new
experimental moving image work for the festival.
Founded by artist Mandy McIntosh in 2015 in
Castlemilk, The Women’s Unit is a free feminist
art space for women who have faced male
violence and abuse. The Women’s Unit was born
out of a year long artist residency by Mandy
with Glasgow Womens Library considering the
legacy of the Zero Tolerance campaign in 1994.
For Southside Film Festival, women at the unit
will work with Mandy in puppetry performance
and sound manipulation to make a new piece of
cinema. This new film will be screened alongside
previous films by McIntosh which address
abuses of power and control. Women from
the Unit will be present to discuss their work.
Thanks to GOMA.
TICKET INFO:
VENUES:
Tickets available in advance online at
wegottickets.com/southsidefilmfestival.
1. THE GLAD CAFE
1006A Pollokshaws Rd
G41 2HG
0141 636 6119
Otherwise, tickets are available on the door
on the night, if not sold out in advance. All
FREE screenings/events are not ticketed but
first come, first served so entry cannot be
guaranteed if venues are full up, get there early
to guarantee entry! Tickets for the movie and
meals at Pollok House and The Rum Shack must
be purchased in advance.
2. THE GLAD
FOUNDATION
3 Abbot St
G41 3XE
The concession rate applies to children
under 16 years old, full time students, over 60s,
Job Seekers Allowance or Income Support
or similar benefits recipients and people
registered as disabled.
3. GOVANHILL BATHS
99 Calder St
G42 7RA
0141 433 2999
4. KINNING PARK
COMPLEX
40 Cornwall St
G41 1AQ
0141 419 0329
Credits & thanks
Southside Film Festival is programmed organised and
produced by a dedicated team of volunteers. For full
list of volunteers please go to: southsidefilm.co.uk
Thanks to all of our venue and event partners. Full list
on our website. Programme design by Graphical House.
5. QUEEN’S PARK
CAMERA CLUB
54 Millbrae Rd
G42 9UG
This year’s festival is supported by Regional Screen
Scotland, BFI Britain on Film and Glasgow City Council’s
Arts Development Scheme,
RIVER CLYDE
4
9. RUM SHACK
657-659,
Pollokshaws Rd
G41 2AB
0141 237 4432
10. ST FRANCIS
COMMUNITY CENTRE
405 Cumberland St
G5 0SE
0141 429 0275
9
TITWOOD RD
3
2
1
CALDER ST
5
POLLOKSHAWS RD
POLLOKSHAWS WEST
CRAFTIVISTS WORKSHOP
2pm — Studio
TRANSIT
ARTISTS’ FILM OUT THE BACK OF A VAN
(NC, 18 advised, 120 mins)
Transit van parked outside
Govanhill Baths, 10th Oct
2pm — 5pm, FREE
Transit is a nomadic programme of artists’
film screenings produced by Marcus Jack.
Episode 2: The Lens is a Lyric, in partnership with
Southside Film Festival, is on a screen in a van
outside Govanhill Baths. In this episode, films by
Jen Martin, Chris Bowman and Andy Mackinnon
have been collected to reframe the film as
a visual poem. At the seat of industrial decline,
more space is being made for creative industries;
these three films adopt poetic techniques
to trace changing rhythms across the self,
the city and further afield.
11
MOUNT FLORIDA
BATTLEFIELD RD
Engage in a spot of Craftivism with Glasgow
Craftivists who use craft and creativity to reflect
on issues, express views & link in with wider
political movements.
“Craftivism is a way of looking at life where
voicing opinions through creativity makes your
voice stronger, your compassion... deeper & your
quest for justice more infinite” - Betsy Greer
UNRAVEL
(NC, suitable for all, 14mins, 2012)
4pm — Studio
Unravel follows the western world’s last
wanted clothes, on a journey across North India,
from sea to industrial interior. They get sent to
Panipat, a sleepy town and the only place in the
world that wants them, recycling them back into
yarn. With limited exposure to western culture,
the factory workers construct a picture of how
the West is and who wore the cast-off clothes.
ADVANCED STYLE
UNITED WE WILL SWIM... AGAIN!
(NC — PG advised, 25mins, 2014)
The Steamie
Govanhill Baths, 10th Oct
Doors 6.30pm/film 7pm, FREE
United We Will Swim… Again tells the extraordinary story of how a community fought to
save their local swimming pool, bringing it back
to life after it was closed by Glasgow City Council. This is one of Glasgow’s famous political stories
and is brought to life in this inspiring documentary,
with original footage from the protests and
interviews with the key activists involved. With
introduction and Q&A with filmmaker Fran Higson.
This is a Camcorder Guerrillas film made by
Fran Higson with the aim of supporting the
Govanhill Baths to get water back into their pools.
THAT SINKING FEELING
(12, 93mins, 1979)
The Steamie
Govanhill Baths, 10th Oct
Doors 8pm/film 8.30pm
£6 full price/£5 concession
Acclaimed director Bill Forsyth’s (Gregory’s
Girl, Local Hero) hilarious directorial debut.
Unemployed teenager Ronnie (Robert Buchanan,
Gregory’s Girl) and his hapless pals spend their
time hanging around the rainy parks and dingy
cafes of Glasgow, but their world is about to
change when Ronnie hatches a plan to make
them all rich by stealing a job-lot of stainless
steel sinks. Hilarious and inventive, Forsyth’s
zero budget debut provides an authentic
depiction of 1970s Glasgow youth culture.
Introduction and Q&A with Associate Producer
Paddy Higson and some of the original cast.
(PG, 75mins, 2014)
4.30pm — Studio
Advanced Style examines the lives of seven
unique New Yorkers whose eclectic personal
style and vital spirit have guided their approach
to aging. This film paints intimate and colorful
portraits of independent, stylish women aged
62 to 95 who are challenging conventional ideas
about beauty, aging, and Western’s culture’s
increasing obsession with youth.
There will also the opportunity to see craft &
textile themed films Birth of a Sewing Machine,
Textiles and Weave Me a Rainbow from the Scottish
Screen Archive throughout the afternoon.
Go to: southsidefilm.co.uk for film details.
CROSSHILL
QUEEN’S PARK
PROSPECTHILL RD
8
Pick up unique upcycled products handcrafted
by local makers at this mini version of popular Rags
to Riches market. This will be a flavour of what is
in store at Rags to Riches events in November.
In a festival first, in partnership with Rags
to Riches, Sew La Tea Dough, Glasgow Craftivists
and Govanhill Baths, join us for an afternoon
focused on fashion, craft, making and style, past
and present, local and global with workshops,
film screenings and a craft market.
POLLOK PARK
7
12.30pm — 6pm — Foyer
(Suitable for all)
Govanhill Baths, 10th Oct
10.30am — 6pm, FREE
6
CROSSMYLOOF
THIS IS A MINI CRAFT FAIR
MAKING IN THE MOVIES
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POLLOKSHIELDS
WEST
Learn how to repair, re-use, recreate, revamp
and restyle clothing and other domestic fabrics.
Unravel, 2012
GORBALS
NITHSDALE RD
10.30am — 1.30pm — Studio
8. POLLOKSHAWS
BURGH HALL
2025 Pollokshaws Rd
G43 1NE
0141 632 5811
KINNING PARK
MAXWELL DR
SEW LA TEA DOUGH WORKSHOP
7. POLLOK HOUSE
Pollok Park
G43 1AT
0141 440 7904
11. TORYGLEN
COMMUNITY BASE
199 Prospecthill
Circus
G42 0LA
0141 613 2777
GOVAN RD
MAKING IN THE MOVIES:
6. QUEEN’S PARK
CHURCH
170 Queen’s Dr
G42 8QZ
0141 423 3654
southsidefilm.co.uk
That Sinking Feeling, 1979
SUN 11 OCT:
SCOTLAND ON SCREEN
(Suitable for all)
The Glad Cafe, 11th Oct
2pm — 3.30pm, FREE
RESISTANCE RECIPES:
PALESTINIAN FOOD AND FILM
(Suitable for all)
Toryglen Community Base, 11th Oct
12.30pm — 2.30pm, FREE
A screening of short films that will explore
the politics of food in Palestine, struggles with
access and how people are coming together
using food to make a difference to their lives
and communities. The screening will be hosted
by Urban Roots and will coincide with the end
of Harvest time, giving an opportunity to think
and talk about food security and sovereignty
in a local as well as global context. There there will be a demonstration and
tasting of Palestinian food using some locally
grown ingredients before the screening. Short
films include Jameela’s Kitchen and Resistance
Recipe. Go to: southsidefilm.co.uk for film
details. Presented by Camcorder Guerrillas
and Open Jar Collective in association with
Urban Roots.
DIY ARCHIVE WORKSHOP MAKE OUR OWN ARCHIVE!
(No experience necessary, suitable for all)
The Glad Foundation, 11th Oct
1 — 5pm/brief 1pm/
screening 4pm, FREE
This year’s festival theme is cinema heritage
and film archive but today films are also future
film archive. In 100 years time what old footage
would people love to unearth? No longer the
grainy footage of yesteryear but a plethora
of vids and Vines. But what would make a
memorable archive film, what would not be
drowned out by the mass of content? Make
a microfilm on your phone or tablet of what
you think would stand the test of time and then
screen it. Create our own Southside film archive!
Please note: bring along a phone, tablet or
digital camera that you can use to film the
Southside on the day, no filming equipment
will be provided.
Resistance Recipes: Palestinian Food and Film
HOW TO WRITE A FILM REVIEW
WITH SIOBHAN SYNNOT
(No experience necessary, suitable for all)
The Glad Foundation, 11th Oct
2pm — 3pm, FREE
Opinionated? Eloquent? Neither? If your views
on anything you watch can’t be suppressed
come along to this special workshop hosted
by film, arts & currents affairs journalist Siobhan
Synnot. Find out how to what goes into one
hundred words of vitriol or reverence and
maybe even have a go yourself!
Siobhan Synnot is an award-winning film writer
and broadcaster, contributing arts and topical
interviews, features and profiles, plus film
reviews for TV, radio, print and online. Outlets
include BBC, ITV, BAFTA, Scotsman publications,
Daily Record, Sunday Times, Daily Mail, Herald,
Best, Woman, Sunday Mail, Herlad Sun & The Lady. A year ago we were considering what
an independent Scotland would look like
and what it meant to be Scottish or to be
living in Scotland. How we see ourselves
and how others see us was an important part
of the conversation about independence.
Films such as Brigadoon, Whisky Galore!,
Trainspotting, Braveheart and others have
helped shape how the world views Scotland.
But does it really matter how Scotland is
portrayed on screen? And does it influence
how we view ourselves in Scotland?
Joining Southside Film Festival director
Karen O’Hare to discuss these questions
and more are Dr. Jonathan Murray, author
of The New Scottish Cinema, Eleanor Yule, film
director and co author of The Glass Half Full:
Moving Beyond Scottish MiserablIsm and writer/
director Scott Graham, director of feature
films Shell and Iona which was the closing film
of Edinburgh Film Festival this year and who
currently lives in Southside Glasgow.
SOUTHSIDE FILMMAKER
SCREENING & AWARD
(18, 70mins, 2014/5)
The Glad Cafe, 11th Oct
Doors 4pm/films 4.30pm
FREE
Expect to see comedy, drama and documentary
in our selection of short films made by filmmakers
living in the Southside of Glasgow or making
films about the Southside. Come along to see
and support local film talent and vote for your
favourite film - the winner will receive
the Southside Filmmaker Award.
Go to: southsidefilm.co.uk for full film details.
LOCAL PICK-FILM TO BE ANNOUNCED
The Glad Cafe, 11th Oct
Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm
£6 full price/£5 concession
This year Southside Film Festival asked
Southsiders what they would like to see at the
festival and asked people to vote online. Come
along to find out what people voted to watch.
The local pick will be revealed just before
the festival on our website and social media
platforms so it will not be a total surprise
on the night!
southsidefilm.co.uk
THE HARDER THEY COME
(15, 103 mins, 1972)
with Jamaican food
Rum Shack, 11th Oct
Doors 6.30pm/meal 7pm/screening 8pm
£15 (includes film, two course dinner & DJ)
Tickets must be purchased in advance
of event. Menu available at
southsidefilm.co.uk
Email any dietary requirements to
southsidefilm@gmail.com
Reggae legend Jimmy Cliff stars as Ivan
Martin, an aspiring young singer who leaves
his rural village for the capital city of Kingston,
Jamaica hoping to make a name for himself.
Robbed of his money and possessions his first
day in town, he finds work with a self-righteous,
bullying preacher and an unscrupulous
music mogul who exploits naive hopefuls.
In desperation the simple country boy turns
outlaw, at war with both the police and his
rivals in the ganja trade.
Enjoy the film with a two course menu
of Jamaican food from Caribbean Bar and
Canteen at Rum Shack before the film and
after the film stick around for some reggae
tunes from Glasgow based DJ, Bushido.
MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA
The Harder They Come, 1972
(U, 67 mins, 1928)
with live Wurlitzer Cinema Organ
Pollokshaws Burgh Hall, 11th Oct
Doors 7.30pm/film 8pm
£8 full price/£6 concession
This is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking,
a montage of urban Russian life showing the
people of the city at work and at play, and the
machines that keep the city going. It was Dziga
Vertov’s first full-length film, and he used all
the cinematic techniques at his disposal at
the tme – dissolves, split screen, slow motion
and freeze-frames – to produce a work that
is exhilarating and intellectually brilliant. Voted
the Best Documentary ever made by Sight and
Sound in 2012. This is a fully re-mastered digital
film print accompanied by a live score from
the mighty Wurlitzer Cinema Organ.
Man With a Movie Camera, 1928