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Scottish Queer International Film Festival 2020 5th-18th October
FESTIVAL TEAM
Programming team: Engagement Coordinator:
Harvey Dimond, Marc Solomon Bright Adebayo
David Jacobs, Helen Technical Events Assistant:
Wright, Samar Ziadat Ania Urbanowska
Guest programmers:
Design:
Tara Brown, Naomi Susie McConnell
Gessesse, Natasha
Thembiso Ruwona, A.B. Artwork:
Silvera, TAAHLIAH, Yi Wang Klarissa Webster
Festival Producer: BSL trailer:
Helen Wright Jamie Rea
Technical Coordinator: Captioning:
Marc David Jacobs Emilia Beatriz, Nicole
O’Reilly, A.B. Silvera
PR Coordinator:
Ruth Marsh Audio description:
Robin Bray
Digital Marketing Coordinator:
Rabindranath A Bhose Photography:
Tiu Makkonen
Print Marketing &
Merchandise Coordinator: Finance volunteer:
Sarah Cochrane Robert Fox
Access Coordinator:
Alison Smith
Big thanks also to our access consultants, BSL interpreters,
live captioners, and live audio describers, and anyone who has
joined the team too late to be included in the brochure!!
01 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channel
SQIFF
Goes
Online!
The Festival will be a bit different this year! We
have done our best to adapt SQIFF to go mostly
online to keep everyone safe, whilst keeping
things as accessible as possible.
Most of our film programme will be available
via Vimeo on Demand for 2 weeks from 5 to 18
October. You can access films in the programme
at any time during this period. Films on our
Vimeo on Demand will be accessible within the
UK only.
We are also hosting a number of live online
events during 5 to 18 October. This includes
watch parties, Q&As, workshops, discussions,
and parties.
We have a number of laptops with a selection of
the film programme on them we are loaning to
community venues and households in Glasgow
with limited or no internet access. If you are
interested in borrowing one of these or know
someone who would be, please get in touch via
info@sqiff.org.
Our Access & Support Team will be available to
answer any questions you have about films, live
events, and access measures between 10am and
5pm every day of the Festival. You can contact
them by emailing info@sqiff.org or by phone
on 07883 737 362.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 02
HOW TO ACCESS
FILMS AND EVENTS
To watch films on our Vimeo on Demand Zoom, you can get in touch with our Access
channel, you will need to create a Vimeo & Support Team between 10am and 5pm
account, which is free and quick to set up. Go every day of the Festival. You can contact
to vimeo.com and click the option to ‘Join for them by emailing info@sqiff.org or by
free.’ You will need access to an email address phone on 07883 737 362.
to be able to join.
Tickets for live events are either free or
You will be asked to choose what you pay for on a sliding scale of free, £2, £4, £6, or £8.
each film or film programme on our Vimeo Our sliding scale allows you to choose
on Demand channel. You enter the amount what to pay based on what you can afford.
you want to pay starting from £1 every time No evidence or proof of circumstances is
you rent a film. If you need to access films for required. If you can afford to pay more, we
free, get in touch with us and we will send really appreciate it as we rely on this income
a code for the films you want to access, no to pay queer people fairly for their work and
proof of circumstance required. You will have keep the festival going.
up until 18 October to watch films once you
If you work for a charity or community
have rented them.
organisation and would like to bring a group
Our live online events will all take place using along to an online event, please contact
Zoom software. You can use Zoom on a info@sqiff.org to reserve free tickets.
laptop, phone, or tablet that is connected to
the internet.
Tickets for our live online events must be
booked online in advance. These will be
available to book up to an hour before the
event start time. We will send a link to access
a Zoom call for each event you have booked
for. We appreciate that you cancel your
booking if you can no longer attend an event
so someone else can take the space.
If you need assistance with accessing films or
events online, including how to use vimeo or
03 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channel
Accessibility
All films include English language Films not certified by the BBFC are
captions or subtitles to make the marked N/C and accompanied by an age
Festival more accessible for Deaf recommendation, e.g. N/C 15+ (suitable for
and hard of hearing audiences. ages 15 and over). Live online events may also
have specified age recommendation, e.g.
All live online events will have live ages 18+, due to overall content.
captioning available. Content notes indicating any potentially
distressing subject matter in films are
All live and pre-recorded online available to download from www.sqiff.org.
events will have BSL interpretation These will also be read out at the start of live
available. online events.
We have an access fund to assist people
Several of our films and film based within Scotland with no or limited
programmes will have audio internet access to attend the Festival. If you
description available. Please see would like to apply for this, please contact
individual listings for these. info@sqiff.org.
Several of our live events will have If you have any access questions or requests,
live audio description available. you can get in touch with our Access &
Please see individual listings for Support Team between 10am and 5pm every
these. day of the Festival. You can contact them
by emailing info@sqiff.org or by phone on
07883 737 362.
Films and film programmes which
are English language and have a If you have any access queries or requests
lot of voiceover and dialogue are before the Festival starts, you can contact
marked with this symbol. Please see info@sqiff.org.
individual listings for these. There are downloadable, text-only, and audio
versions of this brochure on www.sqiff.org.
A large print or braille version of this brochure is
available on request. Please contact info@sqiff.org
and we will arrange to post this to you.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 04
Safety and Respect
We invite everyone to think about how we can known to participants. If you experience any
keep each other safe and make everyone feel discrimination or inappropriate behaviour,
equally welcome and supported at the Festival. please let us know. If you are being
discriminatory or behaving inappropriately,
To work towards creating safe and welcoming
we may give you a warning or ask you to leave
spaces for everyone in our LGBTQIA+
a space.
communities, we all need to learn about and
be aware of others’ experiences of oppression. Our Festival team work hard with limited
We need to learn about our own privileges and resources to put on an accessible event for
think about the space we take up, and how others. We also deserve to be treated with
that affects others. respect and consideration. If you act in a
way which is disrespectful towards our team
Help us make SQIFF genuinely open to
members, we may ask you to leave a space or
all by learning and thinking about others’
end our interaction with you.
lived experiences and how this might affect
their day-to-day interactions. Everyone is If you would like to make a suggestion or
responsible for their own actions and should give feedback about the Festival, we have an
be aware of the effect they have on others. online form you can fill out available at
www.sqiff.org. Alternatively, you can contact
We do not tolerate homophobia, biphobia,
our Access & Support Team by emailing
transphobia, racism, ableism, classism, sizism,
info@sqiff.org or by phone on 07883 737 362
or other forms of discrimination. There will
and they can fill out the form for you.
be a moderator available during all live
online events who will make themselves
05 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channel
Every Utopia is a Dystopia: Science fiction worlds
All The Feels!: Ultimate Queer Ashley
Fanvid Playlist Vimeo on Demand, 45 minutes, Dir: Jamie
YouTube playlist, Various directors, N/C 12+, Crewe, N/C 12+, UK, 2020, English language
English language
“Dragging a wheelie case behind them,
Fanvids are short films using music, edited by Ashley arrives at an isolated, beachside
fans in an expression of all the feels around cottage. They hope that this weekend in the
their favourite fandoms. Even with today’s countryside might be the change they need:
films and television bursting with more queer a change from depression, from heartbreak,
characters than ever, we still fight for true from the pain of a shifting identity. As the
recognition, representation, and stories that weekend unfolds, however, their hope
go beyond the sometimes disappointing and wavers: things go wrong in their body, or
limiting storylines we are given. Every fanvid is perhaps in their mind — or perhaps there
a DIY work of art, combining music and clever really is something, outside, developing an
edits to celebrate favourite shows, rework appetite for them...” Ashley by Jamie Crewe
plots, commiserate in collective sadness, and was created for the 2019/20 Margaret Tait
whatever feels there are to be had! Award, Scotland’s most prestigious moving
image prize for artists and a LUX Scotland
Curated by Tara Brown, queer crip Black fat
commission delivered in partnership with
femme and Fringe! Queer film & arts fest and
Glasgow Film with support from Screen
freelance film curator.
Scotland.
Presented in partnership with LUX Scotland,
a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting,
developing, and promoting artists’ moving
image practices in Scotland.
Every Utopia is a Dystopia explores queerness
and sci-fi from multiple perspectives.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 06
Every Utopia is a Dystopia: Science fiction worlds
Flaming Ears Keyboard Fantasies: the Beverly
Vimeo on Demand, 84 minutes, Dirs: Ursula Glenn-Copeland Story
Pürrer, Dietmar Schipek, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Vimeo on Demand, 63 minutes, Dir: Posy
N/C 18+, Austria, 1991, German and English Dixon, N/C 12+, UK, 2019, English language
languages
As a sci-fi-obsessed queer living in near
Flaming Ears is a pop sci-fi lesbian, fantasy isolation, Glenn Copeland wrote and self-
feature set in the year 2700 in the fictive, released Keyboard Fantasies in Huntsville,
burnt-out city of Asche. It follows the tangled Ontario in 1986. Recorded in an Atari-powered
lives of three women: Spy, a comic book artist; home studio, the cassette featured seven
Volly, a performance artist and sexed-up tracks of a curious folk-electronica hybrid,
pyromaniac; and Nun, an amoral alien with a a sound realised far before its time. Three
predilection for reptiles. It’s a story of love and decades on the musician began to receive
revenge, and an anti-romantic plea for love emails from people across the world,
in its many forms. It’s also a story laced with thanking him for the music they’d recently
sex, violence, and a pulsating soundtrack, a discovered. Courtesy of a rare-record collector
cyberdyke movie stimulating both the body in Japan and a reissue of Keyboard Fantasies,
and the brain. A rarely shown, queer sci-fi the music had finally found its audience
classic! two generations down the line. Keyboard
Fantasies: The Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Story sees the protagonist commit his life
and music to screen for the first time - an
intimate coming of age story spinning pain
and suffering of prejudice into rhythm, hope,
and joy.
07 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channel
Every Utopia is a Dystopia: Science fiction worlds
Many Black Moons Ago, To Go... PEOPLE HAVE COME
Various films and texts hosted online Vimeo on Demand, 60 minutes, Dir: Jamie
Crewe, N/C 12+, UK, 2020, English language
Time as it is Queer.
As part of the Margaret Tait Award, Jamie
Blackness as it is Queer.
Crewe produced a recorded artist’s talk in
What comes next after the end of the world? which they discuss a technique that recurs
A digital exhibition programme of Afrofuturist throughout their practice. They named
films and writings in response to the re/ the technique PEOPLE HAVE COME, and it
imagining of Black alternative future(s). describes courting and avoiding publicness.
Curated by Scottish-Zimbabwean artist, For certain kinds of people the desire to
researcher, and curator Natasha Thembiso be seen, recognised, and understood is as
Ruwona. powerful as the urge to hide, be illegible,
and repel investigation. In reference to
There will be artists’ responses to the
Ashley, their Margaret Tait Award 2019/20
programme by Sequoia Barnes and Naomi
commission, as well as to other works and
Gessesse. A reading group led by Martha
experiences, this talk traces eruptions of this
Williams on Sunday 18 October (see page 35)
ambivalent seam in Jamie’s life and practice.
will conclude the series.
Presented in partnership with LUX Scotland,
a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting,
developing, and promoting artists’ moving
image practices in Scotland.
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Every Utopia is a Dystopia: Science fiction worlds
Prototypes I & II SQIFF Shorts: Every Utopia is a
Vimeo on Demand, 104 minutes, Dir: Doireann Dystopia
O’Malley, N/C 12+, UK, 2018, English language Vimeo on Demand, 70 minutes, Various
directors, N/C 15+, English and Spanish
Doireann O’Malley’s most recent body of work
languages
is a trilogy titled Prototypes I, II and III which
explore gender and its manifestations in a K and L are cultural conservationists working
post-speculative mind/body assemblage of in a not-so-distant future to preserve the
scenes, set within the modernist Interbau artefacts and histories that are being
housing development in the Hansaviertel systematically destroyed by a totalitarian
area of Berlin. The films explore new government. When they are in a deadly car
perspectives on trans identity through the accident, time splinters into parallel realities,
lens of a post psychoanalytic, schizo-analytic separating them. Tonia Stanwell arrives at
methodology, entangling rhizomatic forms the government agency where she will apply
of thought, systems theory, consciousness, to turn 36, a feat few Black trans women like
machine learning, and quantum her have reached. A queer utopia named
transformation. Stonewall Nation has been founded by a
generation of activists and artists in a world
Presented in partnership with LUX Scotland,
where AIDS never happened. Tales using
a non-profit agency dedicated to supporting,
classic sci-fi set ups to transmit queer ideas
developing, and promoting artists’ moving
feature in this shorts compilation.
image practices in Scotland.
09 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelEvery Utopia is a Dystopia: Cruising the Future:
Science fiction worlds Shu Lea Cheang Retrospective
Queering the Script Fluidø
Vimeo on Demand, 93 minutes, Dir: Gabrielle Vimeo on Demand, 84 minutes, Dir: Shu Lea
Zilkha, N/C 12+, Canada/USA, 2019, English Cheang, N/C 18+, Germany, 2017, English, French,
language and German languages
Queerness on television has moved from In a post-AIDS future of 2060, the Government
subtext in series such as Xena: Warrior has declared the era AIDS FREE but mutated
Princess, to all-out multi season relationships AIDS viruses have given birth to the ZERO GEN:
between women, as seen on Buffy the genetically evolved, genderfluid humans whose
Vampire Slayer, Lost Girl, and Carmilla. But white fluid is a hypernarcotic. A new war on
things still aren’t perfect. In 2016, a record drugs sees the ZERO GEN declared illegal. The
number of queer women died on fictional Government dispatches drug-resistant replicants
shows, which broke the hearts of queer fans for round-up arrest missions. When one of these
and launched a successful fight for better, government android’s immunity breaks down
more diverse LGTBQ2S+ representation. Stars and its pleasure centres are activated, the story
such as Ilene Chaiken, Stephanie Beatriz, becomes a tangled multi-thread plot and the
Lucy Lawless, and Angelica Ross join with ZERO GENs are caught among underground
the voices of numerous kickass fangirls in drug lords, glitched super agents, a scheming
this fast-paced history of queer women’s corporation, and a corrupt government.
representation in contemporary television.
With an introduction by Tara Brown, queer
crip Black fat femme, Fringe! Queer film &
arts fest and freelance film curator.
Shu Lea Cheang is a multi-media artist working
in experimental video and net art since the early
1980s. Her work deals with queer erotics, race,
and institutional power. We are holding a live
screening of Cheang’s early short films plus Q&A
on Wednesday 14 October (see page 32).
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 10Cruising the Future:
Shu Lea Cheang Retrospective Queer Ecologies
I.K.U. Fire and Flood
Vimeo on Demand, 88 minutes, Dir: Shu Lea Vimeo on Demand, 120 minutes, Dir: Vanessa
Cheang, N/C 18+, Japan, 2000, English and Raditz, N/C 15+, USA, 2020, English and Spanish
Japanese languages languages
Envisioned as a sequel to Blade Runner, I.K.U. Fire & Flood: Queer Resilience in the era of
scandalised audiences when it premiered climate change tells the story of Hurricane
at the Sundance Film Festival. Following the Maria in Puerto Rico and the fires in Santa
adventures of seven sexy replicants as they Rosa, California, two near simultaneous
attempt to gather data for the I.K.U. system climate-related disasters in the fall of 2017,
(which enables touchless orgasms), I.K.U. through the voices of LGBTQ people who lived
is a cyberpunk fuck film for the internet through them and were part of the community
generation. “I.K.U. is a phenomenon that response. The film explores the vulnerability
wants to refuse definition and... crosses all of LGBTQ communities to climate disasters
categories – geographic, physical, conceptual and also lifts up queer and trans strategies for
– with a demented flourish. As much trans- resilience, transition, and survival.
genre as it is trans-gender, I.K.U. also wants
There will be a version of the film available with
to merge video and film into a fresh digital
English language captions and a version with
universe large-scale enough to overwhelm
Spanish language captions for Deaf and hard
the viewer.” B. Ruby Rich, Rhizome.
of hearing audiences.
Queer Ecologies is curated by SQIFF
programmer, Samar Ziadat.
11 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelQueer Ecologies
SQIFF Shorts: Belonging in Nature SQIFF Shorts: Indigenous
/ Belonging in Europe Ecofeminisms
Vimeo on Demand, 67 minutes, Various Vimeo on Demand, 61 minutes, Various
directors, N/C 15+, English, Swedish, directors, N/C 12+, English, Anishinaabe, and
Portuguese, and German languages Portuguese languages
A selection of short films made in Europe that A series of shorts that follow the stories of
investigate intersections and articulations of queer and trans indigenous people as they
queerness and the natural world. navigate life on earth during climate crisis.
A pack of Swedish animals sanitise an A non-binary Anishinaabe activist attempts
abandoned space. Two young soldiers are to revive ceremonial harvesting rituals with
deployed on an island that is plagued by a 10,000-year-old Sasquatch in suburban
an uncontrollable growth of hydrangeas. Ontario. A queer indigenous writer and
Three young women, living in three separate performance artist documents the ways in
parallel universes, depend on one another which Canada’s extraction industry destroys
to survive. The inhabitants of a gender-fluid indigenous lands and parallels the child
utopian society explore what queer politics apprehension industry. And a group of young
can learn from environmental matters. people in Brazil enjoy the outdoors over New
Years; drawing, playing instruments, laying
in the sun, cutting each other’s hair, and
chatting shit about men.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 12Queer Ecologies
The Garden Water Makes Us Wet: An
Vimeo on Demand, 92 minutes, Dir: Derek Ecosexual Adventure
Jarman, 12A, UK, 1990, English language Vimeo on Demand, 79 minutes, Dirs: Beth
Stephens, Annie Sprinkle, N/C 18+, USA, 2018,
‘Paradise haunts gardens’, writes Derek
English language
Jarman, ‘and it haunts mine.’ Jarman was a
film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, With a poetic blend of curiosity, humour,
gardener, and author, whose work, dwelling sensuality, and concern, this film chronicles
on themes of sexuality and violence, reflected the pleasures and politics of H2O from an
his reality as an HIV-positive man living in ecosexual perspective. Travel with Annie, a
Thatcher’s Britain. His own garden-paradise former sex worker, Beth, a professor, and their
was situated in the flat, bleak, often desolate dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab mobile unit,
expanse of shingle that faces the Dungeness as they explore the role of water. Ecosexuality
nuclear power station. This intimate insight shifts the metaphor “Earth as Mother” to
into Jarman’s inner world was shot on Super8 “Earth as Lover” to create a more reciprocal
with the help of friends and collaborators, and empathetic relationship with the natural
movingly utilising a cast of iconic, religious world. Along the way, Annie and Beth interact
figures that include Jesus, Judas, and the with a diverse range of folks including
Madonna, and a cast of queer icons. performance artists, biologists, water
treatment plant workers, scholars, and others,
Screening with Jarman’s 1993 short film The
climaxing in a shocking event that reaffirms
Clearing (7 minutes).
the power of water, life, and the earth.
There will be a live watch party screening of
Water Makes Us Wet on Friday 9 October (see
page 27).
13 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelIslands and Oceans
Leitis in Waiting Tchindas
Vimeo on Demand, 72 minutes, N/C 12+, Vimeo on Demand, 94 minutes, N/C 15+, Dirs:
Dirs: Dean Hamer, Joe Wilson, Hinaleimoana Pablo García Pérez de Lara, Marc Serena, Cape
Wong-Kalu, 2018, English and Tongan Verde, 2015, Cape Verdean Creole language
languages
Tchindas explores queer identity and
Tonga, an island group in the South Pacific, acceptance in the Cape Verde archipelago,
has long considered trans women, known and follows Tchinda, a transgender woman
as leitis, an integral part of its culture, often who is a national heroine, as she prepares for
carrying significant social status. But recent Carnival month. The camera closely follows
Western religious influences have seen their Tchinda and her cohorts – an engaging,
identities being increasingly challenged. closely knit group of trans women and gay
This documentary traces their proud cultural men – as they take the lead in preparing their
history and highlights developments in their neighbourhood for the festivities.
struggles against discrimination.
There will be a live watch party screening
of Tchindas with a discussion on Tuesday 6
October (see page 25).
Islands and Oceans looks to queer narratives
from island nations, which often have complex
queer histories and realities owing at once
to their isolation, vulnerability, and colonial
contestations. Curated by Harvey Dimond.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s
Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen
Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 14Daydreams and Testimonials: Queer South America
Cracks in the Patriarchy Fabiana
Vimeo on Demand, 78 minutes, N/C 12+, Dir: Vimeo on Demand, 89 minutes, N/C 12+, Dir:
Cagdas Celtikli, Kai Münch, Argentina, 2020, Brunna Laboissière, Brazil, 2018, Portuguese
Spanish language language
Through comprehensive interviews focused on For over three decades, Fabiana has lived
seven individuals from different backgrounds, this a nomadic life as a trans woman trucker
documentary examines the LGBTQI+ community in Brazil. She has crossed the vast country
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. History and biography hundreds of times over, never staying
meld with the fiercely political as we learn of anywhere for too long. Confident and
several overlapping struggles in the vast city. adventurous, she’s at home amongst the
From the fight for gender recognition by the trans mostly-male truckers she encounters, and
community to ongoing struggles to fight racism often hooks up with other women in her
both within the LGBTQI+ scene and beyond; from travels. But is she ready to finally settle
the experiences of travestis in art and theatre to down, when the open road has been her life?
the massive movement to decriminalise abortion; This documentary joins her on her last few
the history, culture, and politics of the LGBTQI+ journeys on the eve of retirement, sharing the
community are drawn into sharp focus. Yet in this connections and intimacies of her life.
great variety of perspectives and histories lies a
There will be a live watch party screening of
shared goal: a safer, freer society for all.
Fabiana and Q&A on Saturday 10 October
There will be a live watch party screening (see page 28).
of Cracks in the Partriarchy and Q&A on
Wednesday 7 October (see page 26).
Daydreams and Testimonials is curated by
lesbian Argentinian translator, writer, and
comedian A.B. Silvera.
15 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelFeature films
Blindsided Breaking Fast
Vimeo on Demand, 60 minutes, N/C 15+, Dir: Vimeo on Demand, 92 minutes, N/C 15+, Dir:
Lisa Olivieri, USA, 2015, English language Mike Mosallam, USA, 2020, English and Arabic
languages
A documentary narrative about Patricia
Livingstone, a deafblind, lesbian artist facing Mo, a practicing Muslim living in West
a series of losses and gains. The film weaves Hollywood, is learning to navigate life post-
intimate, real time scenes shot over the heartbreak. Enter Kal, an All-American guy
course of eight years with home videos and who surprises Mo by offering to break fast
photographs, relaying the story of a woman with him during the holy month of Ramadan.
whose spark did not fade even in the face of As they learn more about each other, they fall
hardship and loss. Screening with local short in love over what they have in common and
film, Blind Spot (20 minutes), exploring and what they don’t. The genesis of the feature
attempting to simulate the experience of film came about from overwhelming positive
visual impairment. responses to the short film by the director,
which SQIFF screened at our 2019 Festival.
We are hosting a watch party screening
The film aims to be the first of its kind to
of Blindsided and Blind Spot with a live
feature a practicing Muslim character who is
discussion on Sunday 11 October (see page 30).
gay and not dealing with those two things in
conflict but rather in harmony.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 16Feature films
Game on: queer disruptions in Lingua Franca
sport Vimeo on Demand, 95 minutes, N/C 15+,
Vimeo on Demand, 67 minutes, N/C 15+, Dir: Isabel Sandoval, USA, Philippines, 2019,
Dir: Maria Takacs, Hungary, 2020, English, English, Tagalog, and Russian languages
Hungarian, and German languages
In this beguiling drama, an undocumented
Game on: Queer Disruptions in Sport is a Filipina immigrant paranoid about
documentary which shines a light on the deportation works as a caregiver to a Russian-
experiences of those with diverse identities Jewish grandmother in Brooklyn. When the
within grassroots sport. The film features the American man she’s secretly paying for a
stories of gay runners Csaba and Benjamin green card marriage backs out, she becomes
from Hungary; Natalie, a Scottish lesbian boxer; involved with a cis male slaughterhouse
Pol, an intersex rower from Bulgaria; and a worker who is unaware she’s transgender.
German trans woman footballer called Jessi. “Glancingly addressing major issues - privacy,
Their stories are unique but bring up themes personal liberty, sexual satisfaction - Sandoval,
that are typical for lesbian, gay, bisexual, working from an idea formed during her own
transgender, intersex, and queer (LGBTIQ+) gender transition, quietly contemplates lives
people in sport. under stress.” The New York Times.
Presented in partnership with LEAP Sports
Scotland, promoting LGBTI participation and
ending LGBTI-phobia in sport. There will be a live
Q&A with the film’s director and participants on
Monday 12 October (see page 30).
17 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelFeature films
Pride & Protest Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on
Vimeo on Demand, 90 minutes, N/C 15+, Dir: Elm Street
Blaise Singh, UK, 2020, English language Vimeo on Demand, 100 minutes, N/C 15+,
Dirs: Roman Chimienti, USA, 2019, English
Pride & Protest is a documentary about
language
QTIPOC communities and activists in
Britain today and struggles surrounding At the time of release, The Advocate dubbed
the politics of desire, self-care, and found 1985’s A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s
family. In the wake of the Birmingham Revenge the gayest horror film ever made.
protests against LGBTIQ+ relationship For the film’s closeted young star, Mark
education in primary schools, director Patton, such a tag was a stark reminder about
Blaise Singh follows various queer people of the homophobia rampant in Hollywood at
colour as they challenge homophobia and the time—and the painful experience he
racism in their communities. They speak had making the high-profile film and living
out against internalised shame and lack of through the polarising critical aftermath. This
representation, and we follow them trying to new documentary highlights Patton’s time
figure out their place in the world in the build in the horror spotlight, and Patton—who co-
up to UK Black Pride. produced the film with Roman Chimienti, a
NYC-based sound engineer—sets the record
We are hosting a watch party screening
straight about this controversial sequel, which
of Pride & Protest with filmmaker Q&A on
ended his acting career just as it was about
Monday 5 October (see page 24).
to begin.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 18Feature films
The Cancer Journals Revisited The Wound + South African
Vimeo on Demand, 98 minutes, N/C 15+, Dir: Shorts
Lana Lin, USA, 2018, English, Spanish, and Vimeo on Demand, 88 minutes, 15, Dir: John
German languages Trengrove, South Africa, 2017, Xhosa language
The Cancer Journals Revisited is prompted by Despite a rich queer history and long fight to
the question of what it means to re-visit and guarantee the rights of queer people under
re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre the first democratic government of Nelson
Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast Mandela, queer and trans South Africans face
cancer experience today. At the invitation of many challenges, which intersect with class
filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with and cultural identities. This screening attests
breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, to those challenges but demonstrates that
artists, activists, health care advocates, and love and support comes from surprising and
current and former patients recite Lorde’s subversive places. The Wound explores the
manifesto aloud on camera, collectively relationship between traditional Xhosa initiation
dramatising it and producing an oration rituals and queer identity, also alluded to in My
for the screen. The film is both a critical Transgender Life (12m) by Yonela Simetu. The
commentary and a poetic reflection upon Men Who Speak Gayle (11m) celebrates a secret
the precarious conditions of survival within language used during the apartheid era to hide
the intimate and politicised public sphere of queer identities from the authorities.
illness.
Curated by Harvey Dimond. Supported by Film
Presented in partnership with Scottish Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience
Documentary Institute. There will be a live Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and
watch party screening of the film with director Lottery funding from the BFI. There will be a
Q&A on Friday 16 October (see page 33). live watch party screening of the films with
Q&A on Tuesday 13 October (see page 31).
19 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelShort films
A Funny Thing Happened Bridges to the Past
Vimeo on Demand, 37 minutes, Various Vimeo on Demand, 63 minutes, Various
directors, N/C 15+, English language directors, N/C 15+, English and French
languages
The mother of a queer daughter moves
into a nursing home leading to a shocking Providing access to queer history, which is
- and buzzing - revelation. A date leads to often obscured and hidden from us, is one
a stand off as two lesbian women try their of the main rationales for putting on a queer
damnest to out-queer each other. In a campy film festival. In this selection of shorts there’s a
western town, a lady blacksmith and her chance to learn about histories including those
naughty paramour get up to no good in of LGBTQ+ individuals living in West Yorkshire
a who-rides-who tale with a twist. A drag from the 60s to the present day, and of trans
wardrobe malfunction leads to unexpected people in the 1950s US, whose case files have
consequences. And a satire of lesbian vampire only recently been unearthed. A quite different
and lesbian nun films comically exposes poor documentary tale about a group of queers
representation in cinema. A wee short shorts and migrants squatting a house in Toulouse
screening at 37 minutes for those who need a haunted by a misogynist murder cements the
shot of humour in their lives! programme’s overall reflection on historical
inheritance as a concept.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 20Short films
Family Ties Gods and/or Monsters: Queer East
Vimeo on Demand, Running time tbc, Various Film Festival
directors, N/C 15+, English, Portuguese, and Vimeo on Demand, 76 minutes, Various
Tagalog languages directors, N/C 18+, Mandarin, Cantonese,
Japanese, and English languages
Navigating the risk of rejection and trying
to forge understanding form a large part After having to postpone its first full edition
of queer people’s relationships with their (originally scheduled for April/May 2020), the
biological families. A British-Nigerian man London-based Queer East Film Festival has
confronts such a possibility of rejection when been undertaking an ambitious series of
his mother finds out about his sexuality. Two online screenings over the past few months.
sisters face their family’s wrath when they Now, QEFF takes its first virtual visit to Scotland,
miss their cousin’s wedding to party with presenting a wild and wonderful programme
their friends whilst one of them explores of short films that give a breathtaking glimpse
her sexuality. And Brandon, a queer Filipino- into just some of what East Asian queer cinema
American grandson, meditates through has to offer. Showcasing new and rediscovered
his anxiety of having to call and wish his works - and some things in between - it
grandmother Happy Birthday. features daring touches of the supernatural,
the horrific, the surreal, and the downright
weird. Curated by Queer East’s director and
programmer Yi Wang, this selection is equal
parts shocking, touching, and bittersweet - and
not for the faint of heart!
Presented in partnership with Queer East
Film Festival. With support from the Ministry
of Culture (Taiwan) and TFAI / Taiwan Docs.
21 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelShort films
Healing Love or Something Like It
Vimeo on Demand, 49 minutes, Various Vimeo on Demand, 71 minutes, Various
directors, N/C 15+, English and Malagasy directors, N/C 15+, Korean, English, Portuguese,
languages and Hindi languages
Chado hones in on the moments when a The vagaries of romantic love crossed
child navigates the uncomfortable space with sexual desire are probed in this
between themself and their care-givers. In collection. A mother assists her Disabled
Razana, Solo returns to Madagascar after the son to masturbate and discovers his sexual
death of their lover. Confronting their late preference. Experimental images of toys
partner’s family in line with their final wishes, and animations played on monitors are
Solo must reconcile with grief, homophobia, used to explore the subconscious influences
and compassion. Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny of childhood memories on intimate
explores themes of racism, gender, self- relationships. A poetry film made entirely
actualisation, and the ways in which Asian with a cell phone conveys the regret and
diaspora navigate multicultural living. The longing of a Brazilian immigrant in London.
impact of community arts and organising A middle-aged man makes his weekly visit
and themes of access and fulfilment are to the neighbourhood barber shop so he can
explored in Trans Happiness is Real. These be touched by his crush. And three queers
films all deal with healing and searching for on a countryside holiday carry out a utopian
inner contentment. experiment in the form of a three-way
romantic relationship.
Curated by Naomi Gessesse, movie
watcher and Aries sun from Glasgow, and
Programming & Marketing Assistant at
Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 22Short films
Queer Scotland Rhythms
Vimeo on Demand, Running time tbc, Various Vimeo on Demand, 59 minutes, Various
directors, N/C 15+, Arabic, English, and British directors, N/C 15+, English language
Sign languages
Poetry, dancing, music, the rhythms of queer
We are always proud to present some of clubbing... A series of trans poetry performed
the astonishing queer filmmaking made by by its authors delves deep into gritty issues. A
local talent. This year features meditation documentary chronicles the life of a man who
on the queer body and its owner’s cultural came out in his late 60s and loves to dance
history, the potential for zine culture to more than anything else. A queer singer-
assist in the recovery from mental health songwriter considers what it means to rethink
difficulties, being censored when writing your gender labels through gender affirming
LGBTQ characters, living as a gay man in the top surgery. On the first tube home, Tam
era of 1950s McCarthyism, feminist sci-fi baby- relives his night out clubbing via his phone.
making adventures, love on the mind of an A dance teacher and choreographer by day
admirer, and Deaf identities. discusses how his drag performances by
There will be an award for Best Scottish Short night have influenced him. And a belly dancer
voted for online by audiences. A live watch from a small Kurdish community in Turkey
party screening of the films and Q&A takes talks about the meaning of dance in his life.
place on Sunday 18 October (see page 35).
23 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelShort films Monday 5 October
Transdimensional Voices Opening Night Watch Party: Pride
Vimeo on Demand, 37 minutes, Various & Protest
directors, N/C 15+, English language 7-9.15pm, N/C 15+, Dir: Blaise Singh, UK, 2020,
English language
This collection of shorts uplifts trans* voices
and showcases a wide range of trans* Pride & Protest is a documentary about
identifying talent based within Glasgow. QTIPOC communities and activists in
Jamie Crewe’s “The Ideal Bar” — “Le Britain today and struggles surrounding
Narcisse” — “Alec’s” touches on experiences the politics of desire, self-care, and found
of transphobia and LGBTQIA+ solidarity and family. In the wake of the Birmingham
conflict. Sorcha Clelland presents Where the protests against LGBTIQ+ relationship
Red Fern Grows, interrogating performance, education in primary schools, director
queer club space aesthetics, and the Blaise Singh follows various queer people of
consistent demolition of community spaces colour as they challenge homophobia and
which seek to aid queer voices. Powder racism in their communities. They speak
Snowdrop Catatonic is a performance out against internalised shame and lack of
featuring various camp characters by Sgàire representation, and we follow them trying to
Wood. The films cover a multitude of themes, figure out their place in the world in the build
depending on the viewer’s perception of the up to UK Black Pride.
work.
Curated by Glasgow-based artist TAAHLIAH.
There will be a live watch party screening of
the films with filmmaker Q&A on Saturday
17th October (see page 34).
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 24Tuesday 6 October Wednesday 7 October
Watch Party: Tchindas Workshop: Film Criticism with
7-9.30pm, N/C 15+, Dirs: Pablo García Pérez Valerie Complex and Becca
de Lara, Marc Serena, Cape Verde, 2015, Cape Harrison
Verdean Creole language
6-7.30pm, ages 18+
Tchindas explores queer identity and
Film critics Valerie Complex (Variety,
acceptance in the Cape Verde archipelago,
AwardsWatch, Pride.com) and Becca Harrison
and follows Tchinda, a transgender woman
(Sight & Sound, The Mary Sue, BBC Scotland)
who is a national heroine, as she prepares for
will hold a workshop for emerging critics
Carnival month. The camera closely follows
that introduces different forms, styles, and
Tchinda and her cohorts – an engaging,
practices of writing for the press. Drawing
closely knit group of trans women and gay
on their experience as freelancers for a wide
men – as they take the lead in preparing their
range of outlets, including work on Portrait
neighbourhood for the festivities.
of a Lady on Fire and queer desire in Star
Followed by a conversation examining the Wars, they’ll open with a conversation about
themes raised. Part of Islands and Oceans the usefulness of film criticism in today’s
curated by Harvey Dimond. Supported by online culture, and offer tips and advice
Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film on developing a portfolio. The session will
Audience Network, and funded by Screen cover issues such as research, pitching, PR
Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI. communications, writing in a house style,
and - importantly - getting paid. They’ll
also encourage attendees to discuss their
work and aspirations as critics, and ask any
questions about the industry.
25 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelWednesday 7 October Thursday 8 October
Watch Party: Cracks in the Workshop: Filmmaking with
Patriarchy Wahala Film Fund
8.30-10.20pm, N/C 12+, Dir: Cagdas Celtikli, Kai 6-7.30pm, ages 18+, FREE
Münch, Argentina, 2020, Spanish language
Wahala Film Fund is a short film completion
Through comprehensive interviews fund for Queer, Transgender, and Intersex
focused on seven individuals from different People of Colour filmmakers based in UK,
backgrounds, this documentary examines Europe, and the Global South. Wahala’s
the LGBTQI+ community in Buenos Aires, aim is to challenge the pervasiveness of
Argentina. History and biography meld with the marginalisation of Queer People of
the fiercely political as we learn of several Colour within films and film industries and
overlapping struggles in the vast city. From also empower the many talented QTIPOC
the fight for gender recognition by the trans filmmakers who struggle to make work,
community to ongoing struggles to fight or who stop continuing to make work
racism both within the LGBTQI+ scene and because of the systemic pressures we
beyond; from the experiences of travestis in face in actualising work which prioritises
art and theatre to the massive movement to QTIPOC people in front of and behind the
decriminalise abortion; the history, culture camera. Wahala co-founders and filmmakers
and politics of the LGBTQI+ community are Campbell X and Neelu Bhuman will lead this
drawn into sharp focus. Yet in this great workshop for queer filmmakers of colour to
variety of perspectives and histories lies a find their voice and discuss their place in the
shared goal: a safer, freer society for all. industry.
Followed by a filmmaker Q&A. Part of This event is only open to QTIPOC (queer,
Daydreams and Testimonials: Queer South trans, and intersex people of colour).
America, curated by lesbian Argentinian
translator, writer, and comedian A.B. Silvera.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 26Thursday 8 October Friday 9 October
Watch Party: Tongues Untied Watch Party: Water Makes Us
8.30-10.15pm, N/C 15+, Dir: Marlon Riggs, 1989, Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure
USA, English language 7-8.30pm, N/C 18+, Dirs: Beth Stephens, Annie
Sprinkle, 2018, USA, English language
In his own words, Marlon Riggs aimed to
shatter the “nation’s brutalizing silence on With a poetic blend of curiosity, humour,
matters of sexual and racial difference” with sensuality, and concern, this film chronicles
his 1989 film Tongues Untied. A challenging the pleasures and politics of H2O from an
and captivating work, many of Riggs’ key ecosexual perspective. Travel with Annie,
messages still resonate with the Black queer a former sex worker, Beth, a professor,
experience in the USA and Europe. and their dog Butch, in their E.A.R.T.H. Lab
There will be a discussion about the themes mobile unit, as they explore the role of water.
raised after the screening. Curated by Ecosexuality shifts the metaphor “Earth as
Harvey Dimond. Presented in partnership Mother” to “Earth as Lover” to create a more
with Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights reciprocal and empathetic relationship with
(CRER) for Black History Month. the natural world. Along the way, Annie and
Beth interact with a diverse range of folks
including performance artists, biologists,
water treatment plant workers, scholars and
others, climaxing in a shocking event that
reaffirms the power of water, life and the
earth. Narrated by Sandy Stone. Watch party
hosted by Samar Ziadat.
27 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelSaturday 10 October
Dream Access Focus Group Watch Party: Fabiana
2-4pm, FREE 5-7pm, N/C 12+, Dir: Brunna Laboissière, 2018,
Brazil, Spanish language
Disability provision is almost always a
second thought even in places that are all For over three decades, Fabiana has lived
about radical inclusivity - this is the case a nomadic life as a trans woman trucker
with queer spaces as well. This workshop in Brazil. She has crossed the vast country
is an opportunity to listen to advocates hundreds of times over, never staying
experiencing diverse disabilities, and to find anywhere for too long. Confident and
solutions for radical access provisions in a adventurous, she’s at home amongst the
collaborative way. Documentation of the mostly-male truckers she encounters, and
event, in the form of a zine to share with often hooks up with other women in her
SQIFF and other festivals, will provide a travels. But is she ready to finally settle
community-based, co-created list of problems down, when the open road has been her life?
and suggested solutions, prioritising input This documentary joins her on her last few
from excluded communities rather than journeys on the eve of retirement, sharing the
theoretical ‘best practices.’ connections and intimacies of her life.
Followed by a filmmaker Q&A. Part of
Daydreams and Testimonials: Queer South
America, curated by lesbian Argentinian
translator, writer, and comedian A.B. Silvera.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 28Sunday 11 October
Party: LGBTI+ Elders Social Dance Watch Party: Online Filmmaking
Club Project
2-3.30pm, FREE 5-6.30pm, N/C 15+, Various directors,
Languages tbc, FREE
Calling all LGBTI+ Elders and allies – Dust
off your dancing shoes, charge your glasses A screening of one minute short films made
and get ready for the LGBTI+ Elders Social by participants of our online filmmaking
Dance Club – Online! We might not be able workshops taking place in September. We
to meet in person but we can use the magic will invite the filmmakers to take part in a
of technology to connect, chat, and boogie. Q&A after the screening of their films. Hosted
Just like regular Dance Clubs you can join by filmmaking workshop facilitator Yasmin
in however feels right for you. We think it’s Al-Hadithi. Hadithi is co-founder of DOCMA_
more important than ever right now that we docs – a global platform for the playful
celebrate our community and come together exploration of different doc-filmmaking styles
in any way we can. So please join us online – and DocKlub, “Scotland’s Support Group
so we can talk, laugh and dance together. for Documentary Filmmakers”. Yasmin also
Presented in in partnership with SQIFF. works as a creative producer – most recently
developing an international ‘film exchange’
The LGBTI Elders Social Dance Club is a
for young people in Scotland and the Arctic
National Theatre of Scotland and All The
called, Breaking The Ice.
Queens Men co-production, in partnership
with Eden Court and Luminate, and in
association with Glasgow City Council.
29 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelSunday 11 October Monday 12 October
Watch Party: Blindsided Q&A: Game on: queer disruptions
7-9pm, N/C 15+, Dir: Lisa Olivieri, USA, 2015, in sport
English language 6-6.45pm, FREE
A documentary narrative about Patricia Game on: Queer Disruptions in Sport is a
Livingstone, a deafblind, lesbian artist facing documentary which shines a light on the
a series of losses and gains. The film weaves experiences of those with diverse identities
intimate, real time scenes shot over the within grassroots sport. The film features the
course of eight years with home videos and stories of gay runners Csaba and Benjamin
photographs, relaying the story of a woman from Hungary; Natalie, a Scottish lesbian
whose spark did not fade even in the face of boxer; Pol, an intersex rower from Bulgaria,
hardship and loss. Screening with local short and a German trans woman footballer called
film, Blind Spot, exploring and attempting to Jessi. Join us for a live Q&A with the film’s
simulate the experience of visual impairment. director Maria Takacs, protagonists from the
After the screening, filmmaker and poet, Ross film, and LEAP Sports.
Wilcock, and film journalist and accessibility Presented in partnership with LEAP Sports
consultant, Charlotte Little, will respond to the Scotland, promoting LGBTI participation and
films and discuss the experiences of Deaf and ending LGBTI-phobia in sport. The Q&A will
Disabled LGBTQIA+ people. also be live-streamed to Facebook.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 30Tuesday 13 October Wednesday 14 October
Watch Party: The Wound + South Workshop: Queer Speculative
African Shorts Fiction with Katalina Watt
7-9.30pm, 15, Dir: John Trengrove, South Africa, 6-7pm, ages 15+
2017, Xhosa language
Katalina Watt is an Edinburgh-based author
Despite a rich queer history and long fight to and publisher with a background in digital
guarantee the rights of queer people under publishing, copywriting, and bookselling. A
the first democratic government of Nelson champion of representative voices and stories,
Mandela, queer and trans South Africans she has been published in various anthologies
face many challenges, which intersect with and magazines, and was longlisted for
class and cultural identities. This screening Penguin Random House UK’s 2020 Write Now
attests to those challenges but demonstrates programme. She is currently working on her
that love and support comes from surprising debut Horror-Fantasy short story collection
and subversive places. The Wound explores inspired by folklore of the Philippine islands.
the relationship between traditional Xhosa As part of the festival’s focus on all things
initiation rituals and queer identity, also speculative and fantastic, this informal event
alluded to in My Transgender Life (12m) by will feature an introduction to Katalina’s
Yonela Simetu. The Men Who Speak Gayle work, discussions around representation in
(11m) celebrates a secret language used new writing, and a chance for writers in the
during the apartheid era to hide queer audience to talk through some next steps on
identities from the authorities. what to do with their own work.
Curated by Harvey Dimond. Supported by With thanks to the Scottish BAME Writers
Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Network.
Audience Network, and funded by Screen
Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.
31 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelWednesday 14 October Thursday 15 October
Watch Party: Lesbian Shorts by Discussion: Film Programming for
Shu Lea Cheang QTIPOC
9-10.30pm, N/C 18+, Dir: Shu Lea Cheang, 6.30-8pm, FREE
1993-95, USA, Japan, Japanese and English
languages A conversation with QTIPOC film
programmers from across the UK. We’ll be
Shu Lea Cheang’s work from the early-to- tackling questions such as: What does it
mid 1990s demonstrated an exciting fusion mean to programme for us, by us? What
of identity politics and erotic exploration, unique and specific challenges are we facing?
making her one of the period’s most How do we curate safe and nourishing spaces
prominent queer media artists. for our communities? How do we take care of
This collection presents two of her solo works our selves while doing this grassroots work?
and two collaborations, alongside a Q&A with Guest speakers include queer crip Black fat
Cheang. femme and Fringe! Queer film & arts fest and
freelance film curator, Tara Brown, Director
Part of our Shu Lea Cheang Retrospective,
of CineQ and Festival Manager of SHOUT
Cruising the Future. Cheang is a multi-media
Festival, Rico Johnson-Sinclair, and Scottish-
artist working in experimental video and
Zimbabwean artist, researcher, and curator,
net art since the early 1980s. Her work deals
Natasha Thembiso Ruwona.
with the techno body, queer erotics and
politics, race relations, and governmental and This event is only open to QTIPOC (queer,
institutional power. trans, and intersex people of colour).
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 32Friday 16 October
Watch Party: The Cancer Journals Party: Vogue Scotland
Revisited 8.30pm-12am, FREE
6-8.10pm, N/C 15+, Dir: Lana Lin, USA, 2018,
This live 3 hour virtual club is a collision of
English, Spanish, and German languages
bodies on the dance floor in a rotating duet,
The Cancer Journals Revisited is prompted by mimicking our fleeting interactions in the
the question of what it means to re-visit and club. Featuring three guest dancers, FRAN.K
re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre takes us on a journey through a three and
Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast a half hour soundtrack broadcast on Zoom.
cancer experience today. At the invitation of Participant videos will be set to off and mics
filmmaker Lana Lin, who was diagnosed with muted on entry, so you can watch from the
breast cancer in 2010, twenty-seven writers, zoom or opt to turn on your camera to join
artists, activists, health care advocates, and the dance-floor. You can also join us in the
current and former patients recite Lorde’s chatroom, and once you’ve entered feel free
manifesto aloud on camera, collectively to come and go through the night!
dramatising it and producing an oration
for the screen. The film is both a critical
commentary and a poetic reflection upon
the precarious conditions of survival within
the intimate and politicised public sphere of
illness.
Followed by a Q&A with director Lana Lin.
Presented in partnership with Scottish
Documentary Institute.
33 Access films on SQIFF’s Vimeo on Demand channelSaturday 17 October
Workshop: Documentary Watch Party: Transdimensional
Filmmaking with Lana Lin Voices
4-6.15pm, ages 18+, FREE 7-8.30pm, 37 minutes, Various directors, N/C
15+, English language
Join us for a workshop in collaboration with
Scottish Documentary Institute with Lana Lin, This collection of shorts uplifts trans* voices
a filmmaker, artist, and writer whose creative and showcases a wide range of trans*
practice concerns embodied vulnerabilities. identifying talent based within Glasgow.
Lana’s most recent film The Cancer Journals Jamie Crewe’s “The Ideal Bar” — “Le
Revisited is a brave feature prompting the Narcisse” — “Alec’s” touches on experiences
question of what it means to re-visit and of transphobia and LGBTQIA+ solidarity and
re-vision Black lesbian feminist poet Audre conflict. Sorcha Clelland presents Where the
Lorde’s classic 1980 memoir of her breast Red Fern Grows, interrogating performance,
cancer experience today. queer club space aesthetics, and the
consistent demolition of community spaces
The workshop will be broken down
which seek to aid queer voices. Powder
into two one-hour sessions. In the first
Snowdrop Catatonic is a performance
hour Lana will give an overview of her
featuring various camp characters by Sgàire
practice, particularly focussing on ethics of
Wood. The films cover a multitude of themes,
documentary filmmaking. For the second
depending on the viewer’s perception of the
half of the session, Lana will workshop a
work.
couple of selected projects from submissions.
Attendees are welcome to join with or Curated and hosted by Glasgow-based artist
without a film project in the making. TAAHLIAH. There will be a Q&A with the
filmmakers after the screening.
Book tickets for live events at www.SQIFF.org 34You can also read
