Dir: Various
Total running time: 90 mins approx.
A pestilence is sweeping southwards from Glasgow. Suspected source: diseased space-monkeys. Symptoms: compulsive body-popping, flicker-vision, hearing disembodied voices from cinema history. Hitchhikers, headless bodies and flying lighthouse-keepers are to be avoided at all costs. Possibly the worst case of 21st century addiction ever to hit Birmingham. The Magic Lantern, Scotland’s premiere short film exhibitor, is the last line of defence. This showcase programme from Glasgow Short Film Festival represents your only hope. You have it in your power to turn the tide. Join us.
Full programme
PETER IN RADIOLAND Winner of GSFF Best International Short Film Award 2010
Johanna Wagner / UK / 2009 / 10min
Comforted by his analogue radios, his memories and his loving wife, Peter is left yearning for the old days.
LIFT
Nathan Rae / UK / 2009 / 10min
A unique portrait of Britain on the move, told from the perspectives of a hitchhiker and the strangers who invite him into their cars and lives.
WHEN WORLDS COLLUDE
Fred Worden / USA / 2008 / 13min
A kind of specialized playground in which highly representational images are freed from their duties to refer to things outside of themselves.
KANIZSA HILL
Evelyn Lee / USA / 2008 / 8min
A man is shot and can only survive as a head and a body who exist independently from one another.
DIE SCHNEIDER KRANKHEIT
Javier Chillon / Spain / 2008 / 10min
The Fifties, a Soviet space shuttle crashes in West Germany. The only passenger, a cosmonaut chimpanzee, spreads a deadly virus all over the country...
MISS THIS AT YOUR PERIL
Brent King / USA / 2009 / 23min
A story of addiction to the 21st century. A group of eleven come together to try a new experimental medication and get the devils out.
WINGS AND OARS
Vladimir Leschiov / Latvia / 2009 / 6min
A former pilot looks back over his life - everything that took place on the journey from an airstrip to an abandoned boathouse.
CHOREOMANIA
Louis Paxton / UK / 2009 / 10min
The story of Hector’s journey into dance hell as Glasgow is overwhelmed by a hysterical body-popping plague.
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