- The Fox and The Stone Age both shortlisted for the award.
- The films will be screened at the Glasgow Film Theatre on Saturday 26 March 2022
Work by 2021 GSA graduates has been shortlisted for Scotland’s Year of Stories Short Film Award at the 2022 Glasgow Short Film Festival it has been announced. The largest annual showcase of emerging local talent, the Year of Stories Short Film Award 2022 features 23 shorts including The Fox and The Stone Age.
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| Image: a still from The Fox |
My collaboration project with Eirini Kalogera, in which I produced and performed in the short film The Fox, allowed me to experiment with a range of materials, such as creating costume and prosthetics, and explore moving image to open up threads of thought such as narrative and cinematography.
Julia Johnstone
The Fox is a collaborative piece by GSA Painting and Printmaking graduate Julia Johnstone and Fine Art Photography graduates, Eirini Kalogera and Lucas Orozco. The film, which depicts the transformation of a human into a half-fox half-woman persona, premiered in the GSA’s Graduate Showcase in June 2021. The character of the fox was also seen projected on to the Mackintosh Building at the showcase launch. In her research in performance Johnstone looked towards artists such as Marina Abramović and Yves Klein to understand the varying methods of recording performances and what constitutes as performance art documentation.
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| Image: still from The Stone Age |
This commission was an opportunity to expand my practice as an artist filmmaker within a professional context. I devised a pitch to incorporate my work with subtitles as a form of writing; Jen’s poetry offered a fresh way of exploring text and how it interacts with other media.
Alison Piper
The Stone Age, was commissioned from artist Alison Piper by the Edinburgh International Book Festival as a response to TS Eliot prize winning poet, Jen Hadfield’s, poetry collection of the same name. The film responds to Hadfield’s synthesis of human and non-human experience, exploring who we are as individuals and who we are in relationship to the places we call home. Made when she was studying for an MLitt in Fine Art practice at the GSA, Alison’s elegiac piece features film shot by cinematographer Kristin McMahon as well as her own footage with soundscapes created by Oscar Prentice-Middleton who was studying for a MDes in Sound for the Moving image at the GSA at the time.
“We are delighted that these short films by GSA 2021 graduates have been shortlisted for this important award,” says Professor Penny Macbeth, Director of The Glasgow School of Art. “It is particularly exciting that the films, which demonstrate the calibre of creative talent that is being nurtured here in the city, are to have their big screen premieres as part one of Glasgow’s cultural festivals.”
“Both The Fox and The Stone Age illustrate the power of collaborative practice, which is central to the student learning at the GSA. The Fox was created by students at the GSA and at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Meanwhile, for her Edinburgh International Book Festival commission The Stone Age, Alison Piper brought together a wide-ranging creative team.”
Launching the GSFF Matt Lloyd, Director, said: “The Scottish competition at GSFF is the largest annual showcase of new Scottish film talent, championing diverse forms of cinematic storytelling, whether fiction, animation or documentary, in English, Gaelic, Scots or Urdu, Polish, Kurdish… The only eligibility criterion is that the filmmaker lives and works in Scotland.
Thanks to the support of the Year of Stories 2022 Community Stories Fund we will have the opportunity to bring new Scottish storytellers to a wide audience, at the festival, online and via a touring programme throughout 2022.”
The GSA graduates were supported in submitting their work to the GSFF by the GSA through the Creative Network, a vibrant and dynamic approach to supporting and maintaining relationships with its global network of students and graduates
For details of the screenings of The Fox and The Stone Age at GSFF 2022 visit:
https://glasgowshort.org/shows/scottish-competition-3-a-different-sphere-nc-15
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Note for Editors
Glasgow Short Film Festival, the largest competitive short film festival in Scotland, champions new film talent by providing an annual showcase and meeting point for new and established Scottish and international filmmakers, industry delegates and the local audience. Our programme celebrates diverse forms of cinematic expression, and foregrounds disruptive, ground-breaking work that transgresses the boundaries of conventional narrative film.
The 15th edition of the festival will run 23-27 March 2022.