7th April
15:00 - 17:00
Gilmorehill Halls
Feature Film
W.W's second event will take place at the Andrew Stewart Cinema at Gilmorehill Halls in Glasgow on 7 April from 3pm to 5pm. The screening will focus on four short films that will take the audience on a deeper journey into the identity symbol of the witch.
Venue
Address
9 University Ave,
Glasgow G12 8QQ
Contact
0141 330 5522
Time
7th April
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
The Andrew Stewart Cinema at Gilmorehill Halls, a teaching venue at the University of Glasgow, is a professionally-equipped viewing venue that can accommodate a large number of people. Given the academic and professional nature of the venue, the screening will focus on short films with themes that allow the audience to think deeply, in the hope that the audience will be able to look at the issue raised by the identity symbol of the witch from a wider perspective.
This animation depicts a story with a modern twist about the witch-hunting movement. It takes people back to the Middle Ages. Due to the social prejudices and cultural problems of the time, women were tried and killed as witches. The cruelty of the witch hunts is still undeniable, but looking back to modern times, one has to wonder if the witch hunts are really a thing of the past that will never happen again.
Collection of Short Films
1/ Witches; Felix Ferrand and Thibaut Vuillin; France and Canada; 2022
2/ Mountain; Yuwei Du; China; 2022
An ordinary girl is suddenly entrusted with an important task by the people of a village, who tell her that she is a goddess who has been blessed by the mountain god and will henceforth protect the villagers in the name of the mountain god. However, this is nothing more than a huge scam by the villagers. The film has been recommended by the Mint Chinese Film Festival and will be screened for the first time in Scotland through this event.
3/ Requiem; Emma J. Gilbertson; United Kingdom; 2017
The film is set in 1605, when the witchcraft movement was in full swing. In this story, two girls, Evelyn and Mary, fall in love in a way that is not accepted by the world, a love that goes against the mainstream and may leads to them being labelled as deviants by the public and even tried as witches.
4/ The Piss Witch; Jason Barker; United Kingdom; 2022
The main character, Clare, is fed up with her peers constantly calling her Wizzers to judge and comment on her physical features. However, when Clare discovers that witch is an existence that is shunned by others, she rebelliously gains the strength from becoming the witch.
5/ Divination; Olia Oparina; United States; 2016
In a desire to learn who her future husband will be, Elsa seeks out the advice of Agatha, an old woman rumored to possess ancient wisdom. Agatha relates the ritual with the mirrors. It sounds harmless, but it hides dark secrets. Unaware of the danger, Elsa attempts to perform the ritual, but who does she see? Her betrothed…or something else?
