15th April
15:00 - 17:00
GMAC Film
Film Collections
W.W's third event will take place on 15th April at GMAC fifth floor in Glasgow. This event will contain 1 short film and 1 feature film, and will be followed by a Q&A session featuring the filmmaker.
Venue
Address
Fifth Floor, 103 Trongate,
Glasgow G1 5HD
Contact
0141 553 5400
Time
15th April
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Established as a charity in 1982, GMAC Film is an open access media centre that delivers a creative and artistic programme for all people, regardless of age, background or income to acquire the skills, knowledge, resources and confidence to realise their ambitions in film and elsewhere in the creative sector. They believe that by removing barriers to participation they can contribute to the gradual and genuine increase in the equality, diversity and inclusivity of the screen and other creative sectors in Scotland.
In reverence to the British paintings that watch over her from inside a desolate stately home, a young Pakistani girl aspires to become the perfect upper-class lady.
Aqsa Arif is an award-winning Scottish-Pakistani artist and filmmaker based in Glasgow. She incorporates film, printmaking, photography and poetry to construct installations in which she explores themes of dual heritage, migration and cultural dissonance. Her practice is deeply inspired by narrative structures built within folklore, mythology and cinematic spaces, exploring this through her own dual identity to reclaim and re-imagine the pre/post-colonial world.
Film Collections
1/ Spicy Pink Tea; Aqua Arid; United Kingdom; 2022
2/ I Am Not a Witch; Rungano Nyoni; United Kingdom, France, Germany and Zambia; 2017
The film presents a bold satire on gender prejudice through the story of Shula, a young girl living in the Zambian culture of Africa, who is unjustifiably accused of being a witch and forced to join a witch community. In fact, the film's criticism of witch culture also stems from the prejudices of the world. Although the director brings African witch culture to the world stage, the details of these prejudices should be considered not only in the context of African culture, but also in the context of global culture.
