Ocean Feeling
Ocean Feeling is a short experimental art film of overlaid images of biological life with an ambient drone score. Strangely hypnotic and beautiful.
Month: November 2021
Rust
Rust is a short documentary profiling the work of sculptor Mariola Wawrzusiak-Borcz. She uses scrap metal to create sculptures of animals, insects and the natural world. Mariola is driven by a love of nature. She loves to go out camping, exploring the wilderness with her dogs. In recycling metal waste into art, there is an…
Manuscript to the City
The filmmaker moves from Barcelona to Buenos Aires and begins filming her new city. However, after 8 months of doing so, the city remains a stranger through her lens. The film ends with the filmmaker expressing dissatisfaction with what she captured, and I think that’s palpable throughout. It’s like the camera is not big enough…
GFF update
Ooh, the GFF is defo gonna continue to have an online component this year. Pretty pleased about that, coz it’ll give a bit of flexibility. Plus, it’ll mean folk not in Glasgow can tune into some of the great films. I think the online thing went far better for them last year than they expected,…
I Burn Easily
I Burn Easily is a feminist revenge story, told in 5 episodes that form a short film. It is about 3 friends who take a body positive topless selfie, only to have it be appropriated by a misogynistic website that displays it for online hate and pornography. The friends then decide how to handle to…
Broken Head
Broken Head is a documentary which follows Andrzej, a prison inmate, who, coming off the back of a suicide attempt, decides to pursue therapy. We’re gonna put a pin in the ethics of that, and come back to it later. Andrzej has spent his life in and out of prison, addicted to various drugs, mostly…
Love
Love is a short film about a guy, Pawel, who gets in debt to gangsters, who threaten to kill his family if he doesn’t participate in a robbery. When someone is killed during the course of the crime, Pawel ends up sentenced to decades in prison. The one highlight is he and his lawyer have…
The Ghost of the Baltic Sea
The Ghost of the Baltic Sea is a documentary on discarded fishing nets made by the WWF. Firstly, I’m not gonna get into anything about the nets until I say this, just coz it’s a WWF documentary, does that mean you need your logo in every fucking shot? The entire film is about a WWF…
The Prince and the Dybbuk
The Prince and the Dybbuk is more interesting in its first 15 minutes than some films manage to be in 2 hours. It is a biopic of early Hollywood director Michal Waszynski. He worked on blockbusters like Fall of the Roman Empire, The Barefoot Contessa, and Orson Welles’s Othello. When Michal died, he was buried…
Under The Sky
An elderly Polish man feels the ebbing of memory in Under The Sky, but two things remain, his love of his wife and his love of flying. A retired fighter pilot, he still stares out the window as planes pass across the sky. He still remembers the aircraft he flew and how to get prepped…