2019 Archives - Document Film Festival

DOCMA Workshop + Screening

Workshop: Wed 23 October, 7pm, CCA Clubroom – ticketed
Please note the originally advertised screening has been cancelled. The DOCMA films will now be shown before Ai Weiwei’s The Rest, Sunday 27/10 from 12.45pm

A DOCMA is a 5-minute documentary film made by 5 filmmakers in 5 different documentary styles. It’s a collaborative exercise designed to allow us to make documentaries together and get our creative juices flowing.

The workshop will take place on Wednesday 23 October at 7pm in CCA Clubroom. Teams will be formed, roles allocated and rules explained. You’ll have two days to complete your own bit of documentary magic to be screened to fellow participants and friends on the final day of Document. Completed films will be added to the ever-growing online DOCMA archive. Whether you’re a seasoned filmmaker or just curious to try it out, all you need to participate is access to something to shoot and edit on, no matter how basic. A smartphone will do just fine.

The results will screen on Sunday 27 October at 12.45pm before Ai Weiwei’s The Rest.

Please note: participation in the workshop is ticketed. Audiences curious to see the results can come along to the Sunday screening for free.

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Honeyland

Nestled in an isolated mountain region deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in a village without roads, electricity or running water. She’s the last in a long line of wild beekeepers, eking out a living farming honey in small batches to be sold in the closest city – a mere four hours’ walk away. Hatidze’s peaceful existence is thrown into upheaval by the arrival of an itinerant family, with their roaring engines, seven rambunctious children and herd of cattle. Hatidze optimistically meets the promise of change with an open heart, it doesn’t take long however, before a conflict evolves that exposes the fundamental tension between nature and humanity, harmony and discord, exploitation and sustainability.

Followed by a conversation hosted by Femspectives.

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Co-presented by Femspectives

Supported by Oxfam

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Kime Ani (audio documentary)

Thursday 24 – Sunday 27 October
All Day
Unticketed

Kime Ani, in the Tahltan language, means ‘home coming’ or ‘let’s go home’. It is a seven-part electronic work, sampling audio from recordings of three generations of artist Edzi’u’s matriarchs and grandmothers’ stories, recorded as early as 2017 and as late as 30 years ago. Edzi’u’s songs are vessels of history, tradition, and adaptation; a record of Indigenous experience through a contemporary Indigenous lens.

Edzi’u is a mixed race Tahltan and inland Tlingit artist, songwriter and composer. Her songs are an incarnation of her family’s ancient tradition of storytelling, realized by designing sound through vintage and current audio recordings, electronic instruments and the voice.

Kime Ani will be free to listen to throughout the festival weekend at sound stations.

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Opening Event: Jay Bernard – Surge

In 1981 a fire broke out at a house in New Cross. Thirteen young black people died and the political events that followed would have a dramatic effect on our understanding of what it means to be Black and British.

Inspired by that story, Surge is a poetic exploration of what came after – the resistance, activism and changing notions of the state, the body and the city, narrated by the ghosts of the fire. Rooted in the area’s local history, this is a show that imaginatively blends the personal and the political, tracing a line from Thatcherism, the colour bar and the National Front to our current age of Brexit, Grenfell and May.

Join Jay Bernard, winner of the 2017 Ted Hughes Award, as they explore this important history using poetry, archive film and audio.

Produced by Speaking Volumes Live Literature Productions.

Followed by a conversation with Jay about their work and the themes explored.

14+ accompanied by an adult.

Before the performance, join us for a drink at our opening reception, from 18.45 in the CCA Atrium, generously sponsored by Drygate Brewing Co.

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Chão

Made over a period of four years, Chão documents the lives of a group of landless workers in the Brazilian state of Goiás. Since 2015, the workers have occupied a portion of a factory site and demanded land reform. The film provides insights into the group’s everyday routine, divided between tilling the land, political activism and talk of what a better future might look like – delving into the microstructures of local political action and life in the resistance.

It was only recently that Jair Bolsonaro, the new president of Brazil, added the landless to the list of enemies of the nation and called on landowners to take up arms to defend their property.

SCOTTISH PREMIERE

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Mothers of the Land & Mass Seed Deposit with Glasgow Seed Library

Mothers of the Land is an indigenous made film accompanying five women from the Andean highlands of Peru in their daily struggle to maintain a traditional and organic way of working the land.

Peru is predicted to be among the three countries most affected by climate change. Farmers in the region use both traditional and modern agricultural techniques to maximize clean energy and combat extreme changes in weather.

Followed by a workshop with Glasgow Seed Library. Bring your saved seeds for a Mass Seed Deposit, hear from people passionate about seed saving and pick up some skills and techniques. We invite everyone interested in resilience and food sovereignty to get involved.

UK PREMIERE

This screening will be captioned for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network, and funded by Screen Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.

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Glasgow Seed Library is a collaborative project, instigated by Glasgow Community Food Network (GCFN) and the Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (CCA). It has been supported by the Gaia Foundation UK Seed Sovereignty Programme.

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Voices of Resistance: Performing the Communal

These five short documentaries each look at a particular community’s shared histories and realities, through collaborative and performative expressions and explorations.

We open with Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold’s Black Bus Stop, a powerful, chanting tribute to an iconic gathering place for black students at the University of Virginia in the 1980s and 90s. In Cloud Forest by Eliane Bots five girls guide us through their own imaginations and impressions of their parents’ experiences of the war in the former Yugoslavia. We move to Chongqing in China for David Verbeek’s Trapped in the City of a Thousand Mountains, looking at the subculture of Chinese rap as a radical artistic expression for young people living in a surveillance state. Voices of Kidnapping by Ryan McKenna is a collection of radio broadcast recordings of family members reaching out to loved ones kidnapped in the Amazon jungle, set against abstract visuals of Colombian landscapes. We conclude with Rise by Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, in which people from African and Caribbean descent perform in Toronto’s subway stations to reflect on their identities, creating cultural dialogue through words and rhythm.

This programme is curated and co-presented by Glasgow Short Film Festival.

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Solidarity

Blacklisting in the UK construction industry impacted thousands of workers who were labelled ‘troublemakers’ for speaking out and secretively denied employment. Activists uncovered alarming links between workplace blacklisting and undercover policing. Solidarity attentively follows meetings between activists and law students, brought together for the film, revealing the determination of a community working together to find a route to justice.

Followed by a conversation with filmmaker Lucy Parker and guests.

Presented by LUX Scotland

Supported by Unite

This screening will be captioned for D/deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences and the post-film discussion will be BSL interpreted.
Supported by Film Hub Scotland, part of the BFI’s Film Audience Network,
and funded by Screen Scotland and Lottery funding from the BFI.

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Lovemobil

When night falls in rural Germany, old VW caravans decorated with flashy lights line the highway roads which lead through potato fields and dark forests. Inside these buses, sex workers await their clients who are passing by. Lovemobil spends time with these women who often come from far away. A film about a microcosm that describes a society at the outer edge of globalized capitalism.

Please note this screening was originally advertised as being followed by a discussion on sex workers’ rights and migration; however this is no longer going ahead and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

Supported by Goethe-Institute.

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Last Night I Saw You Smiling

“We’re used to seeing a house for its roof, windows, and walls. But in the end, as we move out of here, it breaks my heart.” Filmmaker Kavich Neang’s father is one of the hundreds of residents who must leave the iconic White Building in Phnom Penh. This housing block bore witness to a tremendous series of events: the young nation’s Golden Age; a traumatic breakdown under a radical regime; decades of cultural revival centred within its walls; and, the rapid pace of capitalist development that would ultimately lead to its demise. Now the once radiant walls are grey and damaged. Neang, born here in 1987 and raised inside, once dreamed of shooting a fiction film here, but reality overtook his plan. It’s now the location for his first full-length documentary. When demolition comes, it’s all just a memory.

Co-presented by Aperture: Asia & Pacific Film Festival

SCOTTISH PREMIERE

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DOCMA Workshop + Screening

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Honeyland

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Kime Ani (audio documentary)

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Opening Event: Jay Bernard – Surge

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Chão

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Mothers of the Land & Mass Seed Deposit with Glasgow Seed Library

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Voices of Resistance: Performing the Communal

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Solidarity

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Lovemobil

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Last Night I Saw You Smiling

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