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Glasgow Film Festival · 2012

Glasgow Film Festival 2012

Crossing The Line

Original, surreal and experimental cinema that challenges expectations and blurs the boundaries of narrative form.

Programme

6 films · 4 reviews

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All Divided Selves

An unconventional, multiple-perspective documentary focused on the counter-culture psychiatrist RD Laing.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Luke Fowler; Stars: RD Laing)

The Dilapidated Dwelling

Topical documentary exploring the UK's current housing crisis, exploring the reasons why we don't produce cheap houses that are comfortable to live in and that people want to buy.

(Country: UK; Year: 2000; Director: Patrick Keiller; Writer: Patrick Keiller; Stars: Narrated by Tilda Swinton)

Finisterrae

Review preview for Finisterrae

With absolutely stunning cinematography and subtly effective performances, Finisterrae is more moving than you might expect.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A tongue-in-cheek surrealist parable in which two ghosts go looking for the end of the world.

(Year: 2010; Director: Sergio Caballero; Writer: Sergio Caballero; Stars: Pau Nubiola, Santi Serra, Pavel Lukiyanov, Yuri Mykhaylychenko, Santí Serra, Rosanna Walls)

The Forgotten Space

Review preview for The Forgotten Space

Tthere are about six or seven fascinating shorts competing for attention here, and Burch and Sekula’s respective backgrounds pull the film one way and then the other, never quite settling into a structurally or aesthetically consistent framework.

Michael Pattison · 2.5 out of 5
Film essay documenting fishermen's working conditions and sea trade.

(Country: The Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Allan Sekula, Noël Burch) , Official site

Patience (After Sebald)

Review preview for Patience (After Sebald)

A film that is satisfying intuitively even when it misfires at other levels.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
An exploration of the prose, poetry and artwork of WG Sebald and its place within European history and geography.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Grant Gee)

Two Years At Sea

Review preview for Two Years At Sea

If this is a character study, there is little character in it.

Anton Bitel · 2 out of 5
A portrait of Jake, an outsider who lives in the wilderness of his own creation.

(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Ben Rivers; Stars: Jake Williams)