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Glasgow Short Film Festival · 2017

Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017

Quantum Shorts

Programme

10 films

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Ampersand

What unites everything on Earth? That we are all ultimately composed of something that is both matter & wave.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Erin Shea)

Approaching Reality

Dancing cats, a watchful observer and a strange co-existence. It’s all you need to understand the essence of quantum mechanics.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Simone De Liberato)

Bolero

The coin is held fast, but is it heads or tails? As long as the fist remains closed, you are a winner – and a loser.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2016; Director: Ivan D'Antonio)

The Guardian

A quantum love triangle, where uncertainty is the only winner.

(Country: India; Year: 2016; Director: Chetan V Kotabage)

Novae

What happens when a massive star reaches the end of its life? Something that goes way beyond the spectacular, according to this cosmic poem about the infinite beauty of a black hole’s birth.

(Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Thomas Vanz)

The Real Thing

Picking up a beverage shouldn’t be this hard. And it definitely shouldn’t take you through the multiverse…

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Adam Welch)

Together - Parallel Universe

It’s a tale as old as time: boy meets girl, girl is not as interested as boy hoped. So boy builds spaceship and travels through multi-dimensional reality to find the one universe where they can be together.

(Country: South Africa; Year: 2016; Director: Michael Robertson)

Tom's Breakfast

This is one of those days when Tom's morning routine doesn't go to plan – far from it, in fact. The only question is, can he be philosophical about it?

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Ben Garfield)

Triangulation

Can the secret of life be found in the smallest world, where lifeforms and insentient substance are indistinguishable?

(Country: Ukraine; Year: 2016; Director: Volodymyr Vlasenko)

Whitecap

Dr. David Long has discovered how to turn matter into waveforms. So why shouldn’t he experiment with his own existence?

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Bernard Ong)