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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2017

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The European Showerbath (Country: UK; Year: 2004; Director: Peter Greenaway)
15 European countries optimistically step one by one into the warm shower bath of the European Community. But the water supply is limited...
Five Angels (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: Richard Ashrowan)
A Scottish perspective on Brexit. Featuring some thinking about nails as a means to invoke angelic intervention.
The Lawes Of The Marches (Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Katie Davies)
A document of the ancient border tradition of the Common Ridings, a 700 year old ritual of communal horse riding, all along the border of England and Scotland.
The Lion And The Unicorn (Country: UK; Year: 2012; Director: Rachel Maclean)
The lion, the unicorn and the queen drink North Sea oil from Jacobite crystal, divide up the pieces of a Union Jack cake and incite conflict over the mispronunciation of Robert Burns.
Manufactured Britishness (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: Kristina Cranfeld)
What is the future of citizenship in Britain and what new rules will be proposed for immigrants to become citizens?
Time And The Wave (Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: William Raban)
Key London events filmed in 2012 and 2013 are utilised to expose the condition of this country in the time of crisis of late capitalism.
We Look To Scotland For All Our Ideas Of Civilisation (Country: China, UK; Year: 2014; Director: Matt Hulse)
A video message to Scotland (from China) on the day of IndyRef 2014.
Who Are We? (Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: John Smith)
On the 23rd of June 2016 Britain voted to leave the European Union. A re-working of material from a BBC television debate transmitted a few weeks earlier.
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