Friday @ Electric Fields

Sausage_Robert_Grieves_Main3pm – Cinemor 77 Family Friendly Shorts (U)

Our Oceans | Aindri Chakraborty | 2014 |2 mins – this beautiful animation focuses on the importance of protecting the ocean.

The Ballad of Island Holland House |Lynn Tomlinson | 2015 | 4 mins – a short animation telling the story of the last house on a sinking island in the Chesapeake Bay. Told from the house’s point of view, this is a soulful and haunting take on the impact of sea-level rise.

Tam O’Shanter | Raymond Rigby | 2015 | 3mins – Glasgow based fimmaker & designer Raymond Rigby’s imaginative interpretation of the classic burns poem

The World’s First Bicycle | Conrad Molleson | UK | 5mins  –  a short animation about the creation of the Worlds First bicycle and it’s eventful journey in 1842, via a Gorbals jail, whilst being ridden by it’s inventor, Kirkpatrick Macmillan.

My Strange Grandfather | Dina Velikovskaya | 2011 | 9mins – a creative person can seem strange, funny and a little bit crazy but sometimes they create miracles.

Domestic Appliances |Lewis Firth Bolton | UK | 3mins – A short film about people with unusual living arrangements.

Sausage | Robert Grieve | 2014 | 6 mins – two artisan stallholder’s idyllic world is invaded by a devious fast-food vendor bertanimation.com

Colonel Mustard – Freedom of the Children |Martin Windebank | 2017

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5pm – Scottish Documentary Institute Shorts (PG) – A programme of SDI’s best, creative documentary shorts

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6pm – Moon Man | 96 mins |Stephan Schesch| 2013 | France  

The man on the moon is bored. One day, he hitches a ride to Earth on the tails of a passing comet — an “attack from outer space”that sets the alarm bells ringing in the President’s headquarters — and starts to explore the fantastical creatures and sights of a new planet. But all is not well — the Moon Man’s absence from his post means that all the world’s children are unable to sleep. Before the President can capture him, they must join forces to return him to his rightful place in the sky.

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8pm – Where You’re Meant to Be | 76 min |  Paul Fegan | 2016 – Cult-pop raconteur Aidan Moffat sets out to explore Scotland’s past by rewriting and touring its oldest songs. But he doesn’t count on running into 79-year-old force of nature Sheila Stewart – a travelling balladeer who upturns Moffat’s folk assumptions. He believes the old songs are ripe for updating. She does not.

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10pm – Withnail and I (15) – a melancholic masterpiece and one of the funniest British films ever made. Join us to celebrate 30 years since the release of one of the finest films known to humanity – 

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11.30pm – Glasgow Short Film Festival presents Higher States (18) – a selection of blissed out, unsettling or just plain weird films exploring imaginary worlds and elevated consciousness