Friday 25.10.24 – Sunday 27.10.24 @ OFFLINE
The No-Film Programme is a counterpoint to this year’s festival theme, The Observer Effect, and our general focus on strange and unseen cinema, exploring instead cinema that can’t be seen – because it’s lost, banned, fragmentary, withdrawn or entirely imaginary. The programme consists of a gallery show celebrating unmade films, co-curated with Screen Slate’s Jon Dieringer, and a selection of short films, including a pair of specially commissioned new video essays from film-maker Daniel Cockburn, on the Goncharov phenomenon and the Glasgow-filmed, studio-binned Batgirl.
No-Film Shorts Programme
10.00-22.00 | 1hr loop, starting on the hour | Digital
The Invocation (Daniel Cockburn, 2024) 15m
An unwinnable online game draws Scorsese, De Niro, and all their parasocial friends into a tangled web of headcanon and fugue.
The Abjuration (Daniel Cockburn, 2024) 15m
Metropolis meets Necropolis, Gotham gets drawn and erased, and Glasgow plays host to a spectacle that nobody will ever see.
Kier-La Janisse on Cockfighter (Sean Welsh, 2024) 15m
The author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure recounts her long history with Monte Hellman’s Cockfighter (1974), effectively illegal to screen in the UK due to staged scenes of the titular blood sport.
Lost Hungarian Films (Enikő Löwensohn, 2024) 13m57s
More than one third of the works made during the 120 years of Hungarian film history are considered lost, ruined or deliberately destroyed. But how did all this happen?
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NB the entire Weird Weekend programme is presented with descriptive subtitles and optional audio description.
Thanks to Daniel Cockburn, Kier-La Janisse, National Film Institute Hungary (NFI), Jon Dieringer and Screen Scotland
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