Have you ever wanted to recreate Indiana Jones’ boulder chase scene in the grand hall of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum? Or wondered what a film screening at Glasgow’s legendary gig venue Barrowland Ballroom would be like? Glasgow Film Festival is excited to confirm the first few special events of its 2016 programme, with tickets for these events on sale from noon on Thursday 17 December, turning a number of iconic venues across the city into perfectly-programmed pop-up cinema spaces. The festival is also delighted to announce that Scottish Power have come on board to sponsor the newly-established Audience Award this year.
GFF has built a reputation for its site-specific screenings and pop-up cinema events over the years (famously screening Jaws in the hull of Glasgow’s Tall Ship and The Passion of Joan of Arc in Glasgow Cathedral). In 2016 they’re working with a number of the city’s most famous venues for the first time, including The Barrowland Ballroom, Tramway, and Glasgow Planetarium, to screen new works and classic films celebrating significant anniversaries
The festival returns once again to favourite venue Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, with two spectacular anniversary screenings in one night. First off, a museum crammed full of ancient artefacts seems like the perfect place to join action-archaeologist Indiana Jones...or at least his stuntman: Vic Armstrong, Guinness Book of Records-certified most prolific stunt performer in the world, who has doubled for Harrison Ford in almost all of his stunts, introduces a thirty-fifth anniversary screening of Raiders of the Lost Ark. A live action/ adventure presentation will precede the screening, so do look out for the boulders…
Later that night, GFF will turn the Kelvingrove lights down very low indeed for a super-creepy late-night screening of twenty-five year old horror classic The Silence of the Lambs, complete with live organ music, and glasses of nice Chianti…
Kelvingrove isn’t the only iconic Glasgow venue GFF is making use of, with two new spaces turning into festival venues for the first time in 2016. Playing a gig at Barrowland Ballroom is a rite of passage for every band in the UK (and beyond): names from David Bowie to Cypress Hill to Radiohead to Bjork have graced the stage since it reopened as a rock venue in 1960. In February it turns into a cinema for the first time ever, to host the UK premiere screening of Where You’re Meant To Be, created by award-winning filmmaker Paul Fegan, following cult musician Aidan Moffat (Arab Strap) on a trip round Scotland and its folk song history. A concert bringing together a number of the traditional and contemporary musicians from the film will surround the screening.
David Bowie’s iconic turn in The Man Who Fell To Earth is forty years old in 2016; where better to view it than inside the Space Zone on the spectacular screen of the Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium, following a guided tour through the solar system and special visual treats on their incredible 360° full dome screen.
Punk fans take note Tramway Theatre on the southside which is currently hosting the Turner Prize exhibition will be taken over by the festival for 3 days.This is Now: Film and Video After Punk (1978-85), archival films films by artists including John Maybury, Grayson Perry, Cordelia Swann and Jill Westwood. Many have been out of print for over 30 years, with the exhibition a night celebrating the spirit of punk and New Wave music.
Allison Gardner, Co-Director of Glasgow Film Festival, said: ‘At Glasgow Film Festival the audiences always come first, so we’re very proud to be able to announce that our first few events to go on sale this year are such show-stoppers, and that we can pay such great tributes to some of Glasgow’s favourite buildings. We’re also absolutely delighted and hugely grateful to Scottish Power for their sponsorship of the Audience Award, enabling us to bring the nominated directors to Scotland to meet our audiences and discuss their films. It seems very appropriate that we’re getting a boost to a part of the festival which has engaged our audiences so thoroughly.’
2016 Glasgow Film Festival is moulding itself another fantastic festival with Golden Couples and Industry strand already announced.Not forgetting Youth Festival(12-15th February) which will we see premieres for The Witch and What Marnie Was There the last ever Studio Ghibli the highlights of that festival. The full line up will be announced just over 4 weeks time with UK's third largest film festival taking place from 17th until 28th February 2016.
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