Glass, Meet the Future Film Festival 2020

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‘The British Council Scotland - UK in Japan 2019-20 campaign

has had a vital and valuable impact on North Lands Creative and our relationship with Japan. While we have postponed our exchange trip and festival in Toyama until 2021, the film residency and digital programme has enhanced and accelerated the project immensely.

Adding a new strand with our online festival has made the experience far more powerful. The relationship with TIGA has given North Lands Creative a starting point for conversations with the wider Japanese glass community and audiences and has inspired far deeper and more fruitful conversations.’

Karen Phillips, Director, North Lands Creative

Highly motivated by the encouragement of the whole glass community, North Lands Creative team has decided to rebound in the face of the adversity caused by COVID-19 and the postponement of our event in Toyama, Japan and launch the inaugural edition of the Glass, Meet the Future festival online.

We have organised the GMTF festival in two parts.

Part I of the festival will showcase 34 films including documentaries, performance works. In addition to the films presented in the official selection, a series of showings from our open call entries introducing the new wave of creators, devoting a special programme of female glass artists and presenting a selection of the worlds contemporary artistic performances and narratives. This is an exciting space for myriad perspectives and opportunities, where you are invited to celebrate glass and its diversity from the incredible work of twenty-five artists.

GMTF II features our recent film residency with the premiere of The Soul of a Statue, a specially

commissioned short film.

The collaborative work of glass artist Martin Janecky and filmmaker Tom Hogben filmed on location in North Lands Creative Alastair Pilkington studio and features the dramatic coastline of Caithness.

The GMTF Festival launches from Friday July 3rd and continues until July 17th. All the screenings are free but registration is essential.

Considering the world situation, the fact that we received so many open call submissions, we are very proud to be screening many powerful and never-before-seen films with glass artists and filmmakers from around the world.

The Festival is dedicated to presenting a selection of new films pivoting around the medium of glass and to highlight the global glass community during unprecedented times. The films include narratives, documentaries, experimental, and hybrid genres – telling stories about how art is made, how artists survive, how they think and work, and what makes creativity our most important skill.

GLASS, MEET THE FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL 2020

ALISON LOWRY & JAYNE CHERRY - 35 I CANT’S

GLASS, MEET THE FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 Alison Lowry & Jayne Cherry, Anna Mlasowsky, Bibi Smit, Charlie Murphy, Chenyue Yang, Chris Bird-Jones , Emily Coulson, Flora deBechi, Gemma Truman, Griet Beyaert, Ina Kristine Hove, Inguna Audere, Jamie Rose, Jerre Davidson, Juli BolaĂąos-Durman, Karin Forslund, Katie Spiers, Kirsteen Aubrey, Madeline Rile Smith, Natalia Komorowska, Rachael Harris, Riikka Haapasaar, Simone Fezer, Sinead Brennan & Teisha Holloway

PERFORMANCE Alison Lowry & Jane Cherry Thirty five I cant’s Anna Mlasowsky Chorus of One Anna Mlasowsky 4 feet apart Chenyue Yang Dear Griet Beyaert Fabric of my Skin Sculptural Glass Sound Inguna Audere Secret 2019 ANNA MLASOWSKY - CHORUS OF ONE

Jamie Rose Walking in Heels (Stepping on Glass) Karin Forslund The shape of the thing Madeline Rile Smith Breathe Memory Simone Fezer Frame by frame

GLASS, MEET THE FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 PART I

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DOCUMENTARY

Chris Bird-Jones Breathe

Bibi Smit Moving Glass

Flora deBechi Reflection, Refraction

Charlie Murphy Brains in a Dish growing the stuff of thought

Teisha Holloway waiting…

Jerre Davidson Shape of Dance Juli Bolaños-Durman Our Common Humanity Kirsteen Aubrey Hands On Collaborative Practice Simone Fezer A girls heart Sinead Brennan The Tear in Ireland’s Eye

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EXPERIMENTAL Chris Bird-Jones Silver Lining Emily Coulson Time & Tea Gemma Truman Shelligoe Inguna Audere Breath Natalia Komorowska Obsession 2020 Rachael Harris Diaphanous Illusion

Riikka Haapasaari Light Keeper ( Trailer ) Riikka Haapasaari Me & You, In Between Simone Fezer Roses are red_sensual flow

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SHORT NARRATIVE Ina Kristine Hove Aspiration_text Juli Bolaños-Durman Wild Flowers Collection 1 Juli Bolaños-Durman Wild Flowers Collection 2 Juli Bolaños-Durman Wild Flowers Collection 3 Katie Spiers The Fading Call of the Curlew

RIIKKA HAAPASAARI - LIGHT KEEPER

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GLASS, MEET THE F FILM FILM FESTIVAL FESTIVAL 2020 2020 PAP The Soul of A Statue was produced by North Lands Creative, as part of the UK in Japan 2019-20 bilateral campaign, a partnership between British Council Scotland and Creative Scotland.

The film was made in collaboration with Artist Martin Janecký and Filmmaker Thomas Hogben on residency at North Lands Creative. Supported by Toyama Institute of Glass Art and Toyama Glass Art Museum.

A fragmented recollectio tion, this film is a coll and detail as we observe dinary process of glass tin Janecký.

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