Glasgow Short Film Festival 2023

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Aeons Ark and Cuties
Aeons Ark (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Sophie Maria Vickers)
A reappreciation of both the biblical Noah’s Ark story and the Mesopotamian flood myth. In this version the God is an artificial intelligence which has become a deity to a group of humans. Flood myths are universal with many cultures and religions around the world sharing a similar earth destroying flood story.
Bod (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Isabel Garrett)
Getting ready for bed, a woman tries to dive inside her own body. A little journey into both the strangeness of flesh and the comfort of it, and our tendency to overlook its wonder in pursuit of an ever changing ideal of beauty.
Botanica Exotica (Country: Hungary; Year: 2022; Director: Sofia Laszlovszky)
A magnetic storm is approaching the solar system which effects all living things differently. On a remote planet, a plant-lover ex-scientist’s lonely life is in danger. With the slowly approaching storm tension grows bigger and erupts into massive aggression between the habitants which makes everybody dangerously insane.
Cuties (Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Theo W Scott)
A hand-drawn sequential telling of human history in all its horror and glory, culminating in our next evolutionary leap.
Doom Cruise (Country: Germany; Year: 2021; Director: Hannah Stragholz, Simon Steinhorst)
A cruise ship is drifting through a dissolving world. All passengers seem to know; this ship is going down. Icebergs, Shipwrecks, dying birds and gloomy songs. Nobody seems to bother anymore. Only when the engine starts to fade, and the captain's voice is breaking in the PA, a sense of panic arises. What to do when we have to say goodbye? Three children on board decide to do something nice. A kiss, a song and some crackers. And then the bugs take care of the rest.
Bod Bod
Bod and Motherclucker
Headprickles (Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Katarzyna Miechowicz)
Over a dozen animated enigrams connected by the motif of being trapped in a loop of absurdity. In visually colourful labyrinth of observations, the protagonists try to make sense of nonsense - or they stay mindlessly in it.
Menagerie (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Jack Gray)
Day after day, inhabitants of the Menagerie play out their daily lives like clockwork. A study of the daily motions and mundane tasks of contemporary city life featuring hundreds of looping animated characters.
Motherclucker (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Greg McLeod)
Cockaddodledoo!
Red Rover (Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Astrid Goldsmith)
When a robotic rover starts drilling for signs of life on Mars, the race is on for one tiny rock-beast to save her native community from the invader from Earth.
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