Shortscape Film Festival

Shortscape Film Festival 3 day celebration of the developing Scottish film and video industry, centred around young creatives.

All photos from SSFF24 up on our website! Head to the link in our bio to check out,Thank you to our amazing photographer...
17/09/2024

All photos from SSFF24 up on our website!

Head to the link in our bio to check out,

Thank you to our amazing photographers who did such a wonderful job this year! ⭐️⭐️⭐️



A huge THANK YOU! from team ShortScape (not everyone pictured!) Thanks so much to everyone who came along last week and ...
14/09/2024

A huge THANK YOU! from team ShortScape (not everyone pictured!)

Thanks so much to everyone who came along last week and made our third festival feel so special. This year was such an incredible atmosphere, and it felt great to see so many new faces. As you know, running an event like ours in the current landscape is super tough. Seeing everyone enjoy themselves makes it so worth it! ⭐️

Keep your eyes peeled, as all the photos from this year’s festival will be uploaded to our website next week. Aside from that, will be taking a short break from socials to recoup!

All the love ❤️❤️❤️

Day 3 Highlights ⭐️What a boogie day 3 was! We started with the iconic quiz that was especially hard this year, you had...
12/09/2024

Day 3 Highlights ⭐️

What a boogie day 3 was!

We started with the iconic quiz that was especially hard this year, you had to be a true film buff to win that film equipment! Just to make sure you’re worthy….

We then had an informative panel on film programming with our own Juno & Monika - joined by .valiulyte & 🎟️

Followed by our final two strands: Rites of Survival & Close Encounters of the Filmic Kind!

Finished off with a stellar closing party in collaboration with which saw & .mirror.dance take to the decks 🪩

We miss it already…

Day 2 Highlights ⭐️How cute do those members look? Started off with our programme ‘Tales of Perseverance’ a collection ...
09/09/2024

Day 2 Highlights ⭐️

How cute do those members look?

Started off with our programme ‘Tales of Perseverance’ a collection of intimate documentaries celebrating inspiring and unstoppable overcomers of creative, political and personal barriers.

Followed by a beautiful panel with ‘It starts with anger: crafting stories in difficult times’: with filmmakers .monde , , &

We then saw ‘Love Thy Neighbour as Thyself’, A splash of punk, a test of faith, an internet troll face-off. These are some of the ingredients for an unforgettable exploration of the many forms love can take

We finished the night with our Music Video Screening & Drinks - a fun time which may become a ShortScape staple from now on!

What was your highlight of Day 2?

Day 1 Highlights ⭐️Started off with a stellar opening comedy set from Followed by Pinch Me! I’m Dreaming - our hypnotic...
07/09/2024

Day 1 Highlights ⭐️

Started off with a stellar opening comedy set from

Followed by Pinch Me! I’m Dreaming - our hypnotic otherworldly dreamscape strand, followed by an informative Q&A with the filmmakers.

We finished off with vol.2 of THEN // NOW with two amazing filmmakers - &

We topped off the night with a dance & many drinks from bar ⭐️

Thanks to everyone who joined us on Thursday, we love you!

This years exhibition can be found on the mezzanine level of Leith Arches. This year the work is curated by Blair Kemp, ...
05/09/2024

This years exhibition can be found on the mezzanine level of Leith Arches. This year the work is curated by Blair Kemp, who showed his work ‘Hanging on a Star at the previous edition of ShortScape. Blair is an artist living in central Scotland. His practice is mostly lens-based, but he also likes to explore social and collaborative art.

Adam Lock: In my current practice I create multimedia sculptures composed of film, sound, and found technological objects to reconfigure and re-map haunted spaces through the lens of science fiction. Through presenting a fictional dystopia that appropriates aesthetics of the Anthropocene and retro-futurism, I construct narratives that explore loss and grief after apocalyptic events, and that are concerned with how the liminal and ephemeral qualities of memory can intertwine with fiction.

Aisha Plumridge: Drawings from my immediate surroundings, dreams, mythology, personal recollections and anecdotes are used to realise larger compositions as oil paintings. Floating between imagination and memory, my imagery communicates with essence, childhood nostalgia and harmony with the natural world. The paintings become dreamworlds imbued with a tangible reality.

Finlay Yates: My images begin from lists made in fear of forgetting, scribbled notes on fleeting impressions: The sticker on the lamp post, the dream on the post-it note. Urging the contents of these lists to coalesce in oil, I create temporal markers in my memory and taste.
In my work I paint reminders to remember.

Sorin Bath is a multimedia artist from Sheffield, working in Edinburgh, creating motorised sculpture installations that appear to be alive. I currently work with ventilation tubes and wires to create worm-like sculptures that sit between industrial and natural forms, specifically drawing on the weird / monstrous / unhuman. My practice looks at new materialism’s object vitality, to push for a shift away from the traditional inert and passive artwork, and to step towards an uncanny, pseudo-living artwork.

Just over 24 hours till ShortScape! Can you believe it 🥹Thank you to everyone who is involved in the festival this year,...
04/09/2024

Just over 24 hours till ShortScape! Can you believe it 🥹

Thank you to everyone who is involved in the festival this year, and everyone who has bought a ticket ❤️

There are still some tickets left, multi-day ticket sales will be ending at 5pm so you will only be able to buy individual day tickets from then on (subject to sell out)

Our venue is fully accessible, however there is a range of seating. If you need a seat we advise you to get down early. If you have any other accessibility requirements please DM us!

We recommend getting to ShortScape by public transport - the nearest tram/bus stop is ‘Foot of the Walk’.

As usual, will be slinging the tastiest scran from 4-10pm each day 🤤 we recommend stuffing your face in between screenings…

Any other questions - get in touch 🎟️

Music video showcase! 🎧💙📹Closing out Friday night of this years festival we will be screening music videos that were all...
04/09/2024

Music video showcase! 🎧💙📹

Closing out Friday night of this years festival we will be screening music videos that were all made by Scottish creatives 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

If you listened to our show this week you will have got a sneak preview of our showcase including these incredible artists👇

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And more!!

Get your tickets for Friday now at the LINK IN OUR BIO ⬆️🎟️

Join us for a panel discussion with film festival programmers from festivals such as the Glasgow Short Film Festival, Vi...
03/09/2024

Join us for a panel discussion with film festival programmers from festivals such as the Glasgow Short Film Festival, Vilnius Short Film Festival, ShortScape Film Festival, and more. We demystify the film selection process, explore what goes on behind the scenes of a festival’s FilmFreeway account, and delve into programming as a career!

This panel will be hosted by Juno Glover and our panellists will be: Milda Valiulytė, Michael Lee Richardson and Monika Navickaitė.

Milda Valiulytė is an arts worker, curator and film programmer. They are currently watching films for the Glasgow Short Film Festival, having previously worked on short film selections at the Vilnius International Film Festival and Africa in Motion. Their latest curated project Collective Dreaming has been presented in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and Meno Avilys & SODAS 2123 in Vilnius. Milda’s research interests include practises of community-oriented cinema, intersections between film and contemporary art, as well as art as a method for collective reflection & liberation.

Michael Lee Richardson is a writer and filmmaker based in Glasgow. Michael’s short film, My Loneliness is Killing Me – directed by Tim Courtney – won a BAFTA Scotland Award in 2018. It’s been shown on BBC Scotland, and at film festivals around the world. Michael has film and television projects in development with a range of different production companies. Michael is passionate about telling rich, authentic stories about q***r and working class lives and culture. Michael is also part of the selection committee for Glasgow Short Film Festival and has programmed short film for a number of festivals and short programmes.

Monika Navickaitė is a Lithuanian film writer-director and film critic with a diverse background in curatorial work, media, and communications within Scotland’s creative industries. As the Head of Programme at ShortScape Film Festival, Monika has played a pivotal role in shaping the festival’s lineup since its inception. In addition to her work with ShortScape, she recently joined the Vilnius Short Film Festival as a Programme Assistant.

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