CinemARC: Carbon Shorts with Glasgow Short Film Festival
Wednesday, June 18, 2025, 6 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Advanced Research Centre, University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane Glasgow G11 6EW
Inspired by the Bengaluru Science Gallery exhibition CARBON: Under Pressure, at the Advanced Research Centre on 3 and 29 June, the ARC and Glasgow Short Film Festival have teamed up to explore the social, cultural and environmental impacts of carbon across the globe.
Before the screening, hear from Dr Ewan Gibbs, School of Humanities, about how fossil fuel extraction has shaped Scotland’s past and present.
Films to be screened
The Veiled City, dir. Natalie Brady, 13 minutes
A speculative city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952, merging reality with fiction to consider the smog in the context of the present-day climate crisis.
Flores Del Otro Patio, dir. Jorge Cadena, 15 minutes
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country’s largest coal mine.
Fire in the Sea, dir. Sebastián Zanzottera, 15 minutes
Archive photographs and letters unearth the relationship between Argentinian state policy and the death of a young father, dismissed from a state-owned gas company.
Mother Earth’s Inner Organs, dir. Anna Bravo Perez, 22 minutes
An experimental film connecting the port of Amsterdam with the territory of the Wayuu people in Colombia that highlights how the use of coal in Europe has a major impact on the indigenous peoples.
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