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Alasdair Gray: A Life in Progress at GFT

Sunday, 18 August, 2024, 3.45 p.m.

Progressed with Original Scenes relating to Poor Things – Followed by a Q&A with director Kevin Cameron.

Alasdair Gray was, at the point of his death in 2019, Scotland’s foremost writer and artist. He had written the leading novel of 20th Century Scottish literature in Lanark, and hand painted one of Scotland’s biggest pieces of public art of the 21st Century: the stunning painted ceiling of Oran Mor Arts Centre in Glasgow, a Scottish Sistine Chapel. He was also the author of Poor Things, the book that became the film starring Emma Stone. While there has been controversy around the erasing of Glasgow from this Oscar-winning romp, Alasdair Gray, a Life in Progress puts Glasgow front and centre of the artist’s life. A documentary filmed over the course of 15 years – director Kevin Cameron found himself as a digital Boswell to Alasdair’s Dr Johnson. This new(ish) progressed version of the film fills in the genesis of Poor Things and interviews people who Alasdair specifically asked not to be interviewed when he was alive.

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GFT, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow G3 6RB

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