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Glasgow Film’s contribution to Festival 2014: Cargo, Camera…Action! 26th July

Cargo, Camera… Action!

A Cinematic Spectacular On The Water

Glasgow Film’s contribution to Glasgow Film’s contribution to Festival 2014

Saturday 26 July

Custom House Quay, Glasgow

On Saturday 26 July, 2014, Glasgow Film takes over the banks of the Clyde by Custom House Quay. Cargo, Camera… Action! is Glasgow Film’s contribution to Festival 2014: a day-long cinematic spectacular on the water, created with artists, performers and filmmakers who embody the exciting  creative ethos that underpins Glasgow’s grassroots arts scenes, as part of the Cultural Programme for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.  Tickets for this exciting event are free and available from today.
 
The various artists involved with Cargo, Camera… Action! have been asked to look through a cinematic lens at the city’s history of shipbuilding and shipping to far off countries. During the day, Glasgow-based arts collective 85A create a mocked-up film set, complete with runners, producers and a self-important director, in the amphitheatre space at Custom House Quay; at its centre a huge kinetic sculpture of a ghostly ocean liner, which will host hourly theatrical concerts between 14.30 – 20.30. A different band will provide the soundtrack every hour, whether that’s blistering  2Tone ska from Capone & the Bullets, righteous reggae and dub grooves care of Mungo’s Hi-Fi and guest MC Diggy Dang, fuzzed out garage rock ’n roll from Halfrican, lively traditional gypsy music from Gypsy Romania, or the eclectic beats of dance floor fillers Golden Teacher. Each concert will feature performances from the Commonwealth Youth Circus.
After dark, the ship becomes becomes a late-night outdoor cinema, brought to life with projected films, lighting installations and performance tapping in to the city’s history and calling out to the wider sporting activity going on around Glasgow during the Commonwealth Games. Glasgow Film has commissioned brand new cinematic works from two of the city’s leading artists: photographer and filmmaker Chris Leslie documents Govan’s proud shipbuilding heritage in a short multimedia film focusing around the Fairfield yard, interviewing past and present workers; weaving in timelapse photography and archive footage; and award-winning artist filmmaker Torsten Lauschmann examines the origins of local children’s playground games and songs, tracing an evolution from informal play to formal sporting activity. A piece by filmmakers Minty Donald and Nick Millar will also be screened, while theatre-maker Eilidh MacAskill puts on a special version of her critically acclaimed performance project Bicycle Boom, which celebrates the effect that the arrival of the bicycle had on Victorian women’s emancipation.
 
Throughout the day and night, a relaxed open-air café space beside the amphitheatre will encourage city residents and visitors to the games to sit down and enjoy the river itself. Street food group SCRAN will be serving up spicey sustainance.

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