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Glasgow’s Weird Weekend Reveals 2024 Programme Of Strange And Unseen Cinema
WEIRD WEEKEND 2024, taking place Friday 25th to Sunday 27th of October at OFFLINE, Glasgow’s newest multi-arts venue, presents exclusive restorations, world premieres, international guests and special events as it brings strange cinema to the local audience.
The festival’s main theme is THE OBSERVER EFFECT, exploring the outsider perspective of cult cinema and cult audiences, the relationship between viewer and film, film-maker and medium, and the blurring of all lines. The festival also considers films that can’t be seen at all, from BATGIRL to GONCHAROV, in the complementary NO-FILM PROGRAMME of commissioned video essays and related gallery show, exploring unmade films.
World premieres include the 25th Anniversary 4K restoration of TREASURE ISLAND (Scott King, 1999), starring Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, The Last of Us) and the 4K preservation of SCREAMPLAY (Rufus Butler Seder, 1984), commissioned by WEIRD WEEKEND from the director’s own print, in celebration of the film’s 40th anniversary.
Opening and Closing Nights give the audience control, with MAKE GOOD CHOICES: AN EVENING OF INTERACTIVE CINEMA celebrating the unpredictable world of choose your own adventure movies, and OVERCHOICE: THE 5-2-1 GAME presenting the audience with the first five minutes of five unfamiliar films and then the option of which to watch together.
In-person guests include TREASURE ISLAND director Scott King; UNSEE curator Louise Weard (Computer Hearts, Castration Movie); and Jaye Hudson (TGirlsOnFilm), to deliver an extended introduction to the Scottish premiere of “lost” midnight movie musical SCARECROW IN A GARDEN OF CUCUMBERS (Robert J Kaplan, 1972).
UNSEE is Weird Weekend’s annual mystery 60-minute slot taking place in the hour before the clocks go back (i.e. 1am to 1am), this year curated by Canadian director Louise Weard.
Other events include a 40th anniversary screening of The Residents’ WHATEVER HAPPENED TO VILENESS FATS? (1984), with exclusive, never-before-seen, newly restored footage from their abandoned VILENESS FATS project; THE WOMAN CHASER (Robinson Devor, 1999), another “lost” 1999 title, with Family Guy’s Patrick Warburton as a car salesman turned Hollywood auteur; a very rare screening of THE BIG BLUE (Andrew Horn, 1988), an “eclipsed film” of undeserved obscurity due to the name and release year it shareswith the better-known Luc Besson film; a double bill of THE PENDRAGON LEGEND (1974) and THE LOVES OF A DILETTANTE (1973), two Antal Szerb adaptations from Hungarian director György Révész (the latter is translated into English for the first time and the former is a bizarre, gothic mystery set in England and Wales, with an entirely Hungarian cast); Vera Drew presents WEIRD WEEKEND WILD CARD; and more.
WEIRD WEEKEND offers sliding scale tickets, so audiences choose what to pay according to their means (from zero to £8 for single tickets), and descriptive subtitles and optional audio description on the entire programme, so the event can be as accessible as possible.
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