Residency - Sam Bellacosa and Florrie James

Sam and Florrie invite you to join them on their last evening in the space on Thu 30 May, amongst all their research, notes and plans for the new film. The event will start at 5pm and run until 7pm. All welcome.

The necessity of their debt refusal and demurral of legislative harassment
necessarily made them stateless, still deep inside a state, bound to now go
through, again, the same system undetected, with as little of the present
and past remaining as possible.

Sam Bellacosa and Florrie James will be researching ideas about surveillance and digitalisation of thought and human relations in preparation for a new film project Four Day Weekend Underground.

They put forward a time to think about structures of non-hierarchical film-making, wider concerns about how films sit with audiences, playing with an unformed idea against copyright and how we can politicise ALL of this. Florrie and Sam will use the space as as a storyboard, and surround themselves with their direct concerns. They will fill the space with thoughts, drawings, diagrams, props and sounds to determine how these add to the expected visual language of the film. They aim for the narrative to be represented by a loose, chaotic and undesigned image. As part of the residency they will host a Fiction Working Group.

Brighthouse
Screening: Wed 8 April, 6.30pm

Brighthouse: after the pay weekly company who rent appliances and goods at a high cost to the people who need things the most. They restructure the society around them, keeping their subjects in debt.

The film and original research behind it came from the need to express the violence imposed on the most excluded areas in forms of public planning. In Glasgow, this came at a time where the Commonwealth Games and the Referendum for Scottish Independence seek to add their own narratives to the city. Brighthouse was shot on the doorsteps of the Commonwealth Games site and is an attempt to disconnect from the legacy rhetoric that came with the mega-event and to represent the problems of gentrification, displacement and civil exclusion imposed on the area of Dalmarnock in the East End of Glasgow

Image: Brighthouse, 2014, written by Sam Bellacosa, directed by Florrie James. Commissioned by Collective, with support from Creative Scotland.