We Are All

Chimeras

+ Film Talk

Glasgow Film Theatre

“We are all chimeras, theorised and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism.”
— Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto
 

This programme of digital shorts explores nonhuman or hybrid states – whether through flora and fauna, mythic creatures or surreal transformations – to frame and examine identity, ecology, society, and the boundaries between self and other.  Embodying hybridity through scriptable media (such as gaming engines, animation, motion-capture, 3D scanning, AI) the works included serve as critiques on human supremacy, identity constructs, ecological ethics and narrative power. In them the uncanny is used to challenge our assumptions about humanity, society, and the boundaries we draw around identity and nature. Each work destabilises how we define ‘human’ and invites us to experience life as a fluid, hybrid passage through form, perception and posthuman performance. Technically these works don’t simply depict nonhuman agents, they collapse the binary between the organic and the synthetic. This programme includes works by O Future, Gilbert, Sam Rolfes, Cassie McQuater, Jon Emmony, Reiki Zhang and others.  

Screenings

Glasgow Film Theatre
Saturday 4 October, 18:00

With talk by Margarita Louca.


Margarita Louca is a London-based academic whose work spans fashion, music, art and digital culture. She currently serves as Senior Lecturer and Digital Lead for the Fashion Programme at Central Saint Martins (UAL). Her teaching and scholarly interests explore the nexus of emergent technologies, media, and the sociological impact of fashion, materiality, virtuality, and the body. In addition, Margarita hosts a regular show, Don’t Trip, on acclaimed radio station NTS, dedicated to experimental, abstract, and genre-expanding artists. 

Love Birds, Night Birds, Devil-Birds

Love Birds, Night Birds, Devil-Birds (2019)


2019. Dir. Cassie McQuater. 4min 26sec.

The Weeping Saint Pity


2024. Dir. O Future. 7min 24sec (excerpt).

Nightvision


2024. Dir. Jon Emmony. 1min.

The Digital Rituals


2022. Dir. Reiki Zhang. 3min 15sec.

What the graphic designers wore

What the Graphic Designers Wore (2023)


2023. Dir. Gilbert. 10min 35sec.

Jolene (feat. Holly+)

Jolene (2022)


2022. Dir. Sam Rolfes. 3min 5sec.

Voice to Skull


2021. Dir. Theo Karon & Actual Objects. 3min 58sec (excerpt).

IT’S DANGEROUS TO GO ALONE! TAKE THIS


2022. Dir. Bassam Issa Al-Sabah. 1min 44sec (excerpt).

Unbonded on a Bonded Domain


2023. Dir. Gabriel Massan. 9min 49sec (excerpt).