CinemARC: CARBON shorts with Glasgow Short Film Festival
The ARC and Glasgow Short Film Festival have teamed up to explore carbon in societies, cultures and environments across the globe.
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Date: Wednesday 18 June 2025
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Advanced Research Centre
Category: Films and theatre
Speaker: Dr Ewan Gibbs
Inspired by the Bengaluru Science Gallery exhibition CARBON: Under Pressure, on display at the Advanced Research Centre between 3 and 29 June, the ARC and Glasgow Short Film Festival have teamed up to explore the social, cultural and environmental impacts of carbon across the globe.
Before the screening, hear from Dr Ewan Gibbs, School of Humanities, about the how fossil fuel extraction has shaped Scotland’s past and present.
Films to be screened
The Veiled City, dir. Natalie Brady, 13 minutes
A speculative city symphony inspired by London’s Great Smog of 1952, merging reality with fiction to consider the smog in the context of the present-day climate crisis.
Flores Del Otro Patio, dir. Jorge Cadena, 15 minutes
In the north of Colombia, a group of queer activists use extravagant performative actions to denounce the disastrous exploitation by the country's largest coal mine.
Fire in the Sea, dir. Sebastián Zanzottera, 15 minutes
Archive photographs and letters unearth the relationship between Argentinian state policy and the death of a young father, dismissed from a state-owned gas company.
Mother Earth’s Inner Organs, dir. Anna Bravo Perez, 22 minutes
An experimental film connecting the port of Amsterdam with the territory of the Wayuu people in Colombia that highlights how the use of coal in Europe has a major impact on the indigenous peoples.
Who Loves the Sun, dir. Arshia Shakiba, 19 minutes
An exploration of the world of makeshift oil refineries that emerged during Syria’s civil war and the stark realities of life within this post-apocalyptic landscape.
About Dr Ewan Gibbs
Ewan Gibbs is a historian of energy, industry, work and protest in Scotland and Britain. He published his first book, Coal Country: The Meaning and Memory of Deindustrialization in Postwar Scotland, with the University of London Press in 2021. It explores the long end of Scottish coal mining in the second half of the twentieth century. In 2024 Ewan authored a report with Riyoko Shibe for the Just Transition Commission, an independent advisory to the Scottish Government, which recorded how Grangemouth refinery workers responded to the closure of their workplace.
Schedule
18:00 – Doors open
18:15 – Research talk and Q&A from Dr Ewan Gibbs
18:45 – Screening
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This event is free, but ticketed.
You will be permitted to one drink on arrival, while stocks last.
You are welcome to bring your own food, but please take any rubbish away with you.