Weird Weekend, an annual weekend produced by cult exhibitor Matchbox Cine, will return to Glasgow from this Friday to Sunday.
Running since 2018, the weekend celebrates all that is obscure, cult and unseen in film.
This year the weekend makes use of OFFLINE, Glasgow’s new multi-arts venue dedicated to the moving image.
The theme for this year is The Observer Effect, exploring the relationship between the outsider artist and the art they create, the filmmaker and medium, and how audiences observe and relate to film created by singular creative minds.
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World premieres include a remastered 25th anniversary screening of Treasure Island, starring Nick Offerman of Parks and Recreation and The Last of Us fame. Director Scott King will be an in-person guest for the screening. Also premiering is a 4k restoration of slasher horror Screamplay, the only film made by multi-tasking director Rufus Butler Seder. The screening has been commissioned by Weird Weekend from the director’s personal print for its 40-year anniversary.
Also noteworthy is the 40th anniversary screening of Whatever Happened to Vileness Fats? from experimental music and visual arts collective The Residents, which includes unseen and restored footage. The Woman Chaser, an innovative neo-noir about the process of film itself and starring Patrick Warburton of Seinfeld notoriety, makes an appearance as a previously ‘lost’ film.
Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers, a 1972 midnight movie starring Warhol Factory alum Holly Woodlawn, has its first screening in Scotland, with an extended introduction by curators Jaye Hudson and Louise Weard (who also features in the programme as director for epic trans journey Castration Movie). A Hungarian double bill of two Antal Szerb adaptations from populist director György Révész will also make an appearance, with The Pendragon Legend and The Love of a Dilettante which is translated into English for the first time.
Weird Weekend returns from the 27th to the 29th October at Glasgow’s OFFLINE. Tickets are available on a sliding scale and can be purchased here.
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