WITCH // HAG Film Festival
Scotland's first Witch // Hag Film Festival is being held at Stereo on December 21st as part of BFI's In Dreams Are Monsters UK-wide horror season.
About WITCH // HAG Film Festival
Witch // Hag
Winter Solstice Film Festival
part of BFI’s IN DREAMS ARE MONSTERS UK-wide horror season
Basement at Stereo: Pop-Up Cinema
Upstairs at Stereo: Witch & Hag Bar // DJs // Stalls // Surprises
100 years of Transgressive Feminist Witch Films
COMPETITION FILMS
She Will (2021) Dir. Charlotte Colbert
H6llb6nd6r (2022) Dirs John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
The Deathless Woman (2019) Dir. Roz Mortimer
SPECIAL EVENTS
Häxan (1922) Dir. Benjamin Christensen - Rescore By Dave NULL//VOID
Panel Discussion: The Witches of Scotland (FREE)
Special Appearance // Burd Ellen
The Craft (1996) Dir Andrew Fleming (FREE)
UPSTAIRS from 10pm
If in bar and not watching films - £2+ all money to Bonjour
Witch & Hag Bar // DJs // Stalls // Surprises
DJ // STALLS // SURPRISES from 10pm
Individual Films // Band = £3 // £5 // £ 7
Full Festival Wristband = £21
3 Competition Films = £13
Witches and Hags are ancient archetypes. Myths and tales of witches have been told as long as women have transgressed gender roles. Historically, the hag was everything that a man feared. She was ugly, she was subversive, and she was powerful. Anytime a woman transgresses she risks being called a Witch, even now. The gruesome true history of the witch massacres of Scotland gives this archetype a deep authenticity in the Scottish Psyche.
Winter Solstice is the longest night of the year, but it augers the start of the light. We feel our solstices in Scotland.
WITCH // HAG FILM FESTIVAL
3pm - Doors Open
3.30pm - The Deathless Woman (2019) Dir. Roz Mortimer
A ghost story for the 21st Century. An elegiac account of the Nazi genocide of the Roma expressed through the filmmaker's engagement with The Deathless Woman
TRAILER
5.30pm - Häxan (1922) Dir. Benjamin Christensen - Rescore By Dave NULL//VOID
Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe
TRAILER
7.30pm - Panel Discussion: The Witches of Scotland with QC Claire Mitchell & Author Zoe Venditozzi (Free)
Witches of Scotland is a campaign for justice; for a legal pardon, an apology and national monument for the thousands of people – mostly women - that were convicted of witchcraft and executed between 1563 and 1736 in Scotland
PODCAST
8.15pm - She Will (2021) Dir. Charlotte Colbert
An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned
TRAILER
9.44pm Solstice Ritual (Free)
Join the Cailleach and clear the darkness to make way for the light
10pm - Special Appearance // Burd Ellen
Neither Witch Nor Will Warlock is a newly curated performance from experimental folk duo Burd Ellen, with film in collaboration with Scottish artist Kieran Milne.
Stories of wayward women, winter hymnal that hinges the sacred and profane, and audio tarot cards will be accompanied by film from their previous work with Milne as well as new visuals produced for this performance.
BANDCAMP
11pm - H6llb6nd6r (2022) Dirs John Adams, Zelda Adams, Toby Poser
A teen and her mother live simply in a home in the woods, spending their time making metal music, a chance encounter with a fellow teen causes her to uncover a connection between her family and witchcraft
TRAILER
1.30am - The Craft (1996) Dir Andrew Fleming (Free)
A newcomer to a Catholic prep high school falls in with a trio of outcast teenage girls who practice witchcraft, and they all soon conjure up various spells and curses against those who anger them
TRAILER
Festival presented as part of IN DREAMS ARE MONSTERS a major nationwide film season from the BFI, supported by National Lottery and BFI Film Audience Network.
Produced by Riot Films and Rebel Queer Film+Club
Supported by the National Lottery, BFI Film Audience Network in cinemas and venues across the UK until 31 December 2022 Http://indreamsaremonsters.co.uk for full UK-wide listings.
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