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Glasgow Short Film Festival 2016: Lost Treasure

 

In 1956 the Dawn Cine Group embarked on their most ambitious project, Lost Treasure, which was intended to tell the story of the Scottish Highlands and its people, drawing on folk song and personal testimony. Although 40 minutes of footage were shot in July 1956, the film was never completed. Drew and Hamish will work with a creative film editor to devise a musical performance that goes some way towards constructing the unfinished film, completing both the story it tells and the story of its own making. With its unintentionally apt title, the abandoned film is in itself an metaphor for the Scottish Highlands, much of it either neglected or exploited by absentee landlords, and its people, so many of whom have been forced off the land in one way or another.

The work will debut in March 2016, as the opening event of Glasgow Short Film Festival. We hope to tour the work the work across Scotland, particularly in the Highland locations featured in the film, later in the year.

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