Grab some popcorn and sink into a comfy seat to enjoy film projects where glass and glassmakers play a starring role! Join us on December 5 and 6 starting at 9 am Eastern both days as we screen the 2024 GAS Virtual Film Festival on our YouTube channel.
These films were juried into the festival by Ms. Ayana Morris, founder of Newark Moonlight Cinema, the first Black-owned drive-in theater in the US, and by Percy Echols II, owner of Taming Lightning and GAS Board Member. 14 countries are represented in our virtual offerings, with content that runs the gamut from documentary films to experimental art pieces.
You can watch the films with us as they premiere and chat with your fellow film aficionados, or watch them on demand until December 13. Everyone on our email list will receive the link to the Film Festival premiere in advance, so make sure to sign up for our emails if you haven’t already!
Thursday, December 5
The YouTube premiere will start at 9 am Eastern: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwlpAntm4s7KR0HpT5zNLsrs0EQrDbnjD
- Jeanne Sophie Aas (Norway) | Short Films: Fragile Bloom; Defining balance; Oxygen; and Reflections
- Mark Hursty (United States), The Natatorium
- Riikka Haapasaari (Finland), Cumulative kindness in the now-time, where I change too
- Bernadett Sláviková (Slovakia), Rare Echoes Project
- Dylan Katz (Finland), Uncanny Ice
- Yuan Yin, Stillness in the absence of glass
- Wanlin Jiang (United Kingdom), Plant Whisper
- Jean Birkhill (United States), The Curious Artist
- Makiko Nakagami (Japan), Blowing Life
- Glass Society of Ireland (Ireland), Glisten
- Meadhbh McIlgorm (Ireland), ReView
- Kati Kerstna (Estonia), Accessories, glass exhibition
- 穎軍 李 (United States), Zoom In Closer
- Mark Eliott (Australia), Sea of Clouds
- Janine Christley (United Kingdom), Hot Hanbok/Cool Glass
- Anna Mlasowsky (United States), On ° Venus
- Emanuel Toffolo (Italy), The Engravers
Friday, December 6
The YouTube premiere will begin at 9 am Eastern: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwlpAntm4s7KS4IsV9xQcQUHEzCYpSZzV
- Amanda Aiken (United Kingdom), Liquid Solid
- Dovile Grigaliunaite (Türkiye), Borning
- Bibi Smit (The Netherlands), Moving Glass
- Aine Ryan (Ireland), Finding My Place
- Caitlin Greenberg (South Africa), Unspoken Thoughts
- Dawn Szabo (United States), Fire Rainbow
- Tracy Szatan (United States), An Endless Glass Space
- Roberta Santini (United States), What do you bring in your purse?
- Justin Tyner (United States), We Are More Than We Know
- Sandra Bacchi (United States), Seeking Nowhere
- Eunhyung Kim (United States), Remixed food
- Charlie McGowan (Australia), Gordon Studio Glassblowers
- Michaela Swade (Germany), “Passion”, a film of the glass art society, GKV
- Simon Crofts (Scotland), Inbetween
- Justin Foreman (United States), Time & Temperature
- Mattias Ohlsson (Sweden), The Glassblower – A life in service of glass
2025 GAS Film Festival
Glass artists and filmmakers from around the world are invited to submit films of any length for screenings which will take place both in-person and virtually. In-person screenings will occur in tandem with the annual GAS Conference, this year to be held from May 16-17, 2024, in Arlington, Texas. A virtual film festival will also launch in the winter-spring of 2025–2026, to kindle our hearts and minds during the long winter stretch between our annual gatherings.