School of Culture & Creative Arts
Date: Thursday 21 February 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:00
Venue: Andrew Stewart Cinema, Gilmorehill Halls, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Category: Films and theatre
Speaker: Corin Sworn

This is a free, ticketed event. Claim your ticket on our Eventbrite page. 

All welcome. Refreshments provided

Commissioned for the Toronto International Film Festival in 2015, 'The Coat' was written with a cast of actors and non-actors in response to interviews with migrants in Canada and Italy. The film adapts Aristophanes’ ‘The Birds,’ relocating its story from Athens in 414 BC to a few hot days in contemporary Calabria. We follow two characters, a young man and his daughter, who have arrived from Albania looking for a better life. They are searching for a swimming coach who fled the collapse of Communism in the 1990s, but instead they find an Arbëresh community, descendants of an earlier Albanian exodus in 1450. Along the way the pair intercept two actors touring the rural south in an attempt to resuscitate the long dead street hero Punchinella.

Romano and Sworn’s film works against common presentations of the migrant, and suggests that migration might have its own history and social force. 

Presented by the University of Glasgow's School of Culture & Creative Arts as part of its 2018/19 series on the theme ‘Inclusive/Exclusive’. 

 

Artist Biography 

Corin Sworn was born in London, grew up in Toronto, and now lives and works in Glasgow. She studied psychology and integrated media before completing her MFA the Glasgow School of Art. Sworn has exhibited internationally, including at the Whitechapel Gallery, Tate Britain, the National Gallery of Canada, and as part of Scotland’s participation in the 2013 Venice Biennale.