ONE of Scotland's most famous music venues is to become a cinema for the first time in next year's Glasgow Film Festival.
The festival is to screen the premiere of a new feature-length documentary following the award winning musician Aidan Moffat, of Arab Strap, as he gigs around Scotland and rediscovers and reinterprets its folk song history.
Where You're Meant to Be, made by film maker Paul Fegan, will be shown at the Barrowland Ballroom in Glasgow as part of the festival.
Other novel venues for the festival next year are the Tramway, the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and the Glasgow Planetarium.
Raiders of the Lost Ark, the classic adventure starring Harrison Ford as the imperiled archaeologist, will be shown in the Kelvingrove to celebrate the film's 35th anniversary.
On the same evening the museum will show a night-time screening of The Silence of the Lambs, complete with organ music.
The Planetarium, at the Glasgow Science Centre, will host David Bowie's The Man Who Fell to Earth and the Tramway will house a screening of This is Now: Film and Video After Punk, a series of digitally remastered archive films by artists including John Maybury, Grayson Perry, Cordelia Swann and Jill Westwood,
Moffat said making the film put him in some odd situations - dressed in chain mail for one scene, and bobbing in a loch for another.
The film show Moffat and a group of well-known Scottish musicians on a recent tour of Scotland, and also his interactions - not always in agreement - with the late folk singer Sheila Stewart, and a song closely associated with her, The Parting Glass.
"When I tried to change the song, she wasn't best pleased," Moffat said.
"At its root, the film is about death, and the lives we have led. But for a film about death, it's quite funny.
"I've never really been a fan of being in front of the camera before, and I must admit there were moments on the tour when I wondered how Paul had talked me into it."
The film was made with funding from Culture 2014 and national arts agency Creative Scotland.
Mark Thomas, screen officer at Creative Scotland, said: "Paul Fegan's debut feature documentary is a modern-day road movie that follows musician Aidan Moffat on a traditional folk music journey into the heart of some of Scotland's local communities.
"The premiere at Glasgow Film Festival within the iconic Barrowland Ballroom is the perfect setting for the film and an exciting addition to what will be a fantastic programme of pop-up cinema events across the city."
The 12th annual Glasgow Film Festival will run from February 17 until 28.
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