Infectious Nihilism and Small Metallic Pieces of Hope | Scottish Gang Short Film
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- "Youngster" finds himself initiated into fellowship with the local older gang members but soon finds this sense of belonging comes at a cost...
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'INFECTIOUS NIHILISM AND SMALL METALLIC PIECES OF HOPE' by JAMES PRICE - www.priceyfilm...
"Graeme Armstrong genuinely is one of the most important voices to come out of Scotland ever, not just in recent years. He is one of the most intelligent, generous and thoughtful people I have ever worked with and I wanted to make sure he was on set for the shoot so I cast him in it. I originally was going to act in it with him but we only had two days to shoot it so I pulled out last minute. Beyond his writing, his acting was fantastic and really authentic. I love working with non-actors and Graeme did not disappoint, it was strange for both of us being back in a fabricated version of an environment we used to know so well. His instincts from a filmmaking standpoint were also really stellar, every idea he had during the shoot turned out to be the best parts of the short film."
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// Credits //
Director - James Price
Writer - Graeme Armstrong
Producer -Lewis Wardrop
Cast:
Youngster - Kyle GordonKey
Good C**t - Conor McCarrom
Gaff King - Graeme Armstrong
Gaff Witch 1 - Jodie McCallum
Gaff Queen - Ashley Sutherland
Gaff Philosopher - Tosh McCrudden
Gaff Witch 2 - Holly Jack
Bad Boy - Ben Nugent
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Whoever made this has got gold on there hands this wasFucking braw man this needs a full film top class boys well done
Had some of the worst and best days of my life in gaffs like that
Also some of the worst seen guys getting slashed bottled while gouching on eccies... started with getting a smoke speed eccies then kit hit town seeing guy who was pro youth at celtic end up instead of taking valium for comedown 😮 wtf they doing they were chasing the dragon on foil.. that went from shock to everyone new someone but secret.. get stabbed if you said what you saw to now 37 2kuds boys 12 and 15 and put them into sports judo thai boxing youngest talent for football plays pro youth but was national champion in judo .. wee had nothing to do but get mwi now 37 lost 10 or more guys a went to school with through drugs violence crime ect .. some good nights but looking back very dark moved away met my mrs she went back to my home town my mums went out for a drink .. and she was 😮 how do they no you and he's joking you never done that to a guy 🙄 fk shouldn't have went out bumped into a few old mates I used to have abit of a rep grew up boxing from a little boy was big for my age.. but left went down south to work for my uncle come 15 I thought I was a man selling bars of soapbar eccies used to get kilo of base on tick .. going to end up in trouble.. my mrs she's privately educated posh family think she got a shock but you grow up but yeah that was us in gaff with some dangerous people getting up to allsorts .. mixed good times and some very dark times
This is unbelievably well shot. Capturing the mix of excitement and anxiety that comes with entering that environment.
‘If you weren’t a Ned you were a victim’
Nah that’s not true man, you pick your friends, you pick what you do, me and my pals just went skating, kept away from that shit while it was all kicking off
Grown men getting nostalgic about being silly little uneducated lowlife thugs, it’s pathetic, probably haven’t ever grown up either, they’re now dads fighting with people in the pub
Bang on, sad twats with no sense. They think they'll never get hurt & when they do, especially in Scotland it's life changing injuries. When will it end? Where are the parents? I was born to 2 total scumbags, one of 10 kids. I vowed to myself a long time ago that I'll be the change in my generations and bring up valuable members of society. This film is painful to watch, I don't think I could re live a full feature. Shit, i must've grown up.
Yer prob a sasanach then
Spot on mate
@@micoolkidfilms3270you even finish school pal
@@lucabrasi3964 ofc a have and soon I’ll be making 50k a year
I mind my first time being at a gaff like that as a Waen, when yer young like that and heavy socially awkward its a big ego boost to be included like that especisly by the older folks there but its so easy to just get sucked into it man.Watched so many mates and folks in my year spend their whole lives just sat in gaffs too oot their nut to function, nothing going and nae futures
This film really captures the tension you feel living in places like this, well done!.
I grew up on a council estate in a rough part of the North East. I was a "charva" in my teens. I remember being welcomed into environments like these. You had to walk on eggshells a lot of the time because when people are full of trauma and drinks/drugs, then can get paranoid and turn on you in a heartbeat. I got into metal and alternative music as I got a bit older, so I'm now an ex-chav "mosher" or whatever you want to call it. The same people that used to welcome me look at me like I'm a softie that they can intimate. I try to avoid trouble cos I'm outnumbered most of the time, but it's a weird 360 that because I've moved subcultures, I'm no longer a friend, I'm a target.
@marksneddon😂😂
Pretty much same story growing up in leeds early 2000s but the chavs didn't turn against me lol . And do you still wear any chav style clothes I kinda mix between the 2 lol I wear like dc shoes with Fred perry jumpers and stuff
Just don’t join a culture
@@claw333 DC shoes are a chav thing? yikes!
glad i wasn't noticed visiting uk then (from states)
@Numantino312 no I'm saying I mixed skater clothes with chav clothes
The only short film that I can recall that I actually wanted to see a full feature done. Nice Job!
We know James is hard at work on multiple projects at the moment so hopefully it won't be too long until we see a feature from him.
This would make a better film than the Sweet Sixteen or Neds films from back in the day
Different times different eras
as a 34 year old Scottish man, this was so relatable!! brilliant work!!
Nail on the head is the old expression well done whoever made this short film hats off guys
Good insight into a youths road to drugs drink and Ned culture . Been waiting on some sort of follow up from Graham after reading the young team . And was elated to discover the audio book that’s was actually read by Graham himself . Well done guys ⭐️👏
James has a great knack of tapping into his character's journeys. You should definitely check out his other films directorsnotes.com/tag/james-price/
The full culture in 90s 00s was amazing .the music,the fashion, a loved it but it was madness. Too many boys got killed for pride. So glad times are a bit different now in glasgow for our own kids..
Notice how each time he passes the fence the material on it gets more and more diminished? For me symbolising whatever his big brother died for at the end of the day meant absolutely nothing and will be forgotten about . Sad really .
Class wee film production is spot on .
Yeah I noticed that aswell
Could recognise Graeme Armstrongs voice before could even see him on the screen. Makes sense that some one that can so elequently represent our generation and the madness that was our teenage years would be involved in a short film that so well depicts the start to the end of so many of our teenage years and the strife that came with it
Reading The Young team the noo, wondered if anything guid on youtube, stuck this on an theres Graeme, a woulda loved this to be longer. Great work by all, "we stand united".
I remember being told in 2012 that despite neds being incredibly annoying, that the Scottish era of neds/skaters/emos are going to be one of the last kind of ''subcultures'' now that the internet is gaining even more popularity, I thought it was silly.. the early 200s can't become ''retro'' yet here we are, 2024.. It really does feel like since 2010 no new subcultures have existed other than internet created ones, the last physical cultures I remember in the UK were neds, emos, chavs (England) and skaters. It's funny, despite finding neds incredibly annoying, just seeing the neds in that room reminded me of them and gave me a bit of good nostalgia, a lot of them I knew grow up and ended up being alright people, I had a local ned who had a soft spot for me and would shout ''goth'' at me as he past with his mates, but he'd always stop them from physically hurting me and I didn't realize until I got older and realized he's a decent guy that came from a troubled family.
They are now a part of the time, it's crazy with all the crime on the streets today from various groups of people, the ''roadmen'' wanna-be's etc, it really makes the neds look like decent people.
Myself, an amateur videographer, this is stunning work!.
It captures the very essence of Scottish “Ned” culture, a culture with which I’m well acquainted!.
Although, never directly involved in it, I was frequently on the periphery of it!.
Today, I’m nearly 60, but I still work in some of the toughest schemes of Glasgow such as Easterhouse, Barmulloch, Blackhill, and Provanmill, were this culture was very prevalent, and can still be found today!.
Old habits are hard to shake off, and often the children from the Ned’s of yesteryear have learned little, and emulate their parents!.
But, I hope some have managed to break the mould and escape the pitfalls of that life, and have gone on to lead happy and prosperous lives!.
Brilliantly done, hard hitting and on the money
This is some video You've put together here, Dude! I like! 👍
Powerful piece of work, well done! 👍
I watched this for the first time around a year ago and couldnt find it again. Excellent video, reminds me of when i was younger. Glad it appeared on my feed!
Brilliant, the legendary John McKenzie would be proud.
This honestly got my adrenaline and blood pumping watching this video, it just reminds me of how I was when I was younger hanging about with the older wans, drinking, sniffing gear, popping sweeties in random cunts gaffs. Many a good memory but many a bad one as well, it can turn violent in an instant.
Mad that I noticed it was Airdrie high street straight away only 10 minutes away from me.
@@Thatcntwiththecivic it’s called the top cross south bridge street 👍
miss these days 😔 long live the young team!
Great Film, with a story familiar across Scotland
Brilliant man, soundtrack really gave this short movie emotional depth.
Well shot and the message hits home. And the music is fantastic!
Brilliant video, I relate to this, teenage years were dark and scary 😢
amazing wee film
Glad you enjoyed it, thanks for watching!
Thos wer the days 😅 well done great wee film 🎥
Cheers for checking it out
I liked the mirrored / flipped shots of the same landscapes at the end. it wasnt just the same shot with him walking in the opposite direction, it sort of showed his visual, with a whole reversal of the scene, obviously to represent him contemplating his life n that sort of buisness.
Really well spotted! Glad that symbolism resonated with you!
Absolutely fkin class...definitely needs a full movie!
Gets ya thinking 🤔 🏴🧡
James Price is definitely a filmmaker to keep an eye on. He's got a 60 min film called 'Dog Days' starring Peter Mullan on iPlayer atm www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001sk36/dog-days-dog-days-60minute-version
The boy in the blue Holland tracky I remember that one, if you seen somebody wearing that with bleached blonde hair in 2008/9 coming towards you, you would have to run the opposite direction.
Spot on mate, I had long hair, dressed alternative was heavily into skating and punk style, at one point even having a mohawk.. I soon learned not to express myself too much, because you'd become a target to these lot. You seen one, or a group of them especially, me and my mates would turn the other way. We'd sometimes sit in my garden waiting 2 hours to go to the shop because they'd be stood at it, and we simply wouldn't pass them.. I will say, life is a little easier for the youth today lol
It's all fun and games til someone gets a bottle over the heed for turning over dj rankin
Paha!😂
Scenes everywhere in glasgow , easpecially THE CUMBIEEE
Mera peak jaiket, slasher/splasher/flame etc hats from the American hat store in the inshops on argyle st thinking you were the dogs danglies trying to chat up wee sengas. Those were the days.
If you were not a ned then you were a victim back in the days I wouldn’t change it but when I look back we had fun but the ned style is extinct now 😮… Southside was full of neds and from nitshill pollok priesthill was just adventure
I caught the tail end of the madness early 00s good times
🎉😂
Indeed pollok born n bread aka the young team side ......good.ol days of the mera peak jackets etc bit of nostalgia there hahaha
@@only_one_renegade6128 F the PYT ya wee dafty
@@AlbertAnastasia. 😂😂😂😂
The ptolemy, i think their driving at. One day you wake up and your 45 with a failing liver
Where’s Brian Lamont..
Grassin
@@seankelly378Brian Lamont is no a grass
That's what it was like for me when a was younger it was crazy times good but crazy and it took me years to get away from it my last still catches up with me till this day
this is something i see happen to alot of people i know that used to be nice but fell in with the wrong crowd in scotland edit: obviously this had to be set in airdrie
Thanks for this mate, Proper Nostalgia!
Every aspect of this short piece is dynamic in the artistry of its accuracy of an ongoing way of life.
Deserves an Oscar!
I got stabbed in castlemilk back in the day
Then we moved to New Zealand and escaped it all
This is a brilliant wee film 🎥
As someone who grew up in Glasgow, this could not be more accurate.
damn this was hard hitting
had the same lifestyle
took me 20 years to get my life back together
Im sat watching this at 03.37 on the 16th of February and was blown away by it.......Just Saying ❤
Thanks for watching, glad to hear the film made a strong impression on you!
Went to hill park , lived in Arden pollok , grew up in this environment , looking back it was wild but at the time it was normal , lost a lot of friends to stabbing drugs etc .
Amount of people I’ve known who got dragged into that lifestyle & never recovered…. Starts with the drink and pills and then inevitably leads to the hard shite…
Outstanding 🙏
Agreed! James is definitely a director to keep you eye on.
It’s still happening to this day, makes me sick, Glasgow, North, South Lanarkshire needs to wake up or these young ones will end up in a Box, they don’t know what there are getting them selfs into these days. Hanging around with the wrong crowd and people, that’s the problem
These young ones are better than that or they will no have a future 👍
And people say we’ve got no underclass in the UK. This is it, playing out across council estates UK wide
It’s filmed (well the street shots are ) in Airdrie.
Absolutely stunning.
The good old days how I miss been young again this brings back memories 😊
Good watch
That Holly Jack from Waterloo Road is a darlin'
We were all like this in glasgow back in the days but eventually grow out it thank fuck lol
Beautiful story ❤
i have not known many people in glasgow let alone scotland use the word "shank"
could flip a coin
This is mint!!
Thats airdrie!! 😂
When was this filmed mate? Are you guys from here?
amazing!!!
This is pretty much how my generation grew up in Pollok🤯
That's the director's and writer's backgrounds too!
Same born and dragged up in Greenock here.
There was always wan burd trying it on with the new boy infront of her fella 😂 was nearly victim of that myself😅
Amazing
Good stuff
outstanding
Back in early 2000s was mainly like 20 of us in bridgeton getting pissed down at the green or in someones gaff wasn't any old men though never touched drugs though other than booze and hash never compelled me to touch the dodgy stuff even when asked it was some fun times but looking back was also fucking stupid
Scotland and Ireland would be a better union.
10 secs in nostalgia
This Nitshill?
This is top
Really enjoyed that 👌🏻
You should check out more of James' films, he's definitely a director to keep an eye on directorsnotes.com/tag/james-price/
@@DirectorsNotes
However.......we as Glaswegians.....NEED to get away from the "NO MEAN CITY" label.....it's boring AF now!
Jamie and others just keep it being perpetuated........time to move on!
Jamie....if you read this wee man......no harm meant.......but do something different mate....think outside the box.
We get it....."Glaswegians are mental".......so what????....loads of cultures are mental.
Do something completely different.......and move us on!
@@hangedman821 a totally valid viewpoint but we'd say that James is just doing what many other filmmakers have done before him and making films about what he knows. From our interview:
"Me and Graeme both have remarkably similar backgrounds, we were both involved in Scotland’s gang culture. Graeme was based in Airdrie and I was based in Springburn in the North of Glasgow."
If he were an outsider making this film that could definitely be seen as perpetuating stereotypes.
@@DirectorsNotes
Fair enough mate...I get what you're saying.
You know what you know.........right?
MY POINT IS.....VIOLENCE ISN'T ALL WE KNOW!
And it's LAZY TO THINK IT IS!
We also know how to do what is right!!!.........
But I understand we are what we eat...whether through the mouth or brain.
And if we're eating the "We're mental Glaswegians!".......our youth are going to aspire to that.......
Instead of small metallic pieces of hope....we should have some MENTALLIC pieces of hope : )
Something that stimulates our thinking to ....DO WHAT IS RIGHT!
Anyways....all the best!
Very well said. Stick around and we'll definitely have films of a different tenor for you to check out.
Black hill?
That isn't Pollok !
Fucking samurai sword 😂😂😂
a good dipiction of a section of our sad society. Young scared men looking for safety in numbers. Doesnt usually go well.
Yes and no, 44 here raised in leith Edinburgh in the 90s during the ‘train spotting’ days…. Rezerection, pills speedballs, nosebleed, wee toke bit gang fighting and back to the day job as a 17 year old the weekends were what I lived for … wasn’t a sad society it was fking brilliant and a part of my life I will remember for the exhilaration , near misses, dodgy situations and comradeship … young men ( stags if you like, rutting and jostling for position) the banter was brilliant you got it tight and gave it back …. We demonise men for having an ego, aggression and I agree to an extent it’s stupid but it’s also natural and in some of us, it’s a shame that it’s the only natural behaviour in society that’s demonised by the same people who say being this is ok or that is ok let’s be inclusive… ultimately those who don’t get it didn’t have the Baws tbh … would I want my son to live it? No, cause I’d worry he’d get stabbed but that’s with my parent head on …it defo shaped my life into what I am and how I can understand peoples struggles… so don’t critique it as it was a roller coaster and if I could have that time back I’d ride it again … lenny fkn Dee & the YLT from an old sensible man past his prime.
What a sad existence when a full grown man’s drinking and doing lines with kids, when did life go so wrong for him?
Thts glesga m8 , tht jacket will get blagged 😂😅 a red n yella mera peak 😮 thos wer the jackets to have 🎉
CLOCKED THAT BOTTLE OF VINOS FULLA BLACKCURRANT DILOOTING JUICE🤣
Wit a load a guff 🤣
No subtitles? Please fix it.
Seems very well made!
Salty buns .
Dont worry timmy its fiction 😅
Shouldnae hav been tryin tae get wi that other boys burd but
She wiz a wee roaster 😂😂
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Airdrie 👍🏻
Violence has been rising since 2014? Youth gang violence is gone. 🤔
Which is it?
Definitely hasn't mate, dunno what cave you're hiding in. You probably vote SNP as well who have caused the increase
Lol no it isn't. I'm a youth worker in Glasgow and i can tell you it's alive a and well.
@@robroberts9051 I dont see teenagers running around wearing Berghaus jackets brandishing a machete this isnt the 2000s anymore gang violence is gone. lol
@@robroberts9051 dennistoun was pretty hardcore, just round the corner from me.
What's with the hairdresser ?
she had a job
@@jamesdiver2183 That's what I was thinking
She's his steady future.
Yasss Mara peak
Well in lads. Which scheme(s) was this film shot in?
We know from our interview that growing up Graeme was based in Airdrie and James was based in Springburn. Not sure where exactly they shot this though.
the house is Coatbridge but the outside scenes are at Airdrie at top cross. not 100% sure what field that is though.
@@scottf6920 ryder mains road Glenmavis airdrie is where he came out every day
@@scottf6920it’s the Cairnhill/Calderbank Road in Airdrie at the end, overlooking the fields between Calderbank and Carnbroe
Calton Tongs ya bass.
Well there's 11 minutes I'll never get back !
🤣🤣🤣🤣
This like addiction at the root of all of this. It’s funded mentally being either unhappy or bored and/or both. Not having a purpose.. not being able to find a purpose.. or a calling.. that’s why football etc is so appealing to us. For men especially.. women can use child birth as a possible calling.
“We’re the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War’s a spiritual war…" - Tyler Durden
Or maybe I’m over thinking it. And we’re all young at some point, just trying to find our way.
Anyway love from Cheshire. X
Nat 5 english patter
Watching this as an American without subtitles…so they don’t speak English in Scotland?🤣
If you ever stepped out your box that you call America, maybe' you'd understand better.
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent oh don’t be so sensitive. i’ve gotten out of my box Plenty of times. I just haven’t learned that type of English yet.😄
@@lalaloveyou5186 What about my comment was sensitive? stop projecting.
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent okay buddy
@@lalaloveyou5186 Thought so.
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