SATURDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER
FILM AND MOVING IMAGE PROGRAMME
11am
MOVING IMAGE SHORTS : SEEING LANDSCAPE
1h13m
Landscape – a place, a state of mind, an en-cultured territory, an imagined reality, a yearning, an illusion? Branches moving in silhouette, a lighthouse illuminated vigil, the deserted island village of Pollphail, a dusk journey to the sea, a woman’s tragic death on a hillside, a subterranean fantasy of the underworld, the visual poetics of a windfarm, a lone figure on a beach, the traced lines of a river’s movement. This selection of experimental films is from our open submission programme, reflecting diverse approaches to seeing and transforming landscape, mainly from Scottish and UK artist filmmakers.
View the full Seeing Landscape programme here.
£3, Heart of Hawick – Tower Mill
2pm
FILM: TROUBLE SLEEPING
1h42m
Robert Rae / Scotland 2008
English and Arabic with subtitles, contains moderate violence and reference to sexuality.
Winner of four International Best Film awards this powerful drama passionately explores the reality of life for Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Edinburgh. With an award-winning and heart wrenching performance from Alia Alzgoubi and stunning support from the Refugee Community themselves, it was included by Mark Cousins in his list of a dozen Scottish films that had provided “the shock of recognition of something true about the country I have adopted as my home.”
“This first feature from Theatre Workshop burns with relevance. Raw-edged, and crafted by passionate collective effort, it’s inspiring, provocative stuff.”
Hannah McGill, Director EIFF
VOMO (Voice of My Own) has chosen this film because it is an outstanding example of how community based filmmaking can produce fearless and authentic art. Non-fiction can reveal the lies but only fiction gets near the truth.
£3, Heart of Hawick – Tower Mill
2pm
MIXED FILM PROGRAMME: HAWICK FILM & VIDEO GROUP
Programme includes Fire & Steel [the first Hawick Reivers Festival], The Talla Line [the railway to construct Talla Dam], Hawick Knitwear [how knitwear is manufactured], Memorial Run [tribute to Jimmy Guthrie], Autumn Leaves [Autumn in Wilton Park] and Natures Wonderland [wildlife in the Borders].
£3, Hawick Film & Video Group Cinema, 8 Croft Road, Hawick TD9 9RD
4.30pm
SHORT FILMS: I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING and SPEAKING THE LAND
59m plus Q&A
Ben Rivers, Dalziel & Scullion plus an audience Q&A with the artists.
A programme of two short films by two of the UK's leading artist filmmakers.
I Know Where I’m Going continues Ben Rivers’ concerns with people on the fringes of society. Partly a homage to the Powell and Pressburger film of the same title, this film takes the form of a fragmented road trip through Britain to Mull. Down empty roads, off in the wilderness, a few lone stragglers. His first stop is geologist Jan Zalasiewicz, talking about the Earth in One-hundred million years time.
Speaking the Land is a series of three new short films by Dalziel + Scullion, featuring poems by Robin Lloyd-Jones, John Burnside and Jay Griffiths, written and filmed for three unique Borders landscapes. The films respond to the act of story telling, once deeply imbedded as a means to understand our locality, when the land itself became a place to store knowledge or wisdom of ways to live upon it.
£3, Heart of Hawick – Tower Mill
7.30pm
FILM: FOLLOW THE MASTER
1h15m
Matt Hulse / UK 2009 / 12A / Documentary
In his eagerly awaited debut feature, Edinburgh-based filmmaker Matt Hulse takes you with him on an invigorating walk following the 100-mile South Downs Way in homage to his grandpa Eric (the titular Master) who died last year. Tag along on a wildly creative, Pythonesque road trip complete with ukeleles, air drumming and the world’s most adorable dog. One of the fastest selling films at last year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival.
£3, Heart of Hawick – Tower Mill
9pm - 11pm
MOVING IMAGE LIVE: -SCAPE
2hrs
Alastair Cook, Chris Dooks James Norton.
An evening of live moving image, set within Heart of Hawick’s lively Beanscene cafe/bar. Curated and presented by Edinburgh artist and filmmaker Alastair Cook, –scape is a filmic celebration of the sea, the land, the city. Drawing on the Alchemy Festival’s powerful theme of landscape, -scape deliberates on the skift, the scipe, the scaef: the human made cuts, built-forms and interventions in the land. This inaugural -scape programme concentrates on the idea that a landscape is a cultural image, a visual way of representing and structuring our surroundings. Alastair Cook has drawn together an exciting yet thoughtful series of films and will present them alongside two new -scape commissioned works from artists Chris Dooks and James Norton.
Free, Heart of Hawick – Tower Mill (Beanscene cafe/bar)
MOVING IMAGE INSTALLATIONS - ALL DAY EVENTS
ALCHEMIST
Sat 11 & Sun 12 September 10am-4.30pm
1hr
Richard Ashrowan / UK 2010 / Installation
Alchemist was produced by artist Richard Ashrowan in collaboration with performance artists Alastair MacLennan and Sandra Johnston. It explores the transformative qualities of the landscape through alchemy, situated in a sense of the uncanny, the seen, the felt and the imagined. Filmed in the Scottish Borders, the work explores an alchemical and pre-scientific sense of transformative engagement with landscape and the elements. The work draws on the the works of the 12th century Scottish alchemist, astrologer, mathematician and magician Michael Scot. Dual screen projection with two large scale black mirrors, one hour in duration as an installation.
Supported by a CABN/Creative Scotland Visual Artists Award.
Free, Heart of Hawick – Tower Mill
WEAVING THE TOWER HOUSE
Fri 10 & Sat 11 September 10am-4.30pm
Sun 12 September 12 noon-3pm
Rocio Jungenfeld / UK 2010 / Installation
A site-specific installation by artist Rocio Jungenfeld, created in collaboration with Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival. This installation seeks to investigate the relationship between the landscape of the Scottish Borders and the textile tradition of Hawick. The installation will transport the visitor to an interior natural space, a soft and malleable landscape. Video projections, mirrors, wool threads and sound will create a fragile and tactile experience; this piece will transform the exhibition space into a place for the introspection of the self.
Free, Heart of Hawick – Borders Textile Towerhouse
VOYAGE
Fri 10 & Sat 11 September 10am-4.30pm
Sun 12 September 12 noon-3pm
Pat Law / UK 2009 / Installation
An installation by artist Pat Law, from Heriot Toun Studio.
A response to the project 7 short sails where over 50 artists contributed to a theme which evolved as it was passed on in the form of a Chinese whisper. Housed within a bronze compass binnacle borrowed from the Loch Fyne Skiff Kirsty.
Supported by a CABN/Creative Scotland Visual Artists Award.
Free, Heart of Hawick – Borders Textile Towerhouse
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2011 SUBMISSIONS
Submissions are now officially closed, but please do contact us if you think you might have something we should not miss. We cannot guarantee to review late submissions.
This year's Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival will be exploring landscape and the four elements: earth, air, fire and water,
whether interpreted literally, metaphorically or catastrophically.
The deadline for submissions was 10 June 2011
FULL 2010 PROGRAMME
Friday 10th September 2010
Saturday 11th September 2010
- 10am to 4.30pm - Weaving The Towerhouse (installation), Borders Textile Towerhouse, Free
- 10am to 4.30pm - Voyage (installation), Borders Textile Towerhouse, Free
- 10am to 4.30pm - Alchemist (installation), Tower Mill, Free
- 11am - Seeing Landscape, Tower Mill, £3
- 2pm - Trouble Sleeping (VOMO Film), Tower Mill, £3
- 2pm - Mixed Programme Hawick Film & Video Group, 8 Croft Road, £3
- 4.30pm - I Know Where I’m Going & Speaking The Land, Tower Mill, £3
- 7.30pm - Follow The Master, Tower Mill, £3
- 9pm-11pm "-Scape", (Live Moving Image), Tower Mill, Free
Sunday 12th September 2010
- 10am to 4.30pm - Weaving The Towerhouse (installation), Borders Textile Towerhouse, Free
- 10am to 4.30pm - Voyage (installation), Borders Textile Towerhouse, Free
- 10am to 4.30pm - Alchemist (installation), Tower Mill, Free
- 12 noon - Transforming Landscape, Tower Mill, £3
- 2.30pm - The Edge of Dreaming (plus Hymn to the Road), Tower Mill, £3
- 2.30pm - The Kite Runner, LIttle Theatre Film Club, 8 Croft Road, £3
Download printed pdf programme
TICKETS
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Heart of Hawick – Tower Mill
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Hawick TD9 0AE
01450 360688 [Box Office] & 01450 373993 [Visitor Information Centre]
Tickets £3 per event unless otherwise stated. Limited number of Weekend Tickets available at £15 on first come, first served basis. Weekend tickets exclude VOMO [Trouble Sleeping], Hawick Film & Video Group and Little Theatre Film Club [The Kite Runner] screenings.
We regret Heart of Hawick cannot exchange or refund tickets.
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Tuesday 1000 - 1815
Wednesday 1000 - 1730
Thursday 1000 - 1815
Friday 1000 - 1945
Saturday 1000 - 1945
Sunday 1200 - 1530
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