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MOVING IMAGE SHORTS : TRANSFORMING LANDSCAPE - FULL DETAILS
12noon, SUNDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER
1h24m

NAOMI UMAN: KALENDAR / 10:00

Naomi Uman - Kalendar

Kalendar is part of Naomi Uman's 'Ukrainian Time Machine' series of films, created while living in the small Ukrainian village of Legedzine. Struggling to learn the Ukrainian language in July, the filmmaker came to understand that the months of the year signified something that occurs in nature at that time. This film/poem mimics the process of coming to understand a new language while also celebrating village life and its proximity to the land.

JANIS CRYSTAL LIPZIN: DE LUCE 1: VEGETARE / 5:00

Janis Crystal Lipzin De Luvce Vegetare

De Luce 1 blends my enduring interest in nature's volatile events with my equally profound sympathy with film's unpredictable response to light. My conscious decision to begin with film is based on that medium’s unduplicable and capricious response to light. I use darkroom processes to produce outcomes that allude to but don’t truly describe color in the natural world. I then interweave the results with the more controllable properties of digital technology.

Janis Crystal Lipzin

STEVEN BALL: THE GROUND, THE SKY AND THE ISLAND / 7:45

Steven Ball The Gound The Sky And The Island

This video reworks photographs, super 8 film, sound and anecdotal text from a series of bush and outback locations across Australia during the 1990s. It takes the form of extracts from an imagined first person journal, layered over extruded experiments with composition and movement constructing a synthetic shifting landscape. Moving through discrete but related sections, the abstracted view shifts vertically through 90 degrees between the closeness of the local, the ground, and the claustrophobia of the distant colonizing horizon. As it travels east from the South Australian desert, through bush, tablelands and rocky range, the video becomes a subjective essayistic meditation, in absentia, on being in the landscape, the problem of attempting to reproduce these landscapes and the uncertainty of their representation. At its inconclusion we arrive on K'gari (Fraser Island off the coast of Queensland) where we reach the edge of the known world, a space being made in an open future.

Steven Ball Website

SHAMBHAVI KAUL: SCENE 32 / 5:00

Shanhavi Kaul Scene 32

Scene 32 maps the terrain that lies between a given place and the objects that represent it. The salt fields of Central Kutch are examined through High Definition video and hand processed Hi contrast 16mm film to become another thing altogether: neither a specific location in India nor its representation, but a rebuilt world of precipices and gullies, untouchable textures and unfathomable scale. Nature becomes an inhospitable territory of longing invested with the memories of imagined events.

RICHARD ASHROWAN: LAMENT / 11:09

Richard Ashrowan Lament

An exploration of the Anglo/Scots borderline, one of the oldest borders in the world, an enquiry into the meanings that might be revealed at its heart and within its landscape. This piece taked on the nature of a visual, philosophical, historical and yet deeply personal meditation. A diffusion of boundaries between the real and the unreal, the seen and the imagined, the present and the past, lie at the heart of the work. These streams of images seek to move beyond perception to arrive at an embodied material consciousness, drawn from an intense and elemental engagement with nature.

Richard Ashrowan Website

RAINER GAMSJÄGER: STATE OF FLUX: WAVE 1-3 / 11:00

Rainer Gamsjager State Of Flux

The videoseries “State Of Flux” can be understood as a nature study in the broadest sense. Initial point was the interest in chaotic systems and their behaviour, here especially water and waterstreams in a therefore created “digital parallelspace”. The water keeps on flowing, but it flows somehow different. The raw footage was exclusevly shooted at barrages, places where the brute power of water is utilized. Energy is transformed from one form into another. In “State Of FluX” a new field is emerging, that moves energy through space and time.

Rainer Gamsjäger Website

SEMICONDUCTOR: HELIOCENTRIC / 15:11

Semiconductor Heliocentric

Semiconductor is artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Heliocentric uses time-lapse photography and astronomical tracking to plot the sun's trajectory across a series of landscapes. The entire environment feels to pan past the camera whilst the sun stays in the centre of each frame, enabling us to gauge the earth's rotation and orbit around the sun. As the Suns light becomes disrupted by passing weather conditions and the environment through which we encounter it, it audibly plays them as if it were a stylus.

Semiconductor Website

EMILY RICHARDSON: COBRA MIST / 6:45

Emily Richardson Cobra Mist

Cobra Mist explores the relationship between the landscape of Orford Ness and the traces of its military history, particularly the experiments in radar and the extraordinary architecture of the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment. Much of what took place there is still under the official secrets act so will only be revealed over time. The film records the physical traces of it’s often secretive past using the photographic nature of 16mm film and time lapse to construct an impossible experience of the landscape and expose its history to the camera. The soundtrack is composed by Benedict Drew from sound recordings taken from Orford Ness by Chris Watson.

Emily Richardson Website

TOMONARI NISHIKAWA: LUMPHINI 2552 / 3:00

Tomonari Nishikawa Lumphini 2552

Images were shot by a still camera, Nikon F3, entirely at Lumphini Park in Bangkok. The hand-processed visual shows organic patterns found in the monumental park, constructing systematic yet emotional rhythms on the screen. The sound is from visual information on the optical soundtrack that also was captured while taking pictures by the still camera, may produce the sense of the existence of a recording device at the location. Lumphini is named for Lumbini, a Sanskrit word of the birthplace of the Buddha in Nepal, and 2552 is the Buddhist year (Buddha Era) of 2009.

Tomonari Nishikawa Website

ELKE GROEN: NIGHT STILL / 9:00

Elke Groen Night Still

Accompanied by fragile sounds a few flocks of clouds hurry over the peaks of the Dachstein mountain range. Behind windows at solitary mountain stations, lights blink like Morse code. Gondolas flit past as if in flight. Thick blankets of fog envelop cliffs. A windmill spins. Here and there human figures appear, resembling phantoms in the snowy white. The moon climbs in the sky, glows, falls, disappears, then rises again. Elke Groen’s NightStill, just under nine minutes long, is a filmic survey of the Dachstein region in Austria’s Alps. However it has nothing in common with a documentary record, serving as a confrontation between the givens (a landscape, artifacts and living beings; the sky, weather and the light) and a film technique which has always possessed the ability to alienate.

Elke Groen Website

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

Sunday 12th September 2010

Download printed pdf programme

TICKETS

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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.
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