FUGITIVE BEAUTY - THE FILMS OF ROBERT CAHEN

The first ever Scottish screening of the films of Robert Cahen, one of the most important and influential video artists of our generation. …

2012 FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

The 2012 Festival Programme is now live! Traverse the wild with us through a magical long weekend of feature films, short film screenings, installations and special events.

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MOVING IMAGE INSTALLATIONS

Watch out for moving image installations in smaller venues around the town, including projects by Pat Law (UK), Claire Pencak (UK), James Wyness (UK) and others. …

CELEBRATING HAWICK COMMON RIDING

A special screening of films related to Hawick’s historic annual Common Riding event. The screening includes Kick Oan, a film specially commissioned for this year’s Alchemy Festival …

FEATURE FILMS

Twelve feature-length screenings over three days, including the Scottish premiere of Andrew Kotting’s superbly eccentric Swandown, the work of the important French video artist Robert Cahen, plus features from around the world. …

SPECIAL EVENTS

Try our unique Sunday morning Film Walk, or see the animation and workshop screenings by local young people. On Saturday night there’s an unmissable live media art performance by Edinburgh’s video LaB … …

TRAVERSING THE WILD 2

In travelling through nature, what possibilities might open to our sight? Is nature just a box of aged, foil wrapped chocolates? Maybe it is constructed through a spatial temporal grid, or is it a metaphoric landscape …

TRAVERSING THE WILD 1

Beginning with a quiet river study of film movement and time, we extend ourselves bodily across a landscape through accumulation. A politicised desert landscape of power and conflict emerges …

FICTIVE LANDSCAPES

In the telling of stories, these landscapes permeate their narratives, becoming metaphorical, contextual, signifying or emotive. We witness the interplay of nature, narrative and guilt …

SCREENING ROOM

Showing a continuous programme of over 35 feature films and shorts over the festival weekend. An eclectic collection of work showing some of the more oblique approaches taken by filmmakers in relating to our theme. …

WILDER MOVES

Dedicated to films foregrounding the human body in movement through the landscape, either as dance or performance art. From the dramatic West Highlands of Scotland, through Spain, Canada and Brazil, these landscapes become the staging for human movement …