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Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival

International experimental and artists' film festival in Scotland

2018 Past Programme Highlights

FILMMAKING SYMPOSIUM 2018

This year’s symposium – focusing on Creative Strategies – seeks to delve into the diversity of methods and approaches to making experimental film and moving image

THU 3 MAY / 1:00pm / £25/15

INSTALLATIONS

This year we are exhibiting twelve moving image installations in disused spaces, empty buildings and spare rooms around Hawick

THU 3 – SUN 6 MAY / FREE

INSECT

Insect, the film Jan Švankmajer says will be his last, is at once a vibrant celebration of the raw power of the imaginary and a darkly humorous dose of misanthropic surrealism.

SAT 5 MAY / 7:00pm / £5

ZEBRA POETRY FILM

ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival shows the current state of a short film genre which lies somewhere between poetry, film and new media.

FRI 4 MAY / 10:00am / £5

AFTERMATH

A four-part bio-pic that narrates moments from the lives of Fats Waller, Jackson Pollock, Janieta Eyre and Frida Khalo.

FRI 4 MAY / 4:30pm / £5

DOUBLE BILL: NEW WOMAN AND UPROOTING GHOSTS

This special double bill explores gendered modes of representation in cinema.

FRI 4 MAY / 2:20pm / £5

DOUBLE BILL: ARAF AND SALARIUM

A double bill of beautifully observed and politically charged films.

FRI 4 MAY / 7:20pm / £5

EXPANDED CINEMA: CELEBRATE SUPER 8

An evening celebrating the resurgence of artist interest in Super 8, embracing the experimental and performative potential of the format.

FRI 4 MAY / 9:30pm / FREE

ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL

The 16mm touring programme from the 2018 edition of Ann Arbor Film Festival.

SAT 5 MAY / 10:00am / £5

ALCHEMY SHORTS

Alchemy’s 10 curated shorts programmes

FRI 4 MAY – SUN 6 MAY

DOUBLE BILL: THE ARGUMENT AND THE RARE EVENT

Questioning the authority of philosophical discourse, these two films examine and reposition philosophical sites of activity.

SAT 5 MAY / 4:00pm / £5

RITES OF RESISTANCE

Andrea Luka Zimmerman’s Civil Rites and Michel Pavlou’s The Barbarians, in a double bill that makes time, politics and history overlap.

SAT 5 MAY / 7:30pm / £5

EXPANDED CINEMA: EXPERIMENTS IN LANGUAGE

Two performances which take two rich cultural traditions and meld them with a deeply experimental sensibility.

SAT 5 MAY / 9:25pm / FREE

NOW: FEMALE CHINESE CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS VOL. 1

A striking, beguiling, sometimes disturbing yet always rewarding selection that evidences what cultural difference is often much less than we might presume.

SUN 6 MAY / 10:00am / £5

REALITY MAKES YOU SLEEP, DREAMS KEEP YOU AWAKE

This programme is a mood shifting selection of films connected by themes of environmental destruction, consumerism, hidden identity and perspectives of reality.

SUN 5 MAY / 11:40am / £5

FILM WALK

Join us on a walk to Fatlips Castle for a pop-up screening of Stan Brakhage’s Text of Light.

MON 7 MAY / £10 (plus booking fee)

HERE I AM

Featuring animation, narrative, experimentation, performance and documentary, this selection brings together films that differently resist compliance, defy expectations and assert identity.

SUN 6 MAY / 4:00pm / £5