On Tour
The Teviot, the Flag and the Rich, Rich Soil
Now touring — A screening of three films produced as part of The Teviot, the Flag and the Rich, Rich Soil, our residencies programme supporting the generation of new knowledge through long-term, practice-led research and multidisciplinary partnerships.
Engaging with global Scottish histories across industrial, social and colonial contexts, the programme brings together three acclaimed films made by Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn, Julia Parks, and Maybelle Peters during residencies in Hawick between 2022 and 2025.
Shot on 16mm, each of the films is a tactile response to a specific aspect of Scotland’s identity in a global context. Taken together, the programme spans an ambitious range of themes including architecture and industry, conservation and erasure, and the tension between the archival and the anecdotal.
This touring programme brings these three films together for the first time, following individual screenings at renowned festivals and institutions such as the Berlinale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Edinburgh International Film Festival, e-flux, Porto Post Doc, and National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.
If you are interested in booking this programme for your venue, please get in touch.
Programme Information
Total runtime 63 minutes
Recommended age rating PG
Content warnings Contains flashing imagery; discussion of colonialism, slavery
Format Digital (from 16mm)
Accessibility Descriptive subtitles available
Trailer
Corin Sworn and Luke Fowler during the tour launch at DCA with Dan Brown, Head of Exhibitions
About the Films
On Weaving
Luke Fowler and Corin Sworn – 2025 – 26′
A portrait of High Sunderland, the modernist home of fashion designer Bernat Klein, and labour within the textile mills along the Teviot and Tweed rivers.
The Wool Aliens
Julia Parks – 2023 – 28′
A cinematic journey, filmed on 16mm, into the historical and tactile entanglements between sheep’s wool, migrant plant seeds and the River Tweed.
We Deh Here
Maybelle Peters – 2025 – 9′
A personal response to historical associations between Guyana and Scotland, interweaving materials held in official archives with family histories along matrilineal lines.