Alchemy Film & Arts
Using film as a way to come together, have conversations and strengthen community.
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You can browse our cinema screenings by programme section or as a daily programme.
Tickets to all cinema screenings in Heart of Hawick are priced £3 / £5 / £7 on a ‘pay as you can basis‘.
Except for 16mm presentations, all films are captioned for D/deaf and Hard-of-Hearing audiences.
Further details about tickets and access measures can be found on our How to Access page.
SCREENINGS PROGRAMME BY SECTION
FOCUS
AKOSUA ADOMA OWUSU
13:00 – 14:05
Eight films exploring how feminism, queerness and African identities intersect
SHORTS
REFRAMING THE ARCHIVE
14:30 – 15:45
Eight shorts connect Latin America’s past political traumas to present-day struggles
KEYNOTE
JADE MONTSERRAT
16:30 – 17:30
Alchemy Film & Arts’ resident artist on Frederick Douglass, Tom Jenkins and Hawick’s Black histories
SHORTS
ALL THIS PAIN AND POWER
10:00 – 11:15
Seven films exploring empowerment, resolution and a refusal to concede
SHORTS
OUR SHAPE APPARENTLY
12:00 – 13:30
Thirteen films discover and articulate the plural and shapeshifting ways in which being and place interconnect
FOCUS
JULIA PARKS
14:30 – 16:00
Four films from an Alchemy Film & Arts’ current resident, working in 2022 on a new film project in Hawick
SHORTS
THIS MEETING IS BEING RECORDED
16:30 – 18:00
Eight studies of architecture, portraiture, archaeology, labour
SPOTLIGHT
ANDROMEDA
20:00 – 21:00
A portal opens between the Andromeda galaxy and Earth – followed by an extended Q&A
SPOTLIGHT
DEVIANT
10:00 – 11:00
Exploring lived experiences of endometriosis – followed by an extended Q&A
SHORTS
CHOICE OF WEAPON
11:30 – 13:00
Seven explorations of creativity as a means of working through struggle, oppression and illness
SHORTS
WHERE WE’RE AT AND WHERE WE’RE FROM
14:00 – 15:30
Ten examinations of the geographies and cultures that constitute home
SHORTS
BUILDING A FORT
16:00 – 17:30
Nine shorts embrace forms of play – including experimentation, orientation, understanding
FEATURE
NOTES FROM A LOW ORBIT
20:00 – 22:00
A new feature portrait of Hawick, its communities, and their everyday rituals and routines
SHORTS
VALLEYS WITHOUT MOUNTAINS
11:00 – 12:30
Nine short dialogues: interiors and exteriors, absences and presences, dog and human, and two brothers
SHORTS
BODY MOVES
13:30 – 15:00
Three films explore bodies, mis/communication, lived experience and institutionalised erasure
SHORTS
OUT AND ABOUT
15:30 – 16:30
Eleven experimental shorts made by young people getting out and about in the Scottish Borders
SHORTS
AN IMAGE IS A LANDSCAPE
18:00 – 19:30
A screening of mostly 16mm film interweaving ideas of material physicality and the human body in motion
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