Alchemy Film & Arts
Generating discussion, strengthening community, and stimulating creative thought through experimental film.
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Alchemy’s curated shorts programmes are selected by our team of programmers from a pool of submissionsz. Listed here alphabetically, the screenings can also be browsed in their chronological order as part of the festival 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.
PROGRAMME
ALL THIS PAIN AND POWER
FRIDAY 29 APRIL / 10:00 – 11:15
Seven films exploring empowerment, resolution and a refusal to concede
BODY MOVES
SUNDAY 1 MAY / 13:30 – 15:00
Three films explore bodies, mis/communication, lived experience and institutionalised erasure
BUILDING A FORT
SATURDAY 30 APRIL / 16:00 – 17:30
Nine shorts embrace forms of play – including experimentation, orientation, understanding
CHOICE OF WEAPON
SATURDAY 30 APRIL / 11:30 – 13:00
Seven explorations of creativity as a means of working through struggle, oppression and illness
AN IMAGE IS A LANDSCAPE
SUNDAY 1 MAY / 18:00 – 19:30
A screening of mostly 16mm film interweaving ideas of material physicality and the human body in motion
OUR SHAPE APPARENTLY
FRIDAY 29 APRIL / 12:00 – 13:30
Thirteen films discover and articulate the plural and shapeshifting ways in which being and place interconnect
OUT AND ABOUT
SUNDAY 1 MAY / 15:30 – 16:30
Eleven experimental shorts made by young people getting out and about in the Scottish Borders
REFRAMING THE ARCHIVE
THURSDAY 28 APRIL / 14:30 – 15:45
Eight shorts connect Latin America’s past political traumas to present-day struggles
THIS MEETING IS BEING RECORDED
FRIDAY 29 APRIL / 16:30 – 18:00
Eight studies of architecture, portraiture, archaeology, labour
VALLEYS WITHOUT MOUNTAINS
SUNDAY 1 MAY / 11:00 – 12:30
Nine short dialogues: interiors and exteriors, absences and presences, dog and human, and two brothers
WHERE WE’RE AT AND WHERE WE’RE FROM
SATURDAY 30 APRIL / 14:00 – 15:30
Ten examinations of the geographies and cultures that constitute home