Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival
alchemy film moving image festival annual film festival flagship event alchemy film art take place year scottish border town hawick founded grown considered one key fixture experimental artist film within uk europe alchemy film art registered scottish charity receives regular funding creative scotland organisation work community artist locally internationally using film way come together conversation make positive change organisation state value openness experimentation creativity solidarity humour alchemy film art annual film festival directed rachael disbury michael pattison since among access policy alchemy list film barring mm presentation captioned programme provided content warning ticket cinema screening priced sliding scale addition festival open call entry tiered pay system offer full waiver artist need one festival state filmfreeway page proudly noncompetitive belief premiere policy – whereby film disqualified screening one event exhibited another – actively produce competition disparity territorialism artist community curator addition annual film festival alchemy film art produce yearround project encompass artist residency commission film exhibition research discussion event community filmmaking creative learning programme alchemy film moving image festival founded scottish border based artist richard ashrowan ashrowan creative director festival alchemy film art situating festival rural scottish border town hawick described foundation provocation prevailing urbancentrism term culture attempt create quality friendliness intimacy environment filmmaker audience volunteer mix generating real outpouring creativity conversation main cinema screening held awardwinning converted spinning mill tower mill part heart hawick partner organisation festival festival utilised variety disused exindustrial space moving image installation town period festival became internationally notable showing around film year mixed programme short film feature film moving image installation specialist curated programme live expanded cinema performance alchemy film art developed project experimental film artists’ moving image production scotland including artists’ filmmaking residency scotland morocco high street exhibition programme filmmaking symposium touring programme community film project scottish border moving image maker collective founded workshop series ashrowan curated scotland’s national exhibition venice biennale alchemy film art presenting film commission artist filmmaker rachel maclean first eight edition alchemy featured premiere screening influential artist experimental filmmaker including jan švankmajer sarah pucill andrew kötting rachel maclean quay brother semiconductor artist mike hoolboom nina danino patrick bokanowski jacques perconte mark leckey ben river tenth edition alchemy film moving image festival took place – may due scottish lockdown imposed result covid pandemic first exclusively digital iteration alchemy live happened three day series free online screening event included film programme programme included feature phantom ride stephen broomer corporate accountability jonathan perel eleventh edition alchemy film moving image festival took place online april may free attend available streaming film across live ondemand programme well exhibition eleventh edition featured keynote lecture marxist intellectual vijay prashad live performance scottish black atlantic natasha ruwona artist talk screening emma wolukauwanambwa film promised land two guestcurated short programme one greg de cuir jr intersection race ecology another new programmer group young people scottish border mentored alchemy care healing mutualism eleventh edition also featured seven ondemand programme dedicated individual artist including baff akoto dagie brundert richard fung emily jacir jason moyes belit sağ artist scottish border south scotland addition six newly commissioned artwork encompassing image text sound presented artist ania ba jamie crewe harry josephine giles jade montserrat cinzia mutigli kaiya waerea twelfth edition alchemy film moving image festival april may hawick film screening venue online first edition festival take place inperson since programme included keynote alchemy artist resident jade montserrat also presented ritual passage memorial frederick douglas thomas jenkins new commission heritage hub elsewhere programme alchemy artist residence mark lyken present world premiere note low orbit new feature film made hawick community ritual focus artist included julia park another alchemy film art resident ghanaianamerican artist akosua adoma owusu freetoview exhibition programme includes video jukebox footage border community film archive alchemy digital preservation project showcase work produced part film town alchemy yearround community engagement strategy new mm installation shot hawick leah millar first outing moving image new solarpowered cinema converted caravan initiated artist kerry jones bursary fund alchemy film art part yearround programme alchemy launched teviot flag rich rich soil july described programme artist residency film commission discussion event community engagement exploring border boundary line hawick scottish border project part creative scotland culture collective fund taking place july december project engages artist working community consider past present future hawick researching investigating town wider region’s cultural identity relation land water industry territory place environment residency artist include mark lyken jade montserrat julia park jules horne commission include work jessie growden andy mackinnon leah millar natasha ruwona programme also offer artist bursary traineeship scheme summer alchemy launched film town awardwinning community filmmaking initiative aim work local partner widen access cultural inclusion hawick community community group alchemy partnered make film include branching youth group border additional need group suicide working group nh border scottish border rape crisis centre border womens aid scout scotland hawick congregational community church hadrian creatives border college interest link volunteer befriending service working young people learning disability vulnerable adult across scottish border april alchemy launched outwith filmmaking academy creative network programme yearolds scottish border partnering group include branching youth group border additional need group hadrian creatives lgbt youth border october april alchemy delivered continue watching online season film screening discussion event critical writing featuring work yashaswini raghunandan noorafshan mirza brad butler joshua bonnetta clemens wilhelm jan martinec two guestcurated programme marcus jack artist moving image scotland jonathan ali experimental horror film caribbean commissioned text season written jemma desai sonya dyer alix rothnie discussion event archive verb exploring way experimental film considered archival featured artist ashanti harris onyeka igwe sophie lindsey ed webbingall alchemy film moving image festival website