ISLE OF LOX @ The Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 03.04.2014 – 06.04.2014 Hawick/ SCOTLAND
A magical dreamland of feature films, short film screenings and artists’ installations
featuring filmmakers and moving image artists from around the world.
A magical dreamland of feature films, short film screenings and artists’ installations
featuring filmmakers and moving image artists from around the world.
Our fourth edition is an alchemical exploration of the idea of Dreamland. To dream is to imagine a world of our own in images, unfettered by realities, conventions or restrictions. The Dreamland is a powerful site of freedom and inward liberation. The idea of the dream might be a dream of place or of memory, or of imagined utopias and dystopias. It may be an exploration of the subconscious, an experience of deep reverie, or a wilful conflation of illusion and reality. In this Dreamland, such dreams are located in a distinct place, certainly situated within the films themselves, but equally within the people, place and time that constitute the festival itself.
We are especially delighted to be hosting a record number of World and UK premiere screenings within the town of Hawick. Our 2014 film commission further explores the utopian (and sometimes dystopian) dreams, transcending the politics of our own community in the run up to the 2014 Independence referendum. A new and exciting part of the festival this year is our Filmmaking Symposium, open to all, aimed at exploring filmmaking processes, funding, development and distribution for artists’ film and moving image. We look forward to extending a warm welcome to all our visiting filmmakers from across Scotland, the UK, Europe and the USA. This year’s programme features over 70 filmmakers and artists from around the world through whom the dream speaks powerfully. Sweet dreams indeed.
Richard Ashrowan, Creative Director
DREAMING ROOM
In the Dreaming Room, we will be showing a continuous programme of films, mid length features and shorts, throughout the weekend. An eclectic collection showing some of the more oblique approaches taken by filmmakers in relating to our theme. Here you will find psychological dreamlands, disturbed realities, somnambulations, dreams of place and space, surreal dreamscapes and alchemical experiments. Full details of each film are available on the website and a timed running order for each day can be found by visiting the Dreaming Room. Step in and out at anytime … and prepare to be constantly surprised.
Times: Thursday 12-6pm, Friday 10-6pm, Saturday 10-6pm, Sunday 10-5pm
Tickets: £4 or Free if you can present a ticket purchased for another screening
on the day.
Location: DREAMING ROOM, SECOND FLOOR, HEART OF HAWICK – TOWER MILL
Alphabetical film listing:
A FLEA’S SKIN WOULD BE TOO BIG FOR YOU
Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy/Germany 2013/00:46:47/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere
In 2009, a new theme park was inaugurated in China. It was called The Kingdom of The Dwarves. From all over China, recruits were brought to live in the park and entertain its visitors. There were two requirements for employment: to be between 18 and 40 years old and be shorter than 130 cm.
Biography/Filmography:
Anja Dornieden and Juan David González Monroy are filmmakers living and working in Berlin. Since 2010 they have been working together under the moniker OJOBOCA. Together they are the founders of Horrorism, a simulated method for inner and outer transformation. Their work encompasses films, performances, installations and workshops. They have presented their work internationally in a variety of venues to a variety of audiences. They are currently members of the artist-run film lab LaborBerlin.
http://www.ojoboca.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 2.25pm – 3.12pm
Saturday: 2.20pm – 3.07pm
A GIRL WALKING SLOWLY
Marissa Viani Serrano/Mexico 2011/00:04:28/United Kingdom premiere
A girl walking slowly is an experimental film about a girl trying to scape from the dark forest. The video is made with 8mm, 16mm and 35mm and explores the homemade developing technique.
http://vimeo.com/marissaviani
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 11am – 11.04am
Sunday: 3.20pm – 3.24pm
A PROCESS OF HOW IT SEEKS ITSELF, IT EATS ITSELF
Shunsaku Hayashi/United Kingdom 2013/00:05:52/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere
How does one perceive others, and others perceive oneself? How do animals perceive and categorise us? This work attempts to understand the fragility of one’s existence when perceived by other human beings and animals, the superiority one has above animals one has consumed, and yet the self alienation one feels with this new taste.
http://www.shunsakuweb.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 12.25pm – 12.31pm
Saturday: 3.30pm – 3.36pm
A SPELL TO WARD OFF THE DARKNESS
Ben Russell & Ben Rivers/France 2013/01:38:00/Not a premiere
A SPELL follows an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life. With little explanation, we join him in the midst of a 15-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway.
Marked by loneliness, ecstatic beauty and an optimism of the darkest sort, A SPELL is a radical proposition for the existence of utopia in the present.
Starring musician Robert AA Lowe (best known for his intense live performances under the name LICHENS) in the lead role, A SPELL lies somewhere between fiction and non-fiction – it is at once a document of experience and an experience itself, an inquiry into transcendence that sees the cinema as a site for transformation.
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 1.30pm – 3.08pm
Sunday: 11.55am – 1.33pm
A SUMMER FLU
Priyanka Chhabra/India 2013/00:17:00/United Kingdom premiere
Wrapped in long afternoon siestas or stuck in an abandoned house, lie endless pockets of time. Bright white walls carrying the shadows of pink bougainvillea overlook desolate community parks. They say, the hotter the summer, the sweeter the mangoes.
A self-taught artist, she secretly pursues her work as an illustrator, based in Delhi
http://fatredbook.blogspot.in/p/blog-page.html
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 4.05pm – 4.22pm
Friday: 1.05pm -1.22pm
Saturday: 3.10pm – 3.27pm
AN ORDINARY COLOR
Nicky Miller/Belgium 2012/00:06:08/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere
This the walk of a character who is digging a hole of fire in a natural landscape.
The hole fillfulled by ashes of fire is reminding the death of people calling her with enigmatic voices.
The walk in the natural landscape reminding a meditative behaviour supported by the soundtrack.
Biography/Filmography:
VIDEOS WORKS :
2013 /view 2013
Café Central Brussels (B)
2012 / An Ordinary Color
Openscreen cinéma Nova 2012
http://cargocollective.com/nickymiller
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 10.50am -10.56am Saturday: 5.10pm – 5.15pm
CONSERVATORY
Stephen Broomer/Canada 2013/00:03:32/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere, European premiere
Stamens and pistils are lit in rapid succession behind the dome of the Palm House at Allan Gardens in Toronto. The plants trade colour, making alien scenes in the conservatory. Solid forms, too near to the eye, become muddied and indistinct, in constant passage, but the dome and the grid are fixed.
http://www.vimeo.com/sbroomer/
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 11.40am – 11.43am
Saturday: 4.30pm – 4.33pm
CRY ON ME – THE DEAD MAN’S WALTZ
Leighton Jones & Johnny Barrington/United Kingdom 2011/00:05:12/
Caught in a sinister love triangle and ensnared by his nightmares, a man is chased through a lucid dream by the reality of his own fears and anxieties. This video was made for folk-noir band ‘The Dead Man’s Waltz’.
The Dead Man’s Waltz merges film-noir with Hebridean fatalism, blurring the boundaries between the sub-conscious and reality, set against a dark and stormy backdrop on the Isle of Skye. The song was written by Hector Macinnes and performed by ‘The Dead Man’s Waltz’.
See the band website here: www.thedeadmanswaltz.com
http://www.leightonjones.org.uk
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 5.10pm – 5.15pm Saturday: 4.50pm – 4.55pm
DEAD RECKONING
Stephen Hurrel/United Kingdom 2012/00:13:00/Not a premiere
Dead Reckoning plots an audio-visual journey through maritime environments in the North East of Scotland where sea mammals coexist with the activities of oil rigs, cruise ships and wind turbines. By combining cinematic images with an emotive soundtrack the intention is to create a new experience that highlights, or elevates, both the beauty and the conflict inherent in this kind of coexistence.
The slow, meditative quality of the film creates an immersive, and sometimes disorientating, effect for the viewer. The interplay between visuals and soundtrack could be describes as creating a dream-like quality.
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 4.30pm – 4.43pm
Saturday: 11.25am – 11.38am
Sunday: 4.45pm – 4.48pm
DREAMLAND
Simon Ripoll-Hurier/France 2013/00:28:27/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere
On november 10th, 2012, ten musicians enter a studio at La Courneuve. They set up their equipment, plug the microphones, do the soundcheck, eat, drink, and fall asleep. During the night, one of the musicians has a dream. At dawn, he tells it to the others. They have to perform and record this dream, up to the dusk.
http://www.simonripollhurier.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 11.50am – 12.19pm
Sunday: 3.25pm – 3.53pm
END-TIME PART 01
Myles Painter/United Kingdom 2013/00:34:04/Scottish Premiere
END-TIME Part 01 is the first part of a proposed series of films that questions the concept of ‘Apocalypse’ and how it is manifested in contemporary culture. The film takes the form of an essay documentary and investigates the relationship between socio-political events and cultural anxieties and how they reflect and inform current and past cultural practices concerned with an apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic subject matter. The film also addresses the relationship between the space of the city and that of the natural world and their utopian and/or dystopian representations in literature and Blockbuster Hollywood movies.
http://mylespainter.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 3.25pm – 3.59pm
Saturday: 12.10pm – 12.44pm
EXPERIMENTS IN BUOYANCY
Calum Walter/United States 2013/00:04:30/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere
Experiments in Buoyancy explores the incommensurate, and the tendency of both the living and the inanimate to submit to gravity. All images were filmed digitally, printed frame by frame onto paper and then re-photographed/animated. The piece fuses digital and analog technologies to create a unique hybrid of organic and electronic decay.
http://www.calumwalter.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 2.05pm – 2.09pm
Friday: 5.30pm – 3.34pm
Saturday: 11.50am -11.55am
FISHCAKES & COCAINE
Alex Nevill/United Kingdom 2013/00:25:31/Not a premiere
Revolving around four unorthodox inhabitants of an isolated Hebridean peninsula, this documentary affords an insight into off-grid being, exploring the peculiarities of living in a harsh natural environment while intimately delving into dwellings nestled around scraggy Scoraig. Our characters reveal themselves through poetry, dream contemplation, reflections on love and memories of distant family as we peer into the cozy hearths. Through the juxtaposition of their intricate daily chores and vast hostile landscape we build an affinity with these people, glimpsing a deep desire for isolation and distance from contemporary society among the halcyon geographical community.
http://www.alexnevill.co.uk
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 11.10am – 11.36am
Saturday: 5.30pm – 5.55pm
FORÊT D’EXPÉRIMENTATION
Michaela Grill/Austria 2012/00:22:00/Scottish Premiere
FORÊT D’EXPÉRIMENTATION – the experimental forest, the name of a place, a title, and a statement of intent. The first step into this forest is represented as a black-and-white silhouette, branches against a background of clouds moving rapidly across the sky, with a modulating soundtrack that records and further develops nature’s sounds. A picture, whose aesthetic excess takes up well-known references to landscape paintings and photography, as well as genre cinema.
But as soon as one penetrates deeper into the forest, the visual and tonal register changes, the view moves ever closer to the landscape’s pre-civilizational elements; vegetation, water, and wildlife. Attention turns to details, rhythm; to subtle and also surprising changes and movements. Nature’s enigmatic aspect moves to the forefront and the viewer is captivated by formal beauty, by pictures, which must first be decoded in their visual alienation and play of various size relations.
The borders between nature and landscape, handed down forms of representation and playful experiment, the abstract and figurative are dealt with in the mode of a fascinating and simultaneously exploratory awareness. The processing of well-known visual and tonal alphabets produces an entirely unique, idiosyncratic cinematic experience.
The view remains in motion, there is constantly something new to see, hear, and discover. In the end, the circle closes with a sight that could again be taken from a classical painting or a feature film. Different levels of awareness overlap, penetrate, and influence one another. The experiment is in the search for a form of depiction, and also the view—from the landscape to nature and back again.
(Barbara Pichler)
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 12pm – 12.22pm
Saturday: 10am – 10.22am
Sunday: 4.20pm -4.42pm
GLIMPSE OF THE MATTER
James Kelly/Ireland 2010/00:08:55/Scottish Premiere
The timeless activity of working the land by hand, for apparently meagre reward, is played out in farmland, used from the Neolithic period to the present. This is one of a series of works in which attempts are made to access, perhaps impossibly, a fleetingly objective view of the stuff-of-the-land itself, through ritualised or absurd acts, as an alternative to regarding it as some kind of problematic resource. Physical labour, with strenuous effort, become key in silencing rational thought to pass beyond the mind of the agricult.
http://www.jamespskelly.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 12.55pm – 1.04pm
Saturday: 4.15pm – 4.24pm
HERMENEUTICS
Alexei Dmitriev/Russia 2012/00:03:15/Scottish Premiere
A war film.
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 5.05pm – 5.09pm
Saturday: 4pm – 4.04pm
HÔTEL 54
Sandrine Deumier and Philippe Lamy/France 2013/00:15:43/World premiere
Film of experimental movie and sound poetry, « Hotel 54 « is built as a passionate closed door where notions of absolute love and drives warriors display in a kind of tragic eroticism.
Sandrine Deumier (Mixed media / E-poetry)
French author, filmmaker and performer. Of her double philosophic and artistic formation, Sandrine Deumier builds a protean poetic work centered on the question of the technological transfers and the performative place of the poetry through the new technologies. Using the material of the word as image and the image as vector of the word, she develops a work in the junction of the video medium and the sound poetry by considering them as sensitive devices to express a shape of unconscious material of the one. Her work consists essentially in poetic texts, videopoetries, multimedia installations and audiovisual poetic performances in association with sound composers. She presents her work since 2007 in international digital art Festivals and joins the “Collectif jeune Cinéma” of Paris in 2011.
http://sandrinedeumier.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 1.45pm – 2.01pm
Friday: 5.10pm – 5.26pm
Saturday: 11.05am -11.20am
I FEEL YOU
Ulf Kristiansen/Norway 2012/00:05:16/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere
A chilling poetic tale about obsession, horror and death. The goat is “the storyteller” in the great tradition of the Canterbury Tales, The Decameron and all the romances that have narrators, like Tristan and Isolde. It is a complex integration of those old traditions, linked to modern times when movies began, and brought into the 20th century with animation. Michael Chang´s gentle voice is a contrast to the sense of suspense and horror of the damsel being stalked by the villain.
http://ulfkristiansen.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 5.20pm – 5.25pm
Saturday: 1.50pm-1.56pm
ISLE OF LOX “ELECTRIC FRUITS”
Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub/Germany 2010/00:03:46/Scottish Premiere
A girl and “The Reflektor“ are washed ashore a beach. Strangely attracted by “The Flags” and uncanny sounds, she starts exploring the island she stranded on. When she picks The Fruits“ from “The Tree“ of sound she is instantly transposed to a mysterious house = “The Transformer“. This is when she becomes aware of her transformation: she is now the keeper of the sound crown, she has become the fruits electric girl.
About „THE ELECTRIC FRUITS“
“In the beginning was Sound” -Lending iconography from Greek mythology (Aphrodite’s birth from oceanic foam), the Christian bible (Eve and the forbidden apple) and Grimm’s fairy tales (Hänsel & Gretel), “The Fruits Electric” is audiovisual quest for the primordial origin of sound.
Biography/Filmography:
„Isle of Lox“ is a video series Project created by Leyla Rodriguez & Cristian Straub.
BIO
LEYLA RODRIGUEZ Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1985 emigration to Germany. 1998-2005 Studies at the HAW University Of Applied Sciences Hamburg.
CRISTIAN STRAUB Born in Bucharest, Romania. 1987 emigration To Germany. 2000-2007 Film Studies (Diploma) At Hamburg Arts School in the class of R. Neumann and W. Wenders.
http://.www.leylarodriguez.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 5.35pm -5.42pm
Saturday: 3.40-3.47pm
LIGHTS IN THE NORTH
Eleanor Kathleen Grootoonk & Matthijs Herder/Sweden 2012/00:13:25/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere
LOGLINE: “At the end of the world, there lives an entity that lights a candle for every passing soul. The souls display their gratitude by lighting up the skies in the north. An alchemist captures the lights and tries to distil the life elixir from them.”
This short-film is a modern fairy tale, a mixture of mythology, history, a glimmer of science and the film-makers own personal experience in Swedish Laplap about the Northern Lights. Leading characters are the elements of nature, that confront the viewer with his own mortality.
http://www.eleanorsdistillery.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 4.45pm – 4.58pm
Saturday: 2pm – 2.13pm
LUSTER
Rachel Lane/United States 2013/00:03:22/World premiere
Luster explores storytelling through the landscape of memory. Specificity in fragments acting as triggers for remembrance engage with gesture and object manipulation to create content and unfold a non sequitur narrative. Luster is an exploration of psychological environment and the process of searching.
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 12.50pm – 12.53pm
Sunday: 4pm – 4.04pm
MARKINGS 1-3
Eva Kolcze/Canada 2011/00:07:00/European premiere
An tactile journey in three parts.
Markings 1-3 is an attempt to connect with nature through the surface of celluloid, using such techniques as tinting, toning, painting and scratching.
This film was shot and hand processed at the Independent Imaging Retreat (The Film Farm) in Mount Forest Ontario.
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 3.15pm – 3.22pm
Saturday: 12pm – 12.07pm
NATURE HOUSE INC.
Nick Jordan/United Kingdom 2013/00:06:12/Scottish Premiere
A short film which centres upon the proliferation of bird houses, erected to attract the Purple Martin – ‘America’s Most Wanted Bird’. The extraordinary abundance of man-made habitats reflects a desire to live in close proximity to nature, in a suburban, small town setting.
*please note there is a reveal in the film at around 4.10 mins.
http://www.nickjordan.info
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 2.15pm – 2.21pm
Friday: 5.35pm – 5.42pm
Saturday: 4.05pm – 4.11pm
NIAGARA’S FURY
Benjamin R. Taylor/Canada 2013/00:26:27/Not a premiere
Niagara’s Fury is a photographic documentary that explores the city that has grown up around the world’s most famous waterfalls. A series of intricately composed tableaux examines eerily empty monuments to tourism, entertainment and consumption. The film ponders over the confusion and absurdity of mankind’s icons and why the falls might be so furious.
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 1.15pm – 1.42pm
Friday: 5.15pm – 5.41pm
Saturday: 12.55pm – 1.21pm
NOWHERE AND EVERYWHERE
Giorgi Mrevlishvili/Georgia 2011/00:06:17/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere, European premiere
A man tries to untie the rope tied to him…
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 5.45pm – 5.51pm
Saturday: 5.20pm – 5.27pm
SALT
Martha Jurksaitis/United Kingdom 2013/00:07:48/European premiere
A vision of women enjoying the sea in Saltburn in North East Yorkshire becomes a celebration of the material nature of film. The silver salts in film that react to light also react to the metallic salts in film toners, and a multi-coloured seascape emerges from the salt of the sea. Filmed on a part of the beach that was once notorious for shipwrecks, Salt is a love letter to film and to the churning, crashing, passionate sea.
http://cherrykino.blogspot.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Saturday: 1.35pm – 1.43pm
SAVAGE WITCHES
Daniel Fawcett & Clara Pais/United Kingdom 2012/00:70:00/Scottish Premiere
Savage Witches is a playful, poetic and experimental film about two teenage girls who want nothing but to play games, dress up and have adventures, but when they find themselves in conflict with the world around them they set out to transform it and break free! The film attempts to satisfy all their wishes for freedom. They are aided by a magic key, which unlocks the film allowing process to mix with its creation, artifice and reality to intermingle. But when Gretchen and Margarita are confronted with reality, it becomes clear that there is a vast gap between what they say they want and what they really want. Once the game has been set in motion they are swept along by the film’s momentum and must see it through to the end.
Savage Witches is a colourful collage of sounds and images that has been created using all manner of processes and formats from VHS and Super 8 to drawn animation and hand-coloured frames, resulting in a bold and expressionistic exploration of the
art of cinema.
http://theundergroundfilmstudio.co.uk/
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 3.15pm-4.25pm
Sunday: 10am – 11.10am
SILVA SHADE
Martha Jurksaitis/United Kingdom 2013/00:04:17/World premiere
A dream in a Finnish Forest.
Processed using my unique eco method of making a colour Super 8 film, as an attempt to respect the amazing environment I was in while making the film.
‘Something draws me to you.
A berried whisper,
soft tongue of pine,
the promise of a bed of needles
to while away some time
in your luscious silva shade,
filling myself up with your
strong steady scent
that strengthens my muscles,
stretches my spine.
A cool woody balm
for such a boiling heart.’
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Saturday: 1.25pm – 1.29pm
Sunday: 4.15pm – 4.19pm
SLEEP VESSEL
Ben Skea/United Kingdom 2013/00:02:43/World premiere
Sleep Vessel (Ben Skea, 2013, animation, 2’43″) attempts to explore and understand the three core processes of memory (encoding, storage and recall) by way of hand-drawn animation. Abstracted constructs, reassembled from ‘automatic drawings’ created before and after sleep, take form as separate parts – evolving from one state to another. Organic line vessels become glowing containers for fluid movement – transformative shapes and cyclic actions reinforcing themes of stored impulses, muscle memory and lucid dreaming. These loops are finally broken when the process of retrieval begins – rapid stop motion drawings are juxtaposed with photography and mixed media collage representing the human form as it wakes from sleep.
http://benskea.com/
Venue: As an installation in CROWN BUILDINGS and in the DREAMING ROOM, Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: Free or £4 (for the Dreaming Room screenings, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 4.25pm – 4.28pm
SPECIES DYSPHORIA
Ted Whitaker/New Zealand 2013/00:07:46/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere, European premiere
Fractured across the Pacific Ocean, New Zealand sits geographically isolated. Internet media is a primary source to inhale a vast array of sub-cultures, sourced and inspired by the media heavy California coast.
Species Dysphoria uses surfing as a vehicle to identify a New Zealand subculture derived by a ‘Malibu’ surfing ideology. This subculture adopts and mimics the characteristics of a Malibu lifestyle although slightly contradistinctive. The dream state is juxtaposed ambiguously as the film cuts between California and New Zealand. Species Dysphoria interrogates this notion of culture identity and the geographical isolation of New Zealand.
http://tedwhitaker.wordpress.com/
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 12.40pm – 12.47pm
Friday: 10.40am -10.47am
Saturday: 11.40am – 11.48am
THE FLIGHT OF TIME
Carl Henrik Svenstedt/Sweden 2013/00:13:11/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere
It’s winter, a man drives through a nocturnal, rural landscape: His both distant and present dreamlike state of mind and time. Guided by his inner voice and the beat of the music, the car and the surroundings merge. The winter sticks along the road reflect the headlights, with each moan from the engine he’s getting closer; closer to the city, closer to himself.
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 12.25pm – 12.38pm
Friday: 4.30pm – 4-44pm
Saturday: 10.25am -10.38am
THE HANDEYE (BONE GHOSTS)
Anja Dornieden & Juan David Gonzalez Monroy/Germany 2013/00:07:10/Not a premiere
A distinguished flea hypnotizes the ghost of a distinguished man.
http://www.ojoboca.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 5.45pm – 5.52pm
Sunday: 4.05pm – 4.12pm
THE REALIST
Scott Stark/United States 2013/00:36:00/Scottish Premiere
The Realist is an experimental and highly abstracted melodrama, a “doomed love story” storyboarded with flickering still photographs, peopled with department store mannequins, and located in the visually heightened universe of clothing displays, fashion islands and storefront windows.
http://www.scottstark.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Friday: 10am – 10.36am
Sunday: 11.15am – 11.51am
THEODOSIA
Ruth Maclennan/United Kingdom 2013/00:20:00/Scottish Premiere
In Maclennan’s film, Theodosia, a visitor journeys through the mountainous countryside and seaside towns of Crimea. The voices of poets, artists, exiled and repatriated Crimeans, holidaymakers and visitors, are interspersed with the ruminations of a contemporary observer. The words and images flow together and apart, gathering associations, rupturing expectations, or reflecting each others’ worlds. The film reflects on relations between people and the earth on which they walk, and the physical and emotional conditions of exile. It also questions the camera itself, the relationship it creates between viewers and viewed, and the illusion of the image as a reliable document.
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 12.50pm – 1.10pm
Friday: 4.50pm – 5.10pm
Saturday: 10.40am – 11am
TIME LIKE WATER
Thorbjorg Jonsdottir/Iceland 2013/00:07:00/European premiere
Shot on 16mm film over the course of three years, this film documents various hiking trips taken alone in the highlands of my native country Iceland. The film explores the boundaries of individual and personal space, versus the open spaces of nature, which belongs to no one. A meditative look at the landscapes of my home and an attempt to come to terms with a single being as a part of that landscape.
http://www.thorbjorg.jonsdottir.com
Venue: Second Floor, Tower Mill – Heart of Hawick
Tickets: £4 (for the Dreaming Room, per day. Or free with a ticket to another screening that day)
Screening times: Thursday: 5.35pm -5.42pm
Saturday: 3.40-3.47pm
WATER WASHING THROUGH BONES
Laura Marie Wayne/Cuba 2013/00:11:22/Scottish Premiere, United Kingdom premiere, European premiere