Five years a haven for moving-image artists and their work in the Scottish Borders, the Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival this year mounted installations and performances everywhere from a textile mill to a storage warehouse and a converted business centre.

In the Scottish Borders, amongst the rolling countryside of the valley of the Teviot, equidistant from Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne, the town of Hawick (pronounced Hoick) plays host to the annual Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, now in its fifth year. Originally a collaboration between Alchemy Film & Arts, Heart of Hawick and Creative Arts Business Network (CABN), the festival brings local and international experimental film and artists’ movies together in the town’s main cinema hub as well as at an assortment of venues and spaces beyond.

16-19 April 2015, Hawick, UK. Article by Harriet Warman, 27 April 2015