ALCHEMY FILM FESTIVAL: Ettrick, Jacques Perconte

Presented by: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival

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0	HAWICK: Tower Mill
P	Sunday 17th April, 2016
N	4:45pm

Event information

Jacques Perconte will be present for a Q&A at the screening.

Made over the course of several visits to the Scottish Borders by the French artist filmmaker Jacques Perconte, Ettrick interrogates a unique heritage: sheep farming, fabrics, the woollen mill tradition and unique landscapes are all rendered in an impressionistic arc of colour and movement. The path the film drives leads to the heart of the Ettrick Forest, a dive into a textile world. A land where people and machinery in nature deal with a complex relationship that draws their future. Slipping through poetry, between the brutality of matter and the sublime landscape. Ettrick is penetrating vision that embodies the stability of deep desire to live in peace. Spectators are aware of the impotence of our movements, and we know that nature will find its way.