Conversations with a Forest - BOOK LAUNCH

Conversations With A Forest Book Launch

Moving Image Makers Collective are delighted to invite you to the launch of their first book "Conversations With A Forest," complementing their Creative Scotland funded and Alchemy Film & Arts supported Moving Image Installation project of the same name in September 2021.

Contents include words and images about the 10 installations and 3 commissioned essays by:

Gareth Evans - London based writer, editor, film and event producer and Whitechapel Gallery’s Adjunct Moving Image Curator.

Marcus jack - Curator, writer and art historian based in Glasgow, founding editor of DOWSER and recently completed a doctoral thesis on the history of artists’ moving image in Scotland since 1970.

Amy Cutler - live cinema artist, geographer, filmmaker, musician and curator based in London. Cutler did a Leverhulme ECR fellowship on British forests and also runs the internationally touring ensemble live cinema show NATURE’S NICKELODEONS.

Join us at Unit Four: Cornucopia in Hawick to celebrate the project finale in person with nibbles and refreshments with freshly published book available to purchase. Cornucopia also has a wonderful range of books in stock too.

We will also be watching work in progress from MIMC members between 20:00 and 21:00 so you are warmly welcome to join us to find out who MIMC are, what we do and to watch some films! Of course, we'd love to see anything you have been working on and are happy to share.