Les Vestiges, a film by Rebecca Birch and Sarah Casey is screened at Robert Burns Centre Dumfries as part of Alluvium, a programme of three films related to rivers curated by Campleline gallery for Nithraid 2025.

"Alluvium is a programme of three artist films presented by CAMPLE LINE for Nithraid 2025, responding to the festival’s celebration of Dumfries’ river heritage and the River Nith as an important historic trading route. Screening at the Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, located on the river’s edge, the programme brings together works that explore the interconnections between glacial and river systems and the social, historical, and environmental stories they hold.

Taking its name from the term alluvium—the clay, silt, sand, and gravel deposited by running water—the programme expands the definition to consider the wider materials, remnants, and memories carried by rivers and glaciers. These natural flows become both subject and metaphor, guiding a loose journey from source to sea, across geographies including the Scottish Borders, the Swiss Alps, and the Jamaican coastline.

The three short films—Les Vestiges (Rebecca Birch & Sarah Casey, 2024), The Wool Aliens (Julia Parks, 2023), and a river holds a perfect memory (Hope Strickland, 2024)—each engage with the material, archival, and affective dimensions of water. Collectively, they highlight how waterways preserve and transform histories of labour, industry, colonialism, migration, and environmental change. Shot across 16mm film, digital video and archival material, the works reveal glacial and river systems as both elemental forces and living archives.

The programme runs continuously from 12–5pm, looping on the hour (final loop begins at 4pm) " Campleline