Harold Chapman has a new story headlining in “The Arbuturian”. “No Foreign Lands” is a review of the new Peter Doig exhibition of the same name showing at the National Gallery of Scotland. Billed as something of a homecoming for Doig, this is the first major retrospective in the country of his birth. It is full of mystery and the dream-like capacity of the imagination…
Harold Chapman has just returned from the Apolonia International Film Festival in Albania where he was guest of the festival for a week. As well as screening his short doc “Sweep”, he was given a taste of Albanian hospitality and culture which included consuming ‘friendly’ quantities of their local 50% proof schnapps, pirouetting techniques in Albanian dancing, swims in the Adriatic and Ionian seas and a memorable visit to the ruins of the ancient Hellenic city of Apolonia.