2Weeks 2Make It is a music video competition pairing randomly drawn teams of filmmakers and musical artists who then have exactly 2 weeks to shoot and edit a music video from scratch! The West Mids version of 2Weeks 2Make It is back again. There were some great entries to the last one. If you want to … [Read more…]
Over the past few months a group of people have been taking part in MOB: MOB is a project inspired by the current craze of ‘flash mobbing’ where seemingly unplanned ‘happenings’ take place involving hundreds of children, young people and adults. MOB is about creating new ‘disturbances’ that help share the values of the Olympics … [Read more…]
SHOUT Festival, the UK’s leading arts festival celebrating queer culture, have put out a call for short films to be screened during this year’s festivities. The competition is open to all, irrespective of sexual orientation, should be no longer than 20 mins, and completed in 2009 or later. While any theme or topic can be … [Read more…]
The second UK Fulldome Film Festival will take place on Sat 12 & Sun 13 March at the Thinktank Planetarium. The festival examines fulldome as an artistic media, and highlights ‘the creative and experimental applications of immersive environments, beyond the realm of astronomy education most commonly associated with digital planetariums today’. They’ve got a pretty … [Read more…]
On 3 March, two films by Creative Leap artists will be screened from 5.30pm – 7pm at Ward End Library. The Door by Benjamin Pinnock – a live action and animation drama short set in Erdington and Aston shown through the eyes of a lead character who discovers he has the ability to alter time. … [Read more…]
Screen West Midlands are hosting City As A Platform, at Aston University Business School and Conference Centre this Thursday, 17 Feb. In an era of public sector cuts and greater emphasis on local engagement, what happens when a city opens out its public infrastructure, technologies, data and buildings to digital media content developers? The event … [Read more…]
Juliette Blightman: A Year With No Head opens with a preview on 23 February at International Project Space from 5-7pm, and is ongoing until 2 April. Working with film, performance and installation, the exhibition features a newly commissioned installation, which centres on a large-scale drawing, where the artist sketches out remembered images from her previous … [Read more…]
This morning I attended a meeting about the BBC Big Screen ‘Live Sites’. The idea was that we’d have an opportunity to discuss with Arts Council and the gathered digital, media and cultural organisations how to use Birmingham’s Big Screen – currently situated in Victoria Square – in the lead up to the 2012 Olympic Games. … [Read more…]