The next Creative Networks event is Land of Promise: BFI National Archive on Thursday 29th January – From 6.00pm until 10.00pm at tic at Millennium Point. This month’s guest speaker is Jan Faull, Archive Producer at the British Film Institute (BFI) who will introduce and explore highlights from key documentary projects made possible through the BFI National … [Read more…]
One of the best events I went to last year was Kala Phool’s Mother India: 21st Century Remix – a live re-scoring of the Bollywood classic that blew me away. I’ve wittered on about it on my blog. I was really pleased to hear that the musicians will be in the studio (in Birmingham) next … [Read more…]
A couple of events from VIVID: INSPIRATIONS (Sat 07 Feb 2009) invites five UK based individuals who have played a major role in the critical, artistic and curatorial development of moving image, to select one moving image work that has made a significant impact on their own practice. VIVID is delighted to announce 2009 selectors … [Read more…]
Flatpack 2009 will launch at Town Hall on 11 March with ‘Curzonora’, a show featuring ‘musical whirlwind’ The Destroyers and celebrating Mr Jeffs’ legacy and that of 1900s film-shows in general. Here’s the poster: The Mr Jeffs referred to is film showman, and patron saint of Flatpack 3, Waller Jeffs who, from 1901 to 1912: … [Read more…]
Faintheart, the user-generated film that Screen WM had a hand in bringing through, will be shown free of charge in 150 cinemas and on MySpace on 27 Jan 09 with a DVD release a week later. The locations for the screenings will be decided by visitors going to the Faintheat MySpace page and putting their … [Read more…]
They don’t seem to try advertising the fact (except for on a poster outside – see shoddy pic below), but The Plough in Harborne shows films every Sunday night. Entry is free, as is the popcorn. Tonight they’ve got Wanted and Hancock. I’ve no idea what they’ll be showing in future weeks but if you … [Read more…]
Well hit me with a spanner and call me Susan – the Birmingham International Film Society finally have a website (heck knows I for one have been waiting long enough). This pleases me, especially as it’s a pretty nice one too: Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth or anything, but an … [Read more…]
7 Inch Cinema are coming to the end of their current season and will be back in the new year (and with the Flatpack Festival in March). Here’s their most recent newsletter with info about their final event of the year and suggestions of other things to do in the meantime. You can sign up … [Read more…]