No, it’s not the after gig drinks of a Culture Club Tribute Band. It’s the post premiere toasting of the film Handsworth Songs, now universally acclaimed as a documentary classic, after its world premiering in the Birmingham Film Festival in 1986 at The Triangle Media Centre (R.I.P.). Yes, that’s the director, John Akomfrah, grinning madly, … [Read more…]
Grabbed from the VIVID site because they don’t have a linkable archive for this stuff yet. Singlescreen: Performance On 27 February 2008 VIVID opens Singlescreen: Performance, the pilot programme towards a new strand which focuses on presenting contemporary moving image work for screen. Performance is a changing programme of single screen installations which features seminal … [Read more…]
One of the criteria for an event to make it onto this blog (as opposed to my personal hopelessly prejudiced gig guide) is that it looks to be rather strange and unique. This, sent in by Nic Bullen of Monium, just about fits that bill. Experimental image meets live sound in an exploration of representation … [Read more…]
Last year Screen West Midlands got a £4m Media Production Fund. Rather that throw the money around at naked champaign parties they’re meeting with local film and media companies to see how it might benefit them in a series of roadshows this month. Here’s the schedule: * Tuesday 19 February, 3pm – Warwick Arts Centre, … [Read more…]
Combining the arts of the rock video and the avant-naivety of post-art cinema with the spirit of “Whey-hey! holiday!” MySpace presence.
The Monosin Short Film Festival takes place at the Mono bar in the Arcadian centre on Tuesday 11th March. There’s no website I can find but piecing together various bits from around the web gives a good idea of where it’s coming from. This BBC article about last year’s event explains where the organiser, Tamsin … [Read more…]
Here’s an odd one. Tomb Raider: Ascension is a fan film for the video game franchise of the same name. Such things are not unusual but this one came out of the West Midlands. Filmed in 7 days with a budget of £10,000 it was directed by Steven Reynolds with support from local production company … [Read more…]
[Update: My mistake – it’s running until Feb 29th.] Model Cities was a neat sounding exhibition currently on at M.A.D.E. of photos from the Model Buildings project run by Stans Cafe at St Albans School last year before it was rebuilt. The children were encouraged to imagine “that small details of the old school were … [Read more…]