Francesca’s Key
Pogus Caesar‘s new film Francesca’s Key gets a free public showing at the Library Theatre tomorrow (Thursday). There’s a nice article about it here and you should certainly check out the rest of Caesar’s work. via BiNS
Film
The Apology Line
The Apology Line is a short film made in Birmingham that was recently shown at a 7 Inch Cinema event. Based around messages left on a special phone number the stories are juxtaposed with beautiful yet mildly creepy surveillance-style footage of the city at night. There’s an edited version on YouTube. It also showed at … [Read more…]
Ikon Eastside closing party
Ooh, this looks rather smart. The closing party for the Ikon Gallery‘s Eastside residency sees, amongst much else, Broadcast playing. Broadcast in a warehouse! That pleases me for some reason. Facebook event page. via Prime Objective who I’d link to all the time if he had permalinks.
Notes from the Flip Press Launch
This morning was the press launch for the Flip Animation Festival, taking place at Light House, Wolverhamton, from November 1st – 3rd. I was there, so I guess I’m “press” these days. The launch was introduced by Dave Harte of Digital Central with a few of his obligatory stats (apparently the West Mids has 30% … [Read more…]
Written on the Body reviewed
Rich Batsford blogs about the Written on the Body preview last night of Leon Trimble and Lisa Wetton’s Planetarium-specific art film. It was a quite wonderful thing, playing both with the format and the technology. I was particularly impressed with Leon’s array of six CCTV cameras (five around, one up) which the dancers performed over, … [Read more…]
Dance where the stars were
Bit late notice this, but if you’re in the vicinity of Millennium Point this evening at 7pm do pop into the ThinkTank’s Planetarium for a preview screening of film maker Leon Trimble and dancer Lisa Wetton’s work in progress screen dance film Written on the Body. (There are talks at 7.00 and the film starts … [Read more…]
7inch listings
I’ve been thinking of doing a quick roundup of the very many things happening this month but it’s a mammoth task and I fear it. Thankfully the 7inch Cinema listing is up covering the film stuff you’d expect and a bunch more to boot. So that’ll do for now.
Big Screen YouTube group
The BBC Big Screen, which, after a short break, will be reconstructed in Victoria Square, is harnesing the power of YouTube in a wide search for submissions. This is your opportunity to get your film seen in the centre of Birmingham. Your film can be about anything….drama, documentary, animation, experimental, anything….as long as it is … [Read more…]