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Live Events
Shorts
A Dublin collective take over
Short
buildings
Anime flights of fancy ( p.33),
a Digbeth warehouse (p.19)
(p.13,26) and puppets (p.25,31),
visionary claymation ( p.25),
while a French artist sits in
animation ( p.26 ), super 8
Irish folk-tales ( p.21),
the library making text appear
( p.9) and experimental work
‘cartoons in 3-D’ from
from nowhere (p.8) and a jazz
(p.31,33), and guest selections
George Pal ( p.31) and shorts
trio resurrect a 1927 classic
from London (p.13), Glasgow
galore (eg p.26 ).
in a church ( p.7 ). Zappa
(p.17) and Dublin (p.26).
films
Animation about
jazz meets plasticine (p.29), Buster Keaton with live piano (p.8 and 27), masked rituals (p.10), a-v performance (p.32) and haunted audio from Ghost Box records (p.35).
Features
in
the
deep
the
Te h r a n
the Alberta tar sands (p.13),
black metal scene ( p.11) and
movie-going in Burkina Faso, the
Western Sahara (p.17). Plus new
cold war according to Hitchcock
films featuring Mogwai (p.28),
and Bill Douglas’ passion for
Stephen Duffy (p.33), Joanna
zoetropes (all p.27).
Newsom (p.32) Delia Derbyshire
section which includes a Dr
of fantasy and filth (p.14), a post-punk Aussie classic (p.18), Greek psycho-drama (p.29), a domestic gangster flick (p.16), the latest gem from Andrew Bujalski (p.34) forces
in
Patagonia (p.34).
The new name for our family
S o u t h ( p. 28), a d o u ble -bill
demonic
from
underground ( p.9), Norway’s
Colour Box
New Orleans (p.29), fun with
and
Ta l e s
Domestic bliss in Finland (p.17),
(p.32) and Gruf f Rhys in
Nic Cage on the rampage in wheelie-bins
Music films
Documentaries
(p.25), magic lantern shows
a
Archive
Seuss classic, a workshop
An
from one of the people
literary Birmingham (p.10), a
behind OOglies, the Oscar-
Jessie Matthews musical (p.14),
nominated
Kells
rare footage of the Electric
and a bundle of short films
(p.32) and a trip to Coventry
from around the world (p.20-
in the early 80s (p.34).
Secret
of
Odeon
bus
tour
(p.24),
21). Kids may well also enjoy
Mexican convent (p.18).
Puppetoons (p.31) and The Cameraman (p.25).
Talks & Workshops Insights into puppet-mastery
Artists film
( p . 2 6 ) , p l a g i a r i s m ( p .1 5 ) ,
Dazzling structural filmmaking
and animating vegetables
from North America (p.31) and
(p.21), Special guests include
Japan ( p.33) . New f ilms by
David Lodge (p.10) and Juliet
Apichatpong W e e r a s e t h a k u l
Gardiner (p.32).
pitching documentaries (p.6)
( p . 31) , a n d the UK premiere of Redmond Entwistle’s Monuments (p.16).
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Hello, and welcome. As the organist glides gracefully back beneath the floor, the stage is set for the fourth Flatpack Festival. Slightly later in March this time and running for one extra day, but the basic aim remains the same: to roam the wild frontiers of film, to find as much original and enjoyable work as possible, and then to put it on in venues around Birmingham. If you don’t have the time to visit festivals devoted to animation, documentary, music on film, experimental cinema and kids movies, then six days at Flatpack is a pretty good subsititute. That’s only the half of it however. Flatpack is not just about sitting in the dark, but also exploring the connections between film and other artforms and celebrating film-going as an event in itself. That’s why we’re very happy to have special guests like Julien Maire and Synth Eastwood, and that’s also why we have chosen Oscar Deutsch as our patron saint this year; someone who saw the social importance as well as the commercial potential of film, and built a string of modernist temples in its honour. The Odeon of today may be battling to preserve an old business model, but the appetite for unique film experiences is as strong as ever.
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THE ENGINE ROOM PITCH WORKSHOP
SCREENING ARTISTS’ MOVING IMAGE
Persented by Sheffield Doc/Fest
A professional training day for film exhibitors
23 and 24 March
The Bond, Fazeley St, Digbeth
Friday 26 March
The Bond, Fazeley St, Digbeth
10.30am-5.30pm
Price: £30 (Includes lunch)
10.30am-5.30pm
Price: £30 (Includes lunch)
An intensive two-day proposal development and pitching
Want to add variety to your film programme but feel short
workshop to help you prepare your factual project for UK and
on inspiration?
international funding.
Thought about showing artists’ film but don’t know where
The workshop is a high-level project development opportunity
to start?
and includes an introduction to the MeetMarket and all
The Independent Cinema Office presents a one-day course for
Marketplace activities at Doc/Fest and to wider opportunities
independent curators and staff of cinemas, festivals, galleries
in international documentary funding and markets. Delivered by
and arts organisations who want to initiate or develop a
international marketplace specialist Christina Burnett, of Wide
programme of artists’ films. The course offers an accessible
Eye Pictures, this is also a unique chance to pitch your project
and practical introduction to curating, marketing and the
and get feedback from two UK commissioners as well as Charlie
practical considerations associated with screening artists’
Philips, Doc/Fest Marketplace Producer. Commissioners from
moving image.
BBC, Channel 4, Britdoc and CBA-DFID Broadcast Media Scheme have taken part in previous workshops.
The course will be led by George Clark, curator, writer and artist, with guest speakers including Ian Francis, Programme
THE ENGINE ROOM PITCH is suitable for all levels of experience,
Director of Flatpack Festival and Matt Lloyd, Programmer of
from senior producers and directors to new entrants. You can
The Magic Lantern.
attend either as a pitcher with project, or as an observer.
This course is funded by Arts Council England and delivered in
Applicants must be West Midlands-based filmmakers. The cost
partnership with Flatpack Festival.
of the workshop is £30 for all attendees.
Travel and accommodation bursaries are available For more information see :
For further information and booking see :
www.sheffdocfest.com/view/pitchworkshops
www.independentcinemaoffice.org.uk/training
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F
eted for his mould-breaking German films, including Faust, Nosferatu and The Last Laugh, there were huge expectations
of F. W. Murnau in 1926 when he arrived in Hollywood to make
Sunrise
a feature at the new Fox studios. Over $200,000 was spent constructing a village and a city, using a combination of life-size sets and miniatures to create a sense of scale, and within this world Murnau plotted out a high-velocity melodrama of simple, rural values up against jazz-age urban sophistication. The Woman from the City, a chain-smoking femme fatale, convinces her lover to kill his wife. On the verge of doing the deed he finds himself incapable, and instead chases her into the city in a remarkable sequence shot onboard a tram.
Tuesday 23rd March
Dir: F. W. Murnau
The camera continually moves in Sunrise, whether through heavy
7.30pm
USA 1927, 79 minutes
traffic or soggy marshland, and like Orson Welles after him
St Martin’s Church, Bullring
With: George O’Brien, Janet
Murnau was prepared to try out every cinematic trick in the book
£ 10
Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
to crank up the drama and emotion. Along with the pyrotechnics there’s also a genuinely affecting love story as well as some bizarre slapstick involving a pig, and the whole experience is a good deal more thrilling than you might expect from a film labelled
Presented in association with
by French critics as “the single greatest masterwork in the
Birmingham Jazz
history of cinema.” Silent movies spawned multiple versions for dif ferent territories, and the one screening tonight is from a print recently discovered in the Czech Republic; a little shorter than the better known Movietone print, but it looks gorgeous. It will be accompanied by Alcyona Mick on piano, Jon Wygens on guitar and Geoff Hannan on violin.
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JULIEN MAIRE
-
Digit
(2006)
Demi-pas
(2002)
Wednesday 24 – Friday 26 March / 12-4pm
Friday 26 and Saturday 27 March / 6pm
3rd floor / Birmingham Library / Free
VIVID / £5
JULIEN MAIRE presents work at media
“A writer sits at a table writing a text.
Developed
arts festivals internationally and was last
Simply by sliding his fingers over a blank
work with ‘Diapositives’, Demi-pas (Half-
year nominated for the ‘World Technology
piece
appears
step) is a 20-minute film using modified
Awards’, but his art is not futuristic or
under his finger. The spectators can come
slide projectors. The slides are feats
hi-tech. It seems that the first impulse
very close to the writer and read the text
of art and engineering in themselves,
behind it is to take something apart,
following the movement of the finger. The
laser-cut
whether it be a slide projector or a video
writer remains absorbed in his task.”
objects, motors and electronic devices.
of
paper,
printed
text
camera, and then reconstruct it in a way which makes us think about the object and
from
Julien
ektachromes
Maire’s
earlier
containing
tiny
By synchronising the movements of these o julienmaire.ideenshop.net
what it shows us. He has been described
slides with subtle shifts of focus and sound, Maire performs a bewitching spin
as having a dual role of ‘puppeteer and
Digit brings the magic of cinema to the
on the magic lantern show. (See Lanterna
projectionist’, and he draws inspiration
act of writing, creating the illusion of a
Magicka on p.27 for the real thing.)
from the age of optical trickery before
direct line between thought and word.
cinema as much as from contemporary
We gratefully acknowledge the support of
mass media. We’re delighted to have him
the French Cultural Institute in making
as a guest at Flatpack, where he’ll be
Julien Maire’s visit possible.
performing two works.
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A THOUGHT. AN AFTER THOUGHT.
20-28 March Created in Birmingham shop The Bullring
An installation by David Hurley
We first came across this installation at the BIAD MA show in Margaret St last year. A fair portion of the room was occupied by mannequins whose heads had been replaced by various devices
including
projectors,
typewriters
and
televisions.
Throughout Flatpack these uncanny tableaux will be taking over the Created in Birmingham shop, a pop-up endeavour recently launched on the third floor of the Bullring centre. You can also pick up festival info, T-shirts and tickets there, and browse through some amazing images of 1930s Odeons from the
o www.forevernowhere.com
National Monuments Record.
o www.createdinbirmingham.com
STRAIGHT 8 2OO9
NO ONE KNOWS ABOUT PERSIAN CATS
Wednesday 24 March / 6.30pm
Wednesday 24 March / 6.30pm
Dir: Bahman Ghobadi
Vivid / Free entry
The Electric / £6
Iran 2009, 106 minutes
By now you probably know the drill with Straight 8. They send
Imagine
you a reel of super 8 film. You make your film, and send it back
renegades, where a copy of the NME is like the Anarchist’s
to them with a soundtrack. They process the film for you, and if
Cookbook. This is the world sketched out here by Bahman
all goes well the first time you see it is in front of an audience.
Ghobadi (Turtles Can Fly), mixing up documentary and fiction to
The rigours of this process have produced some brilliant
show how far Iranian bands will go to arrange illicit rehearsals
little films from all over the world, and the latest crop was no
and gigs. The central couple Negar and Ashkan are attempting
exception. As well as presenting the best of last year’s entries
to sort out forged visas for a European tour, and on their
Will Cummock from Straight 8 will be talking about how you can
journey through the Tehran underground we see an amazing
get involved next time.
range of acts playing everywhere from cellars to cow-sheds.
o www.straight8.net
a
world
where
indie
shoegazers
are
dangerous
With: Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad
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‘As I walked out one evening, Walking down Bristol Street, The crowds upon the pavement
’
Were fields of harvest wheat. – W. H. Auden, 1937
WALKING DOWN BRISTOL STREET :
Birmingham was buzzing with creative people during the 1930s;
Birmingham’s cultural scene in the 193Os
including W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Walter Allen. To
modernist architects, surrealist painters and a host of writers use a new-fangled phrase, what made the city such a cultural hub between the wars? Author David Lodge, producer Roger Shannon and curator Tessa Sidey (Birmingham Museum & Art
Wednesday 24 March / 6.30pm
With: David Lodge, Tessa Sidey,
Gallery) will be exploring the period, alongside a screening of
Ikon Eastside / £6
Roger Shannon
Lodge’s TV documentary As I Was Walking Down Bristol Street (dir: Jim Berrow, 1983) and beautiful amateur cine footage from
Image: Birmingham Library and Archive Services.
the time. With thanks to the Media Archive of Central England.
THE UNCLE HANS - PETER PARTY Wednesday 24 March / 8.30pm VIVID / £4 From the creators of Francis and Homo Zombies comes A LET ME FEEL YOUR FINGER FIRST EXPERIENCE that incorporates animation, masks and performance… Uncle Hans-Peter is the patriarch of the LET ME FEEL YOUR FINGER FIRST family. He’s a hunter. An operator. He enjoys tying up his nephews on hot summer afternoons. The Uncle Hans-Peter Party is a ‘live’ comic strip in which the audience don plastic masks and collectively assume the persona of Uncle Hans-Peter. All guests receive a mask and a comic. www.letmefeelyourfingerfirst.com
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UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US
Wednesday 24 March / 9pm
Dir: Aaron Aites &
Library Theatre / £4 / £3 concs
Audrey Ewell
BIRMINGHAM FILM SOCIETY REVISITED
USA 2008, 93 mins With: Varg Vikernes, Fenriz, Hellhammer, Frost
In the early 1990s a small group of black metal musicians
Wednesday 24 March / 9pm
Dir: Various
committed a slew of crimes including church-burnings and
Ikon Eastside / £6
Running time: 75 minutes approx.
murder, and for a short while the world turned its cameras on Norway. American filmmakers Aites and Ewell have spent years there making a documentary about this misunderstood world, and having immersed themselves in the subject they let the people who created this scene speak for themselves. Featuring
Birmingham
exclusive footage and candid interviews with key figures, Until
18th January 1931 at the Hampton Cinema in Livery Street,
Film
Society
had
its
inaugural
screening
on
The Light Takes Us gives a clinical insight into the roots of
offering Birmingham film-goers “the opportunity to see films of
black metal and the distorting lens of the media. Presented in
importance… which they ordinarily find difficult or impossible to
association with Birmingham International Film Society.
see.” While the 21st century version lives on at the Library Theatre (see left) this is a chance to sample some of the films which BFS
‘ A disturbing, sad, fascinating film ’ – Empire
members would have enjoyed back in the 30s; an eclectic stew including animation by Len Lye and Oskar Fischinger, pioneering documentary Housing Problems and Joris Ivens’ lyrical Rain (1929) with accompaniment by Nicholas Bullen.
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SEE ALSO...
Some other things of interest going on in Eastside during Flatpack
THE CINEMATIC
PROJECT PIGEON
EASTSTRIDE
26-28 March / 12-5pm
Friday 26 to Sunday 27 March / 12-4pm
Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March /
The Lombard Method, Lombard St
Rea Garden, Floodgate Street
12 and 3pm
From March 15th, The Lombard Method
Project Pigeon is an art, education and
Local historian Ben Waddington leads a 90-
will be holding a residency to coincide
curatorial
minute walking exploration of Eastside’s
with Flatpack weekend. This will lead to an
Lockett and Ian England which has led to
hidden
exhibition themed around The Cinematic.
them becoming pigeon-fancying artists.
recent creative developments. What is it?
Beyond simply echoing the premise of
Drop in to meet their birds, discover what
Where is it? Tours start from outside the
the festival, it is hoped that the work
makes them such amazing postmen and
Old Crown Public House on the corner of
produced will make evident some of the
pick up some info on the Project Pigeon
Digbeth High Street and Heath Mill Lane.
shared
betting syndicate and evening classes.
Places are free but limited, so pre-book
concerns
in
both
cinema
and
project
run
by
Alexandra
industrial
heritage
and
your ticket via admin@capsule.org.uk.
art, and highlight the potential of ‘the cinematic’ beyond the movie screen.
gems,
During the festival there will also be a live Pigeon Feed streaming video of the loft
o www.thelombardmethod.wordpress.com
to Flatpack HQ at VIVID. This will include close-up footage of the new squeekers (baby birds) being weaned and learning to
ARTIST TALK Saturday 27 March / 3pm
GONGOOZLER
fly, and form 23 March you’ll be able to
Friday 26 March / from 6pm
access the webcam online here:
Grand Union Studios, Fazeley St
o www.justin.tv/projectpigeon
Opening show for a new studio space
Eastside Projects, Heath Mill Lane
which backs onto the Grand Union canal, set up by a group of Birmingham artists
Internationally
renowned
Dutch
artist
and curators.
Jeanne van Heeswijk develops projects o www.grand-union.co.uk
known for their strong social involvement, often
with
communities
undergoing
considerable change. Based on the idea of Irish folk songs being re-written over time
MATT STOKES
across the Irish diaspora, van Heeswijk is directing a series of films from folk nights
Saturday 27 March / 1-3pm at VIVID
hosted by local Irish Public Houses. Also
is
VIVID presents recent moving image work
Curtain Show, inspired by German designer
ongoing
at
Eastside
Projects
by Becks Futures prize-winning artist
Lily Reich’s Silk and Velvet Café at the
Matt Stokes. Stokes’ films investigate
1927 Women’s Fashion Exhibition in Berlin.
underground movement s and music
Includes work by Tacita Dean, Douglas
scenes, particularly the way in which
Gordon, Grace Ndiritu and Ines Schaber. Open Thursday to Sunday, 12-5pm.
events contribute to a collective social Venue details at www.flatpackfestival.org
experience. This preview includes a taster for new works commissioned from Stokes
o www.eastsideprojects.org
for a solo exhibition at VIVID in 2011. o www.vivid.org.uk
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MORE FILMS ABOUT BUILDINGS
PETROPOLIS
SHORT FILM TRIPLE-BILL
Thursday 25 March / 6.15pm
Thursday 25 March / 6.30pm
Thursday 25 March / 6-10.30pm
Ikon Eastside / £6
The Electric / £6
VIVID / Free Entry
You can’t beat a bit of windswept decay
After last year’s deluge of eco-docs,
There’s a feast of free shorts at Flatpack
and there’s plenty of that in Pollphail
Petropolis
HQ tonight:
(dir: Matt Lloyd), a snapshot of a remote
approach to the campaign documentary.
Scottish village built for workers who
Greenpeace Canada wanted to make a
6pm: SHORTS ON WALLS
Take
film about the devastation of Alberta’s
An animation get-together featuring work
Only Photographs, Leave Nothing but
tar sands caused by bitumen mining. They
from across the region, put together by
Footprints (dir: Dale O’Keeffe) offers us
gave director Peter Mettler (Gambling,
Animation Forum West Midlands.
a quick peek round the Battery Building
Gods
in Selly Oak before it was demolished,
without narration or interviews, simply
8pm: SHOOTING PEOPLE
while Eva Weber’s Steel Homes is about
shooting the sands from the air in high
Some of last year’s highlights from the
the
people
definition, and the result is both majestic
Shooters Film of the Month competition,
stash their lives away. Hanasaari A (dir:
and disturbing. Showing with Half-Life
including a documentary about the World
Vartiainen/Veikkolainen)
(dir: Christopher Oakley, UK 2009, 15
Beard and Moustache Championships.
never
came.
storage
Closer
to
containers
home,
where
records
the
takes
and
LSD)
demolition of a Helsinki power plant, and
minutes),
Synchronisation (dir: Rimas Sakalauskas)
nuclear industry.
a
a
completely
free
sideways
reign
look
at
to
fresh
work
the
UK 9pm: SHORT & SWEET Ninety minutes of the finest short films,
uses CGI to release old Soviet buildings into space. We close with two time-lapse
Dir: Peter Mettler
music videos and animations from around
murals shot at FAME festival in Italy last
Canada 2009, 43 minutes
the globe, presented by London’s only
summer, one from Birmingham’s Beat 13
weekly short film evening. Features work
and the other a collaboration between Blu
by Joseph Pierce, Hattie Dalton and Laurie
and David Ellis.
Hill ( pictured ).
Dir: Various Total running time: 75 mins approx.
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EVERGREEN
Thursday 25 March / 8pm Ikon Eastside / £6
WHATEVER! A double-bill of filth and fantasy
Featuring BOY + PINK FLAMINGOS The main man behind visionary performance art electro act
Friday 26 March / 3pm
Dir: Victor Saville
SSION, last seen in these par ts suppor ting The Gossip,
The Electric / £3
UK 1934, 91 minutes Total running time: 145 mins
Cody Critcheloe is now making serious inroads into the art world with his first feature-length movie production entitled BOY. Essentially a story about love for the Courtney Love generation, BOY is a hypercoloured journey of self-
It wasn’t only MGM making musicals in the 1930s, and this
transformation in which underground gay clubs, leather-
sparkling Jessie Matthews vehicle was one of Britain’s best
clad punk bands, Shamanistic fireside rituals, and debased
efforts. Adapted from a stage show and directed and produced
celebrity worship produce the cult pop phenomenon that is the
by two old Birmingham friends of Oscar Deutsch (Victor Saville
movie’s central character, the Boy.
and Michael Balcon), it’s the fanciful tale of a young hopeful who rises to the top impersonating her mother.
Following this UK premiere is a rare outing for Pink Flamingos, John Waters’ classic 1972 tale of grossed-out oneupmanship
Before the main feature there’s Another Happy and Interesting
in which Divine valiantly attempts to win the title of Filthiest
Day (dir: David Naden, UK 1982, 52 minutes), a documentary
Person Alive. We are also pleased to announce that Birmingham
set in the same period. Using extracts from the diaries of
Drag Legend and queen Diva TWIGGY will be our MC for the
Sam Clayton, it’s a vivid portrait of a Willenhall couple who did
evening. Come for the fantasy, and stay for the filth…
their courting at movies like Evergreen.
Curated by Morgan Quaintance. Total running time: 150 minutes approx.
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In association with
The Bond / £14 / £11 concessions
Business Link West Midlands
Unpacked is the engine-room at Flatpack, a
BEEN CAUGHT STEALING
place where you get to inspect the cogs and gears
delights
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere
onscreen. Over the day a range of filmmakers
behind
all
those
glittering
that resonates with inspiration or fuels your
and artists will be dropping in to talk about
imagination.” – Jim Jarmusch
how they make work, and how they go about
Far from being just a dry legal matter, the
getting it out into the world.
debate stirred up by intellectual property seems to grow in intensity as the online
THE GREAT OUTDOORS
world look
makes more
our
and
existing
more
copyright
archaic.
laws
Sites
like
Buildings and public spaces have become an
youthoughtwewouldntnotice.com
increasingly popular playground for artists,
informal jury on suspected cases of plagiarism,
aided by developments in video mapping and
and often demonstrate that these issues are
interactive technology. Guests include Rob
far from clear-cut.
act
as
an
Vale and Chris Plant (Colour Burst) on the joys of projecting outdoors, and Kit Monkman from
PUPPETOLOGY
lighting specialists KMA, currently planning an ambitious new project which draws passers-
As noted elsewhere in the programme (see
by into a ballet of light.
p.25), puppets have had a resurgence of late. We finish the day with a couple of case-studies
FAST FORWARD
where filmmakers talk about the advantages and downsides of working with such malleable
Taking an hour out from preparations for
actors, including – via the magic of Skype
their big show at the Rainbow Warehouse later
–
(see p.19), Dublin collective Synth Eastwood
bewitching debut feature Blood Tea and Red
will be exploring the process behind their
String was thirteen years in the making.
animator
Christiane
Cegavske,
whose
legendary open-submission shows and sharing some of the fruits of their mini-residency in Birmingham. One of their live guests tonight, French AV duo Gangpol and Mit, will also be
CREATIVE CLINICS
here to show how they make work by bouncing music and animation back and forth.
Throughout Midlands
the will
day be
Business providing
Link
West
one-to-one
sessions for creative entrepreneurs, where you can access invaluable business advice in relationship to your practice, industry and routes to market. Places are limited – for booking and further information contact the festival office via info@7inch.org.uk with Creative Clinics in the subject heading.
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UNPACKED
Friday 26 March / 10.30am-4.30pm
BUILD THEM IN THE MIND
DOWN TERRACE
Friday 26 March / 6.30pm
Dir: Various / 110 minutes
Friday 26 March / 6pm
Dir: Ben Wheatley
Ikon Eastside / £6
approx, including a short
The Electric / £6
UK 2009 / 89 minutes
intermission
With: Robin Hill, Julia Deakin, Robert Hill, Kerry Peacock
This programme pairs two groups of work looking at cinemas
Wistful folk music. People drinking tea. Observational comedy.
relationship to sculpture, location and its own mechanics.
Not the ingredients which spring to mind when describing
Featuring key films from the 1960s and 70s by Morgan Fisher
the British gangster film, but it’s precisely Down Terrace’s
and David Lamalas together with land artists Nancy Holt and
willingness to play with genre expectations which has won it so
Robert Smithson’s attempt to navigate a swamp and Gordon
many hearts and prizes. Nimbly skipping to his debut feature
Matta-Clark’s documentation of the hole he cut through a
from viral ads and TV comedy (Modern Toss, Ideal), Ben Wheatley
building next to the then under-construction Centre Pompidou.
maps out the domestic tensions of a Sussex crime family as they
These pivotal works are shown in a new light alongside Emily
attempt to ferret out the informant in their midst.
Wardill’s philosphical restaging of a jewellery heist, James Richard’s hypnotic video and Redmond Entwistle’s Monuments,
Preceded by Mr Foley (dir: D.A.D.D.Y., 5 mins) and followed by a
which resurrects the Post-Minimalists (Matta-Clark, Smithson,
Q&A with Mr Wheatley.
and Dan Graham) and explores the origins of their art in a journey from New York into the New Jersey suburbs. Curated by George Clark.
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THE LIVING ROOM OF THE NATION
PALACE OF THE WINDS
Friday 26 March / 8.30pm
Dir: Jukka Kärkkäinen
Friday 26 March / 8pm
Dir: Hisham Mayet
The Electric / £6
Finland 2009 / 74 minutes
Vivid / Free entry
USA 2009 / 52 minutes
A wonderfully odd documentary shot in the homes of six
Following last year’s showing of Sumatran Folk Cinema, here’s
men, most of them reinforcing Finnish stereotypes by being
the latest DVD from the open-eared Sublime Frequencies label.
taciturn, melancholy or fond of a drink. The camera sits across
Amazing footage of musicians from across Western Sahara –
the room from them, rarely moving, and the filmmakers must
including Group Doueh, visitors to the UK on the recent SF tour
have clocked up hundreds of hours with their subjects in order
– has been pieced together into a dream-like desert travelogue.
to capture so much intimacy and comedy - particularly in the
Also at Vivid this evening: from 7pm Made in Shipyard: a selection
scenes involving Tero, a tender-hearted slob grappling with
of music promos and video art from Gdansk presented by Roma
the prospect of fatherhood. Showing with Seeds of the Fall
Piotrowska; and from 9pm a VHS document of qawaali singer
(dir: Patrik Eklund, 17 minutes), a prize-winning Swedish short
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s first gig outside Asia, at the Luxor,
with a similar, absurd sense of humour.
Balsall Heath in 1980.
The Magic Lantern presents : PANDEMIC Friday 26th March / 9pm
Dir: Various
Ikon Eastside / £6
Running time: 90 mins approx
A pestilence is sweeping southwards from Glasgow. Suspected source: diseased space-monkeys. Symptoms: compulsive bodypopping, flicker-vision, hearing disembodied voices from cinema history. Hitchhikers, headless bodies and flying lighthousekeepers are to be avoided at all costs. Possibly the worst case of 21st century addiction ever to hit Birmingham. The Magic Lantern, Scotland’s premiere short film exhibitor, is the last line of defence. This showcase programme from Glasgow Short Film Festival represents your only hope. You have it in your power to turn the tide. Join us. www.themagiclantern.org
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DOGS IN SPACE
ALUCARDA
Friday 26 March /10.30pm
Dir: Richard Lowenstein
Friday 26 March / 11pm
Dir: Juan López Moctezuma
The Electric / £6
Australia 1986, 104 minutes
The Electric / £ 6
Mexico 1977, 77 minutes
With: Michael Hutchence,
With: Tina Romero, Claudio
Saskia Post, Nique Needles
Brook, Susana Kamini
Newly restored version of the spaced-out, bittersweet portrait
Cult classic Mexican horror film inspired by The Exorcist –
of Melbourne’s post-punk ‘little band’ scene, born out of a
with which it shares a sound designer – and directed by a
legendary three-week queue for David Bowie tickets in 1978.
favourite of Guillermo del Toro. It’s the story of two teenage
The script was based on writer-director Richard Lowenstein’s
orphans living in a convent who become possessed by a demonic
own experiences, and in search of authenticity he arranged to
force after opening a coffin in a local cemetery; now what
move back into his original house to recreate the chaotic squat
did they expect? Controversial at the time for the depiction
at the heart of the film. Best known nowadays for featuring
of murder, exorcism and orgies within a religious institution,
the chiselled features of a young Michael Hutchence in the lead
this is another exotically gory offering from Mondo Macabro,
role, Dogs in Space achieves the tricky balancing act of taking
who brought us the bizarre Mystics in Bali at last year’s
the mickey out of these proto-slackers while allowing us to
festival. The first of two late-night specials selected by
empathise with them. Stand-out moments include Mr Hutchence
Electric Sheep magazine (see also Dogtooth, p.29).
on acid and a very scary man with a chainsaw.
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FAST FORWARD with
Friday 26 March / 8pm til late Rainbow Warehouse / £8
SYNTH EASTWOOD Featuring CLARK ( warp ) GANGPOL & MIT ( pictoplasma ) SARSPARILLA HEALTH & EFFICIENCY
Question What has 27 heads, is par t-Irish par t-
Synth Eastwood are delighted to be
We also have projects and installations
English part-French, eats loud repetitive
hosting a night of live music, animation
such as Hugh Cooney’s Info Processor,
b e a t s , p r oj e c t s w o b b l y a n i m a t i o n s
and interactivity as part of this year’s
Synth Eastwood’s GIF Shoot!, Birmingham
and wants to meet new friends in
Flatpack Festival. Hailing from Dublin,
Says Hello and the Fast Forward
Birmingham?
Ireland the group have recently performed
group project.
at festivals such as HopFarm, Dublin Answer
Fringe Festival, Offset and Darklight.
Synth Eastwood’s Fast Forward Show!
Supplying music and animations on the
A selection of Birmingham and Dublin DJs will take us up to early Saturday morning.
night are Clark (UK, Warp), Gangpol &
More info on each act can be found on our
Mit (FR, Pictoplasma), Sarsparilla (IRE),
website o www.SynthEastwood.com or at
Health & Efficiency (UK) and The Synth
o www.Facebook.com/SynthEastwood.
Eastwood Band (IRE).
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COLOUR O BOX O O
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WELCOME
COLOUR BOX SHORTS
O O
O O
Saturday 27 March / 11am The Electric / £6 / £3 under 16s
Hello, and welcome to Colour Box! Last
A selection of inventive animated films
year this part of the festival was called
from all over the place, which starts off
the Travelling Picture Show, but as it’s all
with a bit of a food theme. The Cherry on
staying in one place this time (the lovely
the Cake (dir: Hyebin Lee) is about a girl
100 year-old Electric Cinema) we thought
who shrinks to the size of a cherry at
it needed a new name. Most of the films
her own birthday party, The Human Body
and
(Illustrated) (dir: Sally Stevens) tells some
activities
here
are
particularly
suitable for ages 7 and upwards.
tall tales about how our bodies work, and A Film About Poo (dir: Emily & Anne) is…
O
Leading
up
to
the
weekend
we’ll
be
well, you can probably guess what that’s
running a couple of schools screenings in
about. Then there’s a sleepy cat, a crazy
partnership with Brightspace. For more
version of Rapunzel and some spooky
information write to info@7inch.org.uk.
woodland magic in The Moon Bird, the new film by the Brothers McLeod.
Under 16’s discounts are also available for The Cameraman (p.25) and Puppetoons
Recommended certificate: PG
(p.31). Dir: Various Total running time: 70 mins approx. Featuring: birthday cakes, witches and noisy birds.
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O
O
O
O
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HOW TO ANIMATE YOUR OWN VEGETABLE
The 5OOO fingers of Dr T
THE SECRET of Kells
Saturday 27 March / 1.30pm
Sunday 28 March / 3pm
Sunday 28 March / 1pm
The Electric / £6 / £3 under 16s
The Electric / £6 / £3 under 16s
The Electric / £6 / £3 under 16s
Andy Wyatt is a wizard at making things
‘You have no right to push us kids around,
Twelve year-old Brendan lives in an abbey
move. Animation, in other words. He has
just because we’re closer to the ground.’
with his grumpy uncle and a motley group
worked on all sorts of films and TV shows
of monks. One day they are joined by the
from Teenage Ninja Turtles to Grizzly Tales
The only feature film written by Theodor
legendary illustrator Brother Aidan, who
for Gruesome Kids, and most recently he
Geisel (better known as Dr. Seuss), this
tells tales of Viking invaders and brings in
was Animation Supervisor on the CBBC
hyper-coloured fantasy musical looks a
his bag an amazing secret; the Book of Kells.
series OOglies. (You may have seen it.
little like The Wizard of Oz might have done if
This unique film tells the tale of how the
It’s the one where household objects with
Salvador Dali had designed it. Bart Collins
sacred text was completed and survived to
stick-on eyes do strange things.)
falls asleep whilst attempting his dreaded
become one of Ireland’s national treasures.
piano practice and awakes in an Institute
With animation which is nearly as beautiful
He’s also a teacher, and today – with
ruled by the deranged Dr. Terwilliker, who
as the book itself – especially when Brendan
the help of a couple of willing volunteers
has captured 500 boys to help play his
ventures beyond the town walls to meet
- he’s going to show you how to animate
enormous piano. Can Bart save the day?
naughty forest-sprite Aisling – The Secret
your own vegetable.
Surreal fun, although perhaps not suitable
of Kells’ recent Oscar nomination was richly
for piano teachers. Showing with A Colour
deserved. Showing with The Moonbird (dir:
Box (dir: Len Lye, 1935).
The Brothers McLeod).
Certificate: PG
Certificate: PG
Dir: Roy Rowland
Dir: Tomm Moore
USA 1953, 89 minutes
Ireland/France 2009, 75 minutes
With: Hans Conried, Tommy Rettiger,
With: Brendan Gleeson, Evan McGuire,
Mary Healy
Christen Mooney, Mick Lally
Suitable for ages 7 upwards
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Calendar 2O1O Day
Tues 23rd March
Weds 24th March
Thurs 25th March
Fri 26th March
Event
Venue
Times
Price
Page
Engine Room Pitch Workshop
The Bond
10:30-17:30
£30
6
Sunrise + live accompaniment
St Martins Church
19:30-21:00
£10
7
Engine Room Pitch Workshop
The Bond
10:30-17:30
£30
6
Julien Maire: Digit
Central Library
12:00-16:00
Free
8
No One Knows About Persian Cats
Electric Cinema
18:30-20:20
£6
9
Straight 8 2009
Vivid
18:30-20:00
Free
9
Walking Down Bristol Street
Ikon Eastside
18:30-20:30
£6
10
The Uncle Hans-Peter Party
Vivid
20:30-22:00
£4
10
Birmingham Film Society Revisited
Ikon Eastside
21:00-22:20
£6
11
Until the Light takes us
Library Theatre
21:00-22:30
£4/£3
11
Julien Maire: Digit
Central Library
12:00-16:00
Free
8
Shorts on Walls
Vivid
18:00-20:00
Free
13
More films about Buildings
Ikon Eastside
18:15-19:40
£6
13
Petropolis
Electric Cinema
18:30-19:45
£6
13
Shooting People + Short & Sweet
Vivid
20:00-22:30
Free
13
Whatever! A double-bill of filth and fantasy
Ikon Eastside
20:00-22:30
£6
14
Unpacked
The Bond
10:30-16:30
£14/£11
15
Screening Artists’ Moving Image
The Bond
10:30-17:30
£30
6
Julien Maire: Digit
Central Library
12:00-16:00
Free
8
Evergreen
Electric Cinema
15:00-17:30
£3
14
Julien Maire: Demi-pas
Vivid
18:00-18.30
£5
8
Down Terrace + Q&A
Electric Cinema
18.00-20:10
£6
16
Build Them in the Mind
Ikon Eastside
18:30-20:15
£6
16
Made in Shipyard, Palace of the Winds
Vivid
19:00-22:00
Free
17
Synth Eastwood presents: Fast Forward
Rainbow Warehouse
20:00-late
£8
19
The Living Room of the Nation
Electric Cinema
20:30-22:10
£6
17
The Magic Lantern present: Pandemic
Ikon Eastside
21:00-22:30
£6
17
Dogs in Space
Electric Cinema
22:30-0:00
£6
18
Alucarda
Electric Cinema
23:00-0:20
£6
18
+ A Thought. An Afterthought
Programme updates at www.flatpackfestival.org
/ Created in Birmingham shop / 20-28 March 22
Remember! The clocks go forward 1 hour at 1am on 28 March
Day
Event
Venue
Times
Price
Page
Sat 27th March
Odeon Bus Tour
Electric Cinema
10:30-14:00
£6
24
Colour Box Shorts
Electric Cinema
11:00-12:10
£6/£3
20
Barry Purves: A passion for Animation
The Bond
11:00-13:00
£6
26
Darklight Shorts
Ikon Eastside
11:30-13:00
£6
26
Puppetology
Electric Cinema
13:30-14:50
£6
25
How to Animate your own Vegetables
Electric Cinema
13:30-15:15
£6/£3
21
Cas’l + Monster Road
Ikon Eastside
13:30-15:40
£6
25
The Cameraman + live accompaniment
Electric Cinema
15:30-17:00
£6/£3
25
Lanterna Magicka + Lantern Show
Ikon Eastside
16:00-18:00
£6
27
Channel 1
Electric Cinema
16:00-17:20
£6
26
Julien Maire: Demi-Pas
Vivid
18:00-18:30
£5
8
Double Take
Electric Cinema
18.00-19.30
£6
27
Sacred Places
Ikon Eastside
18:30-19:50
£6
27
Best Worst Movie
Electric Cinema
20:00-21:45
£6
28
Burning + Q&A
Ikon Eastside
20:30-22:15
£6
28
A Plasticine Party
Vivid
21:00-late
£4
29
Dogtooth
Electric Cinema
22:30-0:20
£6
29
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Electric Cinema
23:00-01:00
£6
29
Puppetoons
Electric Cinema
11:00-12:15
£6/£3
31
Channel 2
Electric Cinema
11:30-12.50
£6
31
Paul Sharits
Ikon Eastside
13:00-14:15
£6
31
The Secret of Kells
Electric Cinema
13:00-14:30
£6/£3
21
Welcome to the Dream Palace
Electric Cinema
13:45-15:30
£6
32
Modulate
Vivid
14:00-16:00
Free
32
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr.T
Electric Cinema
15:00-16:40
£6/£3
21
The Family Jams
Ikon Eastside
15:00-16:50
£6
32
Sky Crawlers
Electric Cinema
16:00-18:10
£6
33
Belbury Youth Club
Vivid
17:00-23:30
£7
35
Takashi Ito
Ikon Eastside
18:00-19:15
£6
33
Memory and Desire
Electric Cinema
18:30-20:30
£6
33
Three Minute Heroes
Ikon Eastside
20:00-22:00
£6
34
Separado
Electric Cinema
21:00-22:40
£6
34
Beeswax
Electric Cinema
22:00-23:45
£6
34
Trash Humpers
Electric Cinema
23:00-0:20
£6
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hashtag: #flatpack
Sun 28th March
Venues and booking on pages 40-41.
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ODEON BUS TOUR Saturday 27 March / 10.30am-2pm Starting at The Electric / £6
Odeon started the 1930s with a handful of modest picture-houses and by the end of the decade boasted over 250 sites, including several landmark super-cinemas which brought streamlined art deco design to
the
English
suburbs.
This
journey
through north Birmingham is a chance to retrace the extraordinary tale of Oscar Deutsch’s
empire,
visiting
two
of
the
circuit’s most innovative and influential buildings
in
Kingstanding
and
Sutton
Coldfield as well as the site where it all began eighty years ago. Our guide for the morning is Chris Upton, an historian and writer from Newman University College.
OSCAR DEUTSCH ( 1893-1941 ) Each year Flatpack selects a ‘patron saint’
Moorish palace. This was not the grand
Because
who has helped change the way we watch
launch of a new circuit, and even the name
balance commercial sense with attention
film. In 2009 we paid tribute to 1900s
was a casual suggestion from a colleague
to detail and a sense of drama – not least
showman Waller Jeffs at Birmingham Town
who came across the word on holiday. (The
in the design of his buildings. Many of the
Hall, and in some ways this year’s choice is
phrase ‘Oscar Deutsch Entertains Our
landmark Odeons came from the drawing-
the natural next step…
Nation’ was thought up later.) However, as
board
the thirties went on Deutsch began to build
Birmingham
Oscar Deutsch was born in Balsall Heath
cinemas at a dizzying rate. Movie-going had
going strong today, and their bold use of
in 1893, the son of a Hungarian scrap
become the national pastime, with close to
streamlined curves and fins introduced
merchant.
film
a billion admissions annually in the UK, and
modernism to the British high street.
exhibition with mixed results at first, but
a good proportion of this audience could
quickly developed a reputation for being
be found in the suburbs where Odeons
This remarkable story was cut short by
shrewd and persuasive in getting capital
could often be found being built alongside
the war, and in 1941 Deutsch succumbed to
projects off the ground.
swathes of new housing.
the cancer which had been plaguing him for
In 1930 came the f irst Odeon, a 1,600-
So why is Flatpack celebrating this
and 16-hour days had been fuelled by the
seater in Perr y Barr in the style of a
business behemoth?
knowledge that his time was short.
He
tried
his
hand
at
Oscar
of
the
Deutsch
Weedon
architecture
managed
to
Partnership, practice
a
still
years. Many felt that his restless energy
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PUPPETOLOGY Saturday 27 March / 1.30pm The Electric / £6 Dir: Various Running time: 75 mins
Puppets seem to be everywhere at the moment, not just in big movies but also shorts and music videos. One of the most popular films at last year’s Flatpack makes a return here, Johannes Nyholm’s The Tale of Little Puppetboy (pictured), along with his new one Dreams from the Woods. We also have cut-out childhood angst in Jons Mellgren’s Dark Island, a lofi parable from Portland’s Leslie Supnet and Oliver Husain’s bizarre performance piece Mount Shasta. Then Joel Trussell’s
THE CAMERAMAN Saturday 27 March / 3.30pm
Dir: Edward Sedgwick
The Electric / £6 / £3 under 16s
USA 1928, 67 minutes
rotting zombie fruit head up a swarm of excellent promos for the likes of Kid 606, Ramona Falls and Herman Dune.
CAS’L+MONSTER ROAD
Buster Keaton’s last comedic masterpiece before his ill-fated
Saturday 27 March / 1.30pm
MGM contract removed creative control over his pictures.
Ikon Eastside / £6
Keaton plays a street-corner photographer who falls in love
Dir: Bruce Bickford /
with the receptionist of a newsreel production office. In a bid
Brett Ingram
for her attention, he applies for a job shooting on-the-spot
Total running time: 130 mins
news with the only camera he can afford - a totally outmoded, hand-cranked shoebox model. Chaos, romance and laughter ensue. Screened here with live piano accompaniment by Paul
Visionary
Shallcross, who visited the Electric last year with the Travelling
animator
Bruce
Bickford,
best
known
for
his
collaborations with Frank Zappa during the 1970s, has been
Picture Show.
cooking up a new film in his Seattle basement studio for some years. An orgy of rampant clay mutation, you can see Cas’l in
With: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin
two forms at Flatpack; later tonight accompanied live by Moon Unit, (see p.29) and here with its newly-completed original soundtrack. To set the scene, Monster Road is a fascinating documentary about the forces driving Bickford’s work and his complex relationship with his father.
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BARRY PURVES :
DARKLIGHT :
A passion for Animation
New Animation Shorts
Saturday 27 March / 11am
Saturday 27 March / 11.30am
Saturday 27 March / 4pm
The Bond / £6
Ikon Eastside / £6
The Electric / £6
Wr ite r, a nim a to r a n d d ir e c to r of six
Fresh (well, maybe not exactly fresh)
As usual Flatpack’s animation programme
awa r d-win n in g s h o r t s ( in c l u d in g t h e
from their endeavours in the Rainbow
is pretty free-ranging in geography and
a m azin g A a r d m a n f ilm N ex t , p ic tu r e d),
Warehouse (see p.19), Synth Eastwood
style, from the psychedelic reverie of The
Barry
present a selection of animated shorts
Astronomer’s Dream (Malcolm Sutherland)
which
Pu r ves
numerous
has
s h ows
fo r
also
dir e c te d
TV
in c l u d in g
they
curated
Festival
in
CHANNEL 1
last
year’s
to the delicate paper design in Going
Dublin.
Drawn
West, Andersen M’s promo for the New
for
T h e W in d in t h e W illows a n d H a m ilto n
Darklight
M a t t r ess a n d wo r ke d o n m ov ies like
entirely from submissions, it’s a sizeable
Zealand
M a r s At ta c k s a n d Kin g Ko n g . H e h a s
platter of new talent working in all kinds
couple of animated documentaries about
also ta u g ht a n im a t io n all ove r t h e
of styles. Highlight s include Michal
synaesthesia
wo rld a n d wr it te n a c o u p le of b o o k s
Socha’s saucy use of black, white and
Eyeful of Sound) and mining (David Quin’s
o n t h e su bje c t , a n d to d ay h e’ll b e
red in Chick (pictured), Aaron Hughes’
Twas a Terrible Hard Work) and we’re
lo o kin g b a c k ove r a c a r e e r s p a n n in g
backwards comedy and a satire blending
delighted that one of our favourite films
a q u a r te r of a c e ntu r y a n d talkin g
live action and stop-motion from Croatian
in Rotterdam has made it to Birmingham:
a b o u t t h e d elic a te a r t of b r in gin g
artist Ana Husman.
Vessela Dantcheva’s Anna Blume
p u p p et s to li fe.
Council. (Samantha
There
are
Moore’s
a An
(pictured) is a suitably surreal take on Dir: Various
S u ita b le fo r a g es 15 a n d u pwa r d s .
Book
the Kurt Schwitters poem.
Running time: 95 mins approx
Pr ese nte d in a sso c ia t io n wit h
Dir: Various
A n i m a t io n Fo r u m We st M i d l a n d s.
Running time: 75 mins approx
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LANTERNA MAGICKA
SACRED PLACES
DOUBLE TAKE
Saturday 27 March / 4pm
Saturday 27 March / 6.30pm
Saturday 27 March / 6pm
Ikon Eastside / £6
Ikon Eastside / £6
The Electric / £6
This new documentary by Sean Martin
In a neighbourhood of Burkina Faso’s
‘Crime doesn’t pay. You need a sponsor.’
and Louise Milne is a portrait of one-
second city Ouagadougou, Bouba runs the
of-a-kind
filmmaker Bill Douglas, and
Votre Cine-Club. The roof is made of straw
Alfred
in particular his love of early optical
and the audience sits on benches to watch
American television from 1956 to 1963.
Hitchcock
Presents
ran
on
entertainments
and
pirated DVDs screened on a television.
This is the time-frame for Double Take, a
magic lantern. Through footage of the
As a documentary maker who travels to
sly and hugely enjoyable voyage through
man himself as well as interviews with
festivals around the world, Jean-Marie
cold war paranoia and the ‘annihilation of
friends and collaborators, the film looks
Teno explores the relationship between
cinema’ by TV with Hitchcock himself as
at how this passion for pre-cinema grew
his own work and this makeshift African
our ringmaster. A treasure-trove of ads
and became an integral part of his final
cinema culture, as well as the story-telling
and newsreels are woven together with a
film, Comrades.
traditions which it draws on.
sinister tale of the director (played by Hitch
like
the
zoetrope
impersonator Ron Burrage) encountering Projection
his older self on the set of The Birds.
to introduce the film, and one of their
(dir: Temujin Doran, UK 2010, 4 mins), a
Grimonprez’s debut feature was Dial H-I-
interviewees Mike Simkin will also be here
perfectly-formed ode to 35mm made by a
S-T-O-R-Y (1998), a collage film about
to present a bona fide magic lantern show
projectionist at the Screen on the Green
hijacking
after the screening.
in Islington.
the September 11th attacks.
Dir: Sean Martin & Louise Milne
Dir: Jean-Marie Teno
Dir: Johan Grimonprez
UK 2009, 60 mins
Cameroon/France 2008, 70 mins
Belgium/Germany/Netherlands 2009,
Sean
and
Louise
will
be
at
Flatpack
Showing
with
Facts
About
80 minutes
27
which
spookily
foreshadowed
TRASH HUMPERS
BURNING
BEST WORST MOVIE
Sunday 28 March / 11pm
Saturday 27 March / 8.30pm
Saturday 27 March / 8pm
The Electric / £6
Ikon Eastside / £6
The Electric / £6
Burnt out after the – relatively – big-
Early
post-rockers
Alabama dentist George Hardy seemed to
budget drama Mr Lonely, Harmony Korine
Mogwai were filmed during their residency
have it all, but there was a dark secret in
(Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy) returned to
at
in
his past. In 1990, despite no noticeable
Tennessee with the urge to ‘make things
Brooklyn.
is
acting ability, he starred in an Italian
as quickly as I think them’. The result is
directed by Nathanaël Le Scouarnec and
horror film shot in Utah about a group
Trash Humpers. Two men and a woman
Vincent Moon, known for some of the best
of evil vegetarian goblins. Made by the
wearing latex masks wander around car
music videos of the last couple of years
man who played his son in the original
parks,
(including Moon’s work on The Take-Away
film, Best Worst Movie shows how Hardy
dumps. They get it on with wheelie-bins
Shows,
performances
was given a second shot at stardom when
and tree-branches. They play toss-the-
by bands on French music website La
Troll 2 was plucked from the bargain-bins
caber with strip-lights. They dance, and
Blogotheque). Shot over three nights, this
and lauded as the worst film ever made.
cackle, and sing. (‘Make it, make it, don’t
black and white film captures the beautiful
Extremely funny, especially in the scenes
fake it.’) The whole thing is recorded on
intensity of Mogwai’s performances.
involving misunderstood director Claudio
suburban
streets
and
rubbish
last
the
year
Music The
short
Scottish
Hall
of
Williamsburg
resulting
impromptu
document
VHS, complete with tracking lines and
Fragasso, and look out for a cameo from
white noise. You may hate it, or you may
The screening will be introduced by Stuart
think it’s the most heartfelt film Korine
Braithwaite from Mogwai, and will also
has ever made.
include a selection of videos from the band’s
Dir: Michael Stephenson
Rock Action label as well as some recent
USA 2009, 93 mins
promos by French collective Megaforce.
With: George Hardy, Claudio Fragasso,
Dir: Harmony Korine USA 2009, 78 minutes With: Rachel Korine, Brian Kotzur, Travis
Margo Prey Presented in association with Capsule.
Nicholson Dir: Vincent Moon/Nathanaël Le Scouarnec (NB: Showing on Sunday, even though this
the National Exhibition Centre.
France 2009, 50 mins
is the Saturday page!)
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A PLASTICINE PARTY
DOGTOOTH
Presented by Electric Sheep magazine.
Saturday 27 March / from 9pm
With Stuart Braithwaite,
Saturday 27 March / 10.30pm
Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
Vivid / £4
Moon Unit, DJs, plasticine
The Electric / £6
Greece 2009, 96 minutes
An Eastside knees-up to mark the beginning of the end of
Winner of the ‘Un Certain Regard’ prize at last year’s Cannes
Flatpack. As well as various guest DJs we have punk-dub multi-
Film Festival, Yorgos Lanthimos‘s Greek oddity is a remarkable
media threesome Jackdaw with Crowbar and Zappa-infused ten-
directorial debut. Brilliantly inventive and surreally perverse,
piece outfit Moon Unit, accompanying Bruce Bickford’s new film
Dogtooth centres on a radically overprotective couple who have
Cas’l (see also p.25). Fresh from presenting new concert film
shut off their children from the outside world. Although they are
Burning (see opposite), Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai will be
fully grown up, the ‘children’ never leave the house, spending their
playing some records and there will also be plentiful plasticine
time playing strange games or learning erroneous vocabulary
if you fancy helping us build an alternative universe.
fabricated by their mother. This creepy idyll is disturbed when an outsider is brought in to service the son’s sexual needs, starting
In association with Birmingham Jazz and We Are Eastside.
a chain of events that will have tragi-comedic consequences.
BAD LIEUTENANT: Port of Call New Orleans Saturday 27 March / 11pm
Dir: Werner Herzog
The Electric / £6
USA 2009, 122 mins
Reports that Werner Herzog was on board to direct a remake of Abel Ferrara’s Bad Lieutenant were greeted by vigorous head-scratching, but fear not; this is one of the most entertaining and deranged movies you’ll see this year. Taking on the Harvey Keitel role in the full-blooded spirit of a man on day-release from Hollywood mediocrity, Nicolas Cage snorts, drawls and hallucinates his way down the back-alleys of postKatrina New Orleans, pursuing a cop-thriller plot which is merely a backdrop for his own disintegration. Herzog has found himself a new Kinski.
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PUPPETOONS
CHANNEL 2
Sunday 28 March / 11am
Dir: George Pal
Sunday 28 March / 11.30am
Dir: Various
The Electric / £6 / £3 under 16s
Running time: 70 mins approx.
The Electric / £6
Running time: 75 mins approx.
Born in Hungary, George Pal grew up in a theatrical family and
Playful sketches and disturbing visions, starting with two films from
combined his knack for cartooning and carpentry when he began
Flatform which use humour and repetition to magnify moments in
to make films. The puppets in his animated shorts were made from
time. The unearthly images in Eric Dyer’s The Bellows March come
replaceable wooden parts which enabled them to move in all sorts
from a series of zoetropes built with a 3-D printer, while I.D. is Sam
of unlikely ways; ‘cartoons in 3D,’ as Pal put it. Today we have
Firth’s life-story in 90 seconds of passport photos and LoopLoop
a feast of his ground-breaking shorts from the 30s and 40s,
takes a sequence shot from a train in Hanoi and slices it up into
starting off in Europe with wonderful toe-tapping promos for
a hypnotic panorama. Memotech is a dance film shot in the Faroe
Philips Radio and then on to Hollywood for classic Puppetoons
Islands which feels like a horror movie, and in A Letter to Uncle
including Tubby the Tuba, American folk-tale John Henry and the
Boonmee Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul traces cycles
Inky Poo, and anti-Hitler parable Tulips Shall Grow (pictured).
of repression and reincarnation in the country’s rural north-east.
PAUL SHARITS Sunday 28 March / 1pm
Dir: Paul Sharits
Ikon Eastside / £6
Running time: 75 mins approx.
“I want to abandon imitation and illusion and enter directly into the higher drama: the two-dimensional strips of celluloid; photograms
taken
individually;
perforation
and
emulsion;
projector operations; the screen itself…” A selection of flicker-films and structural work from the 1960s by avant-garde filmmaker Paul Sharits, including Piece Mandala/End War and T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G, (pictured). Curated by Helen Legg.
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WELCOME TO THE DREAM PALACE
MODULATE
Sunday 28 March / 1.45pm
Sunday 28 March / 2pm
Running time: 100 minutes approx
The Electric / £6
Vivid / Free entry
Wrapping up Flatpack’s thirties strand, special guest Juliet
Modulate are an audio visual group sharing an interest in
Gardiner will be talking about the social significance of the
electronic music and abstract art. Connecting from a varied
cinema and sharing some of the celluloid nuggets discovered
background in sound, graphic design, curating, film making,
while researching her engaging new book The Thirties: An
and generative software programing, members include Bobby
Intimate History. We’ll also look at two very different film-going
Bird, Mark Bunegar, Scylla Magda, Joseph Potts and Mark
experiences: the suburban super-cinema, in 1973 documentary
Harris. Their current live performance of improvised sound and
Odeon Cavalcade; and the newsreel theatre, a place to kill time
image was debuted last year at the Center of Contemporary
when waiting for a train. The Electric’s current owners have
Arts in Torun, Poland.
found a wealth of material from the cinema’s news theatre days, o www.modulate.org.uk
including footage of the building itself unseen since it was filmed.
THE FAMILY JAMS Sunday 28 March / 3pm
Dir: Kevin Barker
Ikon Eastside / £6
USA 2009, 80 mins
In the summer of 2004 soon-to-be new-folk luminaries Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Vetiver toured the US. Fellow musician Kevin Barker (Currituck Co., and occasionally Vetiver) documented their travels. Ironically named after an album released by the Manson Family, The Family Jams is a joyful, intimate film of life on tour; playing all manner of weird and wonderful venues, helping each other overcome family tragedies and meeting an array of colourful characters on the way. Also includes performances by Antony and the Johnsons, Meg Baird and Espers. Showing with The Delian Mode (dir: Kara Blake, Canada 2009), a documentary about electronic composer Delia Derbyshire.
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THE SKY CRAWLERS
TAKASHI ITO
Sunday 28 March / 4pm
Dir: Mamoru Oshii
Sunday 28 March / 6pm
Dir: Takashi Ito
The Electric / £6
Japan 2008, 122 minutes
Ikon Eastside / £6
Running time: 70 mins approx.
A group of adolescent fighter-pilots (‘Kildren’) are part of a
“My major intention is to change ordinary everyday life scenes and
mysterious, ongoing war in this adaptation of a series of books
draw the audience (myself) into a vortex of supernatural illusion
by Hiroshi Mori. Thrilling aerial sequences alternate with
by exercising the magic of films.” This is a rare chance to see a
stretches of dream-like downtime where they smoke and drink
selection of work by experimental filmmaker Takashi Ito, whose
and ponder. If you’ve seen anything by Oshii before (Ghost in
1981 graduation film Spacy used 700 still images and and an
the Shell, Avalon) you’ll know that a straightforward anime
electronic score by regular collaborator Takashi Inagaki to create
shoot-em-up is not on the menu; beneath the beautiful skies
a rollercoaster ride around an empty gymnasium. Since then Ito has
and exploding planes there’s a real sense of loss.
continued to slice up space and time with dazzling and disconcerting
Voices: Rinko Kikuchi; Chiaki Kuriyama; Shosuke Tanihara
winner of the Main Prize at Oberhausen Short Film Festival.
results. The programme will also include his 1995 piece Zone,
MEMORY AND DESIRE Sunday 28 March / 6.30pm
Dir: Douglas Arrowsmith
The Electric / £6
Canada 2009, 83 mins
After flirting with stardom as a founder member of Duran Duran and doing ‘Kiss Me’ solo on Top of the Pops, Duffy made the (then) ridiculous decision to grow a beard and write folk music in the wilds of Herefordshire, and he has followed his own path ever since. Memory and Desire takes us from misty Alum Rock reminiscences and the photos of urban decay which got him onto an art course at Birmingham Poly, right up to his brief (but traumatic) dalliance with Robbie Williams and his group the Lilac Time’s rousing reunion at Green Man Festival in 2007. With: Stephen Duffy, Nick Rhodes, Caitlin Moran, Nick Duffy
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THREE MINUTE HEROES
SEPARADO!
Sunday 28 March / 8pm
Dir: Michael Custance
Sunday 28 March / 9pm
Dir: Dyl ‘Goch’ Jones
Ikon Eastside / £6
UK 1982, 60 minutes
The Electric / £6
UK 2009, 86 minutes
Showing with Pete Murray Takes you to Coventry (1983, 17 mins)
One of Gruff Rhys’ most vivid childhood memories is seeing
and Rudies Come Back (1980, 35 mins). A triple-bill of Coventry in
a man in a cape playing South American songs in Welsh on
the early 80s – what more could you want? We kick off with DJ Pete
S4C. Ever since he discovered that this troubadour, Rene
Murray’s guide to the city (from the same series as Telly Savalas
Griffiths, was a distant relative, Rhys has been fascinated by
Looks at Birmingham) and then a rare treat: a BBC Arena film on
the story of how Welsh communities sprang up in the badlands
two-tone with footage of the Specials in their ‘79 prime. To round
of Patagonia. In Separado! he takes a break from Super Furry
things off, Three Minute Heroes is a teen drama from Play for
Animals, dons a shiny red helmet, and beams himself across
Today, shot in the precincts and car parks of a Coventry already
the Atlantic in search of this hidden history. An affecting,
mourning the death of two-tone. An amazing time-capsule, complete
inventive road-movie.
with rollerskates, light-up jackets and horrific knitwear.
BEESWAX Saturday 27 March / 10pm
Dir: Andrew Bujalski
The Electric / £6
USA 2009, 100 minutes
Andrew Bujalski (Mutual Appreciation) has moved south to Texas for his third feature, retaining a sharp eye for the little decisions and indecisions that shape our lives. Jeannie (Tillie Hatcher) runs a vintage clothing shop in Austin and worries that she’s about to be shafted by her business partner. Her sister Lauren (Maggie Hatcher) has been drifting for a while, and is trying to work out whether teaching English in Africa would be a good move. Once again Bujalski and his cast have created characters who stay with you long after the film has ended. With: Tillie Hatcher; Maggie Hatcher; Alex Karpovsky
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Belbury Youth Club
Sunday 28 March / From 5pm Vivid / £ 7
Featuring :
Moon Wiring Club A new film by Julian House Penda’s Fen
G
host Box is a record label which
We begin with a taste of Belbury TV, including
Around 8pm it’s time to push back the chairs
releases
sometimes
a 1974 Play for Today called Penda’s Fen.
for an evening of psych, folk, soundtrack,
with
Set in the Malverns, it’s the tale of
a
radiophonics and cosmic disco. Live guests
artwork. It draws its inspiration from a
confused and passionate teenager whose
Moon Wiring Club provide squelchy synths
parallel universe where standing stones
supernatural visions are fuelled by Elgar
and clattery breakbeats, with DJ support
and brutalist architecture mingle on the
and Anglo-Saxon mythology. (When writer
from the Focus Group and Belbury Poly
village green, where children’s minds are
David Rudkin presented the film at Flatpack
and eye-popping loops and clips for the
permanently marked by public information
a couple of years ago, it was clear that
visually undernourished. Tucked away in
films transmitted in the dead of night. The
many in the audience had been carrying a
the corner you will also find an exhibition
capital of this universe is the made-up
vivid version of the film in their heads ever
of art and artefacts by Julian House.
town of Belbury, and for one Sunday in
since its first broadcast.) Also screening
March Belbury is coming to Digbeth.
is Julian House’s Winter Sun Wavelength,
disconcerting
fuzzy
and
electronica,
great
a 20-minute film with a new score by the Focus Group and Belbury Poly.
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4. St Martins Church
7. Ikon Eastside
Chamberlain Square,
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183 Fazeley Street, Digbeth
Birmingham B3 3HQ
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Birmingham, B5 5SE
2. Birmingham Library Theatre
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Level 3, Upper Mall West,
140 Heath Mill Lane,
Birmingham, B3 3HQ
Bullring,Birmingham, B5 4BU
Birmingham, B9 4AR
3. The Electric
6. The Bond
9. The Rainbow Warehouse
47 Station Street
180-182 Fazeley Street,
149-150 Adderley Street,
Birmingham, B5 4DY
Birmingham, B5 5SE
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INDEX 1930s
10,11,14,24,32
Facts About Projection
27
Plasticine Party, A
29
5000 Fingers of Dr T, The
21
Family Jams, The
32
Pollphail
13
7 Inch Cinema
39
Film About Poo, A
20
Project Pigeon
12
Alucarda
18
Gangpol & Mit
15, 19
Puppetology
25
Another Happy and Interesting Day
14
Gardiner, Juliet
32
Puppetoons
31
As I was Walking Down Bristol St
10
Going West
26
puppets
15,25,26,31
Astronomer’s Dream, The
26
Half-Life
13
Purves, Barry
26
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans 29
Hanasaari A
13
Rudies Come Back
34
Beeswax
34
Health & Efficiency
19
Sacred Places
27
Belbury Youth Club
35
Housing Problems
11
Sarsparilla
19
Bellows March, The
31
How to Animate your own Vegetable
21
Screening Artists’ Moving Image
6
Best Worst Movie
28
Human Body (Illustrated), The
20
Secret of Kells, The
21
Birmingham Film Society Revisited
11
Ito, Takashi
33
Seeds of the Fall
17
booking
41
Lanterna Magicka
27
Separado
34
Boy
14
Let Me Feel Your Finger First
10
Sharits, Paul
31
Build Them in the Mind
16
Letter to Uncle Boonmee, A
31
Sheffield Doc/Fest
6
Buildings, architecture
13,16,24,32
Living Room of the Nation, The
17
Shooting People
13
Bullen, Nicholas
11
Lodge, David
10
Short & Sweet
13
Burning
28
Lombard Method, The
12
Shorts on Walls
13
Calendar
22, 23
Magic lanterns
8, 27
Sky Crawlers, The
33
Cameraman, The
25
Maire, Julien
8
Spacy
33
Cas’l
25
Memory and Desire
33
Steel Homes
13
Cegavske, Christiane
15
Memotech
31
Straight 8 Shorts
9
Channel 1
26
Mick, Alcyona
7
Sunrise
7
Channel 2
31
Modulate
32
Synchronisation
13
Cherry on the Cake, The
20
Monkman, Kit
15
Synth Eastwood
19, 26
Chick
26
Monster Road
25
T,O,U,C,H,I,N,G,
31
Cinematic, The
12
Monuments
16
Take Only Photographs, Leave Nothing
13
Colour Box Shorts
20
Moon Bird, The
20, 21
But Footprints
Colour Box, A (Len Lye)
21
Moon Unit
29
Tale of Little Puppetboy, The
25
Creative Clinics
15
Moon Wiring Club
35
Thought. An Afterthought, A
9
Curtain Show
12
More Films about Buildings
13
Three Minute Heroes
34
Dark Island
25
Mount Shasta
25
Trash Humpers
28
Darklight: New Animation Shorts
26
Mr Foley
16
Tubby the Tuba
31
Demi-pas
8
No One Knows About Persian Cats
9
Tulips Shall Grow
31
Deutsch, Oscar
5,14,24
Odeon Bus Tour
24
Uncle Hans Peter Party, The
10
Digit
8
Odeon Cavalcade
32
Unpacked
15
Dogs in Space
18
Ooglies
21
Until The Light Takes Us
11
Dogtooth
29
optical illusions
8, 27, 31
venues
40
Double Take
27
Palace of the Winds
17
Walking down Bristol Street
10
Douglas, Bill
27
Pandemic
17
Welcome to the Dream Palace
32
Down Terrace
16
Penda’s Fen
35
Whatever!
14
Dreams from the Woods
25
Pete Murray Takes You To Coventry
34
Winter Sun Wavelength
35
Eaststride
12
Petropolis
13
Wyatt, Andy
21
Engine Room Pitch Workshop
6
Pink Flamingos
14
Zone
33
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Winter Film & Video Wolverhampton Art Gallery Until May 2010 A season of exhibitions showcasing the best in Film & Video Art, featuring films which explore the strange to the sublime.
Now Showing: New Film & Video from the Arts Council Collection Until 6 March
www.wolverhamptonart.org.uk free entry
Holylands by Seamus Harahan 20 March - 3 July
Balnakiel by Shona Illingworth 6 Feb -1 May
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