February listings
February 8, 2008Heyup,
It has been a while, but here are some film-related things
happening around Birmingham over the next few weeks.
Firstly:
7INCH NEWS
This month we return to Kings Heath for a series of Sunday
filmnights throughout the spring, kicking off with:
Sunday 24 Feb, 7pm at the Hare and Hounds
7INCH no.29
Super 8 special including filmficciones selection and the
folks from straight8, who will be presenting a greatest
hits selection and talking about how you can get involved
in this year’s scheme. Plus shorts, music, and what have
you. £4 on the door.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/64.aspx
> http://www.youtube.com/user/filmficciones70
> http://straight8.net/
The 7inch site also has info on other forthcoming dates,
including a screening of I For India and a visit in March
by underground film don Mr Jack Stevenson. And a big thank
you to all who submitted to our DIY Flipbook Challenge.
We’ve extended the deadline, so if you want to see your
flipbook film on the big screen then grab a notepad or
postits and get your animation to the address at the bottom
of this email by Tuesday 19 Feb. All the results will be shown
at the super8 special.
[ By the way, if you are an 8mm fan the submissions
deadline for Cambridge Super 8 Fest is next week:
http://www.cambridge-super8.org/ ]
SO WHAT ELSE IS ON?
Sat 9 Feb, 11am at Warwick Arts Centre near Coventry
BETTE DAVIS FILM TALK
By Martin Shingler from Sunderland Uni, with a screening of
All About Eve in a new print.
> http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/events/id/3558
9 Feb at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath
F*CK BUTTONS + ALEXANDER TUCKER
(I’m not averse to swearing, just trying to evade those
ever-vigilant council filters)
> http://www.capsule.org.uk/Coming_Up/200.aspx
Sunday 10 Feb, 8pm at mac in Edgbaston
CINEMAPHONIC: BLACK GALAXY
No doubt familiar to regular 7inch viewers, Nicholas Bullen
and Simon Mabbutt will be performing sound responses to
Harry Smith’s Abstractions series (crazy cut-out symbolism)
and The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (decadent sixties
strangeness). Also includes shorts by Quay Brothers,
Carolee Schneeman and Stan Brakhage. Heralds a whole series
of film/music events at mac including Russian space oddity
AELITA on 23 Feb.
> http://www.macarts.co.uk/?page=event.html&id=2768
Weds 13 Feb at the Library Theatre, Bham central library
TAKE ME HIGH + TELLY SAVALAS LOOKS AT BHAM
An evening of tawdry Brum nostalgia, courtesy of Cliff
Richards and Kojak. Will include a personal message from
Sir Cliff, and radio 4 will be there making a programme
about Savalas’ quota quickies. Email info@macoymedia.co.uk
for further info.
http://www.birminghamitsnotshit.co.uk/category/library-theatre
13 Feb at mac in Edgbaston
and 20-22 Feb at Wolverhampton Light House
BRITISH ANIMATION AWARDS
View the shortlist and vote for the winner.
> http://www.britishanimationawards.com/
Friday 15 Feb at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath
SUGARFOOT STOMP VALENTINES BALL
Featuring cocktails, drunken-fumble corner and catfight
halfhour.
> http://www.hareandhoundskingsheath.co.uk/
15 Feb at the Electric in Birmingham
ELECTRIC LOVE BALL
Live music and comedy.
> http://www.theelectric.co.uk
19-26 Feb around the West Mids
MEDIA PRODUCTION ROADSHOW
ScreenWM present their new £4m production fund.
> http://www.screenwm.co.uk/press/roadshowspressrelease.asp
Weds 20 Feb at Warwick Arts Centre nr Coventry
THE ART OF CRITICISM
Talk by the Evening Standard and onetime Guardian film
critic Derek Malcolm. (Rather him than Peter Bradshaw any
day.)
> http://www.warwickartscentre.co.uk/events/id/3630
Friday 22 Feb at Symphony Hall in Birmingham
THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE
1921 Valentino tear-jerker with a new score by Carl Davis.
> http://www.thsh.co.uk/view/silent-heroes
22 Feb, 9pm-4am at Concrete (ex-Boiler Room) in the
Jewellery Quarter
X-LAB:VL
Audio-visual antics featuring Arcade, Chromatouch and Marc Reck.
> http://www.projectxpresents.com
Sunday 24 Feb at the Hare and Hounds in Kings Heath
7INCH no.29
Super 8 special featuring straight8.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/64.aspx
til 27 Feb at Jibbering records in Moseley
ANYTHING ELSE
Show by talented animator/graf artist Richard Coldicott,
who also has a show on at the Custard Factory.
> http://www.jibbering.co.uk/
> http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9923526830
Thursday 28 Feb, 6pm at tic, Millennium Point
NICK BROOMFIELD Q&A
Legendary pseudo-shambolic documentarian who has made a
successful shift into semi-fiction recently with Ghosts and
Battle for Haditha.
> http://www.creativenetworksonline.com
Weekdays til 29 Feb at MADE, Fazeley St in Digbeth
MODEL CITIES
Results of a project run by Stans Cafe theatre company with
St Albans school, imagining a new school from tiny bits of
the old one.
> http://stanscafe.co.uk/stalbans/07.html
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H05KhNgfNP4
til 1 March at Woom gallery in Jewellery Quarter
GAMBLING, GODS AND LSD
Exhibition inspired by Peter Mettler’s visionary
globe-trotting documentary, including looped screening of
said film.
> http://www.myspace.com/woomgallery
> http://www.gambling-gods-and-lsd.ch
Sat 8 March in Digbeth
B-MUSIC LAUNCH
Andy Votel and friends – more details shortly…
> http://www.b-music.co.uk/
Weds 11 March, 7pm at Mono bar, Arcadian centre in Bham
MONOSIN SHORT FILM FESTIVAL
Third edition of a regular West Mids showcase. Email Tamsin
Hunt if you want to submit a film: tamsinhunt@hotmail.co.uk
NEWS, HOT TIPS
D’log has listed the West Mids organisations and projects
affected by recent Arts Council cuts. (Although some, like Midwest, were apparently due to wrap up anyway)
> http://www.d-log.info/?p=3277
Congratulations to Pete Ashton at Created in Birmingham for
a fully deserved blog award from the Guardian.
> http://tinyurl.com/2wdgnl
Apparently, stale bottled water doesn’t give you breast
cancer. Phew.
> http://tinyurl.com/2e9c94
Youtube are starting to share ad revenue with posters.
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6305957.stm
Fierce have an interactive element to this year’s festival
called Wikifest, and you can submit your own performance
ideas up until 25 Feb. Nothing on their site as yet but CiB
has some info:
> http://tinyurl.com/36wqdr
We are told that Cafe Lalehzar in Hockley is well worth a
visit for cheap Persian eats.
> http://www.birminghamplus.com/items/items.asp?iid=2482
SOME FILMS SHOWING
THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY
(Dir: Julian Schnabel)
At Cineworld til 14 Feb and from 29 Feb at the Light House
in Wolverhampton.
CONTROL
(Dir: Anton Corbijn)
9/10 Feb at the Electric
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS, 2 DAYS
(Dir: Cristian Mungiu)
15-17 Feb at mac
AND COMING SOON…
BE KIND REWIND
(Dir: Michel Gondry)
Out on 22 Feb.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7C8nHAAs70
Or indeed:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFN27E34BKg
SON OF RAMBOW
(Dir: Garth Jennings)
Out on 28 March.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nygqpRDYaJk
That’s it for now.
No doubt we’ve missed something important but never mind.
>>>>>
> What is 7 Inch Cinema?
A Birmingham-based outfit which produces all manner of
film/music events and projects including the Flatpack
Festival (returning in 2009).
> Do you take open submissions?
Yep – of DVDs, CDs, installation ideas, napkin doodles,
etc. Write to info[at]7inch.org.uk or:
7 INCH CINEMA / 4 BIRCHWOOD CRESCENT / BIRMINGHAM B12 8BN
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