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Post-apocalyptic pics

Last Thursday we put on a little ‘walk-in movie‘ at The Edge as part of the Diesel Island programme. The general theme was surviving the apocalypse, and we found that this is the ideal neighbourhood when searching for oil-drums, timber and rubble. Tom Baker from Loaf gave useful advice on foraging, and then the car park filled up for an outdoor showing of cult end-of-the-world drama Miracle Mile.

The following night I caught American Werewolf in London in the back-yard of the Spotted Dog, and I’m hoping that this is the start of a global-warming-inspired trend for al fresco movies around Digbeth. Watch this space for more in the future. In the meantime, the Diesel series climaxes with a free disco at the Custard Factory’s Old Library tomorrow night (Friday 20 May). See Area for the full programme.

Extra Special People SALON: 7 Inch Cinema

Join us as Eastside Projects tonight, Thursday 18 March, 6.30-8pm for an Extra Special People SALON with Ian Francis and Pip McKnight, founders of 7″Cinema and directors of the Flatpack film festival. They will be talking about how their projects came into existence, what has happened along the way and showing a preview of selected works from the Channel 2 programme being screened at Flatpack 2010, including Memotech (dir: Marianna Morkore), The Bellows March (dir: Eric Dyer) and the Italian collective Flatform.

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*Please note this is an Extra Special People event only – to join ESP check the website http://eastsideprojects.org/index.php?/extra-special-people/ or get in touch esp@eastsideprojects.org

Flatpack Festival 2010

Flatpack Festival, the eclectic film festival organised by 7 inch Cinema is nearly upon us! From 23-28 March, the festival will be taking over venues across Birmingham including Eastside.  Flatpack will be taking film to an array of unexpected places, from re-scored silent cinema masterpieces to plasticine parties, cult horror to fantasy musicals.

Highlights include a screening of F.W. Murnau’s 1927 marvel Sunrise with a new score by acclaimed jazz musician Alcyona Mick at St. Martin’s Church in the Bullring. French artist Julien Maire will also be performing at Birmingham Central Library and Vivid, playing with technology to create bewitching optical illusions.

Dublin collective Synth Eastwood will have a mini-residency at the Rainbow Warehouse, building up to a warehouse event blurring the boundaries between gallery and club on Friday 26 March. Expect an eye-opening stew of graphics, installations, music and performance. Live guests include Clark (Warp), AV duo Gangpol and Mit and YouTube provocateur Hugh Cooney.

The full programme line-up and tickets are available now at www.flatpackfestival.org.uk