David Lodge

Flatpack Festival at Ikon Eastside

Ikon has teamed up with organisers 7 Inch Cinema to present a series of events at Ikon Eastside as part of this year’s Flatpack Festival, which takes place between 23-28 March 2010.

Festival highlights at Ikon Eastside include the UK premier of Redmond Entwistle’s film Monument, showing as part of Build Them in the Mind on Friday 26 March. The film, currently showing in New York, tells the story of post-minimalist artists Dan Graham, Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark, who wander the New Jersey suburbs revisiting the places where they made site-specific works in the late sixties and early seventies. The film’s themes – abandoned buildings, architecture, urban planning – reflect some of the wider concerns of this year’s festival.

Look out also for David Lodge’s As I Was Walking Down Bristol Street (1983), an insight into Birmingham’s cultural scene in the 1930s, Whatever! a doublebill of filth and fantasy including Cody Critcheloe’s first feature-length movie Boy (2009) and a rare screening of John Water’s legendary Pink Flamingos (1972), and Burning (2009), an intense monochrome record of Scottish post-rockers Mogwai in action. The screening will be introduced by Stuart Braithwaite from Mogwai.

Full listings for Flatpack Festival at Ikon Eastside can be found here.

Tickets cost £6 each or £20 for four screenings

23–28 March 2010
Ikon Eastside, 183 Fazeley Street
Digbeth, Birmingham B5 5SE