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(Previously run by Pete Ashton until he stepped down in April)

Joint-winner of the Media Guardian Innovation Award for Independent Blog 2008. "An entrepot for the cultural chaos of Birmingham"

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Links for November 4th

november listings « Ian’s 7inch blog
Ian’s invaluable guide to the month’s film happenings might be taking a bit of a break with the Flatpack Festival demanding attention, so get it while you can
Time for Birmingham to support the independent arts
Fierce Earth’s Helga Henry asks - “creating a civic arts hub – a suitably bold and […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted November 4, 2008 in Links | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Flatpack Festival 3 announced

The splendid 7 Inch Cinema folk have announced the return of the Flatpack Festival which took a year off this year.  The dates for Flatpack 3 will be 11-15 March 2009.
The website for 2007’s festival is still up including this description of what it’s all about:
The festival remains fiendishly difficult to summarise, but intrepid punters […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted October 8, 2008 in Festivals, Film | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)

Pram DVD launch at 7 Inch Cinema

Lots of goodness at the next 7 Inch Cinema event:

Launch of Pram’s DVD ‘Shadow Shows of the Phantascope’
Airings of some of Pram’s inspirations
Brian Duffy and Grandmaster Gareth playing choons

and in a more tradtional 7 Inch vein earlier in the evening there’ll be plenty of shorts including:

Rachael (Rill) Marchant - ‘Untitled Actress’
Brothers McLeod - ‘Codswallop’ (their […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted September 24, 2008 in Film | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Rex The Runt - The City Shrinkers

and so the beginning of our benevolent colonial rule of Birmingham began
A passing mention on 7 Inch Cinema’s latest blog post (they’re just back from Tilda Swinton’s Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams) led me to this - an episode of Rex The Runt where Rex wins the city of Birmingham:

By Chris Unitt | Posted August 28, 2008 in Animation | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Links for July 23rd

Graphiquillan - tea break painting | process
The joy of artists’ blogs - I like seeing the process behind/around the finished work. This is “the journey from sketch to almost finished study for a future painting”
stitches and hos have a blog
“For now here’s a picture of a knitted fish blanket that I love”.  A blog for […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted July 23, 2008 in Links | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Links for July 19th

Brumcast 106 ‘Asshole, Jackoff, Scumbag’
Little Chris is back once again, like some sort of renegade master
Inter-Act
Shiny and new - “Inter-Act is a newly established devising company made up of young creative artists. Inter-Act are dedicated to creating new and exciting pieces of work whilst also providing educational programs for young people”
The Big Picture - Help […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted July 19, 2008 in Links | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments (3)

Links for July 2nd

Midlands sitting pretty at Edinburgh Film Festival - Birmingham Post
Roger Shannon looks at Birmingham’s representation at the film festival
Upon further investigation. A site visit to Ludgate Car Park in Birmingham (UK)
Harry Palmer reports on his investigation/survey of one of the few remaining sites in Birmingham that hasn’t been built on since being bombed in WW2.
7inch […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted July 2, 2008 in Links | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Interview with 7 Inch Cinema

It’s a busy time for 7 Inch Cinema.  They’ve celebrated their 5th birthday, their excellent Flatpack Festival has gained recognition from the UK Film Counci and they have a series of events coming up as part of the Flux and Supersonic festivals.
Frankie sat down for tea and biscuits with Pip and Ian and discussed Ian’s […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted July 1, 2008 in Interviews | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (1)

7 Inch Cinema - 5th Birthday

First up, don’t forget that Ian from 7 Inch Cinema is presenting his Favourite Things at the Ikon Gallery this evening (25 June) from 6.30 to 7.30pm in the events room.
Consider that a taster for the main event on Saturday - 7 Inch Cinema’s birthday, which they’re celebrating with a line-up so tasty it’s almost […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted June 25, 2008 in Film | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Flatpack Festival secures funding

Some great news from the peeps at 7 Inch Cinema landed on the virtual doormat today.  The Flatpack Festival is the worthy recipient of funding for the next three years, securing it’s future and allowing the organisers to maybe think a little bigger.
Peter Buckingham from the UK Film Council (who are providing the funding) said […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted June 17, 2008 in Film, Funding | Tagged , , , | Comments (4)

FLUX-FEST

Something that’s been in my ‘to investigate’ pile for a while, from 25 June to 13 July Vivid present FLUX-FEST, a season of events celebrating the spirit of Fluxus which, if you’ve not come across it before (like me), emerged as a reaction to the high-art of the 60’s. The emphasis is therefore on […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted June 6, 2008 in Festivals | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Wednesdays at Ikon Gallery

A couple of good things from the Ikon. Firstly, every Wednesday over the summer the gallery and bookshop will be open until 8pm (cafe until 11pm).
Coinciding with the late openings is a series of talks called ‘These are a few of my favourite things’ which will be
loosely based on Desert Island Discs where speakers […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted June 2, 2008 in Art | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)
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