Flatpack Festival celebrates its fifth birthday with a Saturday night Paper Party
featuring zoetropes and turntables, a restored 60s mobile cinema, plus feature film
previews including Self Made, Marwencol and Meek’s Cutoff, an archive renaissance and adolescent metalheads from Loughborough…
An ever growing highlight on the UK’s cultural and film calendar which received major national recognition in 2010, Birmingham’s Flatpack Festival returns in March 2011 with another roller-coaster ride across the frontiers of film.
Previews include Gillian Wearing’s first feature film, Self Made, alongside events with artists such as People Like Us, who present Keystone Cutups, editing together amazing sequences from famous old films. See Above
The festival’s signature mix of the quirky and eccentric alongside forgotten gems and brand new talent is taken to new heights in 2011 with the promise of unmissable features, a vintage mobile cinema, live scores, experimental film, late night parties and more. Exciting new work from across the spectrum of cinema will be on offer, including psychedelic animation, immersive multi-media performance, prize-winning documentaries, offbeat films for kids and interactive projections.
From its hub on the Eastside of Birmingham, Flatpack Festival spills across the city, from shop fronts to converted warehouse spaces, art galleries and the 100 year old Electric Cinema. Inventive pop-up offerings and a real sense of occasion for cinema-going pervades every inch of this joyous visual adventure.
Flatpack Festival 23 – 27 March 2011 More Info on all the events/films:www.flatpackfestival.org
