Who? A mix of forgotten classics and brand new films, established and emerging filmmakers.
What? A four-day and four-night film festival that spills across Birmingham city, into shop fronts and converted warehouses, art galleries and 100-year-old Electric Cinemas. A platform for fresh talent, the Flatpack Festival will also be showing many old masterpieces and an eclectic spectrum of cinema including psychedelic animation, immersive multimedia performance, prize-winning documentaries and interactive projections. With a vintage mobile cinema also part of the line-up, the festival, which is in it’s fifth year, will also include live scores, experimental film and late night parties for the revelers amongst us.
Why? With only three days left of the festival make sure you check out Gillian Wearing’s first feature – Self Made; Every Minute, Always – immersive headphone performance in a cinema for two people; Keystone Cutups – a kaleidoscopic voyage through early cinema by cut-up connoisseurs People Like Us and Ergo Phizmiz; and the homage to founder of the Museum of Modern Art’s film archive, Iris Barry.
Flatpack Festival takes place across Birmingham city until 27 March.
Text by Lucia Davies
