Flatpack 3 / 11th March - 15th March 2009
13 Events tagged with "documentary"

Floodgate Kino
Friday 13th 02:00am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Bill Daniel

USA 2005, 56 mins

Feat. Coaltrain; Herby; Colossus of Roads; The Rambler

 

Over a period of 16 years Bill Daniel shot reams of super 8 and 16mm...

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Electric screen 2
Friday 13th 04:30am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Peter Geyer

Germany 2008, 83 mins

Feat. Klaus Kinski

 

In 1971, at the height of his international fame, Klaus Kinski took to the stage of a huge auditorium in Berlin to deliver his account of the life of Christ. It was planned as the first show in a one-man world tour, but Kinski had barely...

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Electric screen 1
Friday 13th 21:00pm
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Christopher Petit / Jacques Tourneur

UK 1999, 39 mins / USA 1947, 97 mins

Feat. Manny Farber; Robert Mitchum

 

The film critic and painter Manny Farber wrote jazzy, freestyle appreciations of cinema, more concerned with moments and gestures than stories or directors. A lover of slapstick, B-movies and Chuck Jones cartoons, his best-known legacy is a...

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Electric screen 2
Saturday 14th 01:30am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Kieran Evans

UK 2008, 87 mins

Feat. Vashti Bunyan; Devendra Banhart; Adem; Joe Boyd; John James

 

The tale of singer-songwriter Vashti Bunyan has solidified into legend over the past couple of years: a brief flirtation with fame in the 60s and a debut LP which barely registered...

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The Custard Factory Theatre
Saturday 14th 01:30am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Jeanie Finlay

UK/USA 2008, 74 mins

Feat. Lots of Goths; Wayne Hussey; Voltaire; Andi Sexgang   

 

If you’ve been to one of the sunnier All Tomorrow’s Parties and witnessed pale, black-clad festival-goers picking their way through the holidaymakers at Camber Sands, then you’ll have some idea of the culture-clash at the heart of Goth Cruise...

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South Birmingham College
Saturday 14th 23:00pm
£4   Book tickets

Dir. Peter Clifton & Joe Massot

UK/USA 1976, 137 mins

Feat. Robert Plant; Jimmy Page; John Bonham; John Paul Jones

 

Back in the day when psychedelic concept movies were compulsory for any self-respecting rock band, Led Zeppelin took the plunge with this patchy but often entertaining document of their 1973 Houses of the Holy tour. The meat of the film is a...

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Floodgate Kino
Sunday 15th 02:00am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Romain Gavras

France 2008, 64 mins

Feat. Justice; lots of crazy American fans

 

Justice like to whip their audiences into a frenzy, pummelling them with flashing lights and apocalyptic basslines until they’re pretty much ready to do anything. This candid tour-film shot on the road in North America last summer...

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Electric screen 2
Sunday 15th 02:00am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Jeremiah Zagar

USA 2008, 80 mins

Feat. Isaiah Zagar; Julia Zagar; Ezekiel Zagar

 

Turn the corner of certain streets in Philadelphia and you may have to pinch yourself. Plastered (literally) across thousands of feet of wall is the life-work of Isaiah Zagar, a series of mosaics using scattered words, images, shards of glass and...

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Electric screen 1
Sunday 15th 18:00pm
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Gideon Koppel

UK 2008, 94 mins

Feat. Small farming community

 

A flock of sheep are slowly herded along a hillside. A bale of hay gets wrapped in black plastic. A dog watches a tractor disappear in the distance. A choir practice. A mobile library. This documentary portrait of a Welsh farming community...

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Electric screen 1
Sunday 15th 20:00pm
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Various

 

In 1949 John Andrews was given a second-hand Pathe 9.5mm cine camera for his 15th birthday. He and a few other boys in the neighbourhood decided to start up a youth-club, using John’s garage as a studio and filming around the area in...

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Floodgate Kino
Sunday 15th 23:00pm
Free Entry

Dir. Lance Bauscher

USA 2003, 82 mins

Feat. Robert Anton Wilson

 

"Most people just take themselves too damn seriously, which is why they act like damn fools."
An exhilarating journey into the life and thought of Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Illuminatus! trilogy. Sometimes labelled as a conspiracy...

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Floodgate Kino
Monday 16th 01:15am
£6   Book tickets

Dir. Aaron Rose

USA 2008, 91 mins

Feat. Ed Templeton; Harmony Korine; Barry McGee; Mike Mills; Margaret Kilgallen; Shepard Fairey; Geoff McFettridge

 

In the early 90s Aaron Rose set up a New York shopfront gallery which became a lightning-rod for a loose collective of artists. They were rooted in DIY subcultures like skateboarding, punk and graffiti - Style Wars is credited as a...

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Ikon Eastside
Monday 16th 01:30am
£5   Book tickets

 

An evening of archive film and discussion devoted to Birmingham's ever-changing skyline, including a screening of the BBC's 1965 portrait of John Madin, architect of Central Library.

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