Here’s a short animation which will be popping up before screenings at this year’s festival:
Flatpack 2010 Trailer from Dave Gaskarth on Vimeo.
Animation by David Mourato.
Original design and sound editing by Dave Gaskarth.
With thanks to the Visual Communication department at Birmingham City University.
Flatpack’s big Friday night this year comes courtesy of Synth Eastwood, a Dublin outfit famed for their open-submission art events. They’ll be hoovering up the sights and sounds of Birmingham in the days leading up to Fast Forward, and filling the Rainbow Warehouse with music, animation, performance and all sorts of multi-media gubbins. Here’s a wee taster:
Fast Forward With Synth Eastwood from Synth Eastwood on Vimeo.
(You may spot the Fairbrother timelapse images in there somewhere.) We’re really looking forward to this one. Clark makes wondrously dense-but-melodic music on Warp, Hugh Cooney is a very funny youtube renegade who we’ve mentioned before, and Gangpol & Mit bounce tunes and cartoons back and forth between each other to make barmy live shows like this.
PS: You can also see G&M and Synth Eastwood talking about their work as part of Unpacked.
The programme is now online and the brochure will be on the streets next week. While you wait to get your mits on a physical programme, here’s a sneaky peek of two treats in store over the festival.
The Secret of Kells is a stunning animation about how the Book of Kells was completed and survived to become one of Ireland’s national treasures. The film has won several awards and an Oscar nomination for its animation which is nearly as beautiful as the book itself.
A Film About Poo is a lovely little film that will be screened in the Colour Box Shorts programme and is all about….erm…The catchy song has got into all of our heads, and I will certainly be humming it to myself all day! The shorts programme will also feature a screening of The Brothers McLeod’s beautiful new film Moonbird as well as other super and silly shorts including birthday cake, a sleepy cat and Rapunzel.
As you may have noticed, this little blog has suddenly become surrounded by a bulging programme of goodies. There is a fair bit to digest on the website, but once again we have to say a big thank you to Dave Gaskarth (Cyrk, design) and Jacob Masters (Gabba, build) for making it so digestible. The Flatpack brochure is also on its way and will be hitting the streets in about a week. Last night we paraded our wares and handed out stickers at the newly opened Created in Birmingham shop in the Bullring – a really nice do, and we’re looking forward to camping out in the shop over the course of the festival.
After the recent copy-writing marathon it’s time to take a break from words, but we’ll be back next week to start flagging up some of the treats in store.
I can think of a couple of retired projectionists who would find this little film by Temujin Doran quite comforting. Someone posted it on our facebook page, and we’ll be showing it before a feature at Flatpack.
Facts About Projection from Studiocanoe on Vimeo.
