Photograph by Hilmi Ramlan
As it involved quite a lot of things going on at the same time, there was only so much of the festival we could get to ourselves. Thankfully the joys of self-googling mean that we can relive the whole shebang through other people’s blogs…
Both Winnie and Kate Spragg wandered around Birmingham on the installation trail;
Owen Lee painted walls and took photos at Floodgate Kino;
Russl got annoyed with the calendar, but enjoyed Curzonora;
Nixon Leung was knocked out by David O’Reilly;
Samantha Moore took her offspring to Paper CInema;
James Yarker took his down to Floodgate St, and loved Rod McLachlan’s Paintcan;
Alec Chalmers had a jampacked Friday and Saturday, then decided to knock off on Sunday before his brains and eyes became runny;
Hilmi Ramlan had a mixed Saturday afternoon;
and Meme Cortex got lost in Digbeth after watching Sleep Furiously.
>> Extras
Olivier Ruellet’s flatpacked weekend;
Post mortem (arf);
Mubarak Elmubarak on In a Dream, Unpacked and the festival in general;
A feast of post-match analysis on the Little White Lies blog – 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 ;
David O’Reilly on his Birmingham jaunt;
Friction Arts look back on their weekend at the Edge;
and a review of Curzonora at Birmingham Live.
one thing i have been wondering is what will happen to floodgate kino now the festival is over? me and my friend were saying how we wished there was summat like that there all the time in digbeth where you can just drop in and out.
March 20, 2009 2:53 pmthe Custard Factory are currently seeking someone to lease the building. Hopefully it will continue in a creative vein, but it will require someone willing to pay the rent and manage it. In the meantime, there will be a Jibbering art show there in May.
March 23, 2009 6:09 pmOur photographs of July Skies and Victoria and Jacob, from the Closedown Party, are here – http://is.gd/ozRr. Many thanks for asking us to contribute!
Matt & Katie (Colour)
March 23, 2009 6:40 pm