Flatpack are currently recruiting Student Ambassadors to represent the festival at universities across the Midlands and beyond.
Ambassadors will help publicise Flatpack on their campus by flyering on location, promoting the festival to film socs and other relevant networks, and by informally getting the festival known on campus by word of mouth.
No experience is necessary and it’s a great opportunity to get involved with marketing at a grassroots level. Ambassadors will also receive a festival pass for their efforts.
To register your interest just email holly@7inch.org.uk
Flatpack tends to involve a jumble of artforms, so this year’s collaboration with storytelling wizards YARN makes total sense. With your help we’re aiming to recreate the entire plot of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, through the medium of song, performance, film, illustration and literature (and probably a few others). Each participant will be allocated a slice of the Charles Foster Kane saga (around 6.5% of it), and will then have to work out an interesting way of telling it. This is how it works…
- The doors are now open to your expressions of interest – just fill in the short form on Yarn’s site and let us know why you’d like to be involved;
- On 1 March submissions will close, and we’ll select fifteen teams (three for each artform) to tell the story;
- Shortly before the festival each team will receive their story-chunk, with a week or so to prepare for…
- The grand finale. On 18 March – the last day of the festival – the entire film will be recreated at the Custard Factory from start to finish in a dazzling, multi-media, cast-of-thousands performance known as Five Stories High.
That’s about the size of it. If you’re interested in taking part, keep these dates in mind and think about what sort of team you’d want to put together – solo submissions are also very welcome. There will be very little in the way of budget for participants, but technical and emotional support in abundance and some free Flatpack tickets.
Flatpack Festival are now looking for enthusiastic and committed volunteers to join the Festival Team in 2012.
As usual, we’ll be infiltrating a swathe of weird and wonderful venues across Birmingham in March. We’ve conjured up a magical mix of film screenings and live events, and thrown in a sprinkling of experimental art and music for good measure. We’ll need our volunteers to help us with things like setting up venues, stewarding, box office and bars.
The festival runs from the 14th to 18th March, and volunteers need to be available for the whole period.
If you’d like to be part of the Flatpack experience please download an application form from the website (links below) and email the completed form to volunteers@7inch.org.uk.
The closing date for applications is Friday 10th February.
http://www.7inch.org.uk/files/flatpack_volunteer_form.doc
http://www.7inch.org.uk/files/flatpack_volunteer_form.pdf
Thursday 12th May 2011
The Edge, 20:00-23:00
Entry: Free
Those five days of film, music and delicious cakes have flown by for another year but for those of you who need more Flatpack Festivity in your life we have a Post-Apocalyptic Walk-In Movie; a night of training for the imminently unprepared on how to survive in a world laid bare. For one night only The Edge will be home to a Post-Apocalyptic Cinema screening the very best in wasteland punks and undisclosed global annihilations. And its all free! All you’ll need to get in is a Diesel Passport which you can pick up at any Diesel Store.
Tom Baker, of LOAF fame, will also be doing a workshop on foraging in the city (useful if you want to avoid Zombie crowded supermarkets) and the night will be played out to a dystopian soundtrack from a line up of resident DJ’s. You can bring along your own food, drinks and mercenary gangs - though we do ask that all weaponry be left outside the compound.
The Facebook Page here.
The Diesel Shop & The Edge are here.
Other events happening in association with Diesel Island here.
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With so much brilliant stuff packed in to this year’s programme, it’s a tricky task to select just a few highlights. Here’s some of the events that I am curious to see:
First up, Too Much Information on Thursday 24 March, a chance to check out what this bunch of ingenious youngsters have recently been up to. If you’ve not yet seen the animated delights of David O’Reilly or Mikey Please, this is a must-see screening.
Then there’s the Memory Leak screening on Friday 25 March, a selection of mind blowing found footage films and reflective video essays by experimental makers Jenna Collins, Oliver Laric and Thom Anderson.
As an ardent horror fan, I am rather excited about Rubber by Quentin Dupiex, aka Mr Oizo. I’ve been anticipating its release since catching a teaser of the killer tyre on Mr Oizo’s Vimeo channel almost a year ago: http://vimeo.com/user1346942/videos Marvel at this cinematic oddity on Saturday.
Also on Saturday 26 March, don’t miss the screening of Duncan Campbell’s timely tale, Make It New John. The ever eloquent artist Duncan Campbell will also be conversing about his interest in all things political and archival.
And if none of the above should inspire, I’d recommend People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz’s remarkable Keystone Cut-Ups AV spectacle, Thomson & Craighead’s installation piece The Time Machine in Alphabetical Order and the unmissable touching debut feature, Self Made by Gillian Wearing.
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