Before the holidays, a spookily like-minded festival got in touch. Lichter Filmtage show shorts, documentaries, animation and experimental work alongside live stuff, in all kinds of venues around Frankfurt – one of Birmingham’s twin cities. It’s like having a German doppelganger! We’d love to go, but their dates are almost exactly the same as ours so it’s unlikely. Hopefully we’ll be linking up in some way though.
Fabbo little video document of Synth Eastwood’s stay in Birmingham. There are also shedloads of GIFs on their site.
Synth Eastwood At Flatpack Festival from Synth Eastwood on Vimeo.
One of those things that we forgot to blog about in the run-up to the festival – a cross-section illustration of the Odeon Leicester Square, from Modern Wonder vol.3 no.58 (25 June 1938):
This was published the year after Odeon’s flagship cinema opened. Although some of the architects involved felt that the building itself was a bit of a let-down, this drawing gives you a fair idea of the interior’s wow factor. The illustrator was Leslie Ashwell Wood, later responsible for many of the cutaways of cruise-ships and space rockets in Eagle comics. Author Steve Holland has done an impressive amount of research into Ashwell Wood, and gathered some of it at his Bear Alley blog.
A whole year back animator Jim le Fevre brought his marvellous Phonotrope device along to Unpacked. He’s recently posted the talk he did that day up on his site. (We can’t embed it here, cos we’re not vimeo plus.)
Last Saturday animator Andy Wyatt kindly brought along the contents of his kitchen for the Animate Your Own Vegetable event at the Electric. After showing the audience the basic principles of stop-frame animation a group of eager young assistants made their own film, and here are the fruits (arf arf) of their labours:
Animated vegetables from 7inch cinema on Vimeo.
Many thanks to Andy, to all the filmmakers and to Greg McLeod for adding the sound.
© Flatpack Festival 2010