An Eastside knees-up featuring Stuart Braithwaite, Moon Unit, Jackdaw with Crowbar and free plasticine.
23rd-27th March 2011 / Birmingham UK
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Cult classic Mexican horror film about two girls summoning up demonic forces in a convent.
Werner Herzog and Nicolas Cage make beautiful music together in post-Katrina New Orleans
Another perfectly-pitched slice of everyday life from Andrew Bujalski, this time centred around thrift-store politics in Austin, Texas.
Offering Birmingham film-goers “the opportunity to see films of importance… which they ordinarily find difficult or impossible to see.”
Two groups of work looking at cinema’s relationship to sculpture, location and its own mechanics, including the UK premiere of Redmond Entwistle's Monuments.
Early last year Scottish post-rockers Mogwai were filmed during their residency at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn.
The best new animated shorts from around the world, including Vessela Dantcheva's Anna Blume.
A selection of inventive animated films from all over the place, featuring birthday cakes, witches and noisy birds.
A spaced-out, bittersweet portrait of Melbourne’s post-punk scene, born out of a legendary three-week queue for David Bowie tickets in 1978.
Winner of the ‘Un Certain Regard’ prize at last year’s Cannes Festival, Yorgos Lanthimos‘s Greek oddity is unlike anything you are likely to see at your local cinema this year.
The debut feature from Ben Wheatley maps out the domestic tensions of a Sussex crime family as they attempt to ferret out the informant in their midst.
An intensive 2 day proposal development and pitching workshop to help you prepare your factual project for UK and international funding.
It wasn't only MGM making musicals in the 1930s, and this sparkling Jessie Matthews vehicle was one of Britain's best efforts.
A guide to creating your own simple stop-frame animation, by one of the people behind cult CBBC show OOglies.
"A writer sits at a table writing a text. Simply by sliding his fingers over a blank piece of paper, printed text appears under his finger."
A new documentary about filmmaker Bill Douglas and his love of optical entertainments, followed by a real life magic lantern show.
Imagine a world where indie shoegazers are dangerous renegades, where a copy of the NME is like the Anarchist's Cookbook.
Amazing footage of musicians from across Western Sahara, courtesy of Sublime Frequencies.
Showcase programme from Glasgow Short Film Festival. Features compulsive body-popping and flying lighthouse-keepers.
After last year's deluge of eco-docs, Petropolis takes a completely fresh approach to the campaign documentary.
A group of adolescent fighter-pilots (‘Kildren’) are part of a mysterious, ongoing war in this adaptation of a series of books by Hiroshi Mori.
F.W.Murnau's classic 1927 film in St Martin's Church, with a new score by jazz pianist Alcyona Mick.
Question. What has 27 heads, is part-Irish part-English part-French, eats loud repetitive beats, projects wobbly animations and wants to meet new friends?
"My major intention is to change ordinary everyday life scenes and draw the audience into a vortex of supernatural illusion by exercising the magic of films."
Intimate film of life on tour with new-folk luminaries Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom and Vetiver, plus a short documentary about Delia Derbyshire.
Oscar-nominated animation imagining the story behind one of Ireland's national treasures.
Featuring exclusive footage and candid interviews with key figures, Until The Light Takes Us gives a clinical insight into the roots of black metal and the distorting lens of the media.
Bimingham's cultural scene in the 1930s. What made the city such a cultural hub between the wars?
A taste of 1930s cinema-going, with Odeon and Electric footage and special guest Juliet Gardiner.
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