Floodgate Kino
Dates : Friday 13th - Monday 16th
Free Entry
Feat. Kevin Timmins; Rod MacLachlan; Phil Barber
This year Flatpack will be making itself at home in a warehouse on Floodgate St, Digbeth. Between Thursday and Sunday you can drop in for festival info, a drink or some cake, and have a look at three ingenious devices which play with film in different ways...
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Floodgate Kino
Friday 13th 02:00am
£6 Book tickets
Dir. Bill Daniel
USA 2005, 56 mins
Feat. Coaltrain; Herby; Colossus of Roads; The Rambler
Over a period of 16 years Bill Daniel shot reams of super 8 and 16mm...
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Floodgate Kino
Friday 13th 04:00am
£6 Book tickets
Dir. Various
Approx. 80 mins
videos.antville is a collective music video blog which we’ve been plundering for some time in search of promo gold. As with many web communities there can be a certain amount of vitriol, but plenty of industry folks dally there and you...
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Floodgate Kino
Saturday 14th 01:30am
£6 Book tickets
Dir. Various
Featuring: Georges Melies; Walerian Borowczyk & Chris Marker; Jeanne Liotta
We’ve been meaning to do a programme like this for ages, and the 400th anniversary of Galileo first pointing his telescope at the sky seems as good a time as any. From Georges Melies onwards filmmakers have been looking upwards for inspiration...
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Floodgate Kino
Saturday 14th 04:30am
£7 Book tickets
Feat. Paper Cinema; Bela Emerson
It’s Friday night. To mark this momentous occasion, Floodgate Kino will be opening its doors for an evening of performance, film and music to shake your very foundations. We welcome two very special guests:
PAPER CINEMA & KORA...
Floodgate Kino
Saturday 14th 20:00pm
Free Entry
Dir. Alan Bishop & Mark Gergis
USA 2006, 60 mins
An hour of mesmerising musical footage filmed around Sumatra in Northern Indonesia by the folks who run Sublime Frequencies records, including red-hot drumming in Banda Aceh shortly before the tsunami.
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Floodgate Kino
Saturday 14th 21:00pm
Free Entry
Dir. Various
90 mins
Last year 7 Inch Cinema were invited to come up with something crafty to complement the ‘Fabric of Myth’ exhibition at Compton Verney, and Knitflicks was the result. Traversing the globe, all 15 shorts, animations and music...
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Floodgate Kino
Sunday 15th 00:00am
Free Entry
Dir. Various
Feat. Guy Sherwin; Lis Rhodes; Darryl Georgiou
A programme of experimental film and new media art including work by Lis Rhodes and Guy Sherwin. Curated by Darryl Georgiou, and first shown at the Herbert in Coventry last year...
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Floodgate Kino
Sunday 15th 02:00am
£6 Book tickets
Dir. Romain Gavras
France 2008, 64 mins
Feat. Justice; lots of crazy American fans
Justice like to whip their audiences into a frenzy, pummelling them with flashing lights and apocalyptic basslines until they’re pretty much ready to do anything. This candid tour-film shot on the road in North America last summer...
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Floodgate Kino
Sunday 15th 04:00am
£6 Book tickets
Dir. Lorenzo Fonda
Italy 2008, 84 mins
Feat. Blu
You may have come across a mural by Blu, amorphous bald creatures spread across the side of a building in some European city. Or you might have seen his short MUTO on the web, in which one of the creatures begins to move with startling...
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Floodgate Kino
Sunday 15th 23:00pm
Free Entry
Dir. Lance Bauscher
USA 2003, 82 mins
Feat. Robert Anton Wilson
"Most people just take themselves too damn seriously, which is why they act like damn fools."
An exhilarating journey into the life and thought of Robert Anton Wilson, author of the Illuminatus! trilogy. Sometimes labelled as a conspiracy...
Floodgate Kino
Monday 16th 01:15am
£6 Book tickets
Dir. Aaron Rose
USA 2008, 91 mins
Feat. Ed Templeton; Harmony Korine; Barry McGee; Mike Mills; Margaret Kilgallen; Shepard Fairey; Geoff McFettridge
In the early 90s Aaron Rose set up a New York shopfront gallery which became a lightning-rod for a loose collective of artists. They were rooted in DIY subcultures like skateboarding, punk and graffiti - Style Wars is credited as a...
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Floodgate Kino
Monday 16th 03:30am
£4 / free to Flatpack ticket-holders
Dir. Various
180 mins
Feat. July Skies
The end! Watch the weekend gently slide away in the company of live guests July Skies and an unofficial 'best of the fest'. Presented in association with Colour...
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