Picture Houses: exhibition opening

Photographer John Fallon has spent a number of years tracking down former cinemas in varying degrees of disrepair, and capturing medium-format images of them inside and out. From familiar icons like the Odeon Kingstanding (now a Mecca Bingo) to the Electric Palace in Bloxwich (youth club), Picture Houses is a roll call of relics haunted by film-going ghosts. A selection of these images will be on show at mac until May, and tonight's launch includes archive footage of Birmingham cinemas doing what they were built for.