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Live events

Live scores in the programme this year range from Harold Lloyd in Great Western Arcade to forgotten B-movie The Mask, revived with effects pedals and theremin at the 3D Party. Also look out for pop-up Mussorgsky from Birmingham Opera, a celluloid party at Thinktank and mind-blowing AV sets by Demdike Stare and Lee Gamble.

Victorian Magic Lantern Show

12:00 — 13:30 Thu 21st March

Join the University of Birmingham for this experience in time travel back to the 1890s, with exciting ...

Kopf Kino

Thu 21st March — Sat 23rd March

A converted shopping trolley that projects your face onto the nearest building.

Safety Last!

20:00 — 22:00 Thu 21st March

Great Western Arcade becomes a cinema for the evening, playing host to a rip-roaring Harold Lloyd comedy ...

Sol Cinema

Fri 22nd March — Sat 23rd March

A caravan converted into a solar-powered picturehouse - easily the smallest cinema at this year's ...

Songs and Dances of Death

13:00 — 16:00 Fri 22nd March

Over the course of three weeks Birmingham Opera Company are presenting a series of pop-up performances ...

The Passion of Joan of Arc

18:30 — 20:00 Sat 23rd March

Dreyer's timeless marvel in Birmingham Cathedral, with live piano by Paul Shallcross.

NBCQ hosts New British by Night

20:00 — 0:00am Sat 23rd March

Don your stiff upper lip and join us for a party to celebrate a smorgasbord of all things new, British ...

The Queen Ant Made Me Do It!

20:30 — 22:30 Sat 23rd March

Little Earthquake present cult insect horror classic Empire of the Ants.

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

16:00 — 17:30 Sun 24th March

Lotte Reiniger's spell-binding 1927 animation, with live dulcimer score by Geoff Smith.

Celluloid Nights

19:00 — 23:00 Wed 27th March

An evening of analogue film antics at Thinktank, in the birthplace of celluloid.

Renga

20:30 — 22:00 Thu 28th March

**This event has been cancelled due to circumstances beyond our control. Apologies for any inconvenience ...

Flatpack Palais Opening

20:30 — 22:30 Thu 28th March

After a week of exciting events in equally exciting places Flatpack is coming home to the Flatpack ...

Demdike Stare + Lee Gamble

21:00 — 2:00am Fri 29th March

Live AV sets by two of the best electronic acts around. Expect VHS horror, mangled jungle, fuzzed-out ...

Cyclomania

11:00 — 16:00 Sat 30th March

A celebration of the two-wheeled velocipede, featuring pedal-powered films, the Cyclotrope, bike polo and ...

At the Table

18:30 — 19:30 Sat 30th March

A live multidisciplinary event fuelled by a love of food and feasting.

Sarah Angliss

19:00 — 21:00 Sat 30th March

An extraordinary performance from Sarah Angliss in the spirit of Bruce Lacey. Sarah will be performing ...

3D Party

20:00 — 1:00am Sat 30th March

Stereoscopic Saturday night hijinks.

Out of the Inkwell

12:30 — 17:00 Sun 31st March

Hailed as the master of Chinese animation, Te Wei (1915–2010) was a pioneering animator and cartoonist. ...

Bring Out Your Dead Easter Special

14:00 — 17:30 Sun 31st March

A subsidiary of independent Birmingham label First Fold, Bring Out Your Dead (BOYD) is an AV collective ...

Eyes on the Prize

19:00 — 23:00 Sun 31st March

As Flatpack 7 slips through our fingers, we gather in the Palais once more to bid farewell to the whole ...