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Video Strolls returns to Birmingham for another afternoon of artists’ films on place and journeying. Featuring work by artists local and not so local including Siân Macfarlane, Michael Smith, Aaron Graham, Siobhán Mckeown, Pete Ashton and Joel Blackledge. Prior to … Continue reading →

A curated collection of artists’ films on place and journeying by Video Strolls for the West Hampstead Cinema Club. Saturday 23rd June 2018, 6:30pm for walk. 7:30pm for films. The Community Association of West Hampstead 17 Dornfell Street, London NW6 … Continue reading →

We’re excited to be back at Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival this year. We’ll be showing Christopher Ian Smith’s New Town Utopia documentary. Wednesday 18th April, 8pm to 10pm Centrala, Unit 4 Minerva Works, 158 Fazerly Street, Birmingham B5 5RT What happens … Continue reading →

We’re excited to be showing a small collection of scary films about landscape as part of The London Fortean Society’s Haunted Landscapes conference “Folklore, Ghosts and Witchcraft” Saturday 18th November, 10am to 5pm Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London … Continue reading →

Andy Howlett is in the process of making a film about the loss of our iconic Central Library and the Birmingham architect John Madin, “Paradise lost history in the unmaking” . He will be presenting clips from his film and … Continue reading →

We’ll be showing a selection of short films with a literary bent, about amorous feelings for library buildings and of poets and the places they write about. Films include: Robey by Owen Davey, Craig Bilham and Tim Wells The Battle … Continue reading →

Birmingham’s Flatpack Film Festival has just announced its programme for next month and we’re frothing at the mouth. We shall of course be attending and we’re thrilled to be joined by one of our heroes John Rogers for a screening of … Continue reading →

 Film still from Emily Richardson’s ‘Aspect’, which will feature in the programme We’re really pleased to have been invited to Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival in Hawick, in the Scottish borders, to curate a programme of artists’ films on … Continue reading →

“Where’s Birmigham’s River? Sunk.” Flatpack have invited us back for another evening of ambulatory entertainment, this time built around Tom Pickard’s 1991 film Birmingham’s What I Think With. This one-hour documentary follows poet Roy Fisher around various hidden corners of Birmingham, … Continue reading →

Join us at the Archway With Words book festival for a selection of new writings, readings and films by Michael Smith. Michael Smith is the author of several novels (Giro Playboy, Unreal City, and Shorty Loves Wing Wong for Faber & … Continue reading →