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7inch are chuffed to bits to welcome Mr Jack Stevenson back to Birmingham. Jack is a tireless collector and disseminator of lost celluloid gold, much of it battered 16mm recovered from many years of trawling old movie-houses and junkshops.
Email:
info (at) 7inch (dot) org (dot) uk
More Information:
http://www.7inch.org.uk
7 INCH CINEMA PRESENT JACK STEVENSON’S STRANGE MAGIC
Sunday 23 March, from 7pm, at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
We are chuffed to bits to welcome Mr Jack Stevenson back to Birmingham. Jack is a tireless collector and disseminator of lost celluloid gold, much of it battered 16mm recovered from many years of trawling old movie-houses and junkshops.
Last time he was in these parts he nearly demolished the Rainbow with a marvellous set of rare Elvis, and on this occasion he presents a hand-picked journey through surrealist cinema. In his own words:
"This show attempts to replicate the disconcerting properties of surrealism in both form as well as content by mixing all conceivable types of film together to create an irreverent take on the art-form that is by turns playful, disturbing and bizarre. Strange Magic expands the borders of what is normally thought of as Surrealist cinema by including TV commercials, educational films, animated and musical shorts and unclassifiable outtakes with acknowledged surrealist masterpieces such as The Life & Death of a Hollywood Extra and Playboy Voodoo... A show full of entertaining surprises and odd moments."
Plus guest DJ Grindi, from Club Unlikely. £4 on the door.
> http://www.7inch.org.uk/About_7inch/Events/65.aspx
More info on Strange Magic can be found at the station16 site:
> http://www.station16.dk/Strange_Magic.html
Jack will be signing copies of his book Land of a Thousand Balconies on the
night, and you can also catch him at the mac on Saturday 22nd presenting a
selection of rock n roll docs:
> http://www.macarts.co.uk/?page=event.html&id=2838
(+ after-show party: Latin Mutante at the Crown, Corporation St)
ALSO LOOK OUT FOR:
28th March-13th April
BORDERLINES FILM FESTIVAL 2008
17 days of ‘cinema on the borders’, in 25 cinemas across Herefordshire,
Worcestershire and Shropshire.
> http://www.borderlinesfilmfestival.co.uk/
Sat 29th March, 8pm at the mac in Edgbaston
ANOTHER KIND OF PLAY
On the eve of a major refurbishment, reworked archive footage of mac
will be accompanied by live sets from Brian Duffy, Dreams of Tall
Buildings and Little Sister.
> http://www.macarts.co.uk/?page=event.html&id=2817