Film Bug
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Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 March Colmore Business District Following the success of last year’s first Film Bug outing, we’ve teamed up with Colmore Business District once again, but this time we’re sticking around in the city centre for even longer. This year Film Bug runs over three days giving you even more opportunity to experience a host of shorts and feature film screenings, talks, walking tours, live scores, and various other bits and bobs in some of the district’s most interesting spaces and venues. And most of it’s free.
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The Film Bug Hub is located on Colmore Row, just up from Snow Hill. As well as some awesome experimental films showing in there, our trusty volunteers will be on hand to offer advice on the programme.
Pedal-Powered Cinema Thursday 21 March, 12–4pm Great Western Arcade / Free If you’re seeking entertainment and exercise on your lunchbreak, here's both in one handy package. With help from Sustrans a pedal-powered cinema will be setting up in the arcade for the afternoon, screening a range of cycling films as a (literal) warm-up for Cyclomania next weekend (p.27). Keep pedalling though, or the show’s over.
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Dissimilated Visions Thursday 21 March, 12–6pm Friday 22 March, 12–7.30pm Saturday 23 March, 12–6pm Film Bug Hub / Free, 30 mins (loop) Located in the Film Bug Hub, Dissimilated Visions is a single screen installation of some of the finest contemporary short experimental works with work from the Netherlands, Japan and the US. Drop in, say hello, and discover more of what Film Bug has to offer.
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A Taste of Flatpack Thursday 21 March, 5.30pm Home Café Deli / Free Dir. Various, 75 mins If you’re dipping your toes into the Flatpack bath for the first time then this is the screening for you. Cramming the best of Flatpack into just over an hour is no easy feat so this mixtape of shorts may well leave you wanting more. You can bring your own booze but note that there’ll be a corkage charge.
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kopf Kino Thursday 21 – Saturday 23 March, 6–10pm Roaming / Free Kopf Kino is a futuristic-looking device on wheels projecting images of whoever looks into it onto buildings. It’ll be meandering around the city centre for three nights, so seek it out, look inside it, and get dwarfed by a 2D version of yourself on the closest façade.
Safety Last! Thursday 21 March, 8pm Great Western Arcade / £8 (£6) Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor USA 1923, 73 mins The opening night of Flatpack has seen us visiting various churches and concert halls across the city, but this is the first time we’ve launched proceedings in a shopping arcade. Built in 1875 on top of a railway cutting between Snow Hill and Moor Street stations, the spectacular Great Western Arcade will be transforming itself into a cinema for one night only. Our main feature includes one iconic moment which defined the film and its creator forever. Even if you’ve seen it a hundred times the clock-hanging sequence never fails to startle, but Harold Lloyd’s 1923 romantic comedy Safety Last! offers plenty of other unexpected pleasures and delights. This evening it will be accompanied by pianist John Sweeney, and before the lights go down there will be music and refreshments from some of the arcade’s wide variety of independent retailers.