Every festival has a few choice acts/films that don’t come off; the trick is to be thick-skinned and keep your options open. One of those that got away when planning this year’s Flatpack was British Sea Power, who we hoped to have up with their rescore of Robert Flaherty’s windswept documentary Man of Aran. The timing wasn’t quite right, but happily it’s all come together a few months later and BSP will be performing with the film at midnight on 21 August as part of a packed film-tent programme at the Green Man festival. Taking a lead from Flaherty’s film we’ll be showing an assortment of ‘edge-of-the-world’ movies including lunar shorts and cult documentary The Moon and The Sledgehammer (trailer below). More info on the whole thing here.

In the run-up to the launch of the Travelling Picture Show tour next month, I thought I’d start posting some of the featured shorts. This cubicle romance was nominated for an Oscar this year, and you might remember the director Konstantin Bronzit from his brilliant short Au Bout du Monde.

You might remember Bibio from a DJ set at the very first Flatpack, or a magic live spot he did in our tent at Green Man last year (photo below). He’s based in Wolverhampton and makes gorgeous crackly tapelooped West-coasty electronica type stuff. Anyway, he signed to Warp recently and his new stuff is great. There are snippets to listen to on their site and if you like it please do vote for him; he’s up for Radcliffe and Maconie’s Pick n Mix on radio 2 this week.