Next week sees the DVD release of A Town Called Panic (aka Panique au Village), the demented Belgian toy animation which we screened at Green Man Festival earlier this year. This touching tale of Cowboy, Indian, Horse and 50 million bricks is being promoted by UK outfit Hammer and Tongs (Son of Rambow), who also happen to have their own DVD coming out – a collection of their inventive shorts and music videos for the likes of Pulp, Vampire Weekend and Supergrass.

Both are eminently ownable, and if you want a copy of each for £0.00 just write back to info [at] 7inch.org.uk with PANIC in the header and the answer to this question…

Q) The directors of Town Called Panic first made their name with a TV cartoon in the late 90s. What was it called?

Five winners will be revealed at the end of November. (Yes, we realise that Google has made this form of quiz pretty much redundant. But what the heck.)

**Update** Last chance to enter – we’ll be fishing five out of the hat on Monday 22nd Nov.

Sometime this month I’m hoping to get over to Nottingham for Christian Marclay’s The Clock. Researchers spent God knows how long trawling for footage of clocks from thousands of movies, in order to build up a twenty-four hour film which covers the entire clock-face; apparently clips of 5am were particularly tricky to find. The film runs at the New Art Exchange until 5 January as part of the British Art Show. Most of the time it’s only showing during the day, but you can see the full monty at an all-night event on 10th December.

While we’re on artists film in the Midlands, Warwick Arts Centre have two forbidding structures in their gallery at the moment which contain films by last year’s Jarman Award winner Lindsay Seers. The show is called it has to be this way2 and runs at the Mead Gallery until 11 December.

Noticed any footprints on your car recently? Here’s a man jumping over cars in Digbeth.

Via Dom, who is off to Portland in a couple of weeks. Good luck Dom!