http://www.7inch.org.uk/news 7 Inch Cinema - News Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:50:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This creature will be unveiled in Shrewsbury's Quarry Park this Friday as one of the headline acts at the Shift_Time festival. It's called Anima Umerus and the man who made it, kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen, has a vision of herds of these things roaming around beaches doing their own thing. ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/07/big-beastie/ 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 ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/06/edge-of-the-world/ 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. http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/06/lavatory-lovestory/ 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 ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/06/vote-bibio/ A couple of weeks ago we had a fab time Making Do at the New Art Gallery in Walsall. Here are some photos... Images by Naz and Oona. With thanks to Ioannis Ioannou for inviting us. [Flickr] http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/05/walsall-antics/ Digging for good stuff is part of our job description, but we did so much of it in the run-up to Flatpack that I think we blew a fuse which left us good for nothing more than cake-consumption and slack-jawed channel-hopping. For some reason the hunger returned this week, so ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/05/flavours-of-the-month/ Ok, so a few things have been sneaking up on here that we should draw your attention to... TRAVELLING PICTURE SHOW Project page for this summer's kids tour, following a storming weekend of matinees at the Electric. Dates already booked in Bromsgrove, Brum, Pershore, Shrewsbury, and plenty more to come; WORCESTERSHIRE ON FILM ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/04/recent-additions/ Yikes! I just realised there's only half an hour of March left and not one blog-post this month. Ok, so Flatpack wiped us out. She is an insatiable mistress. But we've disentangled ourselves for a while, and are looking forward to the gentler pleasures of 7inch. (Oh dear, that could ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/03/back-in-the-saddle/ Unfortunately we won't be able to make this, what with a festival to organise, but you might be interested to know that Mike Figgis is up in Birmingham on 12 March as part of a series of talks called Boilerhouse Voices in the Jewellery Quarter. There's a very good chance ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/02/figgis-in-birmingham/ howdy -- Please excuse the tumbleweed, we've been busy on this. http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2009/02/flatpack-site/