http://www.7inch.org.uk/news 7 Inch Cinema - News Thu, 26 Aug 2010 09:42:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We're off up north tomorrow for a little show at Islington Mill in Salford. It's an old cotton mill which has been converted into various things including artists studios, a gallery, a venue, a self-run art school and a B&B; comparable to our own Custard Factory but with a different ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/08/creamegg/ **Stop press** Just confirmed that Gruff Rhys and Dyl 'Goch' Jones will be at the Green Man Festival this weekend to talk about Separado!, the documentary they made together about Gruff's long-lost relative. René Griffiths is a poncho-wearing, Welsh-singing troubadour from Patagonia, whose story inspired Rhys to trace the historical ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/08/gruff-rhys-q-and-a/ Birmingham's love of threatened species and the soon-to-be-demolished has manifested itself again in a flurry of Central Library activity. Last night VIVID in Digbeth unveiled a new multi-screen video installation by Karin Kihlberg and Reuben Henry, filmed in the guts of the building on empty Sunday afternoons. It's called Inbindable ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/07/library-roundup/ The Bioscope is a font of useful information on silent cinema, delving comprehensively into neglected corners while also alert to new developments and events. It's run by Luke McKernan, Moving Image Curator at the British Museum. Having not visited for ages here are some of the things I caught up ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/07/bioscope-digest/ The final Hospital Club 100 has just been announced, highlighting established and up-and-coming people across the UK's creative industries, and we appear to be second in the emerging film category. Sandwiched - as it were - between Emily Blunt and Carey Mulligan. Most surreal. Many thanks if you voted! There's ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/07/hospital100/ Stan Morgan worked at BBC Birmingham for over 20 years, a scene hand on the likes of Boys From the Blackstuff and All Creatures Great and Small. After he left he retrained in photography at Wolverhampton University, and then returned to Pebble Mill shortly before the building closed down to ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/07/pebble-mill-images-by-stan-morgan/ It was very sad to hear of Alan Plater's passing last week. A writer with a brilliant ear for dialogue whose theatre and TV career spanned over 40 years, and a lovely man by all accounts. I first discovered him as a kid because my dad was obsessed with The ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/06/alan-plater-r-i-p/ After our Mobile Cinema event last month we were alerted to a lovely project in the south-west. A few years ago a rusty Bedford cinema van was retrieved from a field in Devon and has been carefully restored to tour the region showing archive films. A fleet of seven of these ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/06/cinema-vans/ Supposedly it's our quiet time, but there's loads going on. Including... > 7INCH no.38 - Old-school gaming special Hare and Hounds, Sunday 27 June > IT CAME FROM PEBBLE MILL - 70s drama extravaganza MAC, 2-4 July > GREEN MAN FESTIVAL - big-top fun Glanusk Park, 20-22 August Plus other possible August gigs at the Big ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/06/incoming/ Yesterday I drove to London to pick up two hefty black boxes which contain The Mobile Cinema, starring at the Hare and Hounds this Tuesday. The word 'Mobile' is used quite loosely here. Although Romana Schmalisch, the artist who created it, has carted this contraption around Europe I imagine she ... http://www.7inch.org.uk/news/2010/05/the-new-moscow/