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Floods, asparagus and ferrets
Spent an illuminating if disorientating day in Leicester yesterday, delving through Worcestershire’s past at the Media Archive for Central England. Films included some 1920s ads for local businesses...
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Love Letters and Live Wires
A brief postscript to our Len Lye event last Saturday; we should have mentioned that a couple of Lye films will be part of the BFI touring programme ‘Love Letters and Live Wires‘, celebrating the 75th...
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Halfway there
We reached the halfway point in our Worcestershire archive tour last week, with over 100 people coming along to the Priory in Great Malvern. The audience response has been brilliant, and for us jaded...
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A feast of Georges
More doormat joy last week, with the arrival of Flicker Alley’s five-disc box-set Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema. As you may well know, this magician-turned filmmaker blazed a trail in the art...
View ArticleWorcestershire finale
Our pitiless conquest of the media continued last week with a spot on Midlands Today about the Worcestershire on Film tour. Many thanks to all those who wrote in and pointed out that the footage...
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Sell-outs
There were two full houses for the climax of our archive tour in Pershore and Worcester this weekend. A blow-by-blow account can be found in the photo diary. A big thank you to all the venues for...
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Lange and Donnellan
This week a new show opened at the Ikon gallery. Darcy Lange: Work Studies in Schools gathers some of the reams and reams of video footage which New Zealand artist Lange shot on his visits to schools...
View ArticleBack in the saddle
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...
View ArticleFairbrother time-lapse sequence
Birmingham timelapse from 7inch cinema on Vimeo. This is a selection of images taken by amateur photographer Derek Fairbrother from the same spot in Birmingham’s Chamberlain square between 1963 and...
View ArticleBioscope digest
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...
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