Collage at the Flatpack Film Festival

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Every March since 2006, Birmingham, England has hosted the Flatpack Film Festival, with its “mixture of films, performances, contraptions and surprises”. They are “firm believers in creating a sense of occasion, exploring the fertile territory where film bumps up against other artforms, and showing people things they might not otherwise have seen.”

Collage is front and centre at the 2015 Flatpack Festival.

On exhibition 26-29 March is “The Collabradors Exhibition”The Collabradors is a collaborative collage project run by Ed Wakefield (aka Felix de Helix). Beginning in 2013, Ed has collaborated with 44 artists, nationally and internationally – from Austria to Israel. Ed is constantly on the hunt for more collaborators, both analogue and digital. This exhibition is a selection of collage works that have been made through The Collabradors project.

On Saturday, 28 March, 7PM-2AM is Collage Party (tickets £10/£8). Among the activities and presentations on offer are: an open-source collaboration with The Collabradors–fill a wall with collage during the night; a performance by Giant Axe Field, “Further Away From All Suns”, where bass, guitar and drums trigger fragments of the 1963 Czech sci-fi film Ikarie XB-1, creating an unholy intergalactic experience; and Eclectic Method, the pioneer of audio-visual remix. There will also be collage films, street food and more.


INFORMATION

Minerva Works
During the festival, this site is also called Flatpack Karvana
158 Fazeley Street
Birmingham B5 5RS United Kingdom

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Image:
Dunce
by Adrian Velazco and Ed Wakefield
Courtesy of the artists