Birmingham, 1901. Electric trams are making their debut on the Bristol Road, councillors are plotting to bring water all the way from Wales, and at the Curzon Hall in Suffolk Street a showman named Waller Jeffs has just begun his first...

A series of short film postcards, with the filmmaker using their camera to get under the skin of a place and explore their own response to it. Green Path Ahead of You Me Him Her Us Them and All (dir: NaoKo Takahashi) has a mouthful of a...

Time hasn’t been kind to all the early 80s hip hop films but Style Wars remains amazingly fresh and watchable after all these years, a living document from a crucial time in New York’s history. Sketching out the battle-lines...

Joy was last seen a few days ago, walking across the park towards the woods in a yellow coat. One of her class-mates at college, Helen, is asked to play the role of Joy in a police reconstruction. As time goes on she develops a strong...

Back in the day when psychedelic concept movies were compulsory for any self-respecting rock band, Led Zeppelin took the plunge with this patchy but often entertaining document of their 1973 Houses of the Holy tour. The meat of the film is a...

In 1949 John Andrews was given a second-hand Pathe 9.5mm cine camera for his 15th birthday. He and a few other boys in the neighbourhood decided to start up a youth-club, using John’s garage as a studio and filming around the area in...

Disconcerting drama based on William Trevor's short story, shot in the Birmingham suburbs.

Privilege is a dystopian satire bankrolled by Universal Studios and directed by Peter Watkins (Culloden, The War Game), made in that strange period when Hollywood got nervous about losing the youth market and put money into all kinds of crazy stuff....

An evening of archive film and discussion devoted to Birmingham's ever-changing skyline, including a screening of the BBC's 1965 portrait of John Madin, architect of Central Library.