Flatpack Festival
Film for all the senses

Close Down

Monday 16th March, 2009

Floodgate Kino | 03:30 - 06:30

The end! Watch the weekend gently slide away in the company of live guests July Skies and an unofficial 'best of the fest'. Presented in association with Colour...

Feat. July Skies

We hate to admit it but film festival closing parties can be anti-climactic occasions, full of vacant folk who’ve been overdoing it and have half an eye on Monday morning. With Close Down we aim to buck this trend, and send the last few sparks of Flatpack exploding over the arches of Digbeth in a shower of pink and green before we traipse home happy in the knowledge of a job well done. That’s the plan anyway.

Assisting us in this endeavour will be very special live guests July Skies, a Midlands-based recording project who form part of the Make Mine Music collective (along with epic45, Piano Magic, Avrocar and suchlike). Recently bundled in with the ‘hauntology’ movement, there are strong threads of faded innocence and lost times running through their echo-drenched sound. They’re very big on architecture too, and have even written a song about John Madin. (Talking of which, Central Library is one of the backdrops for a skulking angel in Matt Murtagh's Wenders-influenced short film Eidolon, also showing tonight)

Elsewhere we've got electo-pop duo Victoria and Jacob, musical interludes supplied by Wolverhampton-based Colour promotions, along with a hastily-assembled ‘Now That’s What I Call Flatpack 3’ (let us know if you have any short film requests). And for an extra touch of class Eagle & Feather will be presenting their latest slice of Kipple, the cut-up fruit of a raid on numerous Stoke-on-Trent charity shops. Free DVD copies will be distributed on the night.

July Skies

Dir. Various 180 mins

in association with Colour

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