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7 inch cinema = gods

Film // Steve // 5th January 2007

Every so often we pop over to Digbeth to have our retinas boiled by the boys and girls from 7 inch cinema showing odd films from the archives and crazy new shorts.

It's always blummin good fun, and we'd hug them all drunkenly if we weren't so uptight and damned heterosexual.

Last time we were treated to a performance by classic British eccentrics the ZX Spectrum Orchestra, whose "Red Square" animation apparently took one of the Clives 9 months to complete ("You could've had a baby" piped up someone in the crowd at the Rainbow). Have a gander at all that sort of thing over at Youtube.

With that in mind, we can fully recommend popping to see them at the ICA in Larrhndahhhhn on the 8th January, where ZX Spectrum Orchestra and evil noisy types Black Galaxy will also be caning the eardrums of you soft southerners. We're just hoping that they all don't fuck off to London permanently.

Next up for us provincial Midland types, the Flatpack festival runs between 1st - 4th Feb next year, across arts venues in Birmingham, with lots of films and happenings. Hope there's nothing good on in the Sunflower Lounge, we're not allowed in there for some reason, probably 'cos we're too nice.

Also, in the final thing to be pinched from their newsletter - we can fully recommend the inaugural 7 inch DVD, full of fun stuff, including the hardcore 8-bit action of "Red Square" and the painfully great "Butterface": that's a still from it above. Makes us well up just thinking about it.

Update: Tuesday 8th Jan

Whups : 7 inch cinema is actually Ian and Pip, rather than just a bunch of sweaty blokes. There's some photos of the event, including ZX Spectrum Orchestra pushing buttons and one out of Black Galaxy skilfully relaxing by the bar over at Flickr.