<a href="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/projector.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3313" title="projector" src="http://strangeattractor.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/projector-300x200.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="200" /></a>Birmingham's <a href="http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/home">Flatpack Film Festival</a> kicks off this week with screenings and other events, including a guided walk around Birmingham's lost cinemas in which psychogeographers can sniff out the ghosts of <a href="http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/invisible-cinema-tour">long-lost big screens</a> with local historian Ben Waddington. There's also a <a href="http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/a-secret-history-of-birmingham">Secret History of Birmingham</a>, a screening of found tapes and reels for fans of unofficial archives.

I'm looking forward to seeing <a href="http://www.flatpackfestival.org.uk/event/marwencol"><em>Marwencol</em></a>, a documentary about Mark Hogancamp, who has built a miniature version of an occupied WWII Belgian town in his back garden - 'outsider art' is a tricky subject, but this film looks as if it engages with the term itself, rather than simply boggling at the oddness...here's the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNKPEp6aEqQ&amp;NR=1&amp;feature=fvwp">trailer</a>.

More Flatpack news over at the Electric Sheep <a href="http://www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk/news/2011/03/20/flatpack-festival-2011/">blog</a>.