Sunday, 23rd March
7:00 PM - 11:00 PM

Venue: Hare and Hounds
Price: £4

We are chuffed to bits to welcome Mr Jack Stevenson back to Birmingham. Jack is a tireless collector and disseminator of lost celluloid gold, much of it battered 16mm recovered from many years of trawling old movie-houses and junkshops. His formative years in the fleshpits and grindhouses of San Francisco are chronicled in the terrific Land of a Thousand Balconies, and a briefer introduction to his world can be found in this recent Guardian article about film collectors. Last time he was in these parts he nearly demolished the Rainbow with a marvellous set of rare Elvis, and on this occasion he presents a hand-picked journey through surrealist cinema.

More info on Strange Magic can be found at the station16 site. Jack will be signing copies of Thousand Balconies on the night, and you can also catch him at the mac on Saturday 22nd presenting a selection of rock n roll docs.

In Jack's own words:

"This show attempts to replicate the disconcerting properties of surrealism in both form as well as content by mixing all conceivable types of film together to create an irreverent take of the art-form that is by turns playful, disturbing and bizarre. Strange Magic expands the borders of what is normally thought of as Surrealist cinema by including TV commercials, educational films, animated and musical shorts and unclassifiable outtakes with acknowledged surrealist masterpieces such as The Life & Death of a Hollywood Extra and Playboy Voodoo. It is a show full of entertaining surprises and odd moments in the best spirit of surrealism and delves into related aesthetics such as Expressionism, fantasy and Dada."