London - Birds Eye View Festival, BFI Southbank, ICA and Southbank Centre, 8th – 17th March

Birds Eye View Festival, BFI Southbank, ICA and Southbank Centre, 8^th – 17^th March

The seventh annual Birds Eye View Festival opens next week. Celebrating and supporting women filmmakers, the festival features exclusive previews, retrospectives, shorts and live performances. The Sounds and Silents programme comes particularly highly recommended.  BEV have commissioned cutting edge female musicians to compose and perform live scores to silent films. Particularly interesting is  Micachu’s response to Reineger’s Hansel and Gretal. Previously she has held a crowd transfixed – in the back room of a pub in New Cross – with a virtuoso performance on a  Henry Hoover. It would be foolhardy to speculate whether household appliances will star in her soundtrack for Reineger’s seminal animation, but safe to assume it’ll be mesmeric regardless.