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The Illusionist (PG)
Dir: Sylvain Chomet
Cast: Jean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin, Jil Aigrot 80 mins, 2010, UK/France
Please note: this is an old screening, first shown in Sept 2010
Chomet follows up Belleville Rendez-Vous with this gorgeous hand-drawn animation adapted from an unproduced script by Jacques Tati. Conjurer Monsieur Tatischeff is one of a dying breed of stage entertainers in the late 1950s. Forever searching for paid gigs, he and his grumpy, obese rabbit trek from Paris to London, Edinburgh to the Western Isles, where he meets Alice. Believing his tricks to be real, Alice follows him to Edinburgh, where he is forced to take on menial jobs to keep up the illusion of magically appearing new gifts: can he keep the facade up? Bittersweet and beautiful, this is a wonderfully inventive ode to Scotland, Tati, and old-fashioned filmmaking.
Live from the Berlinale
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Mark and Maddy, two members of our crack programming team, are at the 62nd Berlin Film Festival in search of films, partnerships and creative ideas to bring back to Bristol, to Watershed, and to you. They'll be Tweeting their instant responses to what they see throughout the Festival - see all of their thoughts here!
Friday's Lunchtime Talk
Designing With Fiction
In Friday's free talk at the Pervasive Media Studio Sam Kinsley offers some insight into uses of design fiction, drawing on his research into the relationship between technology, time consciousness and future prediction.

