Cinema Rediscovered 2018
Please note: This event finished in July 2018
Join us for the third edition of Cinema Rediscovered, a chance to discover some of the finest new digital restorations, contemporary classics and film print rarities from across the globe where they were meant to be experienced – on the big screen.
The third edition celebrates Bristol's new status as UNESCO City of Film, a global recognition of the city's outstanding contribution to film culture and provides the perfect excuse for a cinematic city break.
Explore Cinema Rediscovered 2018
On Cinema Rediscovered's focus on Women on the Periphery, Agnés Varda, Laura Mulvey, Spike Lee and more, Watershed Cinema Producer Tara Judah reflects on a history of critical conversations and curatorial choices that have left so many great filmmakers just outside of the spotlight.
With unfettered access to Orson Welles' private drawings and paintings, held dear in the private archive of his youngest daughter, filmmaker Mark Cousins invites us into his Wellesian world, through the eyes of the great man himself, Dr Peter Walsh writes.
For this third year of Cinema Rediscovered we celebrate two rarities in Douglas Slocombe’s filmography, from his early years at Ealing Studios. The films are worlds apart when it comes to style, and yet, were filmed within the course of a few months, co-director and co-curator of South West Silents, James Harrison, writes.
A Moving Image is the commendably ambitious and partly crowd-funded feature debut by writer-director Shola Amoo. Hailed by The Observer’s Wendy Ide as “a distinctive and bold new voice in British cinema”, the docu-drama addresses the thorny subject of South London's gentrification, Watershed's MA Curation student Thea Berry writes.
Vying with Julie Dash’s recently re-discovered and rightly celebrated Daughters of the Dust (1991) as the first film directed by an African American female to be commercially released, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T stands as a pivotal point in African American cinema.