The initial brief for the gothic season was to ‘create an immersive Dark Arts cinema event at the end of November. Through the event we want to appeal to and engage 18-25 year olds who would not normally attend Watershed.’ We have access to the BFI catalogue of Gothic films and the opportunity to use the whole of the watershed building to create ‘an immersive gothic pop-up experience’.  The brief was extended slightly to include a number of late night gothic film screenings throughout November.

Our initial task was to choose the films we wished to programme for the late night events we named ‘The Corridor Sessions’. I took a lead, alongside two other members of the group, on the programming of the films and thoroughly enjoyed getting to watch a wide range of films and am very pleased with the ones that were chosen.

‘The Corridor Sessions’ kicked off last weekend with a screening of ‘Hausu’ and a DJ set from Hellfire Video Club DJs. Running up to the event I tried to get a buzz going about it on social media and I added it to some of Bristols’ event listing sites. We sold a lot more tickets than I was expecting and the audience’s reaction was fantastic. I am yet to review the evaluation forms from the event but from observing the audience on the night it looked like we achieved our aim of bringing in audience members in the 18-25 age bracket. Over the next few weeks we have further late night film screenings including, ‘Repulsion’ and ‘Suspiria’, again I shall try to promote these through social media sites and continue to distribute flyers around the city.