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FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth

part of Step to the Earth

FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth

Undershed, Watershed

Step into FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth, a visually stunning installation that reveals the hidden rhythms of our changing world by pioneering award-winning artists ScanLAB Projects. Taking over the whole of the Undershed gallery, this artwork uses both groundbreaking visuals and beautifully designed sound.

Today

Sat 5 July

This is a Gallery Babies session

For parents/carers with babies under 12 months – sorry but no baby no entry.

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11:30-14:00 (last entry 13:30) AD 14:30-17:00 (last entry 16:30) AD 18:30-21:00 (last entry 20:30) AD

Sun 6 July

Mon 7 July

This is a Gallery Babies session

For parents/carers with babies under 12 months – sorry but no baby no entry.

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13:00-15:00 (last entry 14:30) AD 15:30-17:30 (last entry 17:00) AD 18:00-20:00 (last entry 19:30) AD

Tue 8 July

Wed 9 July

Thu 10 July

Fri 11 July

Sat 12 July

This is a Relaxed Visit

No trailers or adverts are shown and the event will start promptly at its advertised start time.

Our Relaxed Visits are designed to benefit our customers with additional needs (such as people living with dementia, autism, or other neurodivergent people and their personal assistants, friends and family) or anyone who wants to enjoy a film in a more relaxed, spacious environment. Everyone is welcome.

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11:30-14:00 (last entry 13:30) AD 14:30-17:00 (last entry 16:30) AD 18:30-21:00 (last entry 20:30) AD

Sun 13 July

The Salt Path

The Salt Path is the profound true story of husband and wife, Raynor and Moth Winn’s 630-mile trek along the beautiful but rugged Cornish, Devon and Dorset coastline.

Today

Sat 5 July

Sun 6 July

Mon 7 July

Wed 9 July

Thu 10 July

Where is Home?

part of Lunchtime Talks

Where is Home?

In this Lunchtime Talk, studio resident Simon Moreton will reflect on his book, WHERE?, creative non-fiction about growing up in the countryside in the late 1980s and early 1990s and the processes of grief and reflection that helped him tackle questions of belonging and home, as well as thinking critically about how we imagine and represent the countryside.

Today

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Good for What? Where Does AI Fit In

part of Lunchtime Talks

Good for What? Where Does AI Fit In?

In this Lunchtime Talk, Amelia Winger-Bearskin will share her experience of working in immersive storytelling and ethical AI to address climate change, housing, and the design of Indigenous-led systems of care and kinship.

Fri 11 July

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Motherboard

BAFTA-winning shorts director Victoria Mapplebeck’s (Missed Call) extraordinary feature doc is a video diary filmed over 20 years that charts the experience of raising her son Jim alone.

Pin the Tale: A Poetry Workshops

Pin the Tale: A Poetry Workshop

We’re inviting Bristol’s poets to creatively explore the city through Pin the Tale — a digital platform for mapping stories, poems and place, created by Pervasive Media Studio resident Jack Lowe.

Thu 2 Oct

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Thu 16 Oct

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Previous events in this programme

A New Kind of Wilderness + Q&A (Subtitled)

On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Payne family live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. However, when tragedy strikes, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society.

Wed 30 April

This preview screening will be followed by an in-person Q&A with the film's protagonist Nik Payne.

Weaving Space

part of Lunchtime Talks

Weaving Space

In this Lunchtime Talk we will explore Dhaqan Collective's journey with The House of Weaving Songs, a domed steel structure based on an Aqal, a nomadic home found in the arid landscapes of Somalia.

Fri 2 May

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First Friday

First Friday

Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed

First Friday is a monthly social event open to anyone. This May's edition is a collaboration with Diverse Artists Network (DAN), who are a development agency for diversity in the arts and are hosting Mini-DIASPORA! themed events this Spring.

Fri 2 May

17:00 (ends 19:00)

Make Shift Meet Up May

A coral background with yellow text that read 'Make Shift May Meet Up and has a photo of Nicki Kent on.

Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed

Make Shift Meet-Ups are a space for early career creatives to come together. They take place on the first Tuesday evening of each month in the Pervasive Media Studio and this May has the special theme of home with Artist Nicki Kent.

Mon 5 May

18:00 (ends 20:00)

A New Kind of Wilderness (Subtitled)

On a small farm in a Norwegian forest, the Payne family live a purposefully isolated life, aiming to be wild and free. However, when tragedy strikes, it upends their idyllic world and forces them to forge a new path into modern society.

Fri 16 May

Sat 17 May

Sun 18 May

Mon 19 May

Tue 20 May

Wed 21 May

Thu 22 May

Fri 23 May

Sat 24 May

Sun 25 May

Mon 26 May

Wed 28 May

Thu 29 May

Seeing in a Different Dimension

part of Step to the Earth

A beautiful green forset with a pathway in the middle.

Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed

Award-winning creative studio ScanLAB Projects are hosting a series of hands-on 3D scanning workshops which give you an opportunity to think in 3D and explore the growing role of digital imaging in art, science, and environmental storytelling.

Mon 19 May

Wed 21 May

Seeing in a Different Dimension: Rapid Prototyping Session

part of Step to the Earth

Seeing in a Different Dimension: Rapid Prototyping Session

Pervasive Media Studio, Watershed

Alongside their exhibition, ScanLABs Projects are hosting a series of hands-on 3D scanning workshops. This workshop is in collaboration with XR Diversity Initiative (XRDI) and is for underrepresented creatives.

Mon 19 May

Stories We Tell: Only Expansion and the sound of the future

part of Step to the Earth

The Only Expansion guidebook

Waterside 3 Event Space, Watershed

The first in a series of public talks called Stories We Tell, this event celebrates the opening of Only Expansion, a visceral and poetic audio walk that reflects on what it means to live on a planet in crisis.

Thu 22 May

The talk will be followed by an audience Q&A.

Only Expansion

part of Step to the Earth

Only Expansion

Undershed, Watershed

An award-winning augmented audio walk – Only Expansion invites you to sonically experience how your own life might change in the future.

Fri 23 May

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Small Anthropology Methodology & Researching the Home

part of Lunchtime Talks

Small Anthropology Methodology & Researching the Home

In this talk, Professor Shawn Sobers explores why Small Anthropology is a powerful and necessary methodology for interdisciplinary research.

Fri 13 June

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Lollipop

Informed by her own experiences, Daisy-May Hudson’s portrait of a woman trying to regain custody of her kids is a impassioned indictment of the current social-care system.

Fri 20 June

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Sun 29 June

Tue 1 July

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Thu 3 July

Gallivant + Q&A

part of Off The Beaten Track

Gallivant + Q&A

In the newly-restored alternative British road movie Gallivant, the director Andrew Kötting sets off on a wandering, eventful journey around the British coastline accompanied by his granny and young daughter Eden.

Sun 22 June

Followed by a Q&A with director Andrew Kötting.

Silence (Partially Subtitled)

part of Off The Beaten Track

A beautiful cinematic ode to the sights and sounds of the remote Irish landscape.

Sun 29 June