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Please note: This was screened in April 2025

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.

Please note: This event took place in July 2025

Undershed

A visually stunning installation that reveals the hidden rhythms of our changing world by pioneering award-winning artists ScanLAB Projects.

Please note: This event ended on 2 May 2025

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.

Please note: This event took place in May 2025

Pervasive Media Studio

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.

Please note: This event took place in May 2025

Pervasive Media Studio

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.

Please note: This was screened in May 2025

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.

Please note: This event took place in May 2025

Pervasive Media Studio

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.

Please note: This event took place in May 2025

Pervasive Media Studio

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.

Please note: This event took place in May 2025

Waterside 3 Event Space, Watershed

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

Please note: This event took place in June 2025

Undershed

An award-winning augmented audio walk by Duncan Speakman inviting you to sonically experience how your own life might change in the future.

Please note: This was screened in July 2025

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.

Please note: This was screened in June 2025

The life and home of a solitary man in the highland forests of Scotland is gently observed in this intimate, experimental documentary.

Please note: This was screened in June 2025

Cult documentary which follows the eccentric lives of the Page family, living off-grid in the woodlands of Sussex.

Please note: This event ended on 13 June 2025

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

Please note: This was screened in June 2025

Charming documentary about a small farming community in mid-Wales, observing the unalterable rhythms of country life.

Please note: This was screened in July 2025

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.

Please note: This was screened in June 2025

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.

Please note: This was screened in June 2025

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

Please note: This event ended on 4 July 2025

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.

Please note: This event took place in July 2025

Ear to the Ground spirits you into a focused world of listening. This collection of audio works, curated by local sound maker and storyteller Christina Hardinge, explore time, landscape and the soil beneath our feet.

Please note: This event ended on 11 July 2025

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.

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2025

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.

Please note: This was screened in Aug 2025

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.

Please note: This event ended on 19 September 2025

In this Lunchtime Talk, join us as we bid farewell to Furaha Asani, who after nearly five years as Research Lead at Watershed, will be in conversation with Talent Development Producer Tony Bhajam.

Please note: This event ended on 26 September 2025

In this Lunchtime Talk, you'll hear from Action Hero, who create artworks that expand across multiple creative practices: performance, installation, sound, digital practice and work for public space. You’ll also have the chance to sit with them, try building some houses, and learn more about the ideas behind the project.

Please note: This event ended on 16 October 2025

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.

Please note: This was screened in Oct 2025

Two artists in London set out to take their street off the grid, kickstarting a solar-powered energy revolution.

Please note: This event ended on 17 October 2025

In this Lunchtime Talk, Professor Elena Marco discusses Home Made Visible, a study using her own home to explore how storage and domestic spaces affect wellbeing. The project suggests that rethinking our homes is key to building healthier and more inclusive cities.

Please note: This event took place in Nov 2025

Café & Bar, Watershed

An audio project that is inspired and informed by cinematic notions of story and longing. Here, you enter a phone booth where strangers leave a message for a lost love: maybe someone or something from your past, something that you're still aching for, that maybe never existed outside your own dreams.

Please note: This event ended on 21 November 2025

In this Lunchtime Talk, we'll be joined by our Co-Directors of Regenerative Futures, Akshara Pulpa and Rachael Burton, as they share the journey they have been on in their first 6 months in post.

Please note: This event took place in Dec 2025

Waterside 2, Watershed

Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) and Praxis Research invite you to an immersive sound installation featuring voices and perspectives, co-curated and produced with sound artist Nik Rawlings.

Please note: This event took place in Jan 2026

Waterside 4 Event Space, Watershed

Join us to come, see, and celebrate the launch of our new exhibition The Everyworld with the inimitable father / daughter duo Andrew and Eden Kötting.

Please note: This event ended on 23 January 2026

Join renowned experimental filmmaker Andrew Kötting, who will talk about The Everyworld, an installation, exhibition and celebration of collaboration between Andrew and his daughter Eden.

Please note: This was screened in Feb 2026

A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.

Please note: This was screened in Feb 2026

Guillermo Del Toro’s elegant and chilling ghost story is set in 1939, during the Spanish Civil War, with a defused bomb from Franco’s troops looming over the courtyard of a boys’ orphanage run by Republican loyalists.

Please note: This was screened in Feb 2026

With A Ghost Story, director David Lowery offers a singular exploration of legacy, loss, and the essential human longing for meaning and connection. 

Please note: This was screened in Feb 2026

Terence Davies' debut feature is a remarkable evocation of working-class family life in the 40s and 50s and a visionary exploration of memory.

Please note: This was screened in March 2026

Following a spate of tragic knife crime deaths in Bristol, this documentary film looks at how young people in the city are responding.

Please note: This event took place in March 2026

In this illustrated discussion between Listening to Britain curator Mark Cosgrove and Mandy Rose, co-producer of Video Nation and Professor of Documentary & Digital Cultures at UWE, they will explore how documenting everyday life through first person diaries and recordings has brought distinct perspectives to the media landscape. 

Please note: This was screened in March 2026

A young filmmaker is determined to know her neighbours in the port town of Folkestone. But in the aftermath of Brexit, building new relationships isn’t easy.

Please note: This event took place in March 2026

Waterside 1, Watershed

Join Andrew and Eden Kötting, creators of The Everyworld, our current Undershed exhibition, as they explore their wild and beautiful world, followed by a still life drawing class.

Please note: This was screened in March 2026

Developed with Andrew Kötting, this programme of shorts celebrates the collaborations and inspirations between the award-winning filmmaker/artist and his neurodivergent daughter Eden, who together create multimedia artworks exploring themes of disability, imagination and family.

Please note: This was screened in March 2026

A melancholic yet heartfelt story of the former singer of pop band Black Lace and his journey on the road with his aging mother and his partner, as he aims for a comeback.

Please note: This was screened in March 2026

This programme of shorts, selected by filmmaker and curator Nia Childs, is for anyone who wants to explore working class Britain as it is and imagines itself to be, in the hope of discovering something new.

Please note: This was screened in March 2026

As they navigate the complexities of teenage life and social activism, three young women embark on a journey of discovery, following in the footsteps of over 30,000 women who forty years earlier united in peaceful, liberating protest, the remarkable Greenham Common Women's Peace Movement.

Please note: This event took place in March 2026

Pervasive Media Studio

Join us for a celebration with hot food from The Mazi Project, games, and a chance to see The Everyworld as we mark the end of a year of making, experiencing and sharing ideas of Home.

Please note: This was screened in March 2026

Working again with his daughter Eden, the artist and filmmaker Andrew Kötting explores notions of memory and recall as interpreted through the precarious lens of neurodiversity.

Please note: This was screened in March 2026

Behind the loud and intimidating motorcycles of the "Bangladeshi Bad Boys" is a group of second-generation Bangladeshi men who find in their bikes a sense of identity and a way to overcome racism.