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Heritage Sandbox: from Georgian Gardens to future cemeteries

Posted on Mon 26 March 2012

Six projects have been commissioned out of the South West to unlock histories, hauntings and happenings in all kinds of UK heritage attractions, unraveling rich experiences through the use of cutting edge technologies.

Heritage Sandbox announced

Posted on Mon 26 March 2012

Commissions announced

Posted on Mon 26 March 2012

'It begins with the audience'

Posted on Tue 20 March 2012

‘A Future for British Film - it begins with the audience’ is the new Film Policy Review report published earlier this year by Dept for Culture Media and Sport.‘What has this to do with Watershed?’ you may ask. The short answer is everything.Our Managing Director Dick Penny elaborates:Cinema can be so much more than entertainment.

  The Making of Ghostwatch

Posted on Mon 6 Nov 2017

The cast and crew of 'Ghostwatch' talk about how they made the film, and discuss the spooky Ghost of Barton Hill.

 More on the partners 

Posted on Wed 14 March 2012

The Ivory Bangle Lady team will begin blogging here in April, when their project starts. In the mean time, here is some more about them:Christopher Knüsel and Stephany Leach teach and research on bioarchaeology, human remains and their burial context at the University of Exeter. Knüsel received the Chancellor’s Award for Distinguished Teaching (2002) and serves as President of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology.

 More on the partners 

Posted on Wed 14 March 2012

The Future Cemetery team will begin blogging here in April, when their project starts. In the mean time, here is some more about them:John Troyer is Deputy Director of University of Bath’s Centre for Death and Society. His research in Death Studies is broad and encompasses Death and architecture, aesthetics and cultural studies of death and dying. John's first book, 'Technologies of the Human Corpse', will be published in 2012 by the University of North Carolina Press.

 More on the partners 

Posted on Wed 14 March 2012

The Memory of Theatre team will begin blogging here in April, when their project starts. In the mean time, here is some more about them:Paul Clarke is a Lecturer in Performance at University of Bristol. From 2008-2010 he was the Research Fellow on Performing the Archive: the Future of the Past, hosted by University of Bristol's Live Art Archives and Arnolfini archive. Paul also directs Bristol-based theatre company Uninvited Guests and a member of the Performance Re-enactment Society (PRS).

 More on the partners 

Posted on Wed 14 March 2012

The Ghosts in the Garden team will begin blogging here in April, when their project starts. In the mean time, here is some more about them:Steve Poole is Associate Professor in history at UWE, Bristol, and Director of the university’s Regional History Centre. He has published extensively on the social history of the long eighteenth century, especially on crowds and social class, and has a specialist knowledge of South West England in the Georgian period.

 More on the partners 

Posted on Wed 14 March 2012

The city strata team will begin blogging here in April, when their project starts. In the mean time, here is some more about them:Charlotte Crofts i is based at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, and is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Video Production at UWE.  Her recentCurzon Memories Projectuses mobile media to explore cinema history and the technology of projection through a locative heritage app based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon.