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Cinema: Reframed, Restored & Rediscovered

Posted on Wed 20 June 2018

We are delighted to announce two major focuses at Cinema Rediscovered - Reframing the Archive and Restored & Rediscovered including brand new restorations of Maurice, The Apartment and Le Crime de Monsieur Lange, Aardman’s earliest films Animated Conversations and Conversation Pieces plus a 20th anniversary launch preview of The Big Lebowski.

 André Bazin: Reflections from the video shop 

Posted on Sun 17 June 2018

We asked David Taylor and Daisy Steinhardt from 20th Century Flicks video shop to share short reflections on the words of cinephile and activist André Bazin, ahead of their illustrated talk during Cinema Rediscovered.

 The film Hollywood dared not make: Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. 

Posted on Tue 5 June 2018

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.

  June 2018 Cinema Podcast

Posted on Thu 31 May 2018

Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove discuss some of their film highlights coming up in June.

 Why is a fish a car? Learning to love Zama 

Posted on Tue 29 May 2018 by Tara Judah

"Beautifully short but bizarre..." Our comments board gets Cinema Producer Tara Judah thinking about the beguiling beauty of new release Zama and how it led to loving the work of Lucrecia Martel.

  Vanessa Kisuule: 5G Bristol poem - Stop.Patience.Pause

Posted on Thu 31 May 2018

Vanessa Kisuule wrote a spoken word piece around the near future of technology and what it means for Bristol and the people within, focussing on the themes of change, innovation and how people are at the centre of all of these new developments.

Women in the spotlight at Cinema Rediscovered

Posted on Mon 21 May 2018

Cinema Rediscovered returns to Bristol for its third edition, Thu 26 - Sun 29 July, bringing the best in digital restorations, contemporary classics and film print rarities back where they belong on the big screen, with support from BFI awarding funds from National Lottery.

Bristol venues welcome Royal visitor

Posted on Thu 17 May 2018

His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent will be welcomed to Watershed tomorrow, as part of his official visit to three of Bristol’s leading creative establishments.

 Whose responsibility? On Coralie Fargeat's Revenge 

Posted on Thu 17 May 2018 by Tara Judah

Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer, reflects on a Q&A she hosted with film academic and author, Dr Tanya Horeck, after a screening of Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature film Revenge, on Sat 12 May. The pair and the audience discussed the interplay of morality and ethics in visual representations of violence and lots more.

  Layered Reality 5G weekend: an introduction

Posted on Wed 16 May 2018

A short film introducing the Layered Reality 5G weekend: the first urban testbed for public users.

  Layered Realities 5G weekend: artists, technology and audiences

Posted on Wed 16 May 2018

Exploring the potential of 5G through a series of experimental cultural events.