A still of Paul Weedon from his viral video “I can’t believe you’ve done this” — Paul Weedon (the viral video star who once said “I can’t believe you’ve done this”) joins us for this Lunchtime Talk

Lunchtime Talk: Chronically Online: Archiving and Activating Online Moving Image for Audiences

Name: Lunchtime Talk: Chronically Online: Archiving and Activating Online Moving Image for Audiences
Start: 2026-07-25T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-07-25T14:00:00+01:00
Location: Watershed

part of Reframing Film

Talk

Sat 25 July 13:00

Waterside 2 Event Space, Watershed

Additional booking info below

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The internet is the world’s largest archive, and yet the preservation of the videos that live there is extremely precarious.

In 2024, the BFI National Archive embarked on ‘Our Screen Heritage’, an accelerated acquisition programme to preserve hundreds of online moving image works. Over the past year, they have partnered with The Creative Nonfiction Film Weekend (CNFW) on ‘Chronically Online: A Personal History of the UK Internet’, to engage audiences with this material – working with cinemas across the UK to curate bespoke programmes of online video for the big screen.

Join CNFW for a screening of early internet video and a discussion about what it means to preserve online moving image and to screen it in cinemas, what ‘restoration’ and ‘preservation’ might mean in the context of online video, and the strange and unexpected journey of rights acquisition for these videos.

They’ll be joined by Will Swinburne, Curator at the BFI National Archive, and special guest Paul Weedon (the viral video star who once said “I can’t believe you’ve done this”), whose video was preserved in the BFI National Archive through the Our Screen Heritage project.

This event is supported by the BFI Screen Heritage Fund, awarding National Lottery funding.

Special offers:
Booking for more than 10 events/screenings?
Buy a Cinema Rediscovered Festival Pass (£130 full / £100 concessions / £80 24 and under) and select your tickets for as many of the 60+ screenings and events during the festival as you want.
Booking for between 4 to 10 events/screenings?
Multi-Ticket Package Offer: get 15% off the regular ticket price when you book 4-10 Cinema Rediscovered screenings and/or events. The discount will automatically apply when you add the tickets to your basket.
Club Shed members get 15% off all individual Cinema Rediscovered tickets.

Wheelchair User Spaces

Sat 25 July

13:00 (ends 14:00)

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Pricing

Ticket price:

£6.00 full (plus 12% booking fee*)

£4.50 concessions / Refugees and Asylum Seekers (plus 12% booking fee*)

£4.50 24 or under (plus 12% booking fee*)

Concessions apply to Full Time Students, Job Seekers Allowance and Employment Support Allowance, 66+ who have retired, Equity and BECTU members and disabled people. Where applicable please produce proof of eligibility when collecting a ticket.

*Booking fee applies to online and phone booking only.

Complimentary tickets are available for Personal Assistants accompanying customers who are Deaf / Disabled and can be booked through the Box Office, or online after joining our Access Register.

Cinema Rediscovered Festival Pass

The Cinema Rediscovered Pass allows you to select from 60+ Cinema Rediscovered screenings and events between Wed 22 - Sun 26 July. Subject to availability, terms and conditions apply. Buy your Pass here. Pass holders get 25% off monthly or annual subscriptions to streaming platform Cinelogue.

Pass prices: £130 full / £100 concessions / £80 24 and under.

Multi-Ticket Package Offer

Get 15% off the regular ticket price when you book 4-10 Cinema Rediscovered screenings and/or events. The discount will automatically apply when you add the tickets to your basket.

Club Shed members get 15% off all individual Cinema Rediscovered tickets.

All Cinema Rediscovered Pass and ticket holders can get 20% off any 6 O'Clock Gin & Tonic (including Watershed’s very own) at the Café & Bar and Undershed Bar during the Festival. Pass and ticket holders can also enjoy 20% off Wiper and True draught products after 20:00 at the Café & Bar and Undershed Bar during the Festival.

Please note: the Cinema Walks, Projection Tours, Improv Workshops, Shadow Puppet Making Workshop and the Film Quiz are excluded from the Pass and Package.

Access

Cinema seat widths

Our cinema seats are 46cm wide, with wooden armrests on either side of each seat that can’t be moved.

We can provide seats without armrests or bean bags as alternatives at the front of the cinema if that is more comfortable for you. Please just call our Box Office on (0117) 927 5100 or book in-person to arrange.

Access Register

Join our Access Register to help us deliver the best possible experience for you. You can sign up to our Access Register online, or in person at Box Office or by calling (0117) 927 5100.

Further info

Our building is accessible, our staff are trained in basic BSL and Deaf awareness, we have toilets for everyone and we run an accessible programme of screenings, events and exhibitions. Find out more on our Access page.

Concessions

Concessions apply to Full Time Students, Job Seekers Allowance and Employment Support Allowance, 66+ who have retired, Equity and BECTU members and disabled people.

Where applicable please produce proof of eligibility when collecting a ticket or showing your ticket at the entrance to the cinema.