Filmic, our annual celebration with St George's Bristol and Colston Hall highlighting the creative connections across music and the moving image, returns with a season of live performances, events and screenings exploring the impact of technology in sound and vision.

Here at Watershed, we explore the influence of electronic instruments on films and filmmakers. Expect theremins, The Birds, John Carpenter and more...

To kick things off throughout April in our Sunday Brunch season we celebrate the influence of electronic composers and instrumentation on films and filmmakers – from Franz Waxman’s early experiments with electronic sound in 1935's The Bride of Frankenstein (Sun 3 April); Miklós Rózsa's pioneering use and popularisation of the theremin in Hitchcock’s Spellbound (Sun 10 April); the work of Oskar Sala and his electronic Trautonium to create the unsettling squarks and sounds for Hitchcock’s The Birds (Sun 17 April); to Vangelis’ totemic anthem of electronic composition that lies at the heart of British cinema classic Chariots of Fire (Sun 24 April).

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