Found in: Cinema Rediscovered 2017

The Archive Sessions

Cinema Rediscovered 2017

Season

Please note : this season finished in July 2017

For those of you who work with, or want to begin working with, archive film, look out for The Archive Sessions designed to inspire and inform through practice based insights from leading event producers, curators, musicians and archivists.

Presented with The Independent Cinema Office with support from Film Hub South West & West Midlands.

Previous events in this season

Cinema Innovations: from the Kinetoscope to Virtual Reality

The Archive Sessions

Jane Gauntlett's VR piece Dancing With Myself, part of Watershed's Virtual Reality Sessions

Please note: This event took place in July 2017

Talk

Mark Cosgrove, Watershed’s Cinema Curator, outlines the fascinating history of film and the moving image from the early days of experiments with making still images move in machines like the kinetoscope, to our current exploration of virtual reality.

An Archive In Your Pocket

The Archive Sessions

Please note: This event took place in July 2017

Event

Victoria Forrest (VIKA Books) talks about In The Shadow, a gorgeous app that brings the photobook firmly into the digital age, and discussion how its template can be applied to a variety of other archives.

Remixing the Archives

The Archive Sessions

Please note: This event took place in July 2017

Event

Get insights from musicians and creatives about working with archives to create new works. Guests include musician Adrian Utley (Portishead), Charlie Harman from Compass Presents and Bristol-based filmmaker John Minton.