Bristol’s Filmic returns in March with another explorative two-month long season celebrating the creative connections across film and music. To kick off the season we’re delighted to welcome filmmaking sibling pairing Gerard and Matt Johnson to Watershed fresh off the back of their recent collaboration on British crime thriller Hyena.

Gerard Johnson is the writer/director of two British feature films. His first, Tony (2009) a striking and darkly comic thriller about a serial killer set in east London, received widespread critical acclaim. His follow up, Hyena seems set to take a place amongst the ranks of raw British crime thrillers with its story of an amoral cop who has to extricate himself from a deadly situation of his own making. Soundtracks to both films came through a collaboration with his musical sibling. Musician and composer Matt Johnson is the founding member of post-punk British group The The. In recent years Matt has turned his attention to soundtrack work, scoring numerous documentaries and films and in doing so, refining the art of blending the visual, aural and lyrical into twisted cinematic packages.

Gerard and Matt will be in conversation with our cinema curator Mark Cosgrove where they’ll be discussing their work on Hyena as well as previous collaborations. They’ll also be revisiting some of the film scores that have proved influential to them, examining the ingredients that are needed to make a great soundtrack and exploring the processes of how music can imbue a film with an emotional intensity that it would otherwise be impossible for it to possess.

Every Sunday throughout March don’t miss the chance to see and hear some of these iconic film scores in their full glory with a season curated by Gerard and Matt. Featuring some all time classic cinematic soundscapes, it’s a filmic plethora of both aural and visual brilliance that lies in wait.

Watch The Brothers Johnson in Conversation...

Image credit: Gerald Jenkins

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