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The Metaverse Studio

Condense move into Watershed

Posted on Wed 27 July 2022

We are delighted to welcome Condense to Watershed; the world’s first studio for streaming live events into the metaverse will be based downstairs in our building on the harbourside from this week.

Image of three young filmmakers using camera equipment

BFI Film Academy South West

Project

If you’re 16 – 25, live in the South West and want to learn about or work in film, we can support you. BFI Film Academy offers opportunities for 16 – 25 year olds, anywhere in the UK, to get to know more about film and how to make a career in the screen industries.

Film still from Queen Christina

“ The European women who shaped the Hollywood Golden Age ”

Posted on Thu 21 July 2022 by Rachel Pronger

In this article, Invisible Women's Rachel Pronger takes a look at how women from Europe influenced Hollywood film in the early 20th Century.

The Red Turtle - part of Studio Ghibli Summer

Some changes to our opening times and days in August…

Posted on Thu 21 July 2022

An update on our opening times and dates

Promotional film still from Harold & Maude

“ Celebrating the UK Premiere of Harold & Maude ”

Posted on Mon 18 July 2022 by Daisy Steinhardt

20th Century Flicks's Daisy Steinhardt takes us through the iconic film Harold & Maude - having its UK Premiere at Watershed as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2022.

Film still from A Song of Two Humans

“ When Europe Made Hollywood: From Sunrise to High Noon ”

Posted on Mon 18 July 2022 by Mark Cosgrove

Cinema Rediscovered Founder and Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove takes us through the films that make up the When Europe Made Hollywood: From Sunrise to High Noon strand - part of Cinema Rediscovered 2022.

Playable City project Shadowing. Image by Toby Farrow.

Launching Playable City Sandbox

Posted on Thu 14 July 2022

We are delighted to launch our first UK Playable City Commission since 2016.

People at a workshop

Talent Development at Watershed: An Update

Posted on Thu 14 July 2022

We've been thinking about the future of talent development at Watershed, including Rife Magazine, and our current work with young people.

An image of a damaged piece of film reel. We can make out a man in uniform, looking seriously at the camera. The surface of the reel has come away, leaving grey grazes across the surface.

“ The Village Detective: A Song Cycle ”

Posted on Thu 7 July 2022 by Tara Judah

In July of 2016, Bill Morrison’s friend and composer, the late Johann Johannsson, emailed him to say that Icelandic fishermen had dredged up several reels of film with their latest lobster haul...

visualisation of a house on Mars

A full-scale Martian House, designed for future life on Mars is being built in Bristol

Posted on Tue 5 July 2022

Local artists and Watershed Pervasive Media Studio residents Ella Good and Nicki Kent are building a Martian House.

Film still from Queen Of Diamonds

“ Queen of Diamonds ”

Posted on Fri 1 July 2022 by Tara Judah

Beautifully restored and screening as part of Cinema Rediscovered 2022, Tara Judah explains how Queen of Diamonds is a fiercely feminist, strange and spicy fatally femme odyssey ready to be rediscovered.