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“ André Bazin: Reflections from the video shop ”

Posted on Sun 17 June 2018

We asked David Taylor and Daisy Steinhardt from 20th Century Flicks video shop to share short reflections on the words of cinephile and activist André Bazin, ahead of their illustrated talk during Cinema Rediscovered.

“ The film Hollywood dared not make: Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. ”

Posted on Tue 5 June 2018

Vying with Julie Dash’s recently re-discovered and rightly celebrated Daughters of the Dust (1991) as the first film directed by an African American female to be commercially released, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T stands as a pivotal point in African American cinema.

June 2018 Cinema Podcast

Posted on Thu 31 May 2018

Cinema Producer Tara Judah and Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove discuss some of their film highlights coming up in June.

“ Why is a fish a car? Learning to love Zama ”

Posted on Tue 29 May 2018 by Tara Judah

"Beautifully short but bizarre..." Our comments board gets Cinema Producer Tara Judah thinking about the beguiling beauty of new release Zama and how it led to loving the work of Lucrecia Martel.

Vanessa Kisuule: 5G Bristol poem - Stop.Patience.Pause

Posted on Thu 31 May 2018

Vanessa Kisuule wrote a spoken word piece around the near future of technology and what it means for Bristol and the people within, focussing on the themes of change, innovation and how people are at the centre of all of these new developments.

Women in the spotlight at Cinema Rediscovered

Posted on Mon 21 May 2018

Cinema Rediscovered returns to Bristol for its third edition, Thu 26 - Sun 29 July, bringing the best in digital restorations, contemporary classics and film print rarities back where they belong on the big screen, with support from BFI awarding funds from National Lottery.

HRH Duke of Kent meets the Rife Magazine team at the Pervasive Media Studio. Photographer: Jon Aitken

Bristol venues welcome Royal visitor

Posted on Thu 17 May 2018

His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent will be welcomed to Watershed tomorrow, as part of his official visit to three of Bristol’s leading creative establishments.

“ Whose responsibility? On Coralie Fargeat's Revenge ”

Posted on Thu 17 May 2018 by Tara Judah

Tara Judah, Watershed Cinema Producer, reflects on a Q&A she hosted with film academic and author, Dr Tanya Horeck, after a screening of Coralie Fargeat’s debut feature film Revenge, on Sat 12 May. The pair and the audience discussed the interplay of morality and ethics in visual representations of violence and lots more.