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Still image from The Host (2015) dir. Miranda Pennell

“ The Personal is Political: Women in Archives ”

Posted on Wed 20 July 2016 by Tara Judah

At the intersection of personal memory and political and social change there are hosts of women's archives.

Urbanimals 2015 Award Winner

Fourth international Playable City Award is now open

Posted on Tue 12 July 2016

The internationally acclaimed £30,000 Playable City Award - which puts people and play at the heart of the future city - invites creatives from across the world to respond to the theme Journeys. A Playable City approach to urban journeying re-­appropriates infrastructure and technology to start new conversations, imagine new futures and make human connections.

Photo of the interior of Curzon Cinema Clevedon

“ The Art of Cinema-Going ”

Posted on Mon 11 July 2016 by Tara Judah

Cinema-going still exists and in it is a craftsmanship all its own; an experience that is both immersive and cognitive, one that presents and presumes a combination of surrendering and activism in viewing.

“ Stanley Kubrick: Journey to the Heart of England ”

Posted on Fri 8 July 2016 by Bill Lawrence

The world of the Bronx, New York in the 1930s is probably as far as you can get from English aristocracy of the 18th Century, but this is the journey that saw Stanley Kubrick from...

The Servant

“ Risky Reflections: Slocombe's cinematography in The Servant ”

Posted on Thu 7 July 2016 by Amy Sargeant

Dr. Amy Sargeant reflects on The Servant

“ Tarkovsky's Lasting Gift: Sculpting Time ”

Posted on Tue 5 July 2016 by James King

The Zone is a place of unblemished value. It is one of the few territories left–possibly the only one–where the rights to Top Gear have not been sold: a place of refuge and...

“ Up Close and Personal: Anthony Harvey and The Lion in Winter ”

Posted on Mon 4 July 2016 by James Harrison

The Lion in Winter (1968) can be found on a long list of historical, period films that were made in the 1960s. El Cid (1961), Tom Jones (1963), Cleopatra (1963), Becket (1964), The...

It is a cultural producers which anticipates the future with generosity and engagement

  Watershed Conversations

Thu 30 June 2016

Exploring how Watershed is understood and valued, its core strengths and its potential role going forward.

“ Celebrating Cinema: The Greatest Place on Earth ”

Posted on Thu 30 June 2016 by Mark Fuller

A young married couple inherit a surprise legacy from an unknown distant relative. But with the cinema they receive come challenges, and responsibility...At the time, this must...

“ The Talented Robert Hamer: A Forgotten Figure of British Cinema ”

Posted on Wed 29 June 2016 by James Harrison

David Lean, Michael Powell, Alfred Hitchcock and Humphrey Jennings; four key names in the history of British Cinema. One drowned his mind in his epic surroundings, one turned...

Larks © One Five West 2016

Announcing our new Artists in Residence

Posted on Tue 28 June 2016

Playable prints and objects in public spaces, foodie trends and a treasure hunt of Britain's most unsearchable town... these are the brilliant ideas the recipients of Watershed's New Talent Residencies and Micro-residency commissions.