South West Silents was founded in 2015 to share it’s founders’ passion for silent film with wider cinema-going audiences and to celebrate the history of cinema.
We produce eye opening silent film events by sourcing the latest restorations, historic film prints and collaborate with some of the worlds leading silent film musicians to stage one of a kind, live performance events in the South West and throughout the United Kingdom.
In 2018 and 2019 SWS was voted “Silent Film Heroes of the Year” in a national public poll held by Pamela Hutchinson’s esteemed blog Silent London.
In summer 2021 SWS launched a new spin-off company FILM NOIR UK a group dedicated to the films of film noir.
Upcoming Events
Fri, 20 AugArnolfini20 Aug, 19:30 – 21:00 BSTArnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol BS1 4QA, UKBased on the novel “Dubrovsky” by Alexander Pushkin the great silent-era sex symbol Rudolph Valentino departs from his onscreen persona of a Latin lover and delivers one of the most nuanced and powerful performances of his career.
Time is TBDBristol CathedralTime is TBDBristol Cathedral, College Green, Bristol BS1 5TJ, UKA season of silent film screenings celebrating 100 years since the beginning of the 1920s, the final decade of the silent era, continues with this unique and rare screening of the brand new restoration of the action-packed drama, The Last of the Mohicans (1920).
‘South West Silents has re-energised the local silent film scene and set a model for creative, well-planned repertory cinema screenings.’