Time & Location
26 Jul 2025, 13:30 – 15:05
Watershed, Bristol, 1 Canon's Rd, Bristol BS1 5TX, UK
About the Event
This is part of a series of events which look at the UK-wide impact of London’s The Film Society in its centenary year. Co-curated by Bryony Dixon (BFI National Archive) and film historian Henry K. Miller.
"It was during the 1920s that people started treating the film seriously in Britain,” Rachael Low, historian of the British film industry tells us. In effect the Film Society was the original ‘Cinema Rediscovered’, although closer in age to the films it screened.
Set up in 1925 by a (very starry) group of cinephiles, the Society aimed to foster the appreciation of film as an art. This celebratory almost all celluloid programme will show and discuss examples of the creativity and diversity of filmmaking championed by the Film Society including films made under its aegis, a rediscovery premiered at Cinema Ritrovato and a very Bristol connection in composer Eric Walter White!
The Film Society…