Watershed Podcast
212 episodes - English - Latest episode: 7 days ago -Watershed staff, and guests give their take on some of the upcoming Watershed highlights – including films, festivals, events and cross-artform developments and debates.
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March 2016 Watershed Podcast
March 01, 2016 16:30 - 5 minutes - 9.63 MB2016's Berlinale Film Festival opened with a focus on the humanitarian crisis that is currently unfolding around us. Watershed's Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove was at the festival and reports back on the winning film Fire at Sea – a powerful study of migrant crisis. He also shares his pick of the crop with new films from Isabelle Huppert, Gerard Depardieu, Terence Davies and a shocking documentary on the state of internet security today.
February 2016 Watershed Podcast
February 01, 2016 15:00 - 6 minutes - 6.43 MBThrough the late 40's and 50's America's House Committee on Un-American Activities waged a war against communists and communist sympathisers, with special attention paid to the film industry. Through this period a significant number of screenwriters, directors and actors were called to account for their alleged beliefs, ruining lives and careers along the way. In this month's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, discusses this dark time in Hollywood and the release this month of t...
January 2016 Watershed Podcast
January 06, 2016 18:00 - 5 minutes - 6.96 MBAfter a visit to what will be probably the highest grossing film of all time – Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator reflects on the fact that on average the UK population goes to the cinema only twice per year. What does this mean for a diverse film culture? However all is not lost as Mark looks forward to some of the varied, high quality and, yes, entertaining films coming to Watershed in early 2016.
December 2015 Watershed Podcast
December 01, 2015 14:00 - 7 minutes - 12.8 MBReflections on the Watershed year in cinema for 2015, with a list of the top 25 films screened at Watershed. Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator discusses why the hugely diverse 25 films selected stand out for him, highlights a few that slipped through the critical net and reveals his favourite film of 2015.
November 2015 Watershed Podcast
November 02, 2015 11:00 - 7 minutes - 12.5 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at Watershed, wonders why is it that African films continue to excite audiences and garner international attention, yet are woefully under-represented in British cinemas. With a particular focus on Senegalese cinema Mark introduces some of the key directors and films in African filmmaking from the last 50 years, and looks forward to the 10th Afrika Eye Film Festival which takes place at Watershed and across Bristol this November.
October 2015 Watershed Podcast
October 01, 2015 16:30 - 5 minutes - 9.24 MBIn this month's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, asks what is curation in the film exhibition world? And how is it different from programming, scheduling or booking? And indeed do audiences care how a film comes to be on at a cinema as long as it is something they like and it is showing? He asks these questions having recently worked with a group of Watershed's Future Producers who have created a season of late night sensory cinema that asks what LOVE is Like.
September 2015 Watershed Podcast
August 26, 2015 13:00 - 6 minutes - 11.4 MBIn this month's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talks about why the Watershed hosted Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival holds a vital and unique place in the annual film calendar. Mark selects some of his highlights from the upcoming festival and tells us it's the perfect opportunity to see the talent of tomorrow, hear from the filmmakers themselves and to share the all too rare pleasure of seeing short film on the big screen.
August 2015 Watershed Podcast
July 31, 2015 14:30 - 6 minutes - 9.32 MBIn this month's podcast Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, reflects on his recent visit to Bologna, Italy, for Il Cinema Ritrovato festival. The festival has been going for nearly 30 years and has grown to become a vital and important film festival. The title of the festival roughly translates as Cinema Revisited or Cinema Restored and focuses on representing restored and often neglected archive films from around the world. Mark considers the value of watching old films and having a fes...
July 2015 Watershed Podcast
June 30, 2015 16:00 - 6 minutes - 11.2 MBIn this month's podcast, to mark the centenary of the birth of legendary American director Orson Welles, Watershed Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove talks about the the impact of Orson Welles work. Mark looks back over the career of this landmark figure, not only in the history of cinema, but also in his early days shaking up the worlds of theatre and radio. Mark also discusses the films, some well known and some less often seen in cinemas, all of which are screening in July as part of the The Mag...
June 2015 Watershed Podcast
June 01, 2015 12:00 - 5 minutes - 10.1 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at Watershed, reflects on his five film highlights from the Cannes 2015 film festival including; Carol directed by Tod Haynes and based on a once shocking Patricia Highsmith novel, an idiosyncratic Icelandic film about two sheep farming brothers and Taklub which explores how survivors rebuilt their lives after a super typhoon – which Mark says is one of the greatest films he has seen in a some time.
May 2015 Watershed Podcast
April 29, 2015 17:00 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at Watershed, and Palliative Care Consultant Julian Able discuss May's Caring About Dying season of films at Watershed. The films are screening as part of the cultural programme of the 4th International Public Health and Palliative Care Conference, of which Julian is the Chair of the organising committee. The conference explores how to reframe death and dying and brings these two subjects out in the open to talk about loss and suffering, and how to fos...
April 2015 Watershed Podcast
March 26, 2015 16:00 - 22 minutes - 36.9 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at Watershed and Phil Johnson, Senior Programme Producer at St Georges Bristol delve deeper into our Folk Noir strand of screenings and performances that looks at the darker side of folk music and film.
March 2015 Watershed Podcast
March 01, 2015 18:00 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Cinema Curator at Watershed and Professor Tim Cole from University of Bristol reflect on some of the themes, ideas and discussions that have emerged from films recently screened at Watershed as part of Conversations About Cinema: Impact of Conflict. This season of screenings, events and conversations, co-created by Mark and Tim, continues until July and looks at how film and filmmakers address the impact of conflict.
February 2015 Watershed Podcast
February 01, 2015 18:00 - 10 minutes - 26.6 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talks about The Impact of Conflict and discusses the Playable City with Watershed Producer Hilary O'Shaugnessy. Mark discusses how film and filmmakers have and do address The Impact of Conflict, in particular in relation to new cinema release Selma. Selma is a gripping drama that focus on Martin Luther King in a vivid retelling of the months leading up to the historic 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that would secure voting ...
January 2015 Watershed Podcast
December 31, 2014 10:00 - 29 minutes - 43.6 MBThis month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talks about our new strand Conversations About Cinema: The Impact of Conflict with co-curator Tim Cole, Professor of Social History at University of Bristol. Mark and Tim reflect on how the impact of a war, any war, is not confined to its dates, but goes far wider, far deeper. They discuss this notion in relation to our January programme, which includes a special Sunday Brunch season (Rebels in the Rubble) that explores filmmaking in the imm...
December 2014 Watershed Podcast
December 01, 2014 12:00 - 6 minutes - 14.4 MBIn this episode: This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, considers his five, or so, top films of 2014. We also hear from Nikesh Shukla, editor of Watershed's young people's magazine Rife on their list of the twenty four most influential Bristolians under 24. Mark discusses films that this year have renewed his confidence in British filmmaking, films that mesmerised him and films that have thrilled him with their subtlety, vigour and passion. What are your top five films of the year?
November 2014 Watershed Podcast
October 29, 2014 16:00 - 13 minutes - 14.4 MBIn this episode: This month Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is in conversation with Fern Dunn, an MA Curation student on placement at Watershed. They discuss the nature of and influences on Film Curation, why Watershed is a partner in the MA course and the upcoming season of films that Ferne has curated – Beats to Buddhism. Beats to Buddhism is Watershed's contribution to November's Glassfest celebrations which sees seminal composer Philip Glass return to Bristol, with the season of ...
October 2014 Watershed Podcast
October 01, 2014 13:00 - 9 minutes - 6.63 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, talks about Watershed's upcoming season Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder which boldly celebrates the ever popular genre of science fiction with re-released classics, an in depth look at Afrofuturism and an evening featuring the sound of sci-fi and a screening of Silent Running at the magnificent Eden Project. Mark is also joined by three of Watershed's Future Producers to talk about the sci fi imbued screenings and events they have crea...
September 2014 Watershed Podcast
August 31, 2014 22:00 - 10 minutes - 7.23 MBIn this episode: Clare Reddington, Watershed's Creative Director, discusses the positive aspects of play and how we can use the infrastructures of cities to make people think about where they live and how they connect with each other. Clare also talks about ways to get playful at Watershed this month from Shadowing – a new artwork that connects people at dusk across Bristol through play, to the Making the City Playable conference and through playful cinematic visions of how we might work, res...
August 2014 Watershed Podcast
July 28, 2014 20:00 - 7 minutes - 11.2 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove, Watershed's Cinema Curator, considers what is unique about the experience and what is the value of seeing a film in the cinema, and what is it that makes film quintessentially cinematic.
July 2014 Watershed Podcast
June 30, 2014 18:00 - 6 minutes - 4.11 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove discusses Creativity Inc, which offers a rich, behind the scenes look at Pixar Animation's creative success; and considers the issue of the industrialised processes of the film industry engaging with creative and artistic talent. It is through this prism that Mark wonders how the sublime, 12-year-spanning, Richard Linklater epic, Boyhood was ever made. Finally Mark looks ahead to July's Century of Chinese Cinema season, which offers a fascinating insight into th...
June 2014 Watershed Podcast
May 29, 2014 09:00 - 16 minutes - 15.1 MBIn this episode: Rife Magazine is a new online magazine written by young people in Bristol for young people in Bristol, covering arts, entertainment, events, lifestyle, social issues, politics and Bristol itself. It is run by Watershed and funded by Bristol City Council. In this month's edition of the Watershed podcast, Rife Magazine Editor Nikesh Shukla and Project Manager Vanessa Bellaar-Sprujit present the team of young journalists working with him for the next six months. Shanai, Ryan, Ad...
May 2014 Watershed Podcast
April 30, 2014 14:00 - 17 minutes - 26 MBIn this episode: Andrew Kelly, Director of Bristol Festival of Ideas talks to Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator about the tenth anniversary of the festival. They discuss May's wide ranging programme of talks, events and screenings which cover amongst others science, literature, new wave feminism and the centenary of the start of World War One – and how audiences ten years on still have a voracious appetite to come together face-to-face to engage with ideas. Cinema screenings they discus...
April 2014 Watershed Podcast
March 31, 2014 17:00 - 17 minutes - 25 MBIn this episode: Mark Cousins, critic, presenter and filmmaker talks to Watershed's Clare Leczyki and Tommy Curtis about his inspiration for making A Story of Children and Film, in which he asserts that the themes of children in cinema are the big human themes, themes that show us all what it is to be alive.
March 2014 Watershed Podcast
February 27, 2014 16:00 - 5 minutes - 9.02 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Phil Johnson, Senior Programme Producer at St George's Bristol, to discuss Filmic 2014. Filmic 2014 is the third year of Watershed and St George's annual celebration of the creative connections between film and music, explored through a season of performances, events and screenings.
February 2014 Watershed Podcast
February 03, 2014 12:00 - 22 minutes - 22.5 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by Phil Johnson, Senior Programme Producer at St George's Bristol, to discuss Filmic 2014. Filmic 2014 is the third year of Watershed and St George's annual celebration of the creative connections between film and music, explored through a season of performances, events and screenings.
January 2014 Watershed Podcast
December 20, 2013 12:00 - 27 minutes - 28.4 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove, Watershed Cinema Curator, is joined by philosopher and writer Julian Baggini. Julian has co-programmed January's season of screenings Recipe For Life: Film, Food and Philosophy Sunday Brunches and in this podcast discusses the relationships between food and philosophy and how film can provide a philosophical insight into the meaning of food in our lives.
December 2013 Watershed Podcast
November 30, 2013 14:00 - 29 minutes - 41.3 MBIn this episode: Mark discusses all things magic with Watershed Magicians in Residence Stuart Nolan and Kieron Kirkland, plus residency partner Dr Mike Fraser of University of Bristol, Department of Computer Sciences. They discuss what they have been exploring in their residency and the relationships between magic, technology and computing, plus magic and magicians' inextricable link with the birth of film.
November 2013 Watershed Podcast
November 04, 2013 11:00 - 4 minutes - 7.36 MBIn this episode: This month Mark considers the representation of women in film and media and discusses five films coming up at Watershed in November that have women as their central characters – all of which engage with issues of female representation in rich and complex ways.
October 2013 Watershed Podcast
September 30, 2013 20:00 - 7 minutes - 4.4 MBIn this episode: Mark reflects on the ongoing creativity of British filmmaking, the role of festivals such as Encounters Short Film & Animation Festival in giving British directors, cast and crew their big breaks, and the plethora of great British films opening this month including Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant, Paul Wright's For Those In Peril, Hanif Kureshi's Le Week-end and John Akomfrah's The Stuart Hall Project.
September 2013 Watershed Podcast
August 30, 2013 17:00 - 14 minutes - 7.25 MBIn this episode: Charlie Cooper is part of the Future Producers, our development programme for 18-25 year olds, and for this month's podcast he took a closer look at how Watershed and Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival produce new talent - both in filmmaking and in creating young producers, like him, who have the skills needed to programme an arts venue like Watershed.
August 2013 Watershed Podcast
August 01, 2013 10:00 - 12 minutes - 6.86 MBIn this episode: Continuing our summer podcasts looking at some of what goes on at Watershed outside of the cinema, Clare Reddington, Director of Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio, discusses the Playable City with Watershed Producer Verity McIntosh and Watershed Managing Director Dick Penny. They discuss why Watershed has coined the term the Playable City, the current Bristol-wide play experience Hello Lamp Post and the playful work Watershed has been doing to encourage you to look at the ci...
July 2013 Watershed Podcast
July 01, 2013 15:00 - 21 minutes - 11.5 MBIn this episode: Guest podcaster Clare Reddington, Director of Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio, discusses the Watershed produced creative technology collaborations which, as a part of #BRISTOLPROMS, explore how to re-present classical music performance. #BRISTOLPROMS is Bristol Old Vic's season of classical music concerts in July and Clare is in discussion with Tom Morris, Bristol Old Vic Artistic Director and John Durrant, Creative Director of Bristol based design agency BDH.
June 2013 Watershed Podcast
May 28, 2013 11:00 - 8 minutes - 4.57 MBIn this episode: Mark considers the cinema of Austrian director and perennial provocateur Ulrich Seidl, including our 2008 retrospective and his upcoming new trilogy (Paradise: Love, Faith and Hope). He also discusses why Watershed is showing Much Ado About Nothing, the latest film from Hollywood's renaissance man Joss Whedon.
May 2013 Watershed Podcast
April 30, 2013 14:00 - 6 minutes - 3.85 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove looks forward to this year's Cannes Film Festival, where he thinks the famous auteur theory is still very much in evidence. Continuing the auteur theme, he discusses Pedro Almodovar's early career, his status as the quality European auteur, and the release of his latest film, the intoxicatingly fun I'm So Excited!
April 2013 Watershed Podcast
March 28, 2013 09:00 - 6 minutes - 3.73 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove reflects on the impact digital is having on the film and cinema world. He also talks about Bristol-made feature film Flying Blind plus Filmic, Watershed's season of films and events celebrating the enduring relationship between film and music which continues into Spring.
March 2013 Watershed Podcast
February 27, 2013 14:00 - 16 minutes - 7.5 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove introduces Watershed and St George's Filmic season of films and events which explore the rich relationship between film and music. The focus in March is on composer, producer, artist and collaborator John Parish and in this podcast Mark discusses with John his filmic influences and how they have inspired his own compositions for films.
February 2013 Watershed Podcast
January 31, 2013 15:00 - 15 minutes - 8.08 MBIn this episode: Prompted by upcoming documentary Side by Side, where Keanu Reeves goes on a tour of the past, present and future of filmmaking in today's digital revolution, Mark takes a closer look at the impact digital is having on the making of films and on what we see on screen. To explore the issues and changes, Mark is joined by South West-based cinematographer Terry Flaxton, who is Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Media at University of the West of England.
January 2013 Watershed Podcast
December 31, 2012 12:00 - 5 minutes - 8.1 MBIn this episode: Mark discusses the future of cinema in this post digital, multi-platform age. Mark takes a look at the challenges cinemas and film have faced in this brave new world, and asks what it means for exhibitors, and for audiences.
December 2012 Watershed Podcast
November 30, 2012 12:00 - 15 minutes - 22.1 MBIn this episode: Mark discusses how food features prominently on the cinematic menu with the reissue of Oscar winning Babette's Feast plus a season of Sunday Brunch films with a food flavour. Mark is joined by Watershed's Executive Chef Oliver Pratt who discusses his own food inspirations and passions, the value of Watershed's Plot to Plate ethos, changes in food culture over recent years and some of the new food experiences Watershed has been offering over the last year.
November 2012 Watershed Podcast
October 31, 2012 10:00 - 5 minutes - 8.24 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove on Michael Haneke's extraordinary and moving, Palme D'Or winning, Amour – coming to Watershed this month. For Mark Amour raises questions more broadly around perfection in art and explores why for him Haneke's film represents artistic perfection in cinema. Also discussed is the upcoming The Master, dubbed by some as 'a new American classic', which Mark looks forward to assessing in terms of his contention that a certain strand of American cinema is only concerne...
October 2012 Watershed Podcast
October 01, 2012 21:00 - 5 minutes - 8.23 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove on profiling, promoting and platforming new talent at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, plus his pick of Future Encounters. On finding talent away from the centre through Watershed's FilmWorks programme, and its aim to develop regional based filmmakers. Plus Award-winning film industry professionals sharing skills and experiences at Encounters Festival 2012 – now available on DShed.
September 2012 Watershed Podcast
August 31, 2012 16:00 - 6 minutes - 10 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove on Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival, its move to September and its relationship to Bristol; Watershed's work with artists and technology which explores how we experience cities; and a certain tendency in some American cinema for what Mark perceives as 'self-obsessed amoral insularity'.
August 2012 Watershed Podcast
July 31, 2012 15:00 - 6 minutes - 9.1 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove on the volume of film choices and the impact on cinema, whether traditional film exhibition structures are the best way to present new work, a new documentary on dissident chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, old age on the big screen and Watershed's Creative Cinema Summer School.
July 2012 Watershed Podcast
June 29, 2012 20:00 - 29 minutes - 28.4 MBIn this episode: An extended podcast with Mark Cosgrove in conversation with writer, author and broadcaster David Goldblatt. Mark and David discuss the connections between sport and culture plus Watershed's RELAYS programme of work, which presents a season of films and has worked with young people to explore sport, media and culture as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
June 2012 Watershed Podcast
June 01, 2012 10:00 - 7 minutes - 6.38 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove reflects on Michael Haneke's Cannes 2012 winning film Amour, Ulrich Seidl's latest film Paradise: Lost and the changing nature of the cinema experience. Plus an overview of Watershed's 30th Birthday celebrations on June 7th.
May 2012 Watershed Podcast
May 01, 2012 12:00 - 4 minutes - 4.99 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove on Mark Cousins' The Story of Film, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Cannes International Film Festival 2012 and Ulrich Seidl.
April 2012 Watershed Podcast
March 29, 2012 16:00 - 5 minutes - 6.34 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove on making decisions on which films to show at Watershed, Sight & Sound's Greatest Films poll and films this month at Watershed.
March 2012 Watershed Podcast
February 29, 2012 11:00 - 6 minutes - 6.61 MBIn this episode: Mark Cosgrove on the disquieting and disturbing Austrian film Michael, the Dardenne Brothers' emotionally rich and heart-warming The Kid with a Bike, and the phenomenon of crowdfunding new filmmaking.
February 2012 Watershed Podcast
January 30, 2012 00:00 - 32 minutes - 63.1 MBIn February 2012, Mark Cosgrove, Head of Programme at Watershed, recorded a special, extended conversation as part of Filmic, in which he and Phil Johnson, co-creator of Filmic and contemporary music curator at St Georges, discuss the ethos underpinning the festival, including their examples of exemplary film and music collaborations.This recording was taken from a special, extended podcast. Each month, Watershed.co.uk features podcasts detailing upcoming programming highlights. In the po...