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Fashion 2000s – predictions from the 1930s

A 1930s Pathetone newsreel gives not entirely inaccurate predictions of what women and men will be wearing in the 2000s…

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Why the Wicker Man in St Werburghs ?

It’s very simple, let me show you. In the last century, the islanders were starving. Like our neighbours today they were scratching a bare subsistence from sheep and sea. Then in 1868 my grandfather bought this barren island and began … Continue reading

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Agnes Varda’s Vagabond in Riverside Park

Riverside Park  is a long strip of grass and trees sandwiched between the M32 and the River Frome, in Bristol. During the day it’s busy with bicycles and foot traffic moving between Easton roundabout and Cabot Circus ( central Bristol’s … Continue reading

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where is the vagabond cinema?

TONIGHT!!! Sunday 26th August – Come to the Bioskop’s Vagabond Cinema… It’ll be at 7.30pm at the location below… The forecast is good but bring a jumper, something to sit on , and refreshments… See you there! How to get … Continue reading

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Lumiere Brothers – 1896 snowball fight in Lyons

aka bataille de boules de neiges (apologies for the terrible soundtrack)

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in the kingdom of shadows

Last night I was in the Kingdom of Shadows. If you only knew how strange it is to be there. It is a world without sound, without colour. Everything there – the earth, the trees, the people, the water and … Continue reading

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Peter Watkins

Here’s a rambling but great and prescient statement made by director Peter Watkins for the dvd release of La Commune in 2001. The interview takes place in a Lithuanian theme park to Communism, and he starts by imagining what might … Continue reading

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Peter Watkins

Here’s a rambling but great and prescient statement made by director Peter Watkins for the dvd release of La Commune in 2001. The interview takes place in a Lithuanian theme park to Communism, and he starts by imagining what might … Continue reading

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VAGABOND CINEMA 2 – Sunday August 26th

The Bioskop’s mysterious drifting cinema returns (with a new generator) for a free! secret event starting at 7.30pm/sunset on Sunday 26th August – VAGABOND 2. The main film we’ll be showing has been chosen by bioskop friend Sophie Mellor . … Continue reading

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