In this audio recording, Watershed Cinema Programme Curator Mark Cosgrove and Tim Cole Professor of Social History at University of Bristol reflect upon the Conversations About Cinema: Impact of Conflict season which ran from January to July 2015.
Exploring the progression of the season, from films centred around Europe and the ‘big events’ of the First and Second World Wars and going on to include the ‘rumblings of violence and conflict’ at a global level as represented by films like Timbuktu, The Look of Silence, Tim and Mark discuss how the director acts as an ‘unearther of truths’, the contemporary moral issues that these films raise and the power of cinema to engage audiences around subjects like conflict.
