The War Game (15)

This event has already taken place and ended on 22 Aug 2010

Using amateur actors to imagine a nuclear strike on Britain at the height of the cold war, this controversial film was almost immediately banned. Watkins' ambition was to question the illusory aspects of media-produced reality, confronting notions of reality and objectivity by deliberately staging films as though they were really happening.

Dir. Peter Watkins UK 1965 47m

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Known Unknowns film season
Part of Arnolfini's Old Media season, this season of films and videos focuses on the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them. The lines between documentary and fiction, acting and being, thought and moving images, become fuzzy; suggesting that cinema has become a prosthetics for our memories, subjectivities and doubts.