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- Price
- Pay As You Feel (£3/£5/£7)
- Running time
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Venue
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- Arts Centre Washington
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Event description
A screening of two films about legacy of shipbuilding on Sunderland.
We Make Ships (1987)
A Siren Film & Video documentary for Channel Four in which Tom Pickard, poet and documentary filmmaker, returns to the shipyards in Sunderland for 6 months. During this period the Austin and Pickersgill yard experiences a financial crisis and two ships are launched onto the River Wear.
With All the Will in the World (2018)
In 1988, the last shipyard in Sunderland closes, ending 600 years of tradition. Thirty years later, amidst the biggest regeneration project in its history, a £133 million bridge is built in it’s place. Has the city recovered and is there a future on the Wear? A reflection on history and hope as told by the shipbuilders themselves.
Speaker TBC
Heritage Reels
This screening is part of our Heritage Reels programme – a curated programme of talks
alongside archive films and heritage themed documentaries.
Art Centre Washington’s film programme is supported by Film Hub North with National Lottery funding on behalf of the BFI Film Audience Network.
