Thirty seats. Not-for-profit. Tickets at cost. One to four events a month — established films and documentaries with curated post-screening discussion. At 32 Belvedere, central Bath.
Established films and documentaries Bath's larger venues won't programme. Each evening is followed by curated discussion. Walk-in tickets are sold per screening; Friends get priority booking and discounts.
A quarterly season — four films across twelve weeks, anchored on a single director. Builds a returning audience over the season and gives the venue an editorial voice.
A monthly Sunday-afternoon documentary screening plus thirty-minute facilitated discussion. Programming mixes contemporary and canonical work — discussion leads rotate.
Monthly recent foreign-language work — Cannes and Oscar International Feature contenders that didn't get a wide UK release. Aimed at Bath's international and student audiences.
Seasonal specials tied to the Bath cultural calendar — films shot in or set in Bath, programmed around the Bath Festival and the Jane Austen Festival. Resident–visitor overlap.
Audience voices will appear here once we've opened. For now, the intent.
Bath has commercial multiplexes and an arthouse strand at the Tivoli, but no small-format community venue. Our thirty seats let us programme nights that wouldn't fill two hundred, take risks on lesser-known titles, and put the social-screening dimension on a par with the film itself.
Tickets at cost, one to four events a month, 8am to 11pm. Established films and documentaries with curated post-screening discussion. Not a commercial cinema — a community venue with editorial intent.
A Friend of Bath Electric Picture House subscription builds the community core: priority booking, members-only programming meetings, season-preview screenings. Year 1 target — sixty Founder Friends.
Indicative programming for the opening season. Specific dates and ticketing details confirmed closer to launch.
The opener for our first quarterly Director Retrospective season. Kieślowski's trilogy of liberty, equality, and fraternity begins with Juliette Binoche's most quietly devastating performance. Followed by a curated discussion.
Mstyslav Chernov's Oscar-winning documentary opens our monthly Sunday Doc Club. Followed by thirty minutes of facilitated discussion led by a guest contributor.
Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's Oscar-winning meditation on grief, language and theatre — three hours that earn every minute. Our first World Cinema Friday.
Roger Michell's understated Austen adaptation, much of it filmed in central Bath. Programmed to coincide with the Jane Austen Festival.