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The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival

The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival (HippFest) is Scotland's first and only festival of silent film with live music. This brand new podcast features insights from a variety of HippFest evndeavours: Q&As with performers, interviews with archivists, and plenty of other fascinating conversations about archive cinema. We hope you enjoy tuning in!

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Episodi

41 episodi

  1. S!nk and silent cinema: in conversation with Tim Vincent-Smith 39:47
  2. Postcards from Pordenone! 42:31
  3. 'This kind of magic telepathy': in conversation with Jane Gardner and Hazel Morrison 39:41
  4. Feminist film historiographies: in conversation with Kate Saccone 45:28
  5. Filmhouse are turning one! 37:40
  6. Ben Model's Silent Film Universe 57:40
  7. Young voices on 'old cinema'... again again! 56:33
  8. HippFest 2026 Programme Picks 54:54
  9. HippFest x Cinetopia: a new soundscape for Finis Terrae (1929) 42:13
  10. 'Silent' night: visualising a Victorian Christmas 38:56
  11. Laraine Porter: How cinema transitioned to the '30s 52:19
  12. HippFest x Dundead - The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 40:12
  13. Taste of Silents 2025: introduced by our Young Programmers! 41:18
  14. Celebrating the launch of Penistone Film Festival 46:23
  15. Introducing the San Francisco Film Preserve... via Bologna! 32:15
  16. Young voices on 'old cinema'... again! 33:48
  17. 2025 programme picks from the HippFest team 1:01:41
  18. Hitchcock's (silent) Heroines 38:52
  19. Introducing: WHAT THE WATER REMEMBERS and THE DARK MIRROR 46:08
  20. Reflecting on (almost) 15 years of HippFest 49:15
  21. Jenny Gilbertson: 'A Real Illuminator' 47:15
  22. Accompanying Nosferatu: in conversation with Hugo Max 43:08
  23. What can film students today learn from early cinema? 47:58
  24. Keith Stata 'the movie man' and the Highlands Cinemas 40:32
  25. Celebrating the 40th anniversary edition of Bonn International Silent Film Festival 51:16
  26. An architectural audio tour of Bo'ness with Geoff Bailey 31:55
  27. Reflecting on HippFest 2024 34:33
  28. 2024 programme picks from the HippFest team 58:37
  29. Composing for The Rugged Island: in Conversation with Inge Thomson and Catriona Macdonald 47:41
  30. Silver Screen Suppers... in Scotland! 41:40
  31. Darkbox Images: Gregg McNeill on Victorian Photographic Processes 40:21
  32. Adventurous Viewing: Silent Film Festival Directors in Conversation 49:46
  33. Invisible Women on SALOME (1922) 41:59
  34. 'Journey to the Isles' - the story of Marjory Kennedy-Fraser 37:32
  35. SAFETY LAST (1923) at Edinburgh International Film Festival 41:02
  36. Mark Kermode in converstion with Neil Brand and Mike Hammond 46:21
  37. 'All Faces are Masks': Visible Difference in Silent Cinema 45:03
  38. Young voices on old cinema 36:05
  39. 2023 programme picks from the HippFest team 49:29
  40. Queen of Hearts: Mary Queen of Scots in Popular Culture 45:52
  41. Preview: a HippFest primer 12:59