Category: hippcast

  • HippCast: Episode 14

    HippCast: Episode 14

    It’s the annual ‘Programme Picks’ episode, and with only one week to go, what better time to re-assess your ticket buying choices, and maybe book a few more tickets?

  • HippCast: Episode 13

    HippCast: Episode 13

    It’s the annual ‘Programme Picks’ episode, and with only one week to go, what better time to re-assess your ticket buying choices, and maybe book a few more tickets?

  • HippCast: Episode 12

    HippCast: Episode 12

    In today’s episode, Digital Content Manager Christina chats to award-winning multi-instrumentalist and composer from Fair Isle: Inge Thomson, with Shetland-born Catriona MacDonald.

  • HippCast: Episode 11

    HippCast: Episode 11

    In Episode 11 we mark one full calendar year since starting the show by tantalising you with a bit of background about some of our events from the 2024 Festival Programme, revealing both an illustrated talk and an exciting hands-on workshop that will both be part of our exciting line-up. So in the first revelation…

  • HippCast: Episode 10

    HippCast: Episode 10

    In today’s episode we hear from Gregg McNeill of Darkbox Images, discussing the tangibility of analogue processes and why wet plate collodion (a Victorian photographic technology) endures to this day. Gregg lives and works in Larbert as a photographer and film-maker, employing both digital and analogue photographic processes (examples of collodion work below) to create…

  • HippCast: Episode 9

    HippCast: Episode 9

    In today’s release we are delighted to share a conversation that took place earlier this month at the University of Edinburgh, hosted by Jane Sillars, Programme Director of the Masters in Film, Exhibition and Culture, along with Lizelle Bisschoff, who runs the Film Curation Masters at the University of Glasgow. The conversation featured the participation…

  • HippCast: Episode 8

    HippCast: Episode 8

    Pearls, subverting patriarchal power, and even a shot to the leg: we chat to Invisible Women about SALOME (1922) Frequent HippFest blog-readers and avid fans of silent cinema will be well aware that we are presently in the thick of our 2023 Taste of Silents season: a short programme of silent films with live musical…

  • HippCast: Episode 7

    HippCast: Episode 7

    Episode 7 of the Hippodrome Silent Film Festival Podcast is dedicated to our touring HippFest 2022 Commission ‘Journey to the Isles: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser’.

  • HippCast: Episode 6

    HippCast: Episode 6

    In today’s episode, Social Media Officer and Online Coordinator Christina Webber speaks to Tamara Van Strijthem (Executive Producer for the Edinburgh International Film Festival) about this year’s programme, and asks Mike Nolan about his love for silent cinema, plus the process involved when approaching a silent movie.