Tag: scotland

  • 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.

  • HippFest 2024: the programme

    HippFest 2024: the programme

    Contemporary talent and vintage Hollywood stars will take the spotlight in a programme that features Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Clara Bow, and Joan Crawford; with live appearances from musicians and silent film aficionados, including Neil Brand, Jenny Hammerton, Maud Nelissen, and John Sweeney. Depictions of Scotland on Screen are in focus, as the Festival opens…

  • 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…

  • Our 2023 Taste of Silents Season

    Our 2023 Taste of Silents Season

    That’s right, we’re back at the Hippodrome for our 2023 Taste of Silents season! If you’re silent-cinema-curious and wanted to dip a toe into this rich and extraordinary moving image world, now’s your chance…

  • 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.