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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?
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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?
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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…
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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…
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Happy days feasting on films and ice-cream
According to the Lonely Planet Visitor Guide, Pordenone in the northeast of Italy is “the kind of place you wouldn’t mind calling home”. For hundreds of silent film enthusiasts, archivists, researchers, musicians, students, curators, authors and academics it absolutely is home… a place where one feels amongst family.
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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…
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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…
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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’.