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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!The Hippodrome Silent Film Festival Arte
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  • HippFest 2026 Programme Picks

    HippFest 2026 Programme Picks
    Feb 27 2026
    Can you BELIEVE it's only a matter of weeks before our sixteenth edition kicks off? Well believe it or not, it's true - and in preparation for last-minute booking quandaries we've prepared another Programme Picks episode to tempt you.This year Digital Content Manager Christina Webber chats to The Skinny's Jamie Dunn and captain of the Hipp-ship, Festival Director Alison Strauss, to drill down into some of the silent titles most-anticipated coming up in 2026.Which Sherlock Holmes is Jamie's favourite? Where is our Norwegian-ceilidh-club night? Which films have our students selected to work with for New Found Sound? And how many films HAD Baby Peggy starred in when shooting Captain January (1924)? All these questions and plenty more throughout the show. If curious, the films selected by Jamie Dunn include: The Crowd (1928), The Bat (1926), The White Heather (1919), and Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases. HippFest's own Alison Strauss chooses to speak about Fante-Anne (1920), New Found Sound, April Fool (1926), Captain January (1924), and Apart From You (1933). Additional reading/ relevant links:Full English transcript of this episode available here.Jamie Dunn's HippFest 2026 preview in The SkinnyListen to The Skinny's film podcast, The CineskinnyMore information on HippFest 2026 Festival PassesSee the full HippFest 2026 programmeProgramme notes for The Bat (1926) by Allan HunterProgramme notes for Apart From You (1933) by Kelly RobinsonProgramme notes for The Crowd (1928) by David CairnsProgramme notes for Silent Sherlock: Three Classic Cases by Bryony DixonProgramme notes for The White Heather (1919) by Kathy Rose O'ReganWatch Maurice Tourneur: Franco-American Film Pioneer
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    55 m
  • HippFest x Cinetopia - a new soundscape for Finis Terrae (1929)

    HippFest x Cinetopia - a new soundscape for Finis Terrae (1929)
    Jan 31 2026

    Happy new year HippCasters! We're back in the audiosphere with a brand new episode inspired by the premiere of a new music commission for Jean Epstein's Finis Terrae (1929), premiering at HippFest 2026.

    Digital Content Manager Christina Webber catches up with Cinetopia's Amanda Rogers, plus musicians Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot as they begin creating a brand new soundscape for this film, set on a bleak island off the Breton coast. The film’s visual style, rich in atmosphere, and with a dual sense of menace and beauty, is an exciting invitation to the musicians whose folk-infused score will illuminate the thrilling elemental rhythm of this land and seascape.

    The Finis Terrae project is produced by Cinetopia in collaboration with the Edinburgh Film Guild. It is funded by Cockaigne Fund, administered by Foundation Scotland, and with support from the Hope Scott Trust and Help Musicians. We are excited to host the world premiere of this new music commission as part of HippFest 2026.

    Enjoy the show!


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    Additional reading/relevant links

    • Full speaker bios and an English transcript of this episode are available here
    • Book tickets for the premiere of Finis Terrae (18 March) at HippFest 2026
    • Cinetopia: Scotland's Film Community
    • More info on Cinetopia's project I Ken Whaur I'm Guan
    • More info on purchasing a HippFest 2026 Festival Pass
    • Stay in touch with Dan Abrahams and Philippe Boudot
    • More info about ⁠Dowally⁠ (Dan Abrahams and Rachel Petyt)
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    42 m
  • 'Silent' night: visualising a Victorian Christmas

    'Silent' night: visualising a Victorian Christmas
    Dec 18 2025

    It's that time of year again! In today's episode - a festive special featuring plenty of yule tide tangents - we talk to author Sarah Cook about 'silent' Christmas. Digital Content Manager Christina Webber has questions: were Christmas movies a thing in the silent era? Would we recognise some of the tropes of today's Christmas film in the movies made a century ago? And why does the iconography of a Victorian Christmas still have such a hold on our imaginations?

    Listen along to Episode 31 to hear about all this and more. As another tempting teaser, Sarah also shares a little bit with us on 'creepy' Christmas - see below - and we've included a plethora of additional reading and viewing links in the show notes in case your interest is suitably piqued...Additional reading/ relevant links:

    • Read the full English transcript of this episode
    • Read 'The best Christmas films of the Silent Era' by Sarah Cook (courtesy of Film Stories)
    • Watch Santa Claus (1898) on BFI Player
    • Watch Harold Shaw's A Christmas Carol (1914) on BFI Player
    • Watch The Night Before Christmas (1913) on YouTube
    • Watch HippFest at Home: 'A New Look at Our Oldest Films', an illustrated presentation on Victorian film made for HippFest 2024 by Bryony Dixon
    • Read more about the portrait commissioned by Prince Albert in 1848 (courtesy of the V&A)
    • A great Christmas film every year from 1925 to now (courtesy of the BFI)
    • More information on purchasing a HippFest 2026 Festival Pass
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    39 m
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