About this episode

The episode features Young Programmers discussing their experiences in curating a silent film mini-season with live music.

In this month's episode we hear from three of our 2025 Young Programmers, who have been busy behind-the-scenes preparing our Autumn mini-season of silent film with live music. Alanna Steel, Helen Jockel and Eve Jeffreys share what it was like working together to choose the titles and their musical accompaniments, as well as explaining a little bit about each film and the variety of extra activities surrounding the screenings. In case you needed a reminder, the upcoming season of in-person screenings features: Clarence Brown's Flesh and the Devil (1925) on Saturday 20 September , with live musical accompaniment by Stephen Horne Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925) on Saturday 4 October , with live musical accompaniment by S!nk Buster Keaton's Go West (1926) on Saturday 18 October , with live musical accompaniment by Mike Nolan Plus a reprisal of online show HippFest at Home (again!) - Neil Brand: Key Notes for our international audiences who missed out in March. Digital Content Manager Christina dives a little deeper into how each guest first discovered silent cinema, and what being a Young Programmer with HippFest is like... All the relevant information on multi-ticket…

People in this episode

Guests: Alanna Steel, Helen Jockel, Eve Jeffreys

Topics covered

• silent film
• live music
• Young Programmers
• film screenings
• cinema history

Keywords

• silent film
• Young Programmers
• live music
• film screenings
• HippFest

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Hippodrome Silent Film Festival, Edinburgh Silent Film Club

Books & works: Flesh and the Devil, Battleship Potemkin, Go West

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