6: We Imagine With Our Bodies
Adam, So and Anton rally around the Rio Cinema to save the sounds, as documentary transforms into imagination and your mind becomes a cinema
The sound archive from 1930 is about to be auctioned to mysterious bidders. The sounds are linked to extraordinary film pioneers and an unrealised film that would have changed the world β€”β€―but today they may be lost again. The Rio Cinema will be forced to give up the archive. Can Adam pitch this to the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ for a podcast series?
Adam assembles So Mayer, Anton Blake Horowitz and members of the Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest collective to build a community of support for the Rio. But not everything is what it seems. As documentary transforms into imagination, queer artists take over and reveal that truth is more powerful than fact. With daring soundscapes and surprise audio experimentation β€”β€―challenging everything that a podcast about an unseeable film can be β€” the series reaches its shocking climax.
Credits
Written, produced and edited by Adam Zmith
With story by So Mayer and Adam Zmith
Starring Anton Blake Horowitz
Music by Courtney Pine
Solo fiddle by Eduardo Lees
Assistant Producers – Tash Walker and Shivani Dave
Researcher β€” So Mayer
Audio consultant – David Pye
Artwork by Danny Crossley
Production Mentors – Caroline Steel and Andy King
Executive Producers – Khaliq Meer and Leanne Alie
Commissioned for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds Audio Lab by Khaliq Meer
Thanks to
Aleks Kolkowski
Andrew Woodyatt and everyone at the Rio Cinema
Peninsula Press
The BFI and the BFI National Archive
Axel KacoutiΓ©
Nikki Meadows
Joseph Herscher
Josefeen Foxter
Orrow Bell
Jose Castejoon
Burley Fisher Books
The Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest collective
This episode contains audio from:
Sound effects from Freesound and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Clip from Monitor interview with Paul Robeson courtesy of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Podcast
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The Film We Can't See
Adam Zmith listens to some lost sound recordings from 1930.