Adam Zmith has found some lost sound recordings from 1930. As he listens to this archive of intriguing noises, he imagines a... more
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The sound archive from 1930 is about to be auctioned to mysterious bidders. The sounds are linked to extraordinary film... more
The creative but awkward dynamic between writer Adam Zmith and actor Anton Blake Horowitz blows up. They are trying to... more
Adam’s investigation into the lost sound archive prompts him to watch Mädchen in Uniform, a lesbian high school dramedy from... more
Adam travels back in time to Weimar era Berlin, when the American actor Louise Brooks danced through the experimental cinema... more
Adam goes deeper into the Rio Cinema archives with researcher So Mayer. They find more work by the pioneering filmmaker... more
When a meandering phone call from a forgotten actor called Anton Blake Horowitz leads Adam Zmith into an old cinema,... more
This immersive six-part series takes Adam back to early cinema pioneers Sergei Eisenstein, Louise Brooks and Paul Robeson, in an... more
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