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B-Side: Online Collection

Want to see and hear some art or can't make it to the island? Our online programme of sound and image is available until 18th September. Featuring work by festival artists Duncan Whitley, Belinda Zhawi, Ioannis Panagiotou and Sound of Nairobi.

b-side Festival's Online Collection has been made possible with support from the British Council's International Collaboration Grant programme.

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South x South East

Belinda Zhawi's sound work South X South East explores migration and identities based on geography and features field recordings and contributions by harpist Marysia Osuchowsk and Caleb Azumah Nelson.

Listen to South x South East
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Kimberlin

Kimberlin is a short film, first completed in 2019, with a 2022 cut to be premiered at this year's festival. The film is about the discovery of an underground cinema cavern on the Isle of Portland: the uncanny discovery and subsequent breaking news begin to generate speculation amongst islanders as to who created the cavern and the canisters of film found within it. Kimberlin features a specially commissioned soundtrack by acclaimed electronic musician Abul Mogard.

Watch Kimberlin
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Umwelt and The Memory Passage

Ioannis Panagiotou presents 2 films, Umwelt and The Memory Passage, featuring Plus Minus Ensemble, Red Note Ensemble and the Edinburgh Film Music Orchestra. Pilgrim's Horses, part 3 of this trilogy, has been commissioned for b-side and can be seen at Sweet Hill Farm.

Watch Umwelt and The Memory Passage
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Sound of Nairobi

SOUND OF NAIROBI (SON) is an open-access archive of the sounds of Nairobi. It employs sound as a material that can be archived, researched and explored as a source of information that can narrate the story of the city, now and in the future. It is intended as a resource for artists, researchers, recordists… anyone interested in sound.

Listen to Sound of Nairobi