Author: Radio Atlas

A short feature from a longer work by the Spanish composer and sound designer Charo Calvo. Five women artists tell, in their mother tongue, a vital moment, an intense sensorial experience, that left a physical imprint. How can you transmit this experience through language when your words are translated? Qualia questions the impossibility of sharing with others the exact perception of a colour, of the temperature of a hand or the taste of wine.

In this short, we hear a story from Zahava Seewald – a singer and museum curator. Her story dances between Hebrew and a French translation. You can hear the full work here.

This short is the first in a two-part collaboration with Radio Papesse – a webradio and online audio archive devoted to contemporary art. Radio Papesse promotes a critical discourse around the visual arts and supports experimental sound and radiophonic productions by sharing and producing sound related artists’ projects. Qualia was selected to form part of Radio Papesse‘s Süden Radio, an ongoing project on the exploration of sound as a tool for critical thinking. It was also shortlisted for Palma Ars Acustica and the Grand Prix Nova in 2017.

Charo Calvo is a composer, sound designer and Professor of Composition for Media at Mons Conservatory, Brussels. She has composed for festivals, dance performances, theatre, film and radio. She received the Palma Ars Acustica 2014 and was selected for the Prix Europa and Phonurgia Nova with Phonobiographie #1. In 2017 she will be an artist in residence in Berlin selected by DAAD (Berliner Künstlerprogramm) for a year.

First produced for ABC Radio’s Soundproof with Miyuki Jokiranta. Co-produced with ACSR bruxelles and Carmelo Iannuzzo, FACR Wallonie-Bruxelles. Translation and voice Caroline Daish. Director, Editing, Sound Design and Mix – Charo Calvo. Mastering – Bastien Hidalgo Ruiz.

 

 

 

To have and to lose control – a personal feature from Nanna Hauge Kristensen. 

This feature won first prize at the P1 Shortdox competition in 2017.

Nanna Hauge Kristensen (1980) lives in Copenhagen. She works as an anthropologist and has produced radio for the Danish Radio P1.

A phone call from a priest led Bengt Bok to the story of Jeanette E – a story which took place 40 years ago, in a small apartment on the outskirts of the city. In this still, frank and disturbing documentary Jeanette unveils the monstrousness behind the facade of our institutions and within the heart of her family.

NB. This documentary contains descriptions of sexual abuse.

Bengt Bok is an award-winning radio journalist, documentary filmmaker and professor at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. You can read an extract from Bok’s meditation on the interview process ‘Encounter with the Other’ here.

This documentary was made for P1 Dockumentär on Sveriges Radio.

Translation by Sara Olsson.

 

My Share of the Sky artfully captures the disorientation of seeking refuge in a new country. Working on her first radio documentary – journalist Sheida Jahanbin recorded her own experiences, coached by Rikke Houd who also edited and structured the story with Jahanbin. Together they offer an inventive audio language which cracks and fragments – English, Persian and Norwegian jaggedly interrupt each other, artfully dizzying the listener, embodying the feeling of being lost in translations.

The documentary placed third at the Prix Europa in 2011.

My Share of the Sky was produced by Sheida Jahanbin and Rikke Houd for NRK with support from i-m-s.dk.

After the death of her twin, Linda Mortansdóttir offers a tender exploration of the life they shared and the aspects of her brother she struggled to know. The feature unfurls a loving portrait of Rasmus Rasmussen whilst delicately unpicking the societal prejudice he faced growing up on the Faroe Islands.

This story was Linda Mortansdóttir’s documentary debut. It was nominated for the Prix Europa in 2016 and finished in the top 10. The documentary was made in collaboration with Third Ear, with production coaching from Tim Hinman and Rikke Houd. It was first broadcast on national public service radio in the Faroe Islands and later released as a Third Ear x Politiken podcast in a new version. Since making this documentary Mortansdóttir has moved back to the Faroe Islands with her family.

In 2006, stories of LGBT people being harassed started to emerge in the capital of the Faroe Islands – Tórshavn. Incidents where people had been chased and attacked. There was a particular incident, the one mentioned in this story, that reached the media’s attention and provoked fierce debate.

The debate reached Parliament – the Christian right wing vs. the left liberal wing. Many people wanted the Discrimination Act (§266b), to include ‘sexual orientation’ in order to protected homosexual people in the Faroes under the law, so that they wouldn’t be discriminated against, when applying for jobs, etc.

Some politicians argued, that there were no gay people in the Faroes, and therefore we didn’t need this change in §266b. But the incident in this story, proved, that this was not true. After this there was a concrete case, giving evidence that homosexuals in the Faroes were persecuted.

After several months of debate in Parliament, and on social media, Parliament voted 16 against and 17 for the proposal was approved, so that ‘sexual orientation’ was included in the Discrimination Act.

 

 

Mathilde Guermonprez edits together messages left by mothers on answering machines in a sharp, funny and moving montage.

Mathilde Guermonprez makes documentaries, news reports and sound projects for ARTE Radio, and also participates in the creation of web documentaries. Her work focuses on personal subjects as well as societal studies. An ungrateful daughter of 40 years, she rarely phones her mother back.

From the mouths of babes and drunkards, you will learn the truth… One day before Christmas, 10 year old Aurora gets into conversation with Oddbjørn, a former actor who now spends his time drinking on the street. They talk about life, death and sweethearts as he prepares to read the Christmas gospel in church.

From the Mouths of Babes and Drunkards was nominated for the Prix Europa in 2016. It was produced by Kristin Heien, with technical direction from Merete Antonsen and coaching from Berit Hedemann.

Kristin Heien lives in Bergen, Norway. She is a director and scriptwriter at Pandora Film and a former journalist at NRK, the Norwegian Broadcast Company. Educated in film and TV production with a Bachelor of the Arts from the University of Bergen. As an independent, she has produced several documentaries for the NRK. 

On January 20, 2009, a woman and her two young daughters were found dead in their small apartment in the St. Pierre district of Marseille. The tragedy made the national news for a few hours. Working at the time on various radio programs coproduced by Radio‐Grenouille and ARTE Radio, three reporters from both teams decided to investigate. They went to meet people in the neighbourhood, family, school and community, who might have known Lolita and why she died. Six months of investigation resulted in Who Killed Lolita? (Or Qui a connu Lolita? in its original title) – an audio portrait of the negative space around the body of Lolita and her two children.

Who Killed Lolita? is part of our ongoing series of collaborations with RadioDoc Review – we’re featuring one of their articles on Who Killed Lolita? written by the radio producer Chris Brookes.

Who Killed Lolita? · RadioDoc Review

Who Killed Lolita? was a production for ARTE Radio and Radio‐Grenouille. The authors were Anouk Batard, Mehdi Ahoudig, Olivier Apprill, directed by Mehdi Ahoudig and the mix was by Samuel Hirsch. It won the Prix Europa for Best Radio Documentary in 2010.

Mehdi Ahoudig, author, sound director and filmmaker, creates soundtracks for theatre and dance companies and teaches radio documentary. A regular contributor to ARTE Radio, he has won the Prix Europa three times.

Claire lives in her house on an island in Canada. She’s 87 years old and searching for love. A couple of years ago, she signed up to a dating agency. But there’s one problem – there are no men. Or as Claire puts it, ‘The men are either sick or dead.’

Claire writes a column in the newspaper about her loneliness and hopeless search for a relationship. By chance, Brit comes across it and an idea begins to take form. In fact it’s not just an idea but a grand plan about how Claire may finally find love.

Brit Jensen (born 1980) is a Danish radio documentary maker based in the Czech Republic. She has produced work for Danish, Czech and AustraIian radio. Currently she is working for Czech national radio on a new, short form documentary show. The Grand Plan was nominated for 2016’s Prix Europa.

The story of two young men who lived in Viborg, a small town in Denmark, both with the same name – Thomas Andersen.  They had never met until one night in October, thirteen years ago, when one Thomas Andersen ended up trying to run over the other one in his car. One Thomas ended up in a coma, with no memory of the night. In this documentary he returns to Viborg to shed light on the darkness of the past – and to find Thomas Andersen again.

The Double is among the winners of the 2016 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Competition

Thomas Arent Andersen was born on December 22, 1983, in Viborg, Denmark. He is a graduate of The National Film School of Denmark and has worked professionally with audio and sound design on documentaries and feature films since 2008. In November 2015 Thomas debuted as a podcast producer with his own personal story, The Double.

In 2016 Thomas produced another podcast for Third Ear about a former Danish police officer gone rogue and is currently working on several new documentaries.

You can hear more from Third Ear on Radio Atlas here.

This podcast was made in collaboration with the Danish newspaper Politiken.