Blue Screen invites guests from the worlds of film, art, and beyond to record cinematic mixtapes every month on NTS Radio – treating sound as cinema and cinema as something you can hear.
Legendary photography Ewen Spencer’s celebration of the sweat and fever attached to soul 45s. More than just magnificent music, it's a broad church of enduring characters and perhaps a soundtrack to a certain way of life.
14 Oct 2026 · Listen on NTS ↗
Lebanese-Sudanese filmmaker Dana Boulos creates a 60-minute soundtrack dedicated to dreams becoming reality, no matter the language. A mixtape where songs become photographs.
16 Sep 2026 · Listen on NTS ↗
Enantios Dromos pieces together a world of films, characters and fragments that feel pulled from a half-remembered dream. Ghosts meet lovers, monsters meet revolutionaries, and reality slips easily into fantasy.
19 Aug 2026 · Listen on NTS ↗
Eugene Kotlyarenko, known for his boundary-pushing films including Spree and The Code, shares a late night session of music that never made it into his movies, lines of dialogue and more.
22 Jul 2026 · Listen on NTS ↗
British-American director Savanah Leaf channels the sensory world of her youth. As she describes it: “I wanted to build the soundscape of little Savanah, scootering down to the VHS store with her Walkman, holding onto memories long beyond the return date.
24 Jun 2026 · Listen on NTS ↗
For some time David Lynch wanted to adapt Kafka’s The Metamorphosis in which a young man wakes up to discover he’s suddenly transformed into an insect. Charlie Fox started wondering what the soundtrack might be.
27 May 2026 · Listen on NTS ↗
Gaspar’s mixtape opens in a distinctly Lynchian register before moving through electro, techno and cinematic club energy. Cutting lines between excess and pop memory, from Dopplereffekt to Britney Spears
12 May 2026 · Listen on NTS ↗
The Pope of Trash himself, John Waters chats to Amar Ediriwira about embracing Christmas - accompanied by a selection of off-kilter novelty songs for the true connoisseur.
4 Dec 2024 · Listen on NTS ↗