Hell & High Water

Discount time travel. How the shipping container birthed globalization and strangled the sailing ship. Shipbuilding with the boogeymen. Designing a 21st-century ‘wayang kulit’, the art of music, story, light and shadow. ~~~~~~ Script, narration, audio production and sound design by: Grey Filastine Additional story editing by: Raka Ibrahim Season production & graphic design by: Mat Jacob Create...

How to transform a hazy dream into a real thing? By learning from who came before. From showboats to utopian sea-steaders, pirate radio vessels to the dodgy business of “flags of convenience," Bottoms Up gets dirty with wood and steel, sweat and study. Script, narration, audio production and sound design by Grey Filastine Story editing and sound design contributions by Rabia Williams Additional st...

Meet your captain & narrator, find out why we chose to abandon the stage for the sea, and why we chose to sail within the Indonesian archipelago. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and the waters are already rising. We need your help to reach more ears. Please rate & comment wherever you listen. Even better, suggest Hell & High Water to a few friends by sending them this l...

In a ship’s log remixed for deep listening, listeners are immersed into the true and ongoing voyage of Arka Kinari, an ancient sailing ship transformed into a cultural platform to sound the alarm for the climate crisis. You’ll explore seas and sounds, visit mega-ports and stilt villages, navigate through cyclones and plastic gyres, anchor in post-nuclear atolls, be hosted by sultans, threatened by...