SOULTHRUM: UNDERLIGHT
“There is a real need for a project like Soulthrum, which brings serious attention to under-recognized women and their craft.”
— Naomi Greene, film scholar“Soulthrum is a living index of women whose authorship evolved from industrial confinement. We offer attention as love, vulnerability as craft, mask as agency, stillness as pressure, velocity as control, and exile as language.”
— Tony Vario, creator/curator
About
Soulthrum: Underlight is a voices-only public-humanities audio atlas about women whose craft turns constraint into authorship. Each portrait maps three things—the pressure they faced → the tactic they invented → the change it made in the air. Built entirely from primary voices—lived testimony, recollection, and description—treating language itself as the primary instrument.No narration. No archival film/TV clips. No gossip. Just lived voices, true silences, and careful editing. Ad-free. Classroom-ready (transcripts, citations, teaching notes).Release structure
Pilot (1976): Karen Black establishes the listening method.
Season One (1959): a tightly curated global cohort (7 episodes) built for adoption + teaching.
Each episode is paired with a Year Marker card (work + context + sources) hosted on a partner university portal.With funding, select vignettes can be expanded into full-length 45–65 minute editions using the same ethical method.
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