In her podcast, Portolan utilizes soundscapes, interviews, and voice-over narration to evoke the atmosphere of the film events she studies. This aligns with what media scholars call "acousmatic sound"—sound that is heard without its source being seen. By stripping away the visual element of the films and focusing on the discourse and sounds surrounding them, Portolan forces the listener to engage with the idea of the film event in a purely cognitive and imaginative way. The podcast becomes a site of "remediation," where the live, communal aspects of the cinema are transposed into a digital, yet deeply personal, auditory sphere.
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