Mar 28 Thursday
Join us in the STUDIO at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 28 for a talk by George A. Romero scholar Adam Charles Hart!
Few movies have had more impact than George A. Romero’s debut feature, "Night of the Living Dead." When it was unleashed on the world in 1968, it scandalized some and was dismissed by others, but it clearly struck a chord. Night invented a new kind of smart, savage horror, and it’s been watched, loved, and imitated as much as any movie ever made. And its influence continues to be felt across the culture, from zombie properties like "The Walking Dead" and "The Last of Us" to “elevated” horror films like "Get Out" and "Midsommar." But, once upon a time, it was just a low-budget movie from Pittsburgh made by a Carnegie Tech dropout and his pals. This talk, taken from the new book "Raising the Dead: The Work of George A. Romero," traces Romero’s creative life throughout the decade leading up to Night to show how and why a zombie movie could change the cinema.
Adam Charles Hart is a scholar and archivist, and the curator for Media Burn, an independent video archive based in Chicago. He is the author of "Monstrous Forms: Moving Image Horror Across Media" as well as "Raising the Dead: The Work of George A. Romero," which was published this month by Oxford University Press.
Mar 30 Saturday
Join us for a celebration of maniacal media archaeology with two different films on two different formats! We kick things off with a VHS presentation of Harold Boihem’s 1996 essential propaganda and consumerism documentary THE AD AND THE EGO, followed by a 16mm film screening from the Flea Market Films collection of Alexander Grasshoff’s 1972 protean cyberpunk educational FUTURE SHOCK, narrated and starring Orson Welles.
Running Time: 90 MIN
Doors open at 7:30 PM. Show starts at 8:00 PM.
Apr 08 Monday
Join us in the STUDIO at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 8 for a lecture by Brooke Keesling as part of the Women in Animation Series.
Brooke Keesling is the Head of Animation Talent Development at Bento Box Entertainment. She has worked in the animation and VFX industry for decades as a filmmaker, in recruiting & development, and in education. Prior to joining Bento Box, Brooke recruited animation talent for Cartoon Network, Disney, and Warner Bros.
Keesling earned her MFA at CalArts where she produced the stop-motion film "Meatclown" and the Student Academy Award winning film "Boobie Girl." Upon graduation, she worked in practical and miniature VFX on many films such as "Inception," "The Dark Knight," "Hugo," and "The Aviator." Brooke is a member of the Motion Picture Academy, the Television Academy, Women in Animation, and she’s the Vice President of ASIFA Hollywood. Brooke is also on the advisory board of the GLAS Animation Festival, and she teaches in the Character Animation department at CalArts.
Made possible by the generous support of Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Arts in Society, the College of Fine Arts Dean’s Office, Dietrich College Department of Modern Languages, the Frank Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Humanities Scholars Program, IDeAle, and Carnegie Mellon School of Art.