The Many Moods of Melodrama: Sentiment, Satire, Horror, and Noir

Join us for a captivating evening of short silent films exploring the melodramatic mode, with original scores performed by students from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. 

Five separate titles from France and the United States offer different takes on melodrama, from the traditional to the avant-garde. The program includes Mary Pickford in a new restoration of An Arcadian Maid (1910), the historical drama The Assassination of the Duke of Guise (1908) featuring an original score by Camille Saint-Saëns, the 1928 film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher,” episode 2 of the French protonoir crime serial Les Vampires (1915), and Charlie Chaplin in the Keystone Studios comedy The Face on the Barroom Floor (1914).

Venue and Ticketing Info

• Transformer Station is a cashless venue. A credit card must be used for non-alcoholic, beer, and wine purchases at Transformer Station’s bar. The bar opens one hour prior to showtime and remains open for the duration of the performance. 
• Tickets to concerts at Transformer Station cannot be purchased at the venue. Purchase tickets on the museum’s website prior to showtime.