Mon, Sep 28

Silent Movie Mondays – Metropolis

The Paramount Theatre

911 Pine St, Seattle

STG Presents Silent Movie Mondays - Metropolis (1927) Monday, Sept. 28, 2026The Paramount TheatreDoors at 6pmShow at 7pmGeneral AdmissionAll Ages, Bar with Valid ID Get Tickets Audio Described Performance Audio description equipment works throughout the theatre. Purchase tickets here. For assistance, contact accessibility@stgpresents.org. Organist: Tedde Gibson Guest Speaker: Kirsten Thompson Fritz Lang's Metropolis is the towering achievement of German Expressionist cinema and one of the most influential science fiction films ever made. Set in a sprawling futuristic city sharply divided between a wealthy elite living in soaring towers and a subjugated workforce toiling in the depths below, the film follows Freder, the son of the city's mastermind, as he falls for Maria, a worker whose message of hope threatens to upend the social order. When Maria is replaced by a robotic double built in her image, the fragile peace between the city's classes erupts into chaos. Lang's staggering visual scale — vast futuristic sets, expressionist lighting, and groundbreaking special effects — helped define the visual language of science fiction for a century to come. Metropolis is unrated. The film contains scenes of industrial peril, class conflict, and stylized violence that may not be suitable for young childrenPrint source: DCP from Kino Lorber. Run time: 148 mins Organist Tedde Gibson is a pianist and classical, Hammond, and theatre organist. He is also a composer, arranger, and silent film scorer. Born in Tacoma, WA, he began organ study at 16 with the late AGO president, Dr. Edward Hansen of the University of Puget Sound. Tedde later studied classical organ improvisation with David Dahl, professor emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University, theatre organ arranging with Jonas Nordwall of Portland, OR, and the late Andy Crow. He was a regular organist at Tacoma Pizza and Pipes from 1995 until the restaurant's demise in 1999. Tedde was organist at Tacoma First Assembly of God/Life Center. Upon moving to Seattle in 1996, he studied with Dr. Carol Terry and Dr. J. Melvin Butler at the University of Washington. He was then organist at First AME Church Seattle.Tedde moved to the Washington, DC metro area in 2003 and studied pipe organ with Howard University professor Dr. Mickey Thomas Terry. While attending Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD, he studied with former AGO president Dr. John Walker and professor emeritus Donald Sutherland.Tedde is the Director of Fine Arts at Mount Pleasant Church and Ministries in Baltimore, MD, and organist at Capitol Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church in Washington, DC.For 18 years, he was an organist/musician-in-residence at First Baptist Church of Highland Park in Landover, MD, and music educator at Highland Park Christian Academy. He was also organist at Holy Comforter-St. Cyprian Roman Catholic Church in Washington, DC.Tedde is an active recitalist and workshop clinician, performing on theatre and church organs nationwide. He has been featured on NBC Nightly News Weekend Edition and has accompanied "Sex and the City" alum Mario Cantone in the PBS production of "Wicked in Concert," broadcast nationally. He recently performed on the Seattle Paramount Theater's Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ at the 2022 American Guild of Organists Convention in Seattle, WA. Tedde is ex-officio of the American Theatre Organ Society. Augsburg Fortress publishes his compositions for organ. www.teddegibson.com Guest Speaker Dr. Kirsten Moana Thompson is Professor and former Chair of the Film and Media Department and now works as a Special Assistant to the Dean of Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University. She teaches and writes on German, Pacific and American film, as well as animation and color studies. With a Phd in Film from New York University, she is the coeditor or author of several books, including Perspectives on German Cinema (1996, GK Hall), Apocalyptic Dread: American Cinema at the Turn of the Millennium (SUNY Press, 2007); Crime Films: Investigating the Scene (Wallflower: 2007), and Animation and Advertising (Palgrave, 2019). She is currently working on a new book, Animated America: Intermedial Promotion from Times Square to Walt Disney.Tyler Pattison, a Western Washington native, began keyboard studies in the first grade and has enjoyed a wide variety of experiences as a musician ever since. Tyler's studies in theatre organ began at age 11 under the tutelage of the late Don Wallin. Tyler has also studied with other well-known organists who frequently appear at the Paramount such as Donna Parker, Jonas Nordwall, and at Gonzaga University with Dr. Janet Ahrend. Tyler has performed with a variety of local ensembles such as the Seattle Symphony, and toured internationally as both a vocalist and organist, but is most at home here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest. As an accompanist and composer, Tyler strives to use the language of music to transport audiences toward a deeper connection to the stories presented in silent films, and other mediums, across all genres and time periods.Paul Hansen has been active as one of the top percussionists in national music and theater circles for over 40 years, having performed for the Paramount Theatre, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Village Theatre and performs regularly with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Auburn Symphony. He has provided Foley Sound for several years for STG’s Silent Movie Mondays.Dana Stevens has been Slate’s film critic since 2006. She is also a cohost of the magazine’s long-running culture podcast, Slate Culture Gabfest, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Bookforum. She lives with her family in New York City. Camera Man is her first book. You can follow her on Twitter @TheHighSign. Audio Described Open Caption Pre- and post-film talks are open captioned ASL Interpretated Pre- and post-film talks are ASL interpreted

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