He Who Gets Slapped (1924) // Silent film with live score by Paris 1919
Schedule
Wed, 15 Apr, 2026 at 07:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
The Parkway Theater | Minneapolis, MN
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Presented by The Parkway and Sound UnseenWednesday, April 15, 2026
6:30 pm Doors // 7:30 pm Music + Film
Just in time for Tax day: the 1924 silent film, He Who Gets Slapped. The great Lon Chaney is HE, a tortured clown whose signature act is receiving an endless series of slaps to the face. Unbeknownst to the cheering crowd, however, HE is disgraced scientist Paul Beaumont who, robbed of his research and publicly humiliated by the evil Baron Regnard (Marc McDermott), has spent the last five years intricately staging a most bizarre and twisted revenge.
The film will be live-scored with a performance featuring new work by Paris 1919, the musical collective of celebrated composer Chris Strouth and select Twin Cities musicians, including Natalie Nowytski (a classically-trained vocalist-turned-folk music geek who sings in 50+ languages and 12+ distinct vocal styles), guitarist Kent Militzer, and multi-instrumentalist David J. Russ, and Terrell X D'avion (Carnage The Executioner) one of America's premier beat boxers and a legendary figure of midwestern Hip-Hop. Strouth’s work has been described as “aggressively ambient,” and this will mark his sixth silent film score for the Parkway. Presented in conjunction with Sound Unseen.
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