Film in the Gallery: The Last Laugh (1924), featuring live accompaniment by Michael D. Mortilla

Join us for another Film in the Gallery and Studio Channel Island’s first ever silent screening! We will be showing Der letzte Mann (The Last Laugh)—originally released in 1924, directed by F. W. Murnau (Nosferatu, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans) and starring Emil Jannings (The Way of All Flesh, The Last Command).

We are beyond excited to present this German masterpiece with the live piano accompaniment of Michael D. Mortilla!

VIP tickets include priority seating and a free drink and snack from our bar.

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Michael D. Mortilla has worked as a full-time, freelance journeyman composer for over half a century. His many commissions include feature films by Frank Capra for Sony/Columbia Pictures, countless scores for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, as well as original scores for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Library of Congress, Olympic Games, Martha Graham Dance Company, and many others. Michael scored the World’s First Internet broadcast of a film in association with the American Film Institute and was resident composer on the faculty at UC Santa Barbara for 14 years. He has lectured at CALARTS and has a teaching license for the City of New York Public Schools. Michael is also the entertainment curator for the Catalina Island Museum for Art & History. He is largely self-taught.