Silent Comedies with Live Piano by Bruce Vogt

Name: Silent Comedies with Live Piano by Bruce Vogt
Genre: Silent Comedy
Released: 2025-11-29
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Cast: Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Fatty Arbuckle, Florence Turner

SILENT MOVIE WEEKEND 2025: A matinee program of laugh-out-loud comedy shorts, accompanied on the piano by celebrated visiting pianist Bruce Vogt. The lineup features some oft he greatest hits from Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Fatty Arbuckle, along with a little-seen British short starring—and directed by—the “Vitagraph Girl,” Florence Turner. Curated by local cinematographer and Cinema Society member Joseph Elliot. <strong>About Silent Movie Weekend 2025:</strong> The celebrated concert pianist and professor Bruce Vogt returns to Kingston for our 2025 Silent Movie Weekend (November 29-30), a now much-loved annual tradition at The Screening Room. Bruce will provide live musical accompaniment for a Friday evening screening of a newly restored Mary Pickford melodrama <a hfref="https://www.screeningroomkingston.com/movie/sparrows-1926-with-live-piano-by-bruce-vogt">Sparrows (1926)</a>, and a Saturday matinee curated program of comedy shorts. <strong>About <a href="https://www.brucevogt.com/">Bruce Vogt</a>:</strong> Bruce Vogt is a Canadian pianist who has devoted a distinguished career to performing and teaching. He has toured cities and towns of all sizes throughout North America, Europe and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. He has mentored generations of young artists in his role as professor of piano at the University of Victoria, and has lectured widely, leading master classes, workshops and adjudicating for festivals. Bruce has sustained an interest in exploring the many conversations to be found between music and film, literature and painting. This has evolved into an unusual side hustle: improvising accompaniments for the great films of the silent era. He has developed a robust career in this multimedia sphere, bringing sound to many masterpieces – by Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Griffith, Sjöström, Von Sternberg and others. In movie theaters across Europe, Asia and North America, he has provided for audiences a greater intimacy with these films, transforming the silence of the medium into another sphere.Silent ComedyPT1H30MRated G2025-11-29

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin

Fatty Arbuckle

Florence Turner

Silent Comedies with Live Piano by Bruce Vogt"Silent Comedies with Live Piano by Bruce Vogt"

Showtimes

November 29, 1:00 pm