FREE | Registration Required (link coming soon)

Location: 5528 Waters Edge Village Drive
Charlotte, NC 28262

Join us at the University Regional Library for a teen horror series that uses film as a tool for community building, offering a welcoming space for teens to connect, share interests, and engage in meaningful conversations about storytelling, culture, and creativity.

Meshes of the Afternoon (14min) – This avant-garde classic, created in collaboration with her husband Alexander Hammid, is an important work of feminist filmmaking. Regarding the film’s subjective camera movement, jump cuts, and visual repetition, Deren wrote that it “is concerned with the inner realities of the individual and the way in which the subconscious will develop, interpret, and elaborate an apparently simple and causal occurrence into a critical emotional experience.” Here, in its original version, it is presented intentionally silent.

The Tell-Tale Heart (23min) – “Madness, but will you say that I am mad? Murder, perhaps you judge too soon. For when you hear my story, you will certainly understand why, very gradually – I made up my mind to take the life of the old man.” True to the words of master storyteller Edgar Allan Poe, this stunning adaptation brings to life what is perhaps Poe’s best known short story. Murder, madness and betrayal from within interweave in this fascinating study into the mind of one driven by his own demons to take the life of another.