You Don't Watch Movies. You Hear Them.

The Hang Theory, a lecture series by Hang Dallas: one speaker, one big idea, one good room.

People say they watched a movie or ask if you've seen it, but the language is wrong. George Lucas put the number at fifty percent: half of what you experience in a theater is sound. SMU film professor Dr. Mark Kerins, author of Beyond Dolby: Cinema in the Digital Sound Age, examines how a film's sound mix shapes what an audience feels and where they look, starting with the mechanics of mixing and moving into how surround sound opened new visual strategies that let filmmakers build spaces beyond the frame's edge.

Doors at 6:30 PM. The talk starts at 7:00 PM, followed by audience questions and time to meet the speaker. Out by 8:30 PM. Tickets are $35.