Silent film screening with live musical accompaniment: “Modern Times” by Charlie Chaplin

Silent film screening with live improvised musical accompaniment by Sonia Megías.

"Modern Times" is a 1936 American film written, directed and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film reflects the working conditions of a worker at the time of the Great Depression in the face of the efficiency of industrialization and chain production. The film also stars Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Stanley Sandford and Chester Conklin.

*About Sonia Megias:

Sonia Megías studied piano, viola and composition at the Almansa and Murcia conservatories. She studied composition and choir conducting in Trieste with an Erasmus scholarship and music pedagogy at the Complutense University of Madrid. Between 2010-2012, thanks to Fulbright and NYU Steinhardt scholarships, she completed a master's degree in Composition and Music Theory at New York University.