You Don't Watch Movies. You Hear Them.

Dr. Mark Kerins takes the stage at 2700 Swiss Event Space on Wednesday, November 4, for a talk titled You Don't Watch Movies. You Hear Them. He's a film professor at SMU and the author of Beyond Dolby: Cinema in the Digital Sound Age, and the evening is part of The Hang Theory, a lecture series by Hang Dallas built on the formula 'one speaker, one big idea, one good room.'

Kerins starts with the mechanics of mixing and works his way up to how surround sound opened new visual strategies that let filmmakers build spaces beyond the frame's edge, shaping what an audience feels and where they look. He leans on George Lucas, who put the figure at fifty percent: half of what you experience in a cinema is sound. The session closes with audience questions and time to meet the speaker.

It's at 2700 Swiss Event Space, 2700 Swiss Ave, Dallas, TX 75204. Doors open at 6:30 PM, the talk starts at 7 PM, and you'll be out by 8:30 PM. Tickets are $35.