Screening Party: Premiere Devin Hampton's SNAP + Victor Stabin's E=MC ³

268 West Broadway,Jim Thorpe PA 18229

18 September, 2021

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Join us for a special screening and reception for the premiere of Devin Hampton's short film SNAP and Victor Stabin's award-winning E=MC ³ The Stabin Museum will host a special screening and reception on Saturday, September 18, for the global premiere of Devin Hampton's short film SNAP. Artist Victor Stabin’s award-winning animated short E=MC ³ will also be screened at the event. This event is free, but registration is requested. SNAP. In this dark, edgy film, a former media host is injured in a car accident and turns up at a local cafe to be tended to by the proprietor. He engages in conversations that evoke and examine his ethically questionable life in a story with a few surprising plot twists. "SNAP was created to play David VS Goliath, within a moral context…to take on difficult subject matters, but within a boundless universe where we can bend all rules," said Hampton. The film stars Ryan Mulkay, Eric Benet, Catherine Curtin, and Kiah Stern. Hampton, a Philadelphia native, directed and shot the film over three blizzard-filled days in early February in Jim Thorpe at Cafe Arielle. "One of the most beautiful places you can ever imagine -- I truly believe we were able to make Jim Thorpe a character in SNAP," said Hampton. E=MC ³ In this surrealist dreamscape based on actual events, E=MC ³ is Victor Stabin's bizarre tale of Albert Einstein's invention and patenting of the perpetual motion refrigerator that brings peace to the Middle East. The animation combines fantastic imagery with tongue-in-cheek storytelling and plenty of schtick. This story had its genesis in the strange but true account of Einstein's work on a highly efficient refrigerator designed while in Berlin circa 1920s. This remarkable story combines Stabin's long-running love affair with public radio with a narrative that unfolds through an NPR-style radio interview - an interview conducted by a talking clam voiced by Dave Davies of NPR's "Fresh Air." SPONSORED BY: Red brick and stone facades, an underground aqueduct, an exposed rock wall at the base of the mountain all lend a distinct architectural ambiance to the Stabin Museum. Developed over the rapid waters of the Mauch Chunk Creek, 268 West Broadway began its historical life as a hydro-powered wire works factory and is now inhabited by the works of Victor Stabin, a contemporary American artist often compared to Dr. Suess, Salvador Dali, and M.C. Escher.