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Ben Model’s
Silent Film Performance Schedule

Below are the listings of my upcoming performances, live-streams and home-video releases, with links to each venue for more details. Shows are usually posted 2-3 months in advance. Sign up for my emails to stay informed and get insider info.

For booking info, send me an email. If I’m already booked for a date you’re interested in, email me anyway…I may be able to refer you to someone.

I’ll see you at the silents!

January – February 2026

  • Jan 6 (Tues) at 7:30pm – Laurel & Hardy in That’s My Wife, Wrong Again, and Big Business (all 1929) – DCP, new digital restorations by Blackhawk Films, courtesy of Flicker Alley – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Jan 11 (Sun) at 2:30pm – Raymond Griffith in Paths to Paradise (1925), plus Edward Everett Horton in No Publicity (1927) – DCP, new digital restorations by Undercrank Productions – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Leonard Nimoy Thalia –New York NY – acoustic grand piano
  • Jan 17 at 1:30 – program: “Masters of American Animation, 1914–1998” — MoMA, part of the 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation — New York NY — Steinway S acoustic piano
  • Jan 18 (Sun) at 1:00 – Marion Davies in The Cardboard Lover (1928), plus Alice Howell in Distilled Love (1920) – DCP, world premiere of new digital restoration by Undercrank Productions — MoMA, part of the 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation — New York NY — Steinway S acoustic piano
  • Jan 20 (Tues) at 1:30 – Marion Davies in The Cardboard Lover (1928), plus Alice Howell in Distilled Love (1920) – DCP, world premiere of new digital restoration by Undercrank Productions — MoMA, part of the 22nd MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation — New York NY — Steinway S acoustic piano
  • Jan 28 – Weds afternoons, through May 6 – “Silent Storytelling” – teacher and accompanist, undergraduate film studies course – NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – Kawai acoustic piano

February 2026

  • Feb 4-11-18-25 – Weds afternoons, through May 6 – “Silent Storytelling” – teacher and accompanist, undergraduate film studies course – NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – Kawai acoustic piano
  • Feb 5 (Weds) 10:00am – Sergei M. Eisenstein’s The Battleship Potemkin (1925) – undergraduate film studies course taught by Prof. Michael Slowik – NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – Yamaha digital piano keyboard
  • Feb 5 (Weds) 2:15pm – John Ford’s Lazybones (1925) – undergraduate film studies course taught by Prof. Scott Higgins – NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – Yamaha digital piano keyboard
  • Feb 10 (Tues) at 7:30pm – D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920) – 35mm print from MoMA – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Feb date TBD – silent film TBA – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Leonard Nimoy Thalia –New York NY – acoustic grand piano
  • Feb 19 (Thurs) at 7:00pm – F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise (1927) – DCP – Bryn Mawr Film Institute – Bryn Mawr PA – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Fri+Sat Feb 27 & 28 — The Kansas Silent Film Festival – film selections TBA – White Concert Hall, Washburn University – Topeka KS – digital virtual theatre organ (using Reuter pipe organ console)

My Shows in 2025:

December 2025

  • Dec 4 (Thurs) at 6:00pm – book talk/presentation: The Silent Film Universe: Exploring Silent Movies with Film Historian, Accompanist and Presenter Ben Model – The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of New York City – New York NY – lecture, with accomp. on early 1900’s acoustic Weber grand piano
  • Dec 11 (Thurs) at 7:30pm – Mary Pickford in Sparrows (1926), in 35mm – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – Walker digital Wurlitzer organ
  • Dec 16 (Tues) at 7:30pm – Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven (1927) – DCP, new digital restoration by MoMA – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ

November 2025

  • Nov 3 (Mon) afternoon – presentation for SDSU students(not open to public) – Founders Recital Hall, Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University – Brookings SD – Salmen-Reuter pipe organ
  • Nov 3 (Mon) at 7:30pm – Charlie Chaplin in The Kid (1921) – Founders Recital Hall, Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University – Brookings SD – Salmen-Reuter pipe organ
  • Nov 4 (Tues) at 7:30pm – Charlie Chaplin in The Kid (1921) – Founders Recital Hall, Oscar Larson Performing Arts Center at South Dakota State University – Brookings SD – Salmen-Reuter pipe organ
  • Nov 14 (Fri) at 7:15pm — silent film TBA — AFI Silver Theatre – Silver Spring MD – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Nov 15 (Sat) at 2:00pm — silent film TBA — AFI Silver Theatre – Silver Spring MD – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Nov 15 (Sat) at 4:15pm — silent film TBA — AFI Silver Theatre – Silver Spring MD – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Nov 18 (Tues) at 7:30pm – Constance Talmadge in Her Sister From Paris (1925) – 35mm print from the Library of Congress – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Nov 21 (Fri) at 7:30pm – Buster Keaton’s The Cameraman (1928) – Texas Theatre – Dallas TX – digital piano keyboard
  • Nov 22 (Sat ) at 7:30pm – The Ernie Kovacs Award, presented to Fred Armisen – Texas Theatre – Dallas TX – attending as the archivist/historian for the Ernie Kovacs Television Collection
  • Nov 30 at 2:30pm – Douglas MacLean in Bell Boy 13 (1923), plus Louise Fazenda in Dizzy Daisy (1923) and Max Davidson in Pass the Gravy (1928) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Leonard Nimoy Thalia –New York NY – acoustic grand piano

October 2025

  • Oct 2 (Thurs) at 10:00am – guest performer/lecturer at History of Film 1895 to 1935, taught by Prof. Tricia Welsch – for enrolled students only – Bowdoin College – Brunswick ME – digital piano
  • Oct 2 (Thurs) at 7:00pm – F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) – Bowdoin College Mills Hall, rm 129 – Brunswick ME – digital piano
  • Oct 5 (Sun) at 2:00pm – Buster Keaton’s The General (1926) — Bedford Playhouse — Bedford NY — Yamaha digital piano
  • Oct 9 (Thurs) at 12:00pm – guest performer/lecturer at film history course, taught by Prof. Jennifer Fleeger – for enrolled students only – Montclair State University – Montclair NJ – digital keyboard
  • Oct 9 (Thurs) at 5:00pm – Silent Comedy Shorts TBA – Montclair State University – Montclair NJ – acoustic grand piano
  • Oct 12 (Sun) at 2:00pm – Buster Keaton in Coney Island (1917), The Scarecrow (1920), Day Dreams (1922) and Cops (1922) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Leonard Nimoy Thalia –New York NY – acoustic grand piano
  • Oct 15 (Weds) at 7:30pm – Roland West’s The Bat (1926) – new restoration by Undercrank Productions– The Silent Clowns Film Series – Cobble Hill Cinema – Brooklyn NY – Yamaha digital keyboard
  • Oct 21 (Tues) at 7:30pm – Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs (1928) – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Oct 24 (Fri) at 8:00pm – Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – First Congregational Church of Elgin – Elgin IL – pipe organ
  • Oct 30 (Thur) at 8:00pm – Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – Center at West Park/Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew – New York NY – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Oct 31 (Fri) at 8:00pm – Lon Chaney in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) – First Reformed Church of Nyack, presented by ArtsRock – Nyack NY – pipe organ

September 2025

  • Mon Sept 8 – class screening for enrolled students only, not open to the public – Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925), dir. by Ernst Lubitsch – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Thurs Sept 11 – class screening for enrolled students only, not open to the public – Street Angel (1928), dir. by Frank Borzage – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Sat Sept 13 at 2:30pm – Constance Talmadge in Her Sister From Paris (1925) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Leonard Nimoy Thalia –New York NY – acoustic grand piano
  • Tues Sept 16 at 7:30pm – Tom Tyler in The Man From Nevada and The Law of the Plains (both 1928) – new restorations, by Undercrank Productions – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Weds Sept 17 at 2:00pm — silent comedy shorts program – not open to the general public – The Osborn (Senior Living) – Rye NY – acoustic grand piano
  • Fri Sept 19 at 7:30pm – Josef von Sternberg’s Underworld (1927) with George Bancroft and Evelyn Brent – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – Walker digital Wurlitzer organ
  • Sun Sept 28 at at 7:30pm – Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927) – Varsity Theater – National Silent Movie Day event – Des Moines IA – digital piano

Summer 2025

  • Sat Aug 2 at 7:00 – Saxophone Susi (Miss Saxophone) (1928) – MoMA – New York NY – Steinway acoustic grand piano
  • Fri Aug 8 to Sun Aug 10 – 26th annual Capitolfest classic film festival – Capitol Theatre – Rome NY – original-installation 1928 Möller theatre pipe organ
  • Weds Aug 13 at 7:30pm – Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Cobble Hill Cinema – Brooklyn NY – Yamaha digital keyboard
  • Tues Aug 19 at 7:30pm — Harry Langdon in The Strong Man (1926) – new digital restoration – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Sun July 6 at 8:00pm – Charlie Chaplin in The Rink (1916), The Immigrant (1917) and The Count (1916) – Adirondack State Theatre – Tupper Lake NY (Adirondacks) – digital piano keyboard
  • Mon July 7 at 8:00pm – Charlie Chaplin in The Rink (1916), The Immigrant (1917) and The Count (1916) – Strand Theatre – Schroon Lake NY (Adirondacks) – acoustic upright piano
  • Weds July 9 at 7:30pm – Laurel & Hardy in We Faw Down, From Soup to Nuts and Two Tars (all 1928) – new digital restorations – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Cobble Hill Cinema – Brooklyn NY – Yamaha digital keyboard
  • Fri July 11 at 7:30pm – Marion Davies in Show People (1928) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – Walker digital Wurlitzer organ
  • Tues July 15 at 7:30pm — Rin-Tin-Tin in Clash of the Wolves (1925) – 35mm print – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ
  • Fri July 25 at 7:30pm – Love ’em and Leave ’em (1925) with Evelyn Brent and Louise Brooks – David Rubinstein Atrium (near Lincoln Center) – reserve “Fast Track” tickets starting on Mon July 21 at 12 noon here – New York NY – Yamaha upright piano
  • Weds July 30 at 8:00pm – Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) – new 4K digital restoration, by MoMA – opening night of “Silent Movie Week”, outdoors in MoMA’s Abbey Rockefeller Sculpture Garden – MoMA – New York NY – digital virtual theatre organ

June 2025

Weds June 4 at 7:30pm – Buster Keaton in The Cameraman (1928), plus Billy Franey in The Cameraman (1920) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – Cobble Hill Cinema – Brooklyn NY – Yamaha digital keyboard

Sat June 7 at 12noon – Charlie Chaplin in The Kid (1921) – Lenfest Center for the Arts (Columbia Univ.) – New York NY – Yamaha digital piano keyboard

Tues June 17 at 7:30pm — Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925) – book-signing event – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ

Tues June 17 – publication date for my book The Silent Film Universe – pre-order in paperback or hardcover here

May 2025

Sat May 3 at 2:30pm – Raymond Griffith in You’d Be Surprised (1926), plus Charley Chase in Movie Night (1929) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano

Fri May 9 at 7:30pm – Forgotten Faces (1928) with Clive Brook and WilliamPowell – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – Walker digital Wurlitzer organ

Mon May 19 at 7:00 – Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven, with Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell – Jacob Burns Film Center – Kurzweil digital keyboard

Tues May 20 at 7:30pm — Sessue Hayakawa in The Dragon Painter (1919) — new digital restoration – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ

Thurs May 20 at 7:00 – Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925) – Hewlett-Woodmere Library – Hewlett NY – Steinway B grand piano

April 2025

Weds afternoons, through May 7 – “Silent Storytelling” – teacher and accompanist, undergraduate film studies course – NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – Kawai acoustic piano

Fri Apr 4 – silent film presentation for 4th graders (not open to the public) – D.W. Griffith’s The Lonedale Operator (1911) and Keaton’s One Week (1920) – The Town School – New York NY – upright piano

Sat Apr 5 at 2:30pm – Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid (1921), plus Baby Peggy in The Kid Reporter (1923) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano

Fri Apr 11 at 7:30pm – Rin Tin Tin in The Night Cry (1926) – Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre – Culpeper VA – Walker digital Wurlitzer organ

Tues Apr 15 at 7:30pm — Colleen Moore in Her Wild Oat (1928) — 35mm print – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ

Fri Apr 18 at 8:00pm – Marion Davies in Beverly of Graustark (1926) – Epsilon Spires – Brattleboro VT – Estey pipe organ

Apr 26 at 6:45pm (PDT) – Harold Lloyd in The Freshman (1925) – The 16th annual TCM Classic Film Festival – Hollywood CA – digital virtual theatre organ

March 2025

Weds afternoons, through May 7 – “Silent Storytelling” – teacher and accompanist, undergraduate film studies course – NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – Kawai acoustic piano

Fri+Sat Feb 28 & Mar 1 — The Kansas Silent Film Festival – Clara Bow in Mantrap (1926) and Wallace Reid in The Valley of Giants (1919) – White Concert Hall, Washburn University – Topeka KS – digital virtual theatre organ (using Reuter pipe organ console)

Sat Mar 8 – Harold Lloyd in Grandma’s Boy (1922) and Speedy (1928) – Gage County Film Institute – Beatrice NE – acoustic upright piano

Tues Mar 18 at 7:30pm — Buster Keaton’s The General (1926) — new restoration – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ

Thur Mar 20 at 7:30pm – “Silent Comedy All-Stars” shorts program, feat. Chaplin, Keaton, Chase and Laurel & Hardy – Center at West Park – New York NY – digital virtual theatre organ

January-February 2025

Sat Jan 8 at 8:00pm – Roland West’s The Bat (1926) — Arkadin Cinema and Bar — St. Louis MO — virtual live introduction to screening

Sat Jan 11 at 2:30pm – Edward Everett Horton in Taxi! Taxi! (1926) – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano

Tues Jan 14 at 6:30pm — Francis Ford’s The Craving (1918) plus The Post Telegrapher (1912) — MoMA — New York NY — Steinway S acoustic piano

Tues Jan 21 at 7:30pm — Laurel & Hardy in We Faw Down, From Soup To Nuts and You’re Darn Tootin’ (all 1928) — new restorations – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ

Fri Jan 24 at 7:00pm — Maurice Tourneur’s The White Heather (1919) plus Baby Peggy in Peg O’ The Mounted (1924) — new restorations — MoMA — New York NY — Steinway S acoustic piano

Weds afternoons Jan 29 through May 7 – “Silent Storytelling” – teacher and accompanist, undergraduate film studies course – NOT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – Kawai acoustic piano

Thurs Jan 30 – class screening for enrolled students only, not open to the public – Mary Pickford in Stella Maris (1918) – Wesleyan University – Middletown CT – digital virtual theatre organ

Sat Feb 8 at 2:30pm – “Forgotten Clowns”: rare shorts from the Library of Congress – The Silent Clowns Film Series – NYPL Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center – New York NY – Steinway D grand piano

Tues Feb 18 at 7:30pm — Our Gang comedies featuring Ernie Morrison: Young Sherlocks (1922), The Champeen (1922) and Dogs of War (1923)— new digital restorations by ClassicFlix – Cinema Arts Centre – Huntington NY (Long Island) – digital virtual theatre organ

Thurs Feb 20 at 9:30am – guest speaker/performer at “A Film Historian, a Psychologist, and an Artist Walk Into a Class” – class screening for enrolled students only, not open to the public – Sarah Lawrence College – Bronxville NY – acoustic piano

Fri Feb 28 – Sat Mar 1 — The Kansas Silent Film Festival — Valley of the Giants (1919), The Second Hundred Years (1927), Max Linder shorts (1907-1912), Mantrap (1927), and A Night In The Show (1915) — White Concert Hall, Washburn University — Topeka KS — digital virtual theatre organ, acoustic grand piano

For shows I played during 2024, click or tap here.

For shows from 2023 and earlier, click or tap here.