no more room in hell
original score & sound design / 2023
film by Rebecca shapass (+ the george romero archives)
"no more room in hell" began with initial research conducted at the archive of horror director George A. Romero (Dir. Night of the Living Dead) housed at the University of Pittsburgh. Extending research beyond the archive, the film examines the implications of zombiehood in relation to industry, late techno-capitalism, and apocalyptic realities. The experimental cinematic work models itself after Romero’s cult classics which birthed the American cinematic zombie against the industrial backdrop of Western Pennsylvania.
sonically, this project had two main focuses—zombies and industrialization. this meant capturing the very organic sounds of the flesh zombie, while bridging this to the hyper technological sounds of the industrial, and now computerized, zombie. by producing loads of new sounds and compositions and heavily modifying source material from the romero archives, we were able to reach a sonic compromise between the two seemingly different sides of the project.
~credits~
Co-Produced by Rebecca Shapass & Kevin Mathein
Cinematography: Kevin Mathein
Original Score: Saint Taint
SFX Makeup: Bo-Bo Jessee
Point Cloud Animations: Magda Gourinchas
Dataset Backend: Mike Xu
supported by funding from Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Frank-Ratchye Further Fund.
Installation images: Tom Little.
~press~
C-Print Journal. no more room in hell - review by Ashik Zaman. March 2023.
Unik goth-utställning på Konstnärshusetin Art Notes. Review of the group exhibition Mary Shelley Must Never Die (Cur. Ashik Zaman) by Erika Sahlqvist. December 2025.
Effektfull utställning med monster och mörka kraftfältin Dagens Nyheter.Review of the group exhibition Mary Shelley Must Never Die (Cur. Ashik Zaman) by Milou Allerholm. December 2025.
~EXHIBITIONS~
Mary Shelley Must Never Die, Cur. Ashik Zaman @ SKF/ Konstnärshuset (Stockholm, Sweden)
thump, whoosh, rumble @ Miller ICA (Pittsburgh, PA)
~SCREENINGS~
Novos Cinemas Festival Internacional de Cinema de Pontevedra. Cur. Jean-Jacques Martinod (Galicia)
Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art (Pittsburgh, PA)
WNDX Festival of the Moving Image (Winnipeg,Canada)
MOTEL/X - Lisbon International Horror Film Festival (Lisbon, Portugal)
Mimesis Documentary Festival (Boulder, CO)
Film Maudit 2.0 (Los Angeles, CA)
62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI)
Antimatter [media art] (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Nightmares Film Festival (Columbus, OH)
Film Diary NYC: The Coldest Winter (Brooklyn, NY)
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (Frankfurt, Germany)
::iidrr gallery (new york, NY)