Monday Happenings

Still from L'Atelier by Hannes Schüpbach courtesy HFA.

Hannes Schüpbach is an experimental filmmaker in the Nathaniel Dorsky mold whose silent, multi-layered films are edited with a painter's eye, revealing unexpected visual textures in the natural world. The HFA screens four of Schüpbach's films, and he will be on hand to discuss them. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $10.

Night of the Living Dead (1968) was George Romero's first foray into the zombie genre that would make him famous. Widely held to be a Cold War satire, it's also a fascinating depiction of zombie psychology, as psychiatrist Steven C. Schlozman will explain. Part of the Science on Screen series. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7 p.m. $9.75/$7.75.

Soft Boys

OG psychedelic punk rocker Robyn Hitchcock has been a Soft Boy, launched a solo career, and inspired both the Paisley Underground and R.E.M., whose Peter Buck joins Hitchcock on stage these days. Hitchcock's new music has less edge but more subtlety. Paradise Rock Club, 967 Comm. Ave., 7 p.m. $20.