No commentary, no narrative -- just music.

Students Organizing the Multiple Arts (SOMA) will screen the documentary The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival at 7 tonight in 113 Carnegie.

Columbia Pictures contacted Jared Newman (senior-public relations), a SOMA representative, and requested Penn State hold a screening, said SOMA member John Hendrickson (sophomore-English).

"It's footage that's never been aired anywhere," Hendrickson said.

He added that a vote of interest resulted in SOMA members deciding the screening provides a great way to reach a large audience of interested students on campus.

Academy Award-winning director Murray Lerner, who put the documentary together, said the film highlights the changes that transpired in Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1965.

"I've never seen a change of such brilliance," Lerner said. "He went from a cowered youth to a rock star."

Hendrickson said that prior to the screening four student performers will present Dylan covers.

"We're showing how his music has carried on along the years," he said. "It's a way to really show his impact."

Lerner said he felt the footage spoke for itself without any of the "pretensions of narrative."

The first year of the festival's footage shows Dylan performing in North Country blues style, singing about a small mining town in Minnesota where he came from, Lerner said.

In 1964's footage, Dylan became more mature and performed with confidence. Together with Joan Baez, Dylan rouses the crowd and seems much surer of himself, Lerner said.

In 1965, Lerner continued, Dylan incorporated electronic music into his performance.

"The crowd half boos and half applauds," he said.

Lerner said the documentary also shows one single performance by Johnny Cash because Cash continued to sing Dylan songs to show his appreciation for Dylan as a musician.

"There's no narration, no comment, no talking heads," Lerner said. "Just him telling the story and taking us into the other side of the mirror into the wonderland of his imagination."