Visiting Filmmakers Series: Mahrya MacIntire with An American Bombing
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM EDT
Johnson Center, Cinema
Two-time Emmy nominee Mahrya MacIntire will present An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th (HBO 2024) on March 24.
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19th looks at the current surge in political violence through the story of the Oklahoma City bombing. It is a big-picture statement film that retells the highlights of the case in the larger context of what was driving anti-government sentiment from the 1980s to the present. Today’s division and polarization were in play at the time of the bombing but it seems to have spread, deepened, and gone mainstream. The film takes us back to see what we can learn that might help prevent more civil unrest and domestic terrorism.
An American Bombing: The Road to April 19 is "a trip into the past that’s also a rendezvous with the present and a warning about the future.” (Frank Bruni, The New York Times, April 18, 2024)
Mahrya MacIntire's work explores topics related to community (re)building, trauma healing, and neurodivergence, from an embodied perspective. Fascinated with the intersection of visual anthropology, pattern illumination, and creative strategy, she approaches each project as a kinetic historical collage.
Mahrya produced her third feature for HBO in 2024 with AN AMERICAN BOMBING: THE ROAD TO APRIL 19TH, nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy® Award for “Outstanding Historical Documentary” in 2025. She also supervised the archive, which spanned over 50 years of recent history. Executive produced by Katie Couric, the film explores the surge in anti-government ideals and political violence in the 1980s, leading to the Oklahoma City bombing and continuing today.
With support from College of Humanities and Social Sciences; College of Visual and Performing Arts; Film and Video Studies; English Department; History and Art History; Screen Cultures, University Life; Center for the Arts, and Women and Gender Studies.
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For more information: contact film@gmu.edu
