📍 SIFF Cinema Egyptian: 805 E Pine St, Seattle
🎟 Tickets start at $14.50
The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), the only 501(c)(3) non-profit film distributor dedicated to genre cinema, has spent 15 years conserving, archiving, and distributing some of the most culturally radical cinema out there, and it’s swinging through Seattle to strut its stuff.
Over August, AGFA will collaborate with SIFF to showcase its triumphant successes—greasy exploitation, drag parodies, splatter shockers, soul-crushing domestic dramas, and hell, let’s throw in a landmark Ernst Lubitsch war comedy—all gracing the big honkin’ Egyptian screen.
📋 Series Schedule
1️⃣ PART I: AUGUST 1st – 8th
Thursday, August 1st · 6:45 pm – The Zodiac Killer
Thursday, August 1st · 9 pm – Shredder Orpheus
Friday, August 2nd · 9 pm – Cannibal! The Musical
Saturday, August 3rd · 6:45 pm – HEY FOLKS! IT’S INTERMISSION TIME VIDEO PARTY
Saturday, August 3rd · 9 pm – Donnie Darko
Monday, August 5th · 7 pm – The Last Slumber Party
Monday, August 5th · 9 pm – Terminal USA
Wednesday, August 7th · 6:45 pm – She Freak
Wednesday, August 7th · 9 pm – Blood Feast
Thursday, August 8th · 7 pm – Indecent Desires
Thursday, August 8th · 9 pm – Attack of the Beast Creatures
2️⃣ PART II: AUGUST 23rd – 30th
Friday, August 23rd · 4:15 pm – The Peanut Butter Solution
Saturday, August 24th · 7 pm – The Little Shop of Horrors
Saturday, August 24th · 9 pm – The Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club
Sunday, August 25th · 12 pm – The Stairway to Stardom Mixtape
Sunday, August 25th · 2 pm – The Films of Sarah Jacobson
Sunday, August 25th · 5 pm – The McPherson Tape
Monday, August 26th · 6:45 pm – I Married a Witch
Monday, August 26th · 9 pm – To Be or Not to Be
Wednesday, August 28th · 6:45 pm – She Mob
Wednesday, August 28th · 9 pm – GLOW – The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Thursday, August 29th · 5 pm – Faces
Thursday, August 29th · 8 pm – A Woman Under the Influence
Friday, August 30th · 6:30 pm – Shaolin Invincibles
Friday, August 30th · 9 pm – Secret Screening
25 movies are scheduled, including one secret screening, but here are some highlights:
🎬 Shredder Orpheus
📅 Thursday, August 1st
⏰ 9 pm
Haven’t heard of this Seattle-shot rock-and-roll skater version of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth from 1989? Hot damn, are you in luck, as this glorious blast of DIY counterculture made by On the Boards co-founder Robert McGinley (who will be present at the screening) will melt your face off.
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🎬 Blood Feast
📅 Wednesday, August 7th
⏰ 9 pm
Herschell Gordon Lewis’ loopy practical effects extravaganza from 1963 was such a shock to the system that it created a whole new subgenre—the splatter film—and film sets have gotten delightfully messier ever since. The film is a major influence on John Waters, who features a sequence of it in his indelible Serial Mom.
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🎬 The Films of Sarah Jacobson
📅 Sunday, August 25th
⏰ 2 pm
Though she was taken from us too soon (eat shit, endometrial cancer), indie filmmaker Sarah Jacobson left us with two true blue underground cinema classics: the ferocious riot grrrl short film I Was a Teenage Serial Killer and cult classic hangout dramedy Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore.
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🎬 She Mob
📅 Wednesday, August 28th
⏰ 6:45 pm
Unearthing this queer as hell Texploitation B-movie and unleashing it upon an unsuspecting audience is what AGFA was put on this Earth to do, as a violent lesbian gang breaks out of prison and wreaks havoc upon the Lone Star State. Don’t mess with Big Shim!
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🎬 A Woman Under the Influence
📅 Thursday, August 29th
⏰ 8 pm
Frankly, I didn’t know actors are capable of what Gena Rowlands accomplishes in John Cassavetes’ gutting 1974 drama, portraying a New York housewife in slow-motion decline. Originally intended for the stage, Cassavetes realized he couldn’t put his own wife through this performance eight times a week; instead, they made a masterpiece.
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