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Tuesday 08 July 2025 18:05
+ intro by film curator Ehsan Khoshbakht

Inspired by Au hasard Balthazar and Los olvidados, with his second feature Dariush Mehrjui defined the Iranian New Wave and transformed Iranian cinema in the process.

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27 July 2025: The Movie Orgy


Joe Dante, 1968, 275 min

Introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht

The Movie Orgy is a legendary five-hour triumph from Joe Dante. In 1968, Dante took an apartment’s worth of 16mm prints and, with the help of producer Jon Davison, meticulously fashioned them into what is quite possibly the world's first found footage megamix. Comprised of commercials, news reels, clips from feature films, TV bloopers, and much more, The Movie Orgy is both a fascinating cultural artifact and a wild vortex of mashed-up magnificence. Unavailable to screen for decades and never available on home video, the film has been preserved from the original 16mm reels by AGFA in partnership with Joe Dante and Jon Davison.