FREE | 2/23/2025 | 4 PM
THE MOVIE ORGY (1968 | 275 min | USA) is a legendary five-hour triumph from Joe Dante—one of genre cinema's most significant masterminds, and an alum of the Philadelphia College of Art, which would become UArts.
While an undergrad in 1968, the future director of GREMLINS and INNERSPACE took an apartment’s worth of 16mm prints and, with the help of producer Jon Davison (ROBOCOP), 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.
This screening is free. This ticket is a seat reservation. We are a BYO venue. Free popcorn and water. Please note the runtime of the program.