AGFA August
August 1-8 and August 23-30
Dive into the weird, wild world of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)’s 15th Anniversary. AGFA is the world’s only nonprofit archive and film distributor dedicated to preserving and protecting the greatest genre films of all time.
Since its inception, AGFA has rescued over one-hundred features from the void, including the works of exploitation pioneer Doris Wishman, underground trash-art king Jon Moritsugu, Riot Grrrl icon Sarah Jacobson, and found-footage founder Joe Dante. AGFA’s archives house over six-thousand 35mm film prints, a 4K scanner, and prestigious libraries such as the Something Weird archive. AGFA exists to preserve the legacy of genre movies through collection, conservation, and distribution. AGFA satisfies this mission by rescuing, restoring, and sharing largely forgotten films on home video and in theaters, as well as providing film scanning and restoration services. Celebrating this milestone and its Seattle connection through Something Weird Video, AGFA and SIFF are proud to partner to bring you the greatest genre films from the AGFA Archive.
Tickets for August 1-8 screenings on sale now. Tickets on sale August 1 for August 23-30 screenings.
AGFA August: The Zodiac Killer
USA | 1971 | 87 min. | Tom Hanson
August 1, 2024
A serial killer in San Francisco murders without motive or apparent pattern and taunts the police with phone calls and letters.
AGFA August: Shredder Orpheus
USA | 1990 | 88 min. | Robert McGinley
August 1, 2024
Punk-rock star Orpheus seeks Eurydice in a future world of bad TV and shredded memories.
AGFA August: Cannibal! The Musical
USA | 1993 | 95 min. | Trey Parker
August 2, 2024
The sole survivor of an ill-fated mining expedition tells how his taste for gold was replaced by that of human flesh.
AGFA August: HEY FOLKS! IT’S INTERMISSION TIME VIDEO PARTY
USA | 2024 | 70 min. | Bret Berg, Joseph A. Ziemba
August 3, 2024
A mind-altering mixtape from AGFA! Mid-century America runs amok in this haunted found-footage ode to moviegoing and the snack bar.
AGFA August: Donnie Darko (4k Restoration)
USA | 2001 | 113 min. | Richard Kelly
August 3, 2024
A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident. New 4K Restoration.
AGFA August: The Last Slumber Party
USA | 1988 | 72 min. | Stephen Tyler
August 5, 2024
An escaped killer and boys with beer visit three teens having a pajama party.
AGFA August: Terminal USA
USA | 1993 | 60 min. | Jon Mortisugu
August 5, 2024
This is Moritsugu’s asian freak-out magnum opus that shocked America when it was broadcast on television in the mid-90’s! The director himself plays twins (a drug-dealing bad-ass and a closeted math nerd) in a radically dysfunctional family that completely obliterates the noble myth of the “model minority.”
AGFA August: She Freak (New Restoration)
USA | 1967 | 83 min. | Byron Mabe
August 7, 2024
A waitress joins a carnival, marries the owner, and makes various employees her enemies. New Restoration.
AGFA August: Blood Feast
USA | 1963 | 67 min. | Herschell Gordon Lewis
August 7, 2024
The insane Ramses hypnotizes a socialite in order to land a job catering a party for her debutante daughter, and turns the event into an evening of gruesome deaths, bloody dismemberment and ritual sacrifice.
AGFA August: Indecent Desires (New Restoration)
USA | 1968 | 75 min. | Doris Wishman
August 8, 2024
Zeb finds a doll and a ring in a garbage can. He realizes the doll looks like Ann, his neighbor. When he realizes Ann experiences everything he does to the doll, he starts to unwind.
AGFA August: Attack of the Beast Creatures (New Restoration)
USA | 1985 | 80 min. | Mike Stanley
August 8, 2024
A group of survivors wash up on the shores of a seemingly deserted island after their ship capsizes.It slowly becomes apparent that the island is home to a tribe of small doll-like creatures, who begin stalking and killing the survivors one by one.
AGFA August: The Peanut Butter Solution
Canada | 1985 | 93 min. | Michael Rubbo
August 23, 2024
Ghosts restore a boy's hair when it falls out from fright, but then it won't stop growing.
AGFA August: The Little Shop of Horrors
USA | 1960 | 72 min. | Roger Corman
August 24, 2024
Seymour Krelboin works in the Skid Row flower shop owned by Mr. Mushnik. In his spare time, Seymour creates a new plant species he names Audrey Junior in honor of his girlfriend Audrey.
AGFA August: The Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club - What Really Happened to Baby Jane (New Restoration)
USA | 1963 | 31 min. | Ray Harrison
August 24, 2024
A drag parody of "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"
AGFA August: The Films of the Gay Girls Riding Club - All About Alice (New Restoration)
USA | 1972 | 68 min. | Ray Harrison
August 24, 2024
A drag queen leads a cast of non-professional actors in a spoof of the film "All About Eve."
AGFA August: The Stairway to Stardom Mixtape
USA | 1972 | 70 min. | Various
August 25, 2024
From homemade R&B party hits to aggro stand-up comics, from interpretive dance by zombified children to amateur magicians, Stairway to Stardom is an unending treasure trove of bizarro entertainment that has been a staple among tape traders for decades.
AGFA August: The Films of Sarah Jacobson
USA | 1996 | 125 min. | Sarah Jacobson
August 25, 2024
Sarah Jacobson's punk-spirited DIY films from the 1990s combine B-movie aesthetics and riot grrrl feminism, standing as a testament to the vision, determination, and raw talent of the Queen of Underground Cinema.
AGFA August: The McPherson Tape
USA | 1989 | 63 min. | Dean Alioto
August 25, 2024
On a fall evening in 1983, a young man videotaping his niece's fifth birthday party keeps the camera running as an alien invasion unfolds.
AGFA August: I Married a Witch
USA | 1942 | 77 min. | René Clair
August 26, 2024
As a 17th-century New England witch who comes to take revenge on the 20th-century descendant of the Puritan who persecuted her, Lake is all smolder and disruption.
AGFA August: To Be or Not to Be
USA | 1942 | 99 min. | Ernst Lubitsch
August 26, 2024
Acting couple Joseph and Maria Tura are managing a theatrical troupe when the Nazis invade Poland. Using their skill for impersonation, Joseph and company must confuse the Nazis and stop Siletsky from handing over the list.
AGFA August: She Mob
USA | 1968 | 82 min. | Harry Wuest
August 28, 2024
A gang of four lesbian inmates escapes from prison and kidnaps the boyfriend of a wealthy woman.
AGFA August: GLOW - The Story of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
USA | 2012 | 76 min. | Brett Whitcomb
August 28, 2024
Chronicling the rise and fall of the first ever all-female wrestling show through the stories of those who lived it.
AGFA August: Faces
USA | 1968 | 130 min. | John Cassavetes
August 29, 2024
During one long, bumpy night and into the next morning, Richard and Maria Forst, a wealthy couple whose relationship is becalmed in an emotional downswing, dally separately with other partners with devastating results. Preservation of the film funded by The Film Foundation with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association in celebration of the 40th anniversary of this Cassavetes classic.
AGFA August: A Woman Under the Influence
USA | 1974 | 155 min. | John Cassavetes
August 29, 2024
A housewife on the verge of a nervous breakdown is committed for psychiatric treatment by her loving yet confused husband, with unpredictable results. John Cassavetes’ 1974 masterpiece is one of the most devastating portraits of a relationship ever filmed.
AGFA August: Shaolin Invincibles
Taiwan | 1997 | 90 min. | Cheng Hoi
August 30, 2024
A young woman becomes a great fighter with powerful skills and fights against her enemies after she's allowed to train in 18 forms of Shaolin kung fu in the Shaolin temple by a golden teacher.
AGFA August: Secret Screening
August 30, 2024
Shh...it's a secret! Come find out what the series finale will be at this mystery screening.