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.

---

This is a FREE screening to members only

Screening as part of our Close-Up Year 20 programme and Never on Sunday, a series of screenings of rare classics, archive masterpieces, obscure delights and forgotten gems carefully curated and introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht and taking place the last Sunday of each month at Close-Up.