Cinedelphia Film Festival and Video Pirates present STAIRWAY TO STARDOM RETROSPECTIVE with special guests All the King’s Men! Stairway to Stardom, the greatest public access talent show of all time, gets a video retrospective courtesy of Video Pirates! Plus Stairway regulars All the King’s Men, composers of the show’s memorable theme song, will reunite for a rare live performance! From 1979 through the early 1990s, the Manhattan-shot Stairway to Stardom showcased the best and worst of amateur singers, dancers, and…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival presents 20 YEARS OF MADNESS (Philadelphia Premiere) (2015, 90 min, Dir. Jeremy Royce) Creator Jerry White Jr. in attendance! 1990s Michigan-based public access show 30 MINUTES OF MADNESS embraced the grunge/punk counterculture of the era to create a program that showcased the humor and talents of a group of high school outsiders, punks, skaters, and artists. Kids in the Hall-styled sketch comedy, ’90s-era MTV attitude, and the trash art stylings of John Waters are all evident in…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival presents ChicAGoGo Show LIVE TAPING + RETROSPECTIVE * We will announce the names of the performers in the coming weeks! In the meantime we highly recommend that you get tickets, especially if you have children that love to dance, because this one is gonna sell out quick… PhilaMOCA is oh so proud to host a live taping of Chicago’s favorite public access dance party Chic-A-Go-Go! Following the taping, creator Jake Austen and host Miss Mia will screen…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival presents MAN VS SNAKE – The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler Philadelphia Premiere! Co-director Andrew Seklir in attendance! Obscure arcade cabinet Nibbler was the first video game that allowed players to achieve a billion points, a seemingly impossible number that was first reached by Ottumwa, Iowa native Timothy McVey in 1984 after 44.5 hours of continuous play. This feat brought Tim worldwide recognition and led to him being the first gamer in history to have a…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival FOUND MADNESS Compilation Program ft. In Search of the Ultra-Sex (Philly Premiere) + Duke Mitchell Film Club Found Footage showcase + some crazy shorts curated by the CFF! In the tradition of last year’s Best Worst Movie Marathon, the FOUND MADNESS program is a grab bag of film finds for the cinematically like-minded… French filmmakers Nicholas Charlet and Bruno Lavaine watched over 2500 vintage XXX films and pulled the best and worst clips to create the international…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival presents Final Cut: Ladies & Gentlemen (Philadelphia Premiere) (2012, 84 min, Dir. György Pálfi) Hungarian filmmaker György Pálfi (Hukkle, Taxidermia) spent three years cutting together clips from over 450 classics of world cinema to create the ultimate found footage romance, Final Cut – Ladies & Gentlemen. With clips lasting no more than a few seconds, the film charts the standard projection of relationships as portrayed in the movies time and time again: boy meets girl, they date,…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival presents Vivisections International Horror Shorts CFF 2016 Special Edition PhilaMOCA’s quarterly screening series returns in this special edition for the 2016 Cinedelphia Film Festival! For those of us who grew up in the ’80s, few names bring as much joy as Rowdy Roddy Piper and John Carpenter, and we’re thrilled to be kicking off this installment with appearances from each. The second half of our program is dedicated to one of our favorite contemporary filmmakers, Alexander Yan,…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival presents Meathead Goes Hogwild (2015, 103 min, Dir. Kevin Cline, Zach Harris, and Sean Pierce) Filmmakers in attendance! As subversive and affecting as independent cinema gets, this first-time feature from a group of Chicago-area natives tackles the many annoyances and social ills of modern times while recalling the frustrated, but focused anarchy of Falling Down. Getting fired from his job at a butcher shop is the last straw for a Chicago slacker who is already at his…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival presents MONSTERMAN (Philadelphia Premiere) (2015, 85 min, Dir. Antti Haase) A documentary on Finland’s heavy metal heroes Lordi and their singer/creator’s struggle to stay relevant years after winning the music world’s highest honor. Mr. Lordi was born Tomi Putaansuu, a severely bullied youth who channeled his frustrations into a fantasy world that would one day evolve into Finland’s most popular metal band. Formed in 1992, Lordi achieved international recognition in 2006 when they became the first hard…
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Cinedelphia Film Festival presents Sam Klemke’s Time Machine (Philly Premiere) (2015, 90 min, Dir. Matthew Bate) In 1977, Sam Klemke started obsessively documenting his entire life on film. Beginning decades before the modern obsession with selfies and status updates, Sam grows from an optimistic teen to a self-important 20-year-old, into an obese, self-loathing thirty-something and onwards into his philosophical fifties. The same year that Sam began his project, NASA launched the Voyager craft into deep space carrying the Golden Record,…
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