Outdoor screenings: Totally Terrible 80s!
IHP is proud to present the best of the worst of 1980s American films for our annual outdoor screening series. An important decade for commercial cinema, many films of the 1980s are remembered for wild comedy, new wave music and for their supreme cheesiness. With Totally Terrible 80s!, we salute some of our favorite guilty-pleasure films of the era including the misguided disco musicals that were inspirations for the Razzie Awards( awards given to the“ Worst Films of the Year”): Xanadu and Can’ t Stop the Music. Join us on the IHP patio on selected Fridays this summer and bring chairs and blankets. Films were be screened rain or shine, with bad weather bringing the films back into The Ibrahim Theater. And be sure to join us on July 12 for DJs, drinks and dancing at our series-opening party,“ Nineteen Eighty-Disco” prior to Xanadu.
City Tap House proudly sponsors International House Philadelphia’ s Outdoor Movie Series and offers 10 % off your check every Friday after 5pm all summer long. To redeem, pick up a coupon at an any IHP outdoor screening, or present your IHP ticket stub at City Tap House.
Little Baby’ s Ice Cream will be available for sale at all screenings.
Friday, July 12 at 7pm Xanadu
Friday, August 9 at 8pm Can’ t Stop the Music
Friday, September 13 at 8pm Weekend at Bernie’ s friday, July 26 at 8pm Electric Dreams
friday, August 30 at 8pm The Legend of Billie Jean
Warren Sonbert
Warren Sonbert( 1947-1995) was one of the seminal fi gures working in American underground cinema. His passionate interest in film, classi cal music, experimental poetry, and travel is reflected in his films. Although Sonbert lived in San Francisco since the early 1970s, he spent much time in New York and traveled frequently, making perso nal appearances at showings of his works at film festivals, museums, cinematheques and other leading cultural institutions worldwide. Sonbert taught filmmaking at the San Fran cisco Art Institute, the School of the Art Ins titute of Chicago and Bard College. He also wrote opera and film reviews for weekly pu blications in San Francisco. Throughout his life, Sonbert was honored by career retrospectives in Austria, France, Germany, Norway and the United States, and individual films are repre sented in numerous institutional collections in the United States, Europe and Asia.
Sonbert made 18 films during his career. Be fore he died of AIDS in 1995, Sonbert was working on Whiplash, which would be his final film. The postproduction on this film was completed according to Son bert’ s specific instructions by filmmaker Jeff Scher. Whiplash had its world premiere at The New York Film Festival in 1997.
This is the first complete retrospective of Sonbert’ s films in Philadelphia. Organized by Light Cone( Paris) & Gartenberg Media Enterprises( New York)
Thursday, July 18 at 7pm |
friday, July 19 at 7pm |
Queer Identity / |
Overarching Themes: Art & Industry, |
From Mise-en-Scene to Montage |
Militarism & Feminism( The Female |
Gaze) / The Travel Diary |
Saturday, July 20 at 5pm |
saturday, July 20 at 7pm |
60’ s New York |
Silent Rhythms / Sound Symphonies |
PARTNER PROGRAMS
CETRA Language Solutions
IHP’ s Language Programs and CETRA Language Solutions presents a series of international language films. They range from drama to documentaries, a variety of foreign languages to sign language, and are both thought provoking and entertaining. Learn more about the world around you through these fabulous films being screened throughout the year. We are delighted to offer these films free of charge to the public.
Tuesday, August 6 at 7pm The Woman with the 5 Elephants
EXHUMED FILMS
Formed in 1997, Exhumed Films was created to provide a theatrical venue for a much beloved art form that had all but disappeared in the 1990s and is in further decline in the early 21st Century: the cult horror movie.
Friday, August 23 at 8pm
TBA – please check our website for details.
ICA
The Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania www. upenn. edu believes in the power of art and artists to inform and inspire. The ICA is free for all to engage and connect with the art of our time.
Wednesday, July 17 at 7pm Monday, August 26 at 9pm
Bernadette Corporation
Last Dance: Dirty Looks at the End of Days
REELBLACK
Reelblack promotes discoveries and rediscoveries in African-American films.
Thursday, July 25 at 7pm Big Words
Scribe Video Center Producers’ Forum
The Producers’ Forum in-person screening series is a lecture discussion program, that allows Scribe to invite important nationally and internationally recognized media makers to Philadelphia to share their work and talk about their process of creating.
Tuesday, August 20 at 7pm Shored Up
Tuesday, September 17 at 7pm Gideon’ s Army
Unless noted, all IHP screenings are free admission for IHP members; $ 7 students + seniors; $ 9 general admission. 10