Séance Film Festival – Opening Program

Friday, September 13, 2024 at 7:00pm
Theatre 514, Civic Theatre of Allentown
514 N 19th St, Allentown, PA 18104 

Séance Film Festival – Opening Program

Lehigh Valley Cinema Club presents the first Séance Film Festival, a weekend film festival (Friday, September 13 – Sunday, September 15, 2024) celebrating cinema as séance and portal to the afterlife, and the parallels between film projection and reincarnation.

This opening program contains seven short films made between 1907 and 2023, will feature an introduction by filmmaker Jill Yapsuga (Absolution) and two films with live musical accompaniment by Sailcloth (Alex Luquet). Programmer Herb Shellenberger will introduce the program and project the 16mm film prints. 

Tickets: $10 per night
Weekend pass: $18
Supporter pass: $40

– Absolution, dir. Jill Yapsuga, 2023, digital, 3'
– Black and White Trypps Number Three, dir. Ben Russell, 2007, 16mm, 12'
– Outer Space, dir. Peter Tscherkassky, 1999, 16mm, 10'
– La maison ensorcelée, dir. Segundo de Chomón, 1907, digital, 6', live musical accompaniment by Sailcloth
– My Name is Oona, dir. Gunvor Nelson, 1969, 16mm, 10'
– Eugene Atget, dir. Harold Becker, 1964, 16mm, 10', live musical accompaniment by Sailcloth
– Snow White, dir. Dave Fleischer, 1933, digital, 7'

Total running time: 58'

Please note! Tickets include entry to this program and the following Séance Film Festival program—Man Ray: Return to Reason—at 9:00pm in the same theater. 

Thanks to Francisco Aguilar & Haley Arnold (Civic Theatre of Allentown), Brian Belovarac (Janus Films), Bret Berg (American Genre Film Archive), Canyon Cinema Foundation, Rick Charnoski, Jesse Pires (Lightbox Film Center), Chris Regec & Steak (National Sokol's), Doug Roysdon (Ice House Performing Arts Collaborative), Drew Swedberg, the University of Texas at Dallas and all the filmmakers, performers and audience members who have supported this event.