QUEER CINEMA: LOST & FOUND

CHAINED GIRLS

TIME & LOCATION

AFS Cinema - 6259 Middle Fiskville Road, 78752

Sunday, August 10th at 4:45 p.m

ABOUT THE EVENT

aGLIFF, Austin’s LGBTQ+ Film Festival in partnership with AFS Cinema present CHAINED GIRLS as part of AFS Cinema’s QUEER CINEMA: LOST & FOUND monthly screening series curated by Elizabeth Purchell from the popular podcast Ask Any Buddy.

Did you know that 90% of females with previous lesbian experiences will continue their sexual deviation? Or that one of the conditions that causes lesbianism is an “unfounded hatred of all men”? Come find out in GLEN OR GLENDA producer George Weiss and OLGA’S HOUSE OF SHAME filmmaker Joseph P. Mawra’s outrageously campy nudie “exposé” of the dangers of the most evil social problem of our time: lesbianism. It’s a film so daring…so hush-hush…so shocking…that it could only be made in 1965.

ABOUT THE FILM

CHAINED GIRLS | USA | 1965 | 1 hr 5 mins

Director: Joseph P. Mawra

CHAINED GIRLS poses as a doc on lesbian life—but it’s pure pulp: staged, scandalous, and full of 60s-era queer panic. This "exposé" claims to reveal the shocking truth about lesbianism in today's society with supposed hidden camera footage. This was a way of getting around censorship, to include what was by the standards of the time fairly explicit material.

Screening with a video introduction by Queer Cinema: Lost & Found programmer Elizabeth Purchell.

QUEER CINEMA: LOST & FOUND

From Austin Film Society

Archivist and historian Elizabeth Purchell (of Ask Any Buddy) explores the history of queer cinema and its many groundbreaking pioneers in this refreshing behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of queer representation on screen.

THANKS TO THE PRESENTING PARTNER: