Last Updated: 10/16/24

ALL SECRET CINEMA PRESENTATIONS ARE SHOWN IN 16mm (or larger!) FILM ON A GIANT SCREEN (NOT VIDEO...NOT EVER!)

Since 1992, the Secret Cinema has been the Philadelphia area’s premiere floating repertory cinema series, bringing hundreds of unique programs to nightclubs, bars, coffee houses, museums, open fields, colleges, art galleries, bookstores, and sometimes even theaters and film festivals. Drawing on its own large private film archive (as well as other collections), the Secret Cinema attempts to explore the uncharted territory and the genres that fall between the cracks, with programs devoted to educational and industrial films, cult and exploitation features, cartoons, rare television, local history, home movies, erotic films, politically incorrect material, and the odd Hollywood classic. As long as it exists on real celluloid, that is—Secret Cinema screenings never use video/digital projection. While mainly based in Philadelphia, the Secret Cinema has also brought programming to other cities and countries.

Science After Hours event “Fright @ Night”

at the Franklin Institute

Friday, October 25, 2024
7:30 pm until 11:30 pm
Admission: $$40, $35 Franklin Institute members (online sales only, NO tickets available at door)

The Franklin Institute
222 N. 20th Street
Philadelphia, PA
215-448-1200

On Friday, October 25, the Secret Cinema will again participate in the Franklin Institute’s multi-dimensional event Science After Hours. This popular series features programming for grown-ups that combines live performances, a light show, music, food, drink, and once more, a film screening, all throughout the museum’s historic galleries. The theme this month is (naturally) “Fright @ Night.”

Doors open at 7:30 pm, and the event ends at 11:30 pm.

Admission is $40, and $35 for Franklin Institute members (online sales only, no tickets will be available at the door).

The Secret Cinema portion will consist of an approximately 90-minute program of spooky shorts, to be shown twice. We’ll select short films from our archive featuring Halloween-themed cartoons, horror movie trailers, documentaries on the supernatural, and even some gory surgery footage...and more. All projected from rare 16mm film prints, on the spectacular big screen of the museum’s Franklin Theater.