Very excited to announce our next event involves a film that was made in Seattle in the early 1970s. You see the viaduct, Pioneer Square, they shot around Aurora Ave, and South Lake Union. They even tossed a dummy off of the University Bridge. For locals, getting to see familiar Seattle sites as they existed 50 years ago might be excuse enough to buy a ticket to The Last Bath. So it is a bonus that the Last Bath is an experimental, psychedelic attempt to make a uniquely Seattle hard-core feature just as XXX had become chic.
Introduction by film scholar, David Church, will precede the feature.
Saturday, September 6 / 10 pm / The Beacon Cinema /
The Last Bath (1975)
Director: Karl Krogstad
71 Minutes
Seattle’s very own contribution to the “Golden Age of Porn” is back on the big screen for its 50th anniversary! Horny photographer David is picked up by a pair of hippie chicks while hitchhiking along Aurora Avenue and invited to a weekend at their cabin in the woods, only to discover that his hosts may have more ominous plans in store for him. But where do David’s erotic dreams end and his increasingly nightmarish reality begin? Directed by local experimental filmmaker Karl Krogstad (1948-2019) and produced by strip-club tycoon Roger Forbes, THE LAST BATH offers a psychedelic blend of avant-garde pretention and hardcore sex. With scenes filmed on and around the UW campus, University Bridge, Pioneer Square, and the Lake Union houseboats—plus a musique concrete score and more trippy optical-printer effects than you can shake a dick at—don’t miss this weird and sexy glimpse into Seattle’s countercultural past!
“The filmmakers shot on location in Pioneer Square, along Aurora Avenue, Lake Union, and other neighborhoods – all of which have drastically changed. Whatever else it is, “The Last Bath” is a very good photographic record of what Seattle looked like in the early ‘70s’.” Dennis Nyback in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
