In 1969, Pola Chapelle founded INTERCAT: The First International Cat Film Festival, which began as a five-hour program of films about cats that played at New York City’s Elgin Theatre. Through 1976, INTERCAT reappeared intermittently and toured Boston, Philadelphia, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Sydney, and Winnipeg. Among the numerous feline flicks that screened at INTERCAT in those years were the kitten sequence from François Truffaut’s DAY FOR NIGHT (1973) and Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid’s collaboration made three years after MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, titled THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A CAT (1946). In 2016, the festival was briefly revived at Bard College. 56 years after its original incarnation, Spectacle is cat-atonic with excitement to host the Film-Makers’ Cooperative to bring INTERCAT back to New York City.

THURSDAY, MAY 1 – 6:30PM
SATURDAY, MAY 3 – 4:30PM

*Total Run Time: 122 min. + 5 min. intermission*

More information about this year's lineup can be found at https://www.spectacletheater.com/intercat