Natalka Voslakov was a poet, writer, filmmaker and all-around creative force in Pittsburgh in the late 70s and first half of the 80s. She has been described as the nucleus of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ punks, constantly organizing her vast group of friends — including George Romero, Tony Buba, and Peggy Ahwesh — into working on her films. Natalka was a prolific documenter of the culture around her and — just as often — herself, revealing intimate details of her life as a single mother and artist while simultaneously interrogating the highly-refined persona she cultivated in public.
The centerpiece of this program is our new 16mm preservation print of Time Capsule with True Bird Flight funded by the National Film Preservation Foundation and 126 local Kickstarter backers.
We’ll also share a new print of Current Autobiography According to Bargain Basement Sinatra, generously supplied by Peggy Ahwesh after she facilitated its preservation.
And we’ll round things out with clips of interviews with Natalka and other selections from her filmography, such as and all surviving footage from her lost feature filmTeenage Love (including a scene shot at Carnegie Museum of Art.)
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Doors at 6:30, screening starts at 7
At the Carnegie Museum of Art theater
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Time Capsule with True Bird Flight is being preserved by Pittsburgh Sound + Image through the National Film
Preservation Foundation’s Avant-Garde Masters Grant program and The Film Foundation. Funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
ABOUT ESSENTIAL PITTSBURGH
Pittsburgh Sound + Image seeks to redefine our region’s film history with the Essential Pittsburgh series. We acknowledge the depth of creativity which has flourished here by spotlighting vital artists and their films from the 1960s through the 2000s. This landmark series is a continuation of our efforts to celebrate a fuller picture of independent, amateur, industrial, and experimental filmmaking talent, and to better situate Pittsburgh nationally as a place of rich cinematic history.
