Author name: Steven Haines

“We Are Universal is a 1971 documentary short, directed by the prolific filmmaker and activist Billy Jackson (Didn’t We Ramble On), that surveys African American arts and culture, drawing inspiration from the “Black Is Beautiful” movement. It features onscreen commentary from such prominent figures as Jesse Jackson, Quincy Jones, Nikki Giovanni, Babatunde Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, and […]

Pittsburgh Sound + Image and SCREENSHOT: Asia partner to bring you what is widely regarded as one of the great films of all time: Yasujirō Ozu’s late career masterpiece Floating Weeds. In the last five years of his life, Ozu made the transition to color filmmaking, and, in 1959, he remade his 1934 silent film A Story

Pittsburgh Sound + Image brings to you an evening of West Coast experimental shorts by the legendary Barbara Hammer and her lesser known contemporary Coni Beeson. The selection of 1970s films highlights overlaps in their sensibilities, which were so often interested in nature, sexuality, and the female form. Included will be the following films, presented

Pittsburgh Sound + Image presents a film which has been virtually unseen for over 40 years: David Allen Greene’s made-in-Pittsburgh feature debut Come Back Baby. Shot in 1967 with a miniscule budget, a novice’s faith, a wild passion, and with over 60 of Greene’s CMU School of Drama classmates, this meandering narrative reflects a moment

Deborah Stratman’s speculative sci-fi opus Last Things posits a history of the world that rejects human primacy in favor of a radical centering of the body of the world itself—earth, gems, minerals. The film combines factual analyses of these geological elements with playful, mystical reveries; Stratman’s vision is at once grounded and operatic, blurring the

Pittsburgh Sound + Image and Henry Chalfant present the 1983 classic Style Wars. This landmark documentary stands as a time capsule of emerging hip hop culture in New York City in the late 70s and early 80s, authentically recording the people, places, movement, art, music, ethics, philosophies and so much more associated with NYC graffiti. We