Author name: Steven Haines

J.T. Vale (James Thomas or, to his friends and family, Jim) was a lifelong artist, obsessive cinephile, and a fixture of Pittsburgh’s South Side. He started making films as a kid. In his 20s, he found community in the emerging punk and experimental scenes thriving around Pittsburgh Filmmakers, then located at 205 Oakland Ave (now […]

Join Pittsburgh Sound + Image at Melwood Screening Room as two exemplars of Pittsburgh underground film coalesce for one night only. In this exquisite corpse style presentation, neither Steven (Flea Market Films) nor Greg (The Orgone Archive) knows what the other will be showing. And neither will you! But trust these neighborhood stewards to pull

Pittsburgh Sound + Image is proud to facilitate the final entry in this year’s Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series, “Here or There,” with this hands on event. First, we’ll watch classic examples of cameraless animation on 16mm: films by Stan Brakhage, Barbara Lattanzi, Heather McAdams, Norman McLaren, Olga Spiegel, Barry Spinello, and Jennifer Reeves.

The first of the Kickstarter-backed short films are ready to premiere! In his half century as a filmmaker, Billy Jackson served on crews for iconic Black filmmakers like William Greaves, Bill Gunn, Kathleen Collins, and Henry Hampton. He also founded Nommo Productions and Community Media, through which he has made his own documentaries and projects-for-hire,

Her name was Priscilla Comden, but everyone knew her as Tippi. She lived a cool life. As a filmmaker, she adopted the mononym “Ostishenko.” She and her husband Larry moved to Pittsburgh in 1967. Inspired by the expanded cinema of Expo ’67, the philosophies of Marshall McLuhan, and by the cresting tide of the counterculture

We present a program we’ve been talking about since the beginning of PSI, one which simply must be experienced on 16mm: an afternoon with films by Rose Lowder! Our friends at Light Cone write, “Lowder concentrated on the different ways one can modify the graphic and photographic visual features of the image as it transforms

Join us for a rare and resonant cinematic experience at The Frick Pittsburgh, inspired by “The Scandinavian Home: Landscape and Lore” exhibition. We’re thrilled to present Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1925 silent masterpiece, “Master of the House.” A sharp-witted portrait of domestic life, brought to life with live musical accompaniment and a luminous 16mm film presentation.

Legendary psychedelic animator Jodie Mack visits Pittsburgh for the first time to share her films, sing karaoke, and blow your mind! Join us for a sampler platter of her filmmaking career: On 16mm prints from Canyon Cinema. It all takes place on Friday, September 19th at Carnegie Museum of Art at 7 PM! Total duration

We kick off a new full season of Essential Pittsburgh with an encore! Sheila Chamovitz is the Pittsburgh director behind two important but seldom screened 30-minute documentaries. In the 1970s, with Skokie: Rights or Wrong, Sheila examined free speech via the controversial events of the ACLU defending a Nazi march in a Jewish neighborhood. In

Two public film screening series curated by Benny Shaffer and co-hosted by Pittsburgh Sound + Image will be presented as part of Summer School: State of the Sky, an interdisciplinary, arts-centered education program organized by artists Luke Stettner and Calista Lyon within the State of the Sky exhibition this summer. Taking the exhibition’s inquiry into atmospheres and