Event

At Harris Theater, we celebrate legendary experimental filmmaker Maya Deren’s 107th birthday by presenting her movies on her format of choice: 16mm film. Featured is her landmark first film, Meshes of the Afternoon (co-directed with Alexander Hammid), At Land, Ritual in Transfigured Time, shot-in-Pittsburgh outtakes from Ritual, Witch’s Cradle, and The Very Eye of Night. […]

See us at the Cultural District Gallery Crawl on Friday, April 26th! PSI Director of Programming Steven Haines and artist Sean Darby take over the third floor of Wood Street Galleries to bring you “Open Archives,” over four hours of continuous moving image madness! Featuring over 100 reels of 16mm, projected continuously in up to

What does a nearly 90-year-old anti-drug exploitation film have to offer 2024 audiences? Join us as we look back on Reefer Madness, how it saved the Harris Theater (at the time named the Art Cinema) in the early 40s, and how it was reborn 30 years later as a staple on the midnight movie circuit.

Roger Beebe brings his multi-projector roadshow to Pittsburgh for the first time in more than a decade. Using up to eight projectors at once, Beebe’s performances combine found educational and industrial films, cameraless abstraction, and original 16mm footage into dense collages that take on such varied subjects as the history of sound recording and humanity’s

We bring to you an evening of one-of-a-kind art objects by a giant of the experimental film world: Luther Price. Tara Merenda Nelson joins us to give a brief talk on Visual Studies Workshop’s recent art book New Utopia and Light Fractureby Luther Price. Then we’ll witness a once-in-a-lifetime viewing of Price’s original, handmade slides,

A century of Academy Award short film nominations all lead up to this. Join Pittsburgh Sound + Image and your host Olivia Devorah Tucker as we look back on 50 years of Oscar short honorees, all shown on glorious 16mm film. SEE an all-star lineup of animated, documentary, and live-action narrative films! LEARN about the

Join filmmakers Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson for a special 16mm screening of A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde — their groundbreaking documentary about the radical Black feminist activist, academic, and poet. Lorde’s career spanned five decades and articulated some of the most important social and political visions of

Special 35mm screenings co-presented with the Harris Theater! As Criterion puts it, “Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated marvel FANTASTIC PLANET, a politically minded and visually inventive work of science fiction. The film is set on a distant planet called Ygam, where enslaved humans (Oms) are the playthings of

It’s back! Originally intended as a “one”-off event, our “1” screening last January proved to be such a hit that we’re forced to bring it back for 2024! Except this time, we’ve overhauled the selection of films, ensuring another singular experience. The backstory: when it comes to mysterious 16mm short film reels, we’ve noticed that

Pittsburgh Sound + Image is honored to present the world premiere of a film restoration nearly 200 years in the making! Spang’s First Century: A Record of the Past, The Story of the Present is a feature-length documentary shot in Pittsburgh in the 1920s, on the occasion of the the 100th anniversary of local pipe-makers