Over 90 years before Challengers, cinema audiences were treated to one of the more elegant and humane portraits of polyamory to ever grace the big screen. PSI favorite Ernst Lubitsch returns with another of his classics, Design for Living, presented from a 16mm print courtesy of our friends at Kinonik in Portland, Maine! Criterion writes, […]
Lori Felker is a filmmaker, teacher, programmer, performer, and former Pittsburgher. Her films celebrate the ineloquent, oppositional, frustrating, chaotic qualities of human interaction. She has made work in a variety of forms including, experimental film, video installation, music video, documentary, and fiction. Now she returns to the city where she began her film career to
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A Mother Apart is a new documentary by filmmaker Laurie Townshend. It is a radical re-imagining of family and motherhood, chronicling the international quest of award-winning Jamaican poet, author, and performance artist Staceyann Chin to find and forge a healing relationship with the mother who abandoned her in her youth. Carnegie Museum of Art will
In 1970, Sally Dixon, curator of the recently established Film Section at the Carnegie Museum of Art, invited experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage to Pittsburgh to screen his films and also to create new work during his time in the city. The results are quite unlike anything else in Brakhage’s filmography. With three films released in
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Pittsburgh Sound + Image is proud to present NO OTHER LAND, a 2025 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature. Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta, has been fighting his community’s mass expulsion by the Israeli occupation since childhood. Basel documents the gradual erasure of Masafer Yatta, as soldiers destroy the homes
Beauty knows no pain? Tell that to the sour wives in their geodesic homes maintaining the ship. He sez he wants out of the kitchen because the ball hit him on the nose. Boo hoo, Britton. Look at this rose. Isn’t it a story but skin deep? “This chair is high but I’m holding on.
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“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
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People often ask us after our film screenings: “how can I learn to work with film?” Pittsburgh Sound + Image finally brings to you an opportunity to get your hands on film! This three hour crash course, led by PSI projectionist and archivist Steven Haines, is an introduction to the fundamentals of 16mm motion picture
Light Cone is one of the world’s foremost institutions dedicated to avant-garde film exhibition and preservation. They maintain one of the largest and most important collections of experimental film in Europe. And on December 21st, programming and collection manager Mariya Nikiforova visits us in Pittsburgh to share 16mm selections from the collection. Celebrate the winter
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Rebecca Barten and David Sherman, experimental filmmakers and accidental neologists, coined the term “microcinema” in 1994 in order to re-imagine what a film exhibition space could be. Barten/Sherman join us in-person to present a new, live cine-essay about their influential DIY exhibition space, Total Mobile Home microCINEMA and the extraordinary experimental cinema culture that exploded
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