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In conjunction with Roger Jacoby: Pittsburgh Stories at Wood Street Galleries (through January 5th), Pittsburgh Sound + Image is privileged to present Essential Pittsburgh: Roger Jacoby. This one night only screening event at the Harris Theater convenes in Pittsburgh three people important to Roger’s life: experimental filmmakers Jim Hubbard and Peggy Ahwesh, as well as […]

GIANT SCREAM SHOW is a PSI tradition, one that comes around only once a year during the spookiest of seasons. This year’s edition — our third — has another horrifying line-up guaranteed to make you tremble in your seats. We’ll kick things off at 8 PM with the return of Flea Market Films’ original, feature-length

Striking workers return to Homestead! The Glitterbox Theater becomes the Proletariat Picture Palace as we experience Sergei Eisenstein’s vibrant feature film debut on 16mm! STRIKE tells the story of workers in pre-revolutionary Russia defending themselves from oppressive conditions at the hands of management. Criterion notes that it is “known widely as one of the founding

On September 18th, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, HERE in the world is Carmen Sandiego! Join an interactive archival screening and discussion as we look at the work of a maker too seldom discussed as part of western Pennsylvania’s media history: Dorothy Curley Tecklenburg. In the 1970s and 1980s, she was a producer and director

Co-presented by Pittsburgh Sound + Image and SCREENSHOT: Asia Renowned media artist Shu Lea Cheang arrives to the Harris Theater in person to present her groundbreaking debut feature, a cyberfeminist eco-thriller, newly restored for its 30th anniversary in a stunning 35mm print. Coined as an avant-anarcho ecosatire, the film envisions a post-apocalyptic landscape strewn with

Pittsburgh Sound + Image shines a light on a maker of educational films who has, until now, been completely omitted from our collective film history. As director, she was often credited simply as “Maclovia.” We introduce her to you under her full name, Maclovia Rodriguez. In the 1960s and 70s, she made a string of

This year’s Community Fest: The Archives is inspired by the archival material documenting Mattress Factory’s founding in the 1970s as an artist-centered DIY creative space. In collaboration with Pittsburgh Sound and Image, Community Fest will showcase a selection of 16mm and digital films created primarily by Pittsburgh artists and community members. At Community Fest, Pittsburgh

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