Event

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

Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) is a Boston-based, artist-run festival devoted to experimental cinematic work in animation, documentary, essay film, installation, and audiovisual performance. This touring program features 16mm films by Malic Amalya, Karel Doing, Anna Kipervaser, Ryan Marino, Moviate (Josh Drake, James Hollenbaugh, Jeremy Moss, Caleb Smith), Tomonari Nishikawa, Kathleen Rugh, Josh Weissbach, and Lilan

In the 1990s, Alycia Crawley Knauer and Evan Knauer were a Pittsburgh punk filmmaking power couple. Across a series of short films, Alycia would produce, shoot, and edit; Evan would write the scripts, direct, and his band, hometown favorites A.T.S., would do the music. Their narratives were consistently entertaining documents of fringe cultures and incidentally

Pittsburgh Sound + Image presents visiting artist Eric Theise and Pittsburgh-based sound artist Trē Abalos in an evening unlike any other. See + hear real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Theise in collaboration with Abalos’ soundscapes of flutes, samples, and looping electronics. Experience: Brief glimpses of past performances of A Synesthete’s Atlas

Our GIANT SCREAM SHOW is let loose only one night a year. And what better night for 16mm madness than…Friday the 13th!We’ll kick things off at 8 PM with the return of Flea Market Films’ original, feature-length compilation of horror movie trailers and TV spots: Haunt of the Horror Trailers. The 2nd edition of Haunt

To any Pittsburgher active in the film, music, or poetry communities here in the late 70s or 1980s, the name Natalka Voslakov needs no introduction. She has been called the nucleus of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers punk scene of her day. She was a prolific documentor of the culture around her and, just as often, she

Pittsburgh Sound + Image joins the Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival for an evening of canonical classics of avant-garde film of the 1920s: All will be presented from 16mm film, and will include live musical accompaniment by David Bernabo. Doors at 7:30, films at 8.

Pittsburgh Sound + Image is pickled pink to be able to pique your five senses with a most peculiar picture show. For one night only, we’ll bring you 16mm films that you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch!The prognosis is vinegar syndrome. Learn about this most common form of film decay. See and smell

Henry Roll’s ties to Pittsburgh film history run deep: he was an extra in several Romero films; he taught animation at Pittsburgh Filmmakers in the organization’s earliest days; he animated openings for Chiller Theater; he was a projectionist at many of the region’s theaters; and, in the 1960s and 70s, he created a string of