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The perfect opportunity to share these films didn’t come along, so we had to create it. A 1970s group show is the whirlwind finale of this season of Essential Pittsburgh! Pittsburgh Filmmakers (PFMI) emerged in 1971 as an equipment sharing resource, an exhibition space for independent, often avant garde work, a hub for artists both […]

As a precocious teenager with a troubled family life and a voracious appetite for monster movies, Pittsburgher Greg Gans set out to express himself in the mid-1960s with small gauge film, starting with his atmospheric and surprisingly gory 8mm “Dracula,” produced over the course of two and a half years. By the end of the

In a world with few indisputable heroes, Maya Deren (1917-1961) is one of them, making movies her own way and on practically no budget (in her own words, her films were made “for the price of the lipstick in a single Hollywood production”) at a time when infrastructure for outside-the-box film production and distribution barely

LeAnn Bartok’s fascinating life and work comes back to light in the next edition of Pittsburgh Sound + Image’s Essential Pittsburgh series, focused on local film masterpieces which have been unseen here for decades. Thanks to ongoing preservation work by the Academy Film Archives and distribution by Canyon Cinema, we’re able to present to you

A 25-minute, 360 degree expanded cinema installation of Bill Brand’s Pong Ping Pong, presented by Pittsburgh Sound + Image at Eberle Studios. “Pong Ping Pong is a film installation revealing the circular and reciprocating nature of the film medium and activating the space between projector and projection. The film is projected from a custom turntable

For the first time in over 50 years, multi-disciplinary artist Bill Brand returns to Pittsburgh to share his work. In the domain of film, Brand is widely regarded as a legend in both making his own work and, via his “one-man film laboratory” BB Optics, preserving films by others. What’s less known is that Pittsburgh

Natalka Voslakov was a poet, writer, filmmaker and all-around creative force in Pittsburgh in the late 70s and first half of the 80s. She has been described as the nucleus of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ punks, constantly organizing her vast group of friends — including George Romero, Tony Buba, and Peggy Ahwesh — into working on

John Kirch was a lifelong filmmaker, Pittsburgher, and teenage zombie in Night of the Living Dead. As a teenager in the mid and late 60s, he created a steady stream of irreverent 8mm films with his friends, each one a glimpse into his passion for collecting underground and pop culture sights and sounds. In his

January 29, 2024. Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A five-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her. Her name was Hind Rajab. On the heels of Pittsburgh

The End of America Tour comes to Pittsburgh! About the films: WTO/99 is an immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO’s impacts on human rights, labor, and the environment. Comprised entirely