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“We do not have cats, cats have us. Cats are our Gods, the most expansive and approachable of Gods, that goes without saying.” – Chris Marker Cats and short-form avant-garde film: a match made in heaven. The domain of avant-garde filmmaking is often a solitary one, with artists completing works by themselves or with a […]

“Queen of underground cinema” Sarah Jacobson’s lone feature-length film, Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore is THE essential 1990s riot grrrl b-movie sex ed flick. After an awful, uncomfortable first time, Mary Jane starts polling her movie theater coworkers about their own messy sex experiences. In the process, the film offers a sincere exploration of what virginity,

It’s long past time for PSI’s next game of FILMO! Let’s bring it back for our third anniversary! It’s a breakneck, 90-minute tour of the eclectic potential of our humble film archive. We’ll be speed watching films — 16mm, Super 8, and 8mm — and checking the titles off of our cards. With no film

Join PSI’s Director of Programming Steven Haines for a laid-back, down-home evening going through a mystery pile of 16mm films! Enjoy drinks and snacks and chat with fellow members at the same time. Ask questions, get involved in fixing issues, and maybe discover a masterpiece! At the Glitterbox Theater, 210 West 8th Avenue, West Homestead,

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

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

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.