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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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
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GIANT SCREAM SHOW is a PS+I 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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