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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 […]

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

Deborah Stratman’s speculative sci-fi opus Last Things posits a history of the world that rejects human primacy in favor of a radical centering of the body of the world itself—earth, gems, minerals. The film combines factual analyses of these geological elements with playful, mystical reveries; Stratman’s vision is at once grounded and operatic, blurring the

Pittsburgh Sound + Image and Henry Chalfant present the 1983 classic Style Wars. This landmark documentary stands as a time capsule of emerging hip hop culture in New York City in the late 70s and early 80s, authentically recording the people, places, movement, art, music, ethics, philosophies and so much more associated with NYC graffiti. We

At Harris Theater, we celebrate legendary experimental filmmaker Maya Deren’s 107th birthday by presenting her movies on her format of choice: 16mm film. Featured is her landmark first film, Meshes of the Afternoon (co-directed with Alexander Hammid), At Land, Ritual in Transfigured Time, shot-in-Pittsburgh outtakes from Ritual, Witch’s Cradle, and The Very Eye of Night.

See us at the Cultural District Gallery Crawl on Friday, April 26th! PSI Director of Programming Steven Haines and artist Sean Darby take over the third floor of Wood Street Galleries to bring you “Open Archives,” over four hours of continuous moving image madness! Featuring over 100 reels of 16mm, projected continuously in up to

What does a nearly 90-year-old anti-drug exploitation film have to offer 2024 audiences? Join us as we look back on Reefer Madness, how it saved the Harris Theater (at the time named the Art Cinema) in the early 40s, and how it was reborn 30 years later as a staple on the midnight movie circuit.