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A Mother Apart

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 […]

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A color film still of a man lying on his side on a rocky green hillside, looking forlornly down at the grass. A camcorder sits on the ground just before him. Far in the distance behind him, a bulldozer drives down the hill.

No Other Land

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

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Total Mobile Home microCINEMA

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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Essential Pittsburgh: Roger Jacoby

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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Eisenstein’s STRIKE with live score by Ill Fitting Party and Body of Research

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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