To any Pittsburgher active in the film, music, or poetry communities here in the late 70s or 1980s, the name Natalka Voslakov needs no introduction. She has been called the nucleus of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers punk scene of her day. She was a prolific documentor of the culture around her and, just as often, she …
Pittsburgh Sound + Image is thrilled to join the Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival for an evening of canonical classics of avant-garde film of the 1920s: All will be presented from 16mm film, and will include live musical accompaniment by David Bernabo. Doors at 7:30, films at 8.
Pittsburgh Sound + Image is pickled pink to be able to pique your five senses with a most peculiar picture show. For one night only, we’ll bring you 16mm films that you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch!The prognosis is vinegar syndrome. Learn about this most common form of film decay. See and smell …
Henry Roll’s ties to Pittsburgh film history run deep: he was an extra in several Romero films; he taught animation at Pittsburgh Filmmakers in the organization’s earliest days; he animated openings for Chiller Theater; he was a projectionist at many of the region’s theaters; and, in the 1960s and 70s, he created a string of …
Sheila Chamovitz is the Pittsburgh director behind two important but seldom screened 30-minute documentaries. In the 1970s, with Skokie: Rights or Wrong, Sheila examined free speech via the controversial events of the ACLU defending a Nazi march in a Jewish neighborhood. In the 1980s, she made Murray Avenue: A Community in Transition, an elegy for …
Four newly restored films from the latest figure shaking up the film canon: Edward Owens. Our friends at Chicago Film Society write: “By the age of twenty-one, South Side native Edward Owens had won a scholarship to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, studied under Gregory Markopoulos, carved out a precarious place among …
tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE is a sprocket scientist who has worked in too many mediums to enumerate here, but he is currently the self-proclaimed most prolific moviemaker in the history of the medium, having made 718 movies and counting. tENT’s discipline in keeping so active in making for over 50 years is a testament to his …
Essential Pittsburgh: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Read More »
Lubitsch’s last film, Cluny Brown, closed out a career of insouciant brilliance with one of his most delightful romantic comedies — albeit one that darkens slightly with the looming spectre of figuring out how to live in a changed world post-World War II. A sparkling Jennifer Jones portrays the titular character, an orphan who finds …
Ernst Lubitsch’s CLUNY BROWN on 16mm + shorts by Janie Geiser Read More »
In his half century as an award-winning filmmaker, Billy Jackson has earned legendary status. In his early days, he served on crews for iconic Black filmmakers like William Greaves, Bill Gunn, and Henry Hampton. He went on to found both Nommo Productions and Community Media, through which he has made his own documentaries and projects-for-hire, …
16mm film is 100 years old this year, but the format has never seen something like this! Filmo is our one-of-a-kind experiment in participatory movie watching and fortuitous curation. Here’s the deal: everyone in attendance receives a unique Filmo card. It looks kind of like a bingo card, except each square lists a title of …
