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In the 1990s, Alycia Crawley Knauer and Evan Knauer were a Pittsburgh punk filmmaking power couple. Across a series of short films, Alycia would produce, shoot, and edit; Evan would write the scripts, direct, and his band, hometown favorites A.T.S., would do the music. Their narratives were consistently entertaining documents of fringe cultures and incidentally […]

Pittsburgh Sound + Image is honored to host visiting artist Eric Theise and Pittsburgh-based sound artist Trē Abalos for an evening unlike any other. See + hear real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Theise in collaboration with Abalos’ soundscapes of flutes, samples, and looping electronics. Experience: Brief glimpses of past performances of

Our GIANT SCREAM SHOW is let loose only one night a year. And what better night for 16mm madness than…Friday the 13th!We’ll kick things off at 8 PM with the return of Flea Market Films’ original, feature-length compilation of horror movie trailers and TV spots: Haunt of the Horror Trailers. The 2nd edition of Haunt

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 joins 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