We’re finishing the year with a bang. Join us as we let loose with an evening of cataclysmic bacchanalia. Feast on an array of short films depicting apocalyptic events with celebratory verve. Including:
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Pittsburgh Sound + Image is excited to partner with scholar, author, and archivist Adam Hart to co-curate a show we’ve all dreamed of for years: an evening of films by Chick Strand! Strand is a legend, known for co-founding landmark of the avant-garde film world, Canyon Cinema, and then going on to herself create many
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We offer not just one but TWO terrifying events this Halloween season. Put them together and you’ve got one GIANT SCREAM SHOW! Kick things off at 7:30 PM with George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD from a very rare, stunning 16mm presentation! And the frights continue at 9:40! The long rumored, much buzzed-about HAUNT
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Go back to school in offbeat style with Avant-Garde in the Classroom, an all-new lineup of 1960s and 1970s shorts illuminating the wilder side of films made by, about, and/or for children. There will even be free snacks and refreshments! After the program, Olivia Devorah Tucker (they/them, Olivia “puts the femme in ephemera” and shares
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Pittsburgh Sound + Image presents a movie so rare that we haven’t even seen it yet! Legendary filmmaker Shirley Clarke’s work has rightfully experienced a resurgence in the past decade, with almost all of her features receiving restorations and lavish home video editions from Milestone Film and Video. The missing piece, however, is The Cool
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Join us for the overlooked short films of pioneering moviemakers Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver. Seldom screened theatrically from any format, these four films will be presented from original 16mm prints courtesy of Flea Market Films. During key phases of their careers, Loden and Micklin Silver worked within the realm of the educational film;
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We can’t wait to share the magic of projected celluloid! Synopsis from Criterion: “Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau of his groundbreaking first film—an exploration of the plight of the artist, the power of metaphor and the relationship
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