We celebrate legendary experimental filmmaker Maya Deren’s 106th birthday (approximately) 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), which has recently moved further up the Sight & Sound once-in-a-decade list of all-time greatest films, to number sixteen. Also […]
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IN THE COMPANY OF MEN by William Greaves (1969, 52 min) Description from IndieCollect: In the Company of Men illustrates Bill Greaves’ decision to use film as an activist would — as a consciousness-raising tool. To depict and affect prejudice between white factory foremen and Black workers (termed by management as the “hard-core unemployed”), he
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Pittsburgh Sound + Image has plenty to celebrate this February, and you’re invited! Join us for a very special screening of F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, presented as it was meant to be seen: on real, beautiful motion picture film. Take your pick: we’re commemorating FOUR occasions in ONE night! Sunrise will
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When it comes to mysterious old film reels, we’ve noticed that, in many cases, the shorter the title, the better. So we’ve selected some of our favorite 16mm films with one word titles to prove that a shorter title tends to be a movie with a more abstract theme…and with freeform aesthetics to match! Just
PITTSBURGH, PA – Recently formed nonprofit Pittsburgh Sound + Image (PSI) has received a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. The $20,000 award will support the preservation of a previously unknown film about Etna-based pipe manufacturer Spang Chalfant & Company. The feature-length, silent movie, titled Spang’s First Century: A Record of the Past, The
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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