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 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; Loden
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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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