Past Shows

Striking workers return to Homestead! The Glitterbox Theater becomes the Proletariat Picture Palace as we experience Sergei Eisenstein’s vibrant feature film debut on 16mm!… Read more: Eisenstein’s STRIKE with original live score

On September 18th, 2024 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, HERE in the world is Carmen Sandiego! Join an interactive archival screening and discussion as we… Read more: Essential Pittsburgh: Dorothy Curley Tecklenburg

Co-presented by Pittsburgh Sound + Image and SCREENSHOT: Asia Renowned media artist Shu Lea Cheang arrives to the Harris Theater in person to present… Read more: Fresh Kill with director Shu Lea Cheang

Pittsburgh Sound + Image shines a light on a maker of educational films who has, until now, been completely omitted from our collective film… Read more: Through Kid Glasses: The Unseen Films of Maclovia Rodriguez

This year’s Community Fest: The Archives is inspired by the archival material documenting Mattress Factory’s founding in the 1970s as an artist-centered DIY creative… Read more: Community Fest at Mattress Factory

Pittsburgh Sound + Image and SCREENSHOT: Asia partner to bring you what is widely regarded as one of the great films of all time:… Read more: Floating Weeds

Pittsburgh Sound + Image brings to you an evening of West Coast experimental shorts by the legendary Barbara Hammer and her lesser known contemporary… Read more: 16mm Subversion: Barbara Hammer and Coni Beeson

Pittsburgh Sound + Image presents a film which has been virtually unseen for over 40 years: David Allen Greene’s made-in-Pittsburgh feature debut Come Back… Read more: Essential Pittsburgh: Come Back Baby

Deborah Stratman’s speculative sci-fi opus Last Things posits a history of the world that rejects human primacy in favor of a radical centering of… Read more: Deborah Stratman’s Last Things

Pittsburgh Sound + Image and Henry Chalfant present the 1983 classic Style Wars. This landmark documentary stands as a time capsule of emerging hip hop… Read more: Style Wars on 16mm with Henry Chalfant

At Harris Theater, we celebrate legendary experimental filmmaker Maya Deren’s 107th birthday by presenting her movies on her format of choice: 16mm film. Featured… Read more: Maya Deren’s 16mm Birthday Party

See us at the Cultural District Gallery Crawl on Friday, April 26th! PSI Director of Programming Steven Haines and artist Sean Darby take over… Read more: Open Archives

What does a nearly 90-year-old anti-drug exploitation film have to offer 2024 audiences? Join us as we look back on Reefer Madness, how it… Read more: Reefer Madness

Roger Beebe brings his multi-projector roadshow to Pittsburgh for the first time in more than a decade. Using up to eight projectors at once,… Read more: FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS with Roger Beebe

We bring to you an evening of one-of-a-kind art objects by a giant of the experimental film world: Luther Price. Tara Merenda Nelson joins… Read more: Luther Price on Super 8 and 35mm

A century of Academy Award short film nominations all lead up to this. Join Pittsburgh Sound + Image and your host Olivia Devorah Tucker… Read more: 16mm’s Biggest Night

Join filmmakers Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson for a special 16mm screening of A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre… Read more: A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde

Special 35mm screenings co-presented with the Harris Theater! As Criterion puts it, “Nothing else has ever looked or felt like director René Laloux’s animated… Read more: Fantastic Planet

It’s back! Originally intended as a “one”-off event, our “1” screening last January proved to be such a hit that we’re forced to bring… Read more: 1 (2024)

Pittsburgh Sound + Image is honored to present the world premiere of a film restoration nearly 200 years in the making! Spang’s First Century:… Read more: Spang’s First Century

Revolutions Per Minute (RPM) is a Boston-based, artist-run festival devoted to experimental cinematic work in animation, documentary, essay film, installation, and audiovisual performance. This… Read more: Cycles and Rhythms: RPM Festival, Pittsburgh Edition

In the 1990s, Alycia Crawley Knauer and Evan Knauer were a Pittsburgh punk filmmaking power couple. Across a series of short films, Alycia would… Read more: Essential Pittsburgh: Alycia Crawley Knauer and Evan Knauer

Pittsburgh Sound + Image is honored to host visiting artist Eric Theise and Pittsburgh-based sound artist Trē Abalos for an evening unlike any other.… Read more: A Synesthete’s Atlas with Eric Theise and Trē Seguritan Abalos

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… Read more: GIANT SCREAM SHOW: Haunt of the Horror Trailers + Freaks

To any Pittsburgher active in the film, music, or poetry communities here in the late 70s or 1980s, the name Natalka Voslakov needs no… Read more: Essential Pittsburgh: Natalka Voslakov

Pittsburgh Sound + Image joins the Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival for an evening of canonical classics of avant-garde film of the 1920s: All will… Read more: 1920s Avant-Garde with live score by David Bernabo

Pittsburgh Sound + Image is pickled pink to be able to pique your five senses with a most peculiar picture show. For one night… Read more: Fermented Films in 5D

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… Read more: Essential Pittsburgh: Henry Roll

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… Read more: Essential Pittsburgh: Sheila Chamovitz

Four newly restored films from the latest figure shaking up the film canon: Edward Owens. Our friends at Chicago Film Society write: “By the… Read more: The Films of Edward Owens

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… Read more: Essential Pittsburgh: tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE

Lubitsch’s last film, Cluny Brown, closed out a career of insouciant brilliance with one of his most delightful romantic comedies — albeit one that… Read more: Ernst Lubitsch’s CLUNY BROWN + shorts by Janie Geiser

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… Read more: Essential Pittsburgh: Billy Jackson

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… Read more: One Hundred Years of 16mm Party with FILMO

Our CMU friends at Touchstone Cinema are bringing Peggy Ahwesh to Pittsburgh for two events as part of Rust Belt Renegades! On Friday, April… Read more: Pittsburgh Filmmakers: 70s-80s Punk with Peggy Ahwesh and Touchstone Cinema

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… Read more: Maya Deren on 16mm

IN THE COMPANY OF MEN by William Greaves (1969, 52 min) Description from IndieCollect: In the Company of Men illustrates Bill Greaves’ decision to… Read more: Psychodrama On Film: William Greaves’ IN THE COMPANY OF MEN

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:… Read more: F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise

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… Read more: 1

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… Read more: It’s the End of the World

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… Read more: Films by Chick Strand on 16mm

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… Read more: GIANT SCREAM SHOW: Night of the Living Dead + Haunt of the Horror Trailers

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… Read more: Avant-Garde in the Classroom

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… Read more: Shirley Clarke’s The Cool World

Join us for the overlooked short films of pioneering moviemakers Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver. Seldom screened theatrically from any format, these four… Read more: The Short Films of Barbara Loden and Joan Micklin Silver

We can’t wait to share the magic of projected celluloid! Synopsis from Criterion: “Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of… Read more: Jean Cocteau’s The Blood of a Poet