Attending a show won’t always get you in The @criterion.bsky.social Collection, but as of today, it’s a possibility! On the Criterion Blu-ray for FRESH KILL, releasing today, a program about the film’s 35mm tour features our 2024 screening at Harris Theater. Can you spot yourself?

Thanks to @brndnstrssng.bsky.social for his kind words on the last MAYA DEREN 16MM BIRTHDAY PARTY! This Saturday, we're back at the same place, Harris Theater, to do it all again. All her major completed works on her preferred 16mm format. And birthday cake in honor of one of the best to ever do it

In 1977, the Pittsburgh film scene faced the anti-art, proto-DOGE tactics of an attention-seeking US senator. The films that set him off — the bold, colorful SKYWORKS series by LeAnn Bartok — come to Harris Theater TONIGHT on 16mm, the only means of seeing them.

While living in Pittsburgh in the 1970s, LeAnn Bartok made a series of films that garnered national recognition and controversy. Her life and work come back to light in the next edition of the Essential Pittsburgh series.

Excerpt from Bill Brand's STILL AT WORK (1975). It was while in Pittsburgh in the mid 1970s for a screening of his work at Carnegie Museum of Art that he learned the JK optical printer at Pittsburgh Filmmakers. This led to his now-trademark complex superimpositions and frames within frames.

One more hour of pre-orders for our first contribution to physical media

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Instagram's reaction to our announcement that Bill Brand is coming back to Pittsburgh!

Natalka Voslakov was a poet, filmmaker and creative force in Pittsburgh in the late 70s and first half of the 80s. Described as "the nucleus of the Pittsburgh Filmmakers' punks," she organized her friends — including George Romero, Tony Buba, and Peggy Ahwesh — into working on her films.

my old notebook was ruined in the great crockpot backpack spillage of 2026 but good news is I copied everything over to an Arri notebook straight out the wrapper. Check out the @aftermath.site + @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social stickers so far

This Thursday at 7:00 at Carnegie Museum of Art, the urgent Best International Feature nominee THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB. tickets.pghsoundandimage.com/schedule/697...

Jesse Jackson in Billy Jackson's "We Are Universal," preserved last year with local Kickstarter backers and the National Film Preservation Foundation.

plays Thursday at the Glitterbox here in Pgh compliments of @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social tickets.pghsoundandimage.com/schedule/697...

Tomorrow is today!

Tomorrow night we present what we believe to be the only complete print of Eagle Pennell's landmark indie comedy THE WHOLE SHOOTIN' MATCH. It was an influence on Robert Redford to start Sundance, and on Richard Linklater's career, and subject of a rating revision by Roger Ebert, from 3 to 4 stars.

J.T. Vale was a South Side cinephile chasing the sublime. We close this season of Essential Pittsburgh with the results of @fleamarketfilms.bsky.social's seven year search for his surviving works. This trailer features scenes from the euphoric "Steelers Riot" (1976).

Tonight!

A great place to be in Pittsburgh tonight: the Carnegie Museum of Art for a hands-on engagement with cameraless experimental filmmaking w/ a selection of paint & scratch films followed by making one as a group! Facilitated by PGH GOATs @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social

Tired: chicken Jockeying at the Sphere or whatever Wired: Jodie Mack walking around a museum screening room waving her phone flashlight around and reciting parody Dark Side of the Moon lyrics like she’s doing the beat poem from So I Married an Axe Murderer Best Cinema Experience of the ’20s maybe

Not lying when I think this is probably the best film of the last 20 years. Knew nothing of Mack's work (because I was stupid) and went in blind to the world premiere and came out the biggest fanboy.

Excited to reveal that tomorrow night, Jodie Mack will present the rarely seen *live performance version* of her modern classic DUSTY STACKS OF MOM: THE POSTER PROJECT! We'll also have the regional (east coast?) premiere of her new film "Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love."

Tonight, a Squirrel Hill time capsule on 16mm, with director Sheila Chamovitz in person! www.eventbrite.com/e/essential-...

We're thrilled to bring the magnificent Jodie Mack to Pittsburgh! Her latest is in this show and at this year’s NYFF, and her films have been described as “perfection” (Sight and Sound) and “dazzling” (Artforum). (1/2)

Some familiar names to PSI audiences, and foreshadowing a TBA guest next month!

@pghsoundandimage.bsky.social shoutout

We stir the ghosts of Melwood Screening Room this Thursday with UGETSU on 16mm! Last weekend @fleamarketfilms.bsky.social was in Maine repping Pgh at the Northeast Historic Film Symposium, sharing reels and stories from PSI's collection. Kinonik's Andy Graham handed off the UGETSU reels in person.

Screening on 16mm! Sarah Jacobson's lone feature-length film, MARY JANE'S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE is THE essential 1990s riot grrrl b-movie sex ed flick. This Thursday, June 5th at @glitterboxtheater.bsky.social in Homestead. www.eventbrite.com/e/mary-janes...

PARK LANES is a one of a kind experience. Plus catch a film manipulation workshop by us as part of the series, on Nov 10!

Visiting filmmaker Friday! Chicago-based Lori Felker studied at Pittsburgh Filmmakers and has gone on to festival success and a presence on Criterion Channel. She shares a selection of her films on 16mm, Super 8 and more Friday at 8 PM at @glitterboxtheater.bsky.social.

We're bringing Stan Brakhage's legendary (and legendarily disturbing) Pittsburgh trilogy back to the city where he made it on 16mm next weekend! Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/1265571340...

We're 77% of the way to goal with our Kickstarter and only have 30 hours left to make it 100% of the way there! Your contribution will help us preserve and exhibit the work of local filmmakers for years to come - including Natalka's. Donate and share if you can: bit.ly/savepghfilm

The organization has set out to preserve independent films documenting the Pittsburgh punk scene, the struggles of a female artist, and the Black experience.

Thanks @pghcitypaper.com for the excellent article on our newest Kickstarter campaign! We've got 9 days left and we're close to 50% of the way there -- you can learn more about the campaign and find the link to donate in the story below ❤️

🚨This is not a drill!🚨 We (@pghsoundandimage.bsky.social) just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for our latest round of film preservation projects! Please help fund the hard work we're doing and intend to keep doing! But we can't do it without YOUR support! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pgh...

New @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social campaign to preserve films from Pittsburgh-based indie filmmakers! We're scanning, printing, archiving!!!!

Done! Proud to help support this extremely cool project

New film preservation project just dropped 🎞️ Help us restore and preserve 10+ films by local filmmakers — we promise you'll get some cool stuff in return too:

We're so happy to be able to bring Palestinian Oscar nominee NO OTHER LAND to Pittsburgh in just a few weeks. 3/1 at CMOA, and tickets are selling fast so we'd recommend saving a seat now Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/no-other-l...

Sometimes our posts are also endorsements ❤️ Join us Saturday for a celebration of all things cinematic and a protest against all things televisual, fascistic, uncool, etc., etc. via our friends at Orgone Archive. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-orgone...

Pittsburgh Takes Manhattan

Craig Baldwin's movies are directly responsible for me pursuing cinema studies. They are caustic, razor-sharp, and unrelenting political works that are one of a kind. Please donate if you can.

2024's PSI ✨Wrapped✨ 2,448 audience members, 23 shows, 111 films, and close to 54,000 feet of film projected 🎞️ But film is expensive, and we could use a little help to keep going. Can you chip in a few bucks before the end of the year? Here's the link: tr.ee/kZG-yuLQYr

Want to learn how to work with film? Need a respite from all that "holiday cheer"? Look no further than our Film Handling 101 workshop this Saturday, where we'll teach you how to inspect, project, and even do some direct-on-film animation 🎞️ Learn more: www.eventbrite.com/e/film-handl...

@fleamarketfilms.bsky.social speaking with Light Cone's Mariya Nikiforova after Saturday's @pghsoundandimage.bsky.social show at Mattress Factory

Thank you @wesa.fm for the mention in this weekend's event guide! Tickets are going fast for our show at the Mattress Factory tomorrow, so we recommend getting them in advance as we've got no guarantees: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening... See you soon!

We're thrilled to be premiering our restoration of Pittsburgh filmmaker Billy Jackson's short, WE ARE UNIVERSAL, at To Save and Project next year! A little clip from the film, which features Black artists and thinkers like late greats Nikki Giovanni and Quincy Jones:

Renowned experimental film distributor Light Cone comes from the Paris of France to visit the Paris of Appalachia. With 16mm films in hand! Next Saturday 12/21 at 7PM, Pittsburgh Sound + Image presents An Evening with Light Cone at Mattress Factory

Our last show of the year comes to the Paris of Appalachia from, um, the Paris of France! Light Cone programmer Mariya Nikiforova is stopping by the Mattress Factory with rare prints of luminous experimental films, and you can get your tix now: www.eventbrite.com/e/an-evening...