Stan Brakhage's early 1970s study of Pittsburgh institutions, presented on 16mm
By Pittsburgh Sound + Image
Saturday, March 22 · 7 - 9pm EDT
Melwood Screening Room 477 Melwood Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213
In 1970, Sally Dixon, curator of the recently established Film Section at the Carnegie Museum of Art, invited experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage to Pittsburgh to screen his films and also to create new work during his time in the city. The results are quite unlike anyhting else in Brakhage's filmography. With three films released in 1971, Eyes, Deus Ex, and The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes, Brakhage's gaze took a harrowing, fly-on-the-wall look at three Pittsburgh public institutions: the police, a hospital, and a morgue, respectively.
Join us as we present these landmark works of Pittsburgh film history on their original 16mm format. Also included will be Window Water Baby Moving, with a live score by Trē Seguritan Abalos.
This event is co-presented by Pittsburgh Sound + Image, CMU's College of Fine Arts and Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, and University of Pittsburgh Horror Studies Working Group.
At the legendary Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave.
Tickets $12 for the general public. FREE for PSI members!
Doors at 6:30, show starts at 7. Total runtime of films: approximately 110 minutes.
Content warning: Graphic depictions of autopsies and childbirth