Events . Brakhage's Pittsburgh Trilogy on 16mm

Brakhage's Pittsburgh Trilogy on 16mm

films shot in pgh in 1970
Film Screening
Melwood Screening Room
All Ages $12

In 1970, CMOA film curator Sally Dixon invited experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage to Pittsburgh – not just to screen his films, but also to create new work in the city. The results are quite unlike anything else in Brakhage's filmography.

Brakhage’s three 1971 films — Eyes, Deus Ex, and The Act of Seeing With One's Own Eyes — take a harrowing, fly-on-the-wall look at three Pittsburgh institutions we all find ourselves coming into contact with at some point: the police, the hospital, and the morgue.

Join us as we present these landmark works of Pittsburgh film history in their original 16mm format. We’ll also be showing Brakhage’s film documenting his wife giving birth, Window Water Baby Moving, with a live score by Trē Seguritan Abalos.

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
Event image credit: photographer Michael Chikiris, from CMOA Archives

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