Summer Film Screening: Atmospheres + Auras

Enjoy short art film screenings in the museum’s intimate setting with other film lovers and your favorite theater snacks stocked just for you!

Join the last of our two public film screenings curated by Benny Shaffer and co-hosted by Pittsburgh Sound + Image.

The screening programs will feature experimental and documentary films projected on 16mm film and video, which take the atmosphere and ways of seeing the sky as a point of departure. Each program will be followed by a discussion exploring how visual and sonic strategies engage with various social and environmental experiences of labor and industry, while also intervening in archives and historical narratives.

The events are a part of Summer School: State of the Sky, an interdisciplinary, arts-centered education program organized by artists Luke Stettner and Calista Lyon within the State of the Sky exhibition this summer.

Registration required. Doors open at 7:30 PM.

PROGRAM 2: ATMOSPHERES + AURAS

• “Light, Noise, Smoke and Light, Noise, Smoke” (2023) - Tomonari Nishikawa - 6 mins 33s - 16mm
• “Don’t Look Directly into the Sun” (2010) - Kathy Rugh - 8 mins 42s - 16mm
• “Tåke (2018) - Inger Lise Hansen” - 14 mins 57s - Digital (shot on video / super8 / 16mm)
• “Coal Spell” (2008) - Sun Xun - 7mins 56s - Digital
• “Obscuring Power” (2023) - Erin Mallea - 32 mins 23s - Digital