Join a community of film lovers for this limited chance to watch short art film screenings in the museum’s intimate setting. And of course, we’ll have your favorite theater snacks stocked just for you.
Two public film screenings curated by Benny Shaffer and co-hosted by Pittsburgh Sound + Image will be presented as 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.
Taking the exhibition’s inquiry into atmospheres and ways of seeing the sky as a point of departure, the screening programs will feature experimental and documentary films projected on 16mm film and video. 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.
PROGRAM 1: ARTIFACTS + AFTERLIVES
July 12, 2025, 8-10 PM
Doors open at 7:30 PM
- Skyworks, Wind & Fire (1975) - Le Ann Bartok - 8 mins - 16mm
- Wednesday (1976) - Tom Patrick - 5 mins - 16mm
- Tree (2009) - Tony Balko - 3 mins 30s - 16mm [Photosensitivity Warning: contains flashing lights]
- Steel Mill Rolling (2014) - Ross Nugent - 11 mins 46s - 16mm
- Century (2012) - Kevin Jerome Everson - 6 mins 45s - 16mm
- Arbor (2012) - Janie Geiser - 7 mins 3s - Digital (shot on 16mm)
- How to Rust (2016) - Julia Yezbick - 25 mins 21s - Digital (shot on video / super8 / 16mm)
Total running time: 68 mins
PROGRAM 2: ATMOSPHERES + AURAS
August 23, 2025, 8-10 PM
Doors open at 7:30 PM
- 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
Total running time: 70 mins
who IT’s For
Community
Date & Times
August 23rd, 2025
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location
Luke Stettner and Collaborators, "State of the Sky". Mattress Factory exhibition, 2023.
