Summer Film Screening: Atmospheres + Auras

Join the last of the Mattress Factory's 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