Screening Day at the Harris Theatre

Admission is free

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
Screening: Experimental Curator: The Sally Dixon Story

A documentary that delves into the life of experimental film curator Sally Dixon. Her story began in the 1960’s when she received a small hand-held movie camera from her father-in-law and started making films, that she later called “Film Poems.” Sally is known as a trailblazer in the “film as art” movement and created the film program at The Carnegie Museum of Art in 1970. She founded the program with the purpose of “promoting a greater understanding and appreciation of film as an art form and the filmmaker as an artist.” It was one of the first museum-based film programs in the country. The film ultilized the Walker Archives, CMOA and Sally’s personal archives. There were 54 rolls of never before seen super 8 film from her personal connection.

2:30 PM – 3:00 PM
What Was Left Behind

Introduced by filmmaker Lauren Caddick.  A dozen years after her father’s sudden divorce from her mother, Lauren Caddick discovered a collection of family home videos. Reexamining a buried past through adult eyes, the footage raised fresh questions:  When exactly did everything go wrong? How evident was the impact on her, her mother, and her two younger sisters? And what secrets do parents keep from us — for better or for worse? Told through this home video footage and letters between Lauren and her father, What Was Left Behind is a voyeuristic lens into the fracturing of a family, the complexity of memory, and the ramifications of choices we make.

3:15 PM – 4: 15 PM
Rediscovering Pittsburgh Filmmakers: Films/Videos from the 1970s & 1980s

This program features selections of independent, amateur, and/or experimental films produced by artists affiliated with Pittsburgh Filmmakers in the 1970s and 1980s. This screening has been curated by and will be introduced by Pittsburgh-based microcinema programmer and MLIS student Steven Haines, who has spent the last five years helping to bring back to the surface many neglected stories and works associated with Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
The Moving Image Presents: In Search of Bigfoot: Recovering George A. Romero’s Jacaranda Joe

A small panel will discuss and screen George Romero’s recently recovered proto-found-footage short film, JACARANDA JOE (1994). Along with an overview of the George A. Romero Collection at Pitt, the panel will situate this seldom-seen Bigfoot film within Romero’s career more broadly. This screening coincides with a feature article in THE MOVING IMAGE.