In 1970, Sally Dixon, curator of the recently established Film Section at the Carnegie Museum of Art, invited experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage to Pittsburgh to screen his films and also to create new work during his time in the city. The results are quite unlike anything else in Brakhage’s filmography. With three films released in 1971, Eyes, Deus Ex, and The Act of Seeing With One’s Own Eyes, Brakhage’s gaze took a harrowing, fly-on-the-wall look at three Pittsburgh public institutions: the police, a hospital, and a morgue, respectively.

live music by Trē Seguritan Abalos

This event is co-presented by Pittsburgh Sound + Image, CMU’s Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, the Carnegie Mellon University College of Fine Arts, and University of Pittsburgh Horror Studies Working Group.