BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CalDiscovery//caldiscovery//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH DESCRIPTION:Pittsburgh: film\, next 7 days (Thu Sep 17 to Wed Sep 23\, Ame rica/New_York). Rolling: the window moves forward every day\, so subscribe rather than download. Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https:// caldiscovery.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains info rmation from CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. SOURCE:https://caldiscovery.com/pittsburgh-pa/next-7-days-film.ics X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT12H REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT12H X-WR-CALDESC:Pittsburgh: film\, next 7 days (Thu Sep 17 to Wed Sep 23\, Am erica/New_York). Rolling: the window moves forward every day\, so subscrib e rather than download. Discovered and maintained by CalDiscovery (https:/ /caldiscovery.com). Event details belong to their publishers. Contains inf ormation from CalDiscovery\, which is made available under the ODbL 1.0. X-WR-CALNAME:Pittsburgh · film · next 7 days · CalDiscovery BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The Lindsay's Fourth Annual Documentary Series DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260917 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260918 DTSTAMP:20260917T063143Z UID:10024966-1789603200-1789689599@www.kidsburgh.org CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:The Lindsay Theater and Cultural Center’s Fourth Annual Docu mentary Series will run from Friday\, Sept. 11 to Thursday\, Sept. 24. All nine films will play multiple times during this year’s series. Tickets ($11 per screening) and showtimes are available via The Lindsay’s websit e. Mark the new school year with a selection of fun and fascinating films about art\, nature\, music and much more! LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T063143Z LOCATION:The Lindsay Theater\, 418 Walnut St.\, Sewickley\, PA\, 15143\, U nited States URL:https://www.kidsburgh.org/ec/the-lindsays-fourth-annual-documentary-se ries/2026-09-17/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pitts burgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Kidsburgh X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.kidsburgh.org/your-pittsburgh-weekend-family-fun- guide-feb-20-22-is-filled-with-theater-art-hiking-and-more END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Horse Power (3D) DTSTART:20260917T173000Z DTEND:20260917T181500Z DTSTAMP:20260917T063958Z UID:10011983-1789651800-1789654500@kaminsciencecenter.org CATEGORIES:film LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T063958Z URL:https://kaminsciencecenter.org/calendar/horse-power/2026-09-17/?utm_so urce=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Kamin Science Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/rangos-giant-cinema/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Freeze DTSTART:20260917T183000Z DTEND:20260917T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T063958Z UID:10012330-1789655400-1789657200@kaminsciencecenter.org CATEGORIES:film LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T063958Z URL:https://kaminsciencecenter.org/calendar/freeze-3/2026-09-17/?utm_sourc e=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Kamin Science Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/rangos-giant-cinema/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:"Researching the Film Culture of Colonial Korea through Star Studi es" & "Cut and Paste" DTSTART:20260917T213000Z DTEND:20260917T230000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53852627400764 CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the first Film and Media Studies Colloquium event of the fall season. Our program's series explores a wide variety of topics related to film and media research\, production\, and teaching. Th is event will feature two talks: \n\n \n\n"Researching the Film Culture of Colonial Korea through Star Studies" led by Andy Lee\, PhD candidate\, Fi lm & Media Studies in the English Department.\n\nThis talk introduces my c urrent dissertation project\, which reexamines the film history of colonia l Korea through the concepts and methods of star studies. Despite only a d ozen of the roughly 200 features made under Japanese rule surviving\, film scholarship on colonial Korea has grown and expanded in recent decades\, rebuilt through newspapers\, magazines\, and government records\, and many works that came out mostly focus on policy\, industry\, and representatio n. Studying film stars helps us see another aspect of colonial film cultur e in relation to the competing meanings layered on stars and the societal contradictions they embodied\, such as gender\, nation\, and colonial mode rnity. I also survey a brief history of film stars and celebrity culture i n colonial Korea and close on one case study of Moon Ye-bong (1917-1999)\, a famous actress during the colonial period who became a renowned star in postwar North Korea but was disavowed in the South\, further complicating the fractured nature of the historiography of Korean cinema.\n\n \n\n"Cut and Paste: Toward a Theory and Practice of Desktop Documentary" led by Ch arlotte Scurlock\, PhD candidate\, Film & Media Studies in the English Dep artment.\n\nLife in the 2020s is mediated largely through interactive digi tal screens (computers\, smartphones\, tablets\, et cetera)\, occupying in creasing space in activities associated with labor and leisure\, from the shift to remote work and education during the COVID-19 pandemic facilitate d by Zoom Communications to the colloquialization of phrases like doomscro lling and screentime. In the midst of this screen saturated culture\, film makers have explored ways of rendering the computer screen as a fertile pl atform for cinematic experimentation. One such output is the desktop docum entary\, or non-fictional films that use screen recording technology to tr eat the computer screen as both "camera lens and a canvas ... seek[ing] bo th to depict and question the ways we explore the world through the comput er screen" (Catherine Grant 2015). This talk will introduce my dissertatio n research\, which theorizes the desktop documentary in relation to two ea rlier cinematic practices: the long history of experimental found footage (or collage) filmmaking and the more contemporary scholarly practice of vi deographic criticism. Combining written scholarship with practice-based re search in the form of short desktop documentaries\, I reveal the intricaci es with which contemporary screen-based technologies reshape traditional u nderstandings of cinema and allow for a deeper understanding of online med ia cultures. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, 1219 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/researching-the-film-culture-of-coloni al-korea-through-star-studies-and-cut-and-paste-toward-a-theory-and-practi ce-of-desktop-documentary?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campa ign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Film Festival: Celebrating the Centenary of Andrzej Wajda (1926-20 26) DTSTART:20260917T223000Z DTEND:20260917T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53816222183291 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:In partnership with the Polish Cultural Council\, Manggha Muse um\, and Centrum Kultury Filmowej\, we are proud to present the Polish Fil m Festival: “Celebrating the Centenary of Andrzej Wajda (1926–2026)” at the Row House Cinema in Lawrenceville.\n\n2026 marks the 100th anniver sary of the birth of Andrzej Wajda\, one of the most influential filmmaker s in world cinema. This festival honors his extraordinary contributions to the art of film.\n\nFeatured Films:\nAshes and Diamonds (8/27/26\, 6:45PM )\nDanton (9/3/26\, 7PM)\nMan of Marble (9/10/26\, 6:30PM)\nThe Promised L and (9/24/26\, 6:00PM)\nWałęsa: Man of Hope (10/1/26\, 7PM)\n\nDiscounte d tickets are available for $2 off with code: wajdadiscount\, or purchase the entire series for $45. Visit: https://rowhousecinemas.com/lawrencevill e/film-series/andrzej-wajda/ LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Row House Cinema\, Lawrenceville URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/film-festival-celebrating-the-centenar y-of-andrzej-wajda-1926-2026?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_ca mpaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Lali DTSTART:20260917T230000Z DTEND:20260918T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798236470042 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:A wedding in the Pakistani city of Sahiwal should be a time of celebration\, but this bride and groom are both cursed. Sajawal (Channan Hanif)\, the husband-to-be\, has a prominent facial birthmark which has le ft him introverted and suspicious of a world that mocks him\, while his fu ture wife Zeba (Mamya Shajaffar) has a past filled with dead fiancés. Thi s heady tonal mash-up from Sarmad Sultan Khoosat takes some wildly unexpec ted turns\, from black comedy to surrealist horror. Lali is melodrama\, it is a story of possession\, and is it a mediation on marriage. Throughout\ , the film demonstrates an intoxicating and vividly uninhibited piece of f ilmmaking.\n\nOfficial Selection: Berlinale (2026) LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Harris Theater URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-lali?utm _source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Free Film Night DTSTART:20260917T230000Z DTEND:20260918T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T031027Z UID:6195-1789671600-1789678800@chapters.theprimetimersww.com CATEGORIES:film,free DESCRIPTION:Enjoy a free movie\, free parking and a free social time after wards.\n Calvary Episcopal hosts films third-Thursdays @ 7 PM @ Sept. thr u Dec.\n It’s @ 315 Shady Ave Pittsburgh 15206 – just 2 blocks from MLK Busway.\n Plenty of space @ the church lot w/entrances @ Shady Ave. & Marchand\n We’ll leave Fellowship Hall right after the film ends. Cal vary says it’s fine.\n Tommy C & Joe B then offer snacks & beverages ne xt door @ 265 Shady.\n\n September 17: “The Death of Stalin” (2017)  1 H\, 45 M\nIn this slapstick dark comedy\, Stalin’s last hours are in focus as is the rise of USSR Premiere Nikita Khrushchev. Fast-paced\, fil led with surprise scenes and an escalating pace\, it has been called one o f Britain’s best political satires. Rated 94% positive on Rotten Tomato es\n\nRSVP to Tom pastortomcaruso@aol.com or call 717-798-0368 LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T031027Z LOCATION:Calvary Episcopal\, 315 Shady Ave\, pittsburgh\, 15206 URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/pittsburgh/event/free-film-night /?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Pittsburgh PrimeTimers® X-SOURCE-URL:https://chapters.theprimetimersww.com/pittsburgh/event/join-p ittsburgh-primetimers-for-a-day-of-fun-filled-adventure-at-little-italy-da ys END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Speed (1994) DTSTART:20260917T230000Z DTEND:20260918T011600Z DTSTAMP:20260917T063958Z UID:10011837-1789671600-1789679760@kaminsciencecenter.org CATEGORIES:film LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T063958Z URL:https://kaminsciencecenter.org/calendar/speed-1994/?utm_source=caldisc overy&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Kamin Science Center X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.carnegiesciencecenter.org/rangos-giant-cinema/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Intimate Publics: 2026 Film and Media Studies Graduate Conference DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260918 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53808427580655 CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Film and Media Studies Program's annual Graduate Student Conference. This year's title is Intimate Publics and th e presentations will be centered around questions about the relationship b etween intimacy\, public culture\, and media studies. We will have a varie ty of presenters discussing topics such as surveillance\, pornography\, af fect studies\, national cinemas\, found footage filmmaking\, genre film\, fan studies\, and more. Our keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Mar y Hennessy (University of Wisconsin Madison).\n\n \n\nFriday September 18t h - Cathedral of Learning 501\n\n● 9:30-10:00am - Registration and Cof fee\n\n○ Sign in and collect your name badges\n\n● 10:00-10:30am - Welcome Address from David Pettersen\n\n● 10:30am-12pm - Panel 1 - Pr ivate Eyes: Home Movies\, Found Footage\, and (Re)Circulation\n\n○ Fac ulty Moderator - Raed El Rafei\n\n○ Hugo Ljungbäck\, University of Ch icago - “Private Visions? Parody\, Visibility\, and Community in Jerett Robert Austin’s Camille”\n\n○ Yasaman Baghban\, University of Roch ester - “Archival Intimacy: Found Footage in Contemporary Iranian Short Essay Films”\n\n○ Elayne McGrail\, University of Pittsburgh - “‘ Sharenting’\, Surveillance\, and the Fractured Home Video”\n\n○ Ke lly Daniela Norris\, University of Texas at Austin - “Autotheory: Activa tion of the Mediated Self in the Home Movies Archive”\n\n● 12:00-2:3 0pm - LUNCH BREAK\n\n● 2:30-4:00pm - Panel 2 - Moving Images: Space\, Movement\, and Feeling\n\n○ Faculty Moderator - Randall Halle\n\n○ Milad Sotoudeh\, Cornell University - “The Impossible Present and Feeli ng a Queer Future in Sexual Moments of Iranian Cinema”\n\n○ Jason Ke lly\, CUNY Brooklyn College - “The Reflexive Transformation of Mobile Sp ace into a Subaltern Counterpublic in Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (2015)”\n\n ○ Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre\, Université Lumière Lyon 2 - “Images of loss\, family grief and AIDS in Julia Ducournau’s Alpha (2025)”\n\n○ Jessica Huang-Yichen\, Columbia University - “Theatrical Artifactuali ty and Ontological Claustrophobia: Kobayashi Masaki’s Kwaidan (1964)”\ n\n \n\nSaturday September 19th - Cathedral of Learning 501\n\n● 10:00 -10:30am - Coffee and Refreshments\n\n● 10:30am-12:00pm - Panel 3 - Fe eling Seen: Queerness\, Youth\, Surveillance\, and Representation\n\n○ Faculty Moderator - Jacqueline Johnson\n\n○ Zane Austin Willard\, Uni versity of South Florida - “The Surveillantization of the Intimate Publi c Sphere: A Queer Surveillance Reading of Red\, White & Royal Blue”\n\n ○ Parker Bailey Canterbury\, Concordia University - “Passing on Scr een: Trans Spectatorship and Surveillance Cinema”\n\n○ Andre Regan\, Georgia State University - “From Bedroom Culture to Intimate Publics: E uphoriaTok and the Performance of Algorithmic Intimacy”\n\n○ Lucia L in\, Columbia University - “Encountering the Other: Intimacy in Moving ( 1993) and Renoir (2025)”\n\n● 12:00-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK\n\n● 1: 30-3pm - Panel 4 - Ways of Seeing: Genre\, Interpolation\, and Strategies of Spectatorial Address\n\n○ Faculty Moderator - Mark Lynn Anderson\n\ n○ Kasym Orozbaev\, University of Pittsburgh - “Ethics of Proximity in Wang Bing’s West of the Tracks”\n\n○ Cole Bradley\, New York Un iversity - “Pornography Without the Porn: The Dual Versions of Dixie Ray \, Hollywood Star and the Aspirations of Adult Film”\n\n○ Arcadio A. Oranday\, University of Chicago - “Second Person Address\, Sincerity\, and Star Spangled to Death”\n\n● 3:00-3:30pm - Coffee break\n\n● 3:30-5:00pm - Keynote Address: Mary Hennessy\, University of Wisconsin Ma dison\, Department of German\, Nordic\, and Slavic - “Intimate Intervent ions: A Project on Actress-Producers in Weimar Cinema” LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, CL 501 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/intimate-publics-2026-film-and-media-s tudies-graduate-conference?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_camp aign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2026 Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference: Intimate Publics DTSTART:20260918T133000Z DTEND:20260918T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53761929489147 CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Film and Media Studies Program's annual Graduate Student Conference. This year's title is Intimate Publics and th e presentations will be centered around questions about the relationship b etween intimacy\, public culture\, and media studies. We will have a varie ty of presenters discussing topics such as surveillance\, pornography\, af fect studies\, national cinemas\, found footage filmmaking\, genre film\, fan studies\, and more. Our keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Mar y Hennessy (University of Wisconsin Madison). LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, 501 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/2026-film-and-media-studies-graduate-s tudent-conference-intimate-publics?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics& utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Pittsburgh-London Film Program Information Session DTSTART:20260918T160000Z DTEND:20260918T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53938503529274 CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:The Office of Global Learning & Internships is hosting an info rmation session for the Pittsburgh-London Film Program on September 18 fro m 12-pm on zoom: https://pitt.zoom.us/j/92334124300?jst=1 Students interes ted in studying film in London for a semester are most welcome! LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/pittsburgh-london-film-program-informa tion-session?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburg h-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Before the Bright Day DTSTART:20260918T173000Z DTEND:20260918T193000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798249587291 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:Before the Bright Day\, the poignant directorial debut of emer ging Taiwanese filmmaker Shih-Han Tsao\, captures a young man’s turbulen t coming-of-age against the backdrop of the 1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis. Cho u\, labeled a “B-class loser” by his teacher\, yearns for more than hi s uneventful adolescence—especially with Min\, the girl he likes\, place d in the elite A-class. Disillusioned by his bleak home life and drawn to rebellion\, Chou idolizes a small-time gang leader named Button. But as po litical tensions rise and his family’s financial stability crumbles\, Ch ou’s world begins to fall apart. Button leaves for the military\, his hi gh school crush’s family may emigrate from the threat of impending war\, and Chou is caught smoking\, which is cause for expulsion. Drifting witho ut direction\, he must navigate a society on edge\, where youthful dreams and harsh realities collide. With raw emotion and historical resonance\, B efore the Bright Day explores identity\, class\, and disillusionment durin g a pivotal moment in Taiwan’s modern history.\n\nBest Director Nominee: Golden Horse Film Festival (2025) LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Frick Fine Arts Building\, 125 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-before-t he-bright-day?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsbur gh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Divine Comedy DTSTART:20260918T220000Z DTEND:20260918T233000Z DTSTAMP:20260826T003032Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798274694142 CATEGORIES:comedy,festival,film DESCRIPTION:Director Bahram Ark plays Bahram\, a director with several unc ompromising films behind him. When his latest work is also denied screenin g approval in Iran\, he and his blue-haired producer Sadaf (played by actu al producer and Ali Asgari regular Sadaf Asgari) refuse to back down and d o everything they can to organize a screening. Divine Comedy follows a lon g day’s battle for artistic freedom in a country where absurd bureaucrac y can only be overcome with equally absurd methods. With its wonderfully d ry humor and subtly powerful performances\, this charming film becomes bot h an artistic triumph and a quiet act of resistance. \n\nBest Film Nominee : Venice Film Festival (2025) LAST-MODIFIED:20260826T003032Z LOCATION:Harris Theater URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-divine-c omedy?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inception DTSTART:20260918T230000Z DTEND:20260919T013000Z DTSTAMP:20260828T060206Z UID:50913@pghevents.net CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:Leonardo DiCaprio (pictured) stars in this inventive 2010 scie nce fiction film as a professional thief who steals information by infiltr ating the minds of his victims. LAST-MODIFIED:20260828T060206Z LOCATION:Kamin Science Center (Former Carnegie Science Center)\, One Alleg heny Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 15212\, United States URL:http://pghevents.net/events/inception/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_med ium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Millennium Dance Complex Pittsburgh X-SOURCE-URL:http://pghevents.net/locations/millennium-dance-complex-pitts burgh END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Movie Night in the Park DTSTART:20260918T233000Z DTEND:20260919T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T032226Z UID:10004800-1789759800-1789768800@northway.org CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Movie Night in the Park at Carnegie Park on Wedn esday\, September 18th! Bring your friends and family\, some snacks\, and a chair or blanket\, and come enjoy a movie on the lawn. The movie will be gin at 8. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T032226Z LOCATION:Robinson Campus\, 1050 Campbells Run Rd\, Carnegie\, PA\, 15106 URL:https://northway.org/robinson/event/movie-night-in-the-park/?utm_sourc e=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:North Way Christian Community Church in Pittsburgh\, PA X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.northway.org/campus/dormont-campus/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Intimate Publics: 2026 Film and Media Studies Graduate Conference DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260919 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260920 DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53808427581680 CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Film and Media Studies Program's annual Graduate Student Conference. This year's title is Intimate Publics and th e presentations will be centered around questions about the relationship b etween intimacy\, public culture\, and media studies. We will have a varie ty of presenters discussing topics such as surveillance\, pornography\, af fect studies\, national cinemas\, found footage filmmaking\, genre film\, fan studies\, and more. Our keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Mar y Hennessy (University of Wisconsin Madison).\n\n \n\nFriday September 18t h - Cathedral of Learning 501\n\n● 9:30-10:00am - Registration and Cof fee\n\n○ Sign in and collect your name badges\n\n● 10:00-10:30am - Welcome Address from David Pettersen\n\n● 10:30am-12pm - Panel 1 - Pr ivate Eyes: Home Movies\, Found Footage\, and (Re)Circulation\n\n○ Fac ulty Moderator - Raed El Rafei\n\n○ Hugo Ljungbäck\, University of Ch icago - “Private Visions? Parody\, Visibility\, and Community in Jerett Robert Austin’s Camille”\n\n○ Yasaman Baghban\, University of Roch ester - “Archival Intimacy: Found Footage in Contemporary Iranian Short Essay Films”\n\n○ Elayne McGrail\, University of Pittsburgh - “‘ Sharenting’\, Surveillance\, and the Fractured Home Video”\n\n○ Ke lly Daniela Norris\, University of Texas at Austin - “Autotheory: Activa tion of the Mediated Self in the Home Movies Archive”\n\n● 12:00-2:3 0pm - LUNCH BREAK\n\n● 2:30-4:00pm - Panel 2 - Moving Images: Space\, Movement\, and Feeling\n\n○ Faculty Moderator - Randall Halle\n\n○ Milad Sotoudeh\, Cornell University - “The Impossible Present and Feeli ng a Queer Future in Sexual Moments of Iranian Cinema”\n\n○ Jason Ke lly\, CUNY Brooklyn College - “The Reflexive Transformation of Mobile Sp ace into a Subaltern Counterpublic in Jafar Panahi’s Taxi (2015)”\n\n ○ Alice Guillot-Lefeuvre\, Université Lumière Lyon 2 - “Images of loss\, family grief and AIDS in Julia Ducournau’s Alpha (2025)”\n\n○ Jessica Huang-Yichen\, Columbia University - “Theatrical Artifactuali ty and Ontological Claustrophobia: Kobayashi Masaki’s Kwaidan (1964)”\ n\n \n\nSaturday September 19th - Cathedral of Learning 501\n\n● 10:00 -10:30am - Coffee and Refreshments\n\n● 10:30am-12:00pm - Panel 3 - Fe eling Seen: Queerness\, Youth\, Surveillance\, and Representation\n\n○ Faculty Moderator - Jacqueline Johnson\n\n○ Zane Austin Willard\, Uni versity of South Florida - “The Surveillantization of the Intimate Publi c Sphere: A Queer Surveillance Reading of Red\, White & Royal Blue”\n\n ○ Parker Bailey Canterbury\, Concordia University - “Passing on Scr een: Trans Spectatorship and Surveillance Cinema”\n\n○ Andre Regan\, Georgia State University - “From Bedroom Culture to Intimate Publics: E uphoriaTok and the Performance of Algorithmic Intimacy”\n\n○ Lucia L in\, Columbia University - “Encountering the Other: Intimacy in Moving ( 1993) and Renoir (2025)”\n\n● 12:00-1:30pm - LUNCH BREAK\n\n● 1: 30-3pm - Panel 4 - Ways of Seeing: Genre\, Interpolation\, and Strategies of Spectatorial Address\n\n○ Faculty Moderator - Mark Lynn Anderson\n\ n○ Kasym Orozbaev\, University of Pittsburgh - “Ethics of Proximity in Wang Bing’s West of the Tracks”\n\n○ Cole Bradley\, New York Un iversity - “Pornography Without the Porn: The Dual Versions of Dixie Ray \, Hollywood Star and the Aspirations of Adult Film”\n\n○ Arcadio A. Oranday\, University of Chicago - “Second Person Address\, Sincerity\, and Star Spangled to Death”\n\n● 3:00-3:30pm - Coffee break\n\n● 3:30-5:00pm - Keynote Address: Mary Hennessy\, University of Wisconsin Ma dison\, Department of German\, Nordic\, and Slavic - “Intimate Intervent ions: A Project on Actress-Producers in Weimar Cinema” LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, CL 501 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/intimate-publics-2026-film-and-media-s tudies-graduate-conference?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_camp aign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Sleep No More DTSTART:20260919T000000Z DTEND:20260919T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798285624281 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:Following the horrific death of their mother while on the job at a wig factory in Jakarta\, sisters Putri (Rachel Amanda) and Ida (Lutes ha) decide to visit the premises to investigate. Upon arriving at the gloo my\, prison-like building\, they meet the mysterious and intimidating Mrs. Maryati (Didik Nini Thowok)\, the owner of the Evergreen factory\, who te lls them they will have to work there to pay off the colossal debt their l ate mother had incurred to fund Ida’s education. There are great bonuses \, but the workers live in an exhausted\, zombie-like state. When more wor kplace accidents (and eventual deaths) occur\, the sisters begin to invest igate. This visceral\, grotesque body horror underscores the relationship between violence and labor\, and the ability of capitalism to both steal e verything from the human body and also to use even magic as a labor-saving resource in the pursuit of global profit. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Harris Theater URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-sleep-no -more?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:2026 Film and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference: Intimate Publics DTSTART:20260919T140000Z DTEND:20260919T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53761929491196 CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the Film and Media Studies Program's annual Graduate Student Conference. This year's title is Intimate Publics and th e presentations will be centered around questions about the relationship b etween intimacy\, public culture\, and media studies. We will have a varie ty of presenters discussing topics such as surveillance\, pornography\, af fect studies\, national cinemas\, found footage filmmaking\, genre film\, fan studies\, and more. Our keynote address will be delivered by Prof. Mar y Hennessy (University of Wisconsin Madison). LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, 501 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/2026-film-and-media-studies-graduate-s tudent-conference-intimate-publics?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics& utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Gloaming in Luomu DTSTART:20260919T150000Z DTEND:20260919T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798297899912 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:When Bai–a dancer with an alcohol problem– receives a post card from her missing boyfriend that only says “Gloaming in Luomu\,” s he heads to the untouched\, idyllic village to try to find out what happen ed to him. There\, she connects with a host of interesting characters\, al l of whom help her as she feels increasingly more connected to her absent companion. In Gloaming in Luomu\, Korean-Chinese filmmaker Zhang Lu offer s a radical reworking vanished soulmate theme\, with the Sichuan-set tale unfolding like a delirious dream\, the mysteries of its complex characters and metaphysical conversations heightened by meticulous camerawork and im aginative sound design. The film captures the surreal disjuncture of searc hing while also lost and of looking for a shade of the past–someone who may or may not be a fever dream.\n\nBest Film Award Winner: Busan Film Fes tival (2025) LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, 332 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-gloaming -in-luomu?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-p a X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Animated Shorts Series DTSTART:20260919T170000Z DTEND:20260919T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798307521908 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:This year’s animated shorts program focuses on the cultures and arts we hold dear. From stories of queer identity and acceptance to me ditations on Buddhist teachings\, these shorts are as different as could b e. But what these shorts share thematically they express through entirely different mediums. Each filmmaker tells their story through animation\, an art that has only continued to evolve in the modern era. We are excited t o present this shorts program\, and hope you enjoy them as much as we do. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Cathedral of Learning\, 332 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-animated -shorts-series?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsbu rgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Filipiñana DTSTART:20260919T230000Z DTEND:20260920T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798319634440 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:In Filipiñana\, Isabel—a new “tee girl” at a luxury gol f course’s –attempts to navigate the quiet luxury and ruthless hierarc hical structure of Manila’s wealthy elite. Even as Isabel becomes increa singly entranced with the club’s president Mr. Palanca\, she also seems to know secrets that point to Palanca’s dark history. The film’s highl y artificial shots of composed pastel symmetries and minutely choreographe d workers paint a portrait of a Manila’s high society as simultaneously banal and terrifying. The luxurious facility echoes the country’s instab ilities: its challenges from climate upheaval amid an increasingly wealthy elite\, its history of violence\, and its underlying class conflicts. Fir st-time feature director Rafael Manual’s confident artisanship and darkl y funny writing are remarkable\, but Jorrybell Agota (Isabel) is the stand out star of the film\, as a young woman who wants a different life than ha s been allocated to her. Her relationship with Palance maps the Philippine s’s past onto its present\, showing how even the most elite can’t esca pe the realities in which they live. \n\nBest First Feature Nominee: Berl inale (2026)\; World Cinema Competition Nominee: Sundance (2026) LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Harris Theater URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-filipina na?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Two Seasons\, Two Strangers DTSTART:20260920T150000Z DTEND:20260920T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798331615572 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:Inspired by two Yoshiharu Tsuge’s manga short stories– “ A View of the Seaside” and “Mr. Ben and His Igloo”– the film conne cts and contrasts two moments in time and space\, explore how lives and st ories can be viewed\, reviewed\, and reimagined in cinema. In the first st ory\, a damp\, windswept summer by the sea provides the location where two young strangers exchange tentative glances and halting conversation. In t he second\, a screenwriter\, Li\, meets the enigmatic innkeeper Benzo at a remote snowy inn. In both\, director Sho Mikaye (whose first film\, Small \, Slow but Steady screened at our 2023 festival) bridges connections betw een strangers to give us a beautiful\, intimate\, at times surreal portrai t of human connectivity.\n\nBest Film Winner: Locarno Film Festival (2025) LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Frick Fine Arts Building\, 125 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-two-seas ons-two-strangers?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pitt sburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Film: Jo-Fei Chen: Where Is My Love? and Incidental Journey DTSTART:20260920T180000Z DTEND:20260920T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260819T191834Z UID:10012678-1789912800-1789920000@carnegiemuseums.org CATEGORIES:film LAST-MODIFIED:20260819T191834Z LOCATION:Carnegie Museum of Art\, 4400 Forbes Ave.\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 152 13\, United States URL:https://carnegieart.org/event/jo-fei-chen-where-is-my-love-and-inciden tal-journey/?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburg h-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh X-SOURCE-URL:https://carnegiemuseums.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Where Is My Love? / Incidental Journey DTSTART:20260920T180000Z DTEND:20260920T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260909T001946Z UID:50930@pghevents.net CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:A pair of acclaimed films explore queer life in Asia.\n\n"Wher e Is My Love?" (1996)\, the directorial debut from Taiwanese filmmaker Jo -Fei Chen\, follows Ko\, a gay writer struggling with the risk of outing h imself through his writing.\n\n"Incidental Journey" (2000) is Taiwan’s f irst openly lesbian film made in Taiwan. A breakup with her girlfriend sen ds Ching on a road trip where she encounters a hitchhiker Hsiang who may s end her on a very different journey. LAST-MODIFIED:20260909T001946Z LOCATION:Carnegie Museum Of Art\, 4400 Forbes Avenue\, Pittsburgh\, PA\, 1 5213\, United States URL:http://pghevents.net/events/where-is-my-love-incidental-journey/?utm_s ource=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Millennium Dance Complex Pittsburgh X-SOURCE-URL:http://pghevents.net/locations/millennium-dance-complex-pitts burgh END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Poetry After Dark: Creature Feature "Phantom of the Opera (1925)" hosted by Girl After Dark DTSTART:20260920T230000Z DTEND:20260921T020000Z DTSTAMP:20260821T000828Z UID:7446-1789930800-1789941600@www.poetrymillvale.com CATEGORIES:film,literary,theater DESCRIPTION:PHANTOM OF THE OPERA(1925) FOLLOWS A DISFIGURED COMPOSER NAMED ERIK WHO HAUNTS THE PARIS OPERA HOUSE. HE TERRORIZES THE MANAGEMENT AND S ABOTAGES PERFORMANCES TO FORCE A RISING YOUNG SINGER\, CHRISTINE DAAÉ\, I NTO STARDOM AND WIN HER LOVE\, ULTIMATELY LEADING TO A DEADLY UNDERGROUND CONFRONTATION. \nTHE POETRY AFTER DARK SERIES HIGHLIGHTS PUBLIC DOMAIN HOR ROR\, OFTEN THE EARLIEST ARTIFACTS OF THE GENRE\, THAT MIGHT OTHERWISE FAD E AWAY INTO THE EVER-EXPANDING CATALOGUE OF HORROR CINEMA. \nALL SCREENING S ARE FREE AND 21+ EVENTS. \n  \nFREE POPCORN. LAST-MODIFIED:20260821T000828Z URL:https://www.poetrymillvale.com/event/poetry-after-dark-creature-featur e-phantom-of-the-opera-1925-hosted-by-girl-after-dark/?utm_source=caldisco very&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Poetry Lounge X-SOURCE-URL:https://www.poetrymillvale.com/event/open-mic-w-pittsburgh-po etry-collective END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - Ky Nam Inn DTSTART:20260921T223000Z DTEND:20260922T003000Z DTSTAMP:20260911T183316Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798378741513 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:Ky Nam Inn\, a romance set in 1980’s Saigon\, explores the f rustrations of desire when cast against duty\, community\, expectation\, a nd authoritarianism. Khang wants to prove himself to be a skilled translat or\, even though he may have gotten his job translating The Little Prince from nepotism. Meanwhile\, his neighbor Ky Nam caters lunches out of her k itchen while suffering from judgement because of her deceased husband’s southern associations. Though the film and its characters are unabashedly beautiful\, the love story is rooted in literature and language. Their rel ationship grows because of—and in spite of—how languages cannot close the gaps between cultures\, classes\, and regions. Shot on luminous 35mm\, the lyrical film explores what can and cannot be said in a world with dut ies\, rules\, and expectations. \n\nBest film: Beijing International Film Festival (2026) LAST-MODIFIED:20260911T183316Z LOCATION:Public Health\, G24 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-ky-nam-i nn?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:SCREENSHOT: Asia Film Festival - 3670 DTSTART:20260922T230000Z DTEND:20260923T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798391723138 CATEGORIES:festival,film DESCRIPTION:3670 is a group text code for a meet-up of a special club of f riends. For Cheol-jun\, a young North Korean defector building a life in S eoul\, it becomes the address of a self he has never been able to show in public. By day he works part-time at a convenience store\, crams for the c ollege entrance exam\, and depends on the fellow defectors who have taken him in. But there is a secret he cannot let even his closest friends know: he is gay. After a chance encounter with another gay man\, he is pulled i nto Seoul’s queer social world: new friends and the messy thrill of want ing someone who may want someone else. Park Joon-ho’s debut keeps the me lodrama low and moves with Cheol-jun’s emotional weather\, as he experie nces the cruelties and beauty of friendship. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:Harris Theater URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/screenshot-asia-film-festival-3670?utm _source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Japan Documentary Film Award: The Yoshida-Ryo Dormitory DTSTART:20260923T230000Z DTEND:20260924T010000Z DTSTAMP:20260916T063405Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53798402896935 CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:This years winner of the Japan Documentary Film Award\, Fujika wa Keizo’s The Yoshida Ryo Dormitory\, traces the past\, present\, and f utre of Japan’s oldest student dormitory\, a unique place that fosters c ommunity governance and anarchic living. As the university pushes for evic tion on the grounds that the building is deteriorating\, the residents str ive to protect a way of life built around dialogue. The film quietly appea ls to the value of shared spaces—where people come together\, face one a nother\, and speak openly—something increasingly lost in today’s socie ty.\n\nThe screening will include a discussion with director Fujikawa afte r the film. LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T063405Z LOCATION:David Lawrence Hall\, 121 URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/event/japan-documentary-film-award-the-yoshi da-ryo-dormitory?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pitts burgh-pa X-SOURCE-NAME:University of Pittsburgh Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://calendar.pitt.edu/department/athletics END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Weekly Wednesday Night Movie with Prof. Sepesy DTSTART:20260924T011500Z DTEND:20260924T040000Z DTSTAMP:20260917T063543Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_53824415325265 CATEGORIES:film DESCRIPTION:Weekly Wednesday Night Screenings @ 9:15 pm\nwith Prof. Chris Sepesy\n\nWEDNESDAYS\n\nAUG 26    CHICAGO\n\nSEP 2       STRANGERS ON A TRAIN\n\n 9      FARGO\ n\n    16     12 ANGRY MEN\n\n    23      WEST SIDE STORY\n\n    30     DEAD POET'S SO CIETY\n\nOCT 7     NIGHT OF THE HUNTER\n\n     14     THE LAST OF SHEILA\n\n     21    THE FRENCH CONNECTION\n\n     28    THE SHINING\n\nNOV 4      POINT BLANK\n\n     11    THE VERDICT\n\n      18    MICHAEL CLAYTON\n\nDEC 2     ONE B ATTLE AFTER ANOTHER\n\n \n\nSUNDAYS @ 6pm\n\nSEP 6     THE TO WERING INFERNO\n\nOCT 4    THE LITTLE MERMAID / BEAUTY AND THE BEAST\n\nNOV 15    THE HAPPIEST MILLIONAIRE\n\nDEC 6     ALADDIN / THE LION KING LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T063543Z LOCATION:University Center (UC)\, GRW URL:https://events.pointpark.edu/event/weekly-wednesday-night-movie-with-p rof-sepesy?utm_source=caldiscovery&utm_medium=ics&utm_campaign=pittsburgh- pa X-SOURCE-NAME:Point Park University Calendar X-SOURCE-URL:https://events.pointpark.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR