The 2024 Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival

The 2023 Pittsburgh Silent Film Festival

• A 100th anniversary screening of Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton, 1923) with the Pittsburgh Area Theater Organ Society at Keystone Oaks High School, including live Wurlitzer theater organ accompaniment by Jay Spencer

• The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927) with Jump Cut Theater at The Parkway Theater

• A 100th anniversary screening of Safety Last (Fred C. Newmeyer, 1923) at the Mt. Lebanon Public Library, presented by The Denis Theatre

• 1920s Avant-Garde on 16mm with live score by David Bernabo presented by Pittsburgh Sound + Image at Eberle Studios

• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920) + short film, presented by the Lindsay Theater with live accompaniment by Pittsburgh Composers Quartet

• The Johnstown Flood (Irving Cummings, 1926) - a Pittsburgh premiere of this restoration at The Harris Theater

• Wings (William Hellman, 1927) at Row House Cinema

• Silent Shakespeare: Four Early Short Films with Live Musical Accompaniment by Tom Roberts at The Frick Pittsburgh

• A 100th anniversary screening (to the day!) of A Woman of Paris (Charlie Chaplin, 1923) at The Harris Theater on 35mm, with Chaplin’s own score on the print. Introduction by Chaplin scholar, mime and comedy choreographer Dan Kamin, and Q&A with Chaplin’s grandson, Shane Chaplin