2025: Programmed by Garrett Bradley

Artist and filmmaker, Garrett Bradley draws from the museum’s collection of moving image works to program seven distinct evenings for the 2025 Film Series. Beginning at 10:30 a.m. in the Art Theater, each program will be preceded by the screening of Kevin Jerome Everson’s 8-hour-long film Park Lanes (2015), which conceptually anchors this year’s series and was acquired by the museum in 2019.

“When offered the opportunity to think through a program for the Carnegie Museum of Art Film series, my first impulse was to chart the institution’s acquisitions alongside a march of historical events in five-year increments. What emerged was a conversation between artists (and themselves), stretched between multiple decades (1971–to present day). What reflected back was what I saw as a gravitational pull of what is known, alongside a siren call of what wasn’t. Between the two was a human dilemma, a trembling fulcrum between here, (the tactile grit of our earthly condition), and there, (a realm increasingly virtual, perhaps even extraterrestrial space)—where the body dissolves and only signal remains.

Kevin Jerome Everson’s Park Lanes, with its eight-hour, unblinking presence in real time, entombs us within its rhythms, stripped of spectacle and in stark contrast to the seductive drift of an untouchable future.”

—Garrett Bradley

2024: Programmed by Astria Suparak

“Alternate realities, reincarnation, and remembrance; complex family relationships and inherited trauma; the wreckage of capitalism and carceral culture; and formal experimentation are ideas that have much resonance to me and unfold in various forms throughout the series.” —Astria Suparak

The 2024 Carnegie Museum of Art Film Series programmed by artist and curator Astria Suparak features a special program each month that expands out of a singular idea, topic, or question that is catalyzed by artworks in the museum’s collection. For each program, Suparak has curated a combination of forms, ranging from feature-length narratives and documentaries to music videos, formalist experiments, animation, and internet memes. The selections date from 1920s avant-garde cinema to a new collage video created for the series.

Astria Suparak is based in Oakland, California. Her cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism, feminisms, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens, such as science fiction movies, rock music, and sports. Straddling creative and scholarly work, the projects often take the form of publicly available tools and databases, chronicling subcultures and omitted perspectives.

Artists and filmmakers include:

2023: Programmed by Tony Buba

Tony Buba, an internationally acclaimed filmmaker from Braddock, Pennsylvania, inaugurates the 2023 Film Series, running May through December 2023. This year’s selection will introduce 17 films and 24 directors to a new generation of filmgoers in the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater, with special screenings in the museum’s outdoor Sculpture Court.

Buba, best known for documentaries about Pennsylvania, curated the inaugural Film Series lineup, which explores topics relevant to the region, such as labor, inequity, and identity. The expansive roster of films includes rarely seen and critically acclaimed documentaries and feature films, including work made by Buba and other filmmakers and directors, such as Peggy Ahwesh and Manny Kirchheimer.