Artifacts + Afterlives

Curated by Benny Shaffer

July 12, 2025 @ Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh

A program presented on July 12, 2025 by the Mattress Factory and Pittsburgh Sound + Image for Summer School: State of the Sky, an interdisciplinary, arts-centered education program organized by artists Luke Stettner and Calista Lyon within the State of the Sky exhibition. Artifacts + Afterlives, the first of two summer screenings curated by Benny Shaffer, features seven experimental and documentary films that orbit around experiences of labor and industry, history and memory, the sky and the ground. 

Skyworks, Wind and Fire (1975) - Le Ann Bartok - 8 mins -16mm

Wednesday (1976) - Tom Patrick - 5 mins - 16mm

Tree (2009) - Tony Balko - 3 mins 30s - 16mm

Steel Mill Rolling (2014) - Ross Nugent - 11 mins 45s - 16mm

Century (2012) - Kevin Jerome Everson - 6 mins 45s -16mm

Arbor (2012) - Janie Geiser - 7 mins 3s - Digital (shot on 16mm)

How to Rust (2016) - Julia Yezbick - 25 mins 40s - Digital (shot on Super 8 and video)