{"id":176,"date":"2008-03-15T10:23:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T18:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/15\/film-kitchen\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T19:04:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T02:04:16","slug":"film-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fwdlabs.com\/blog\/film-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh’s Film Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Poster for Film Kitchen by Brett Yasko<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Last Tuesday, March 11, and for many second-Tuesdays of the month, Pennsylvania has Film Kitchen<\/span>. For about $4 at the Melwood Screening Room<\/a>, attendees experience a eclectic screening of shorts or features. Submissions are open to all, but the gathering is curated by Bill O’Driscoll, writer for the Pittsburg City Paper, who co-sponsors the event.<\/p>\n

I found out about Film Kitchen thanks to designer Brett Yasko<\/a>, whose work appeared in Communication Arts<\/a> in December 2006. “Bill O’Driscoll has simple directions for these posters for his monthly screening: ‘Try to have a reference to film. Or have a reference to a kitchen. And make sure everything is spelled correctly.’ … Occasionally there’s a theme. This one was ‘appliances.'” Yasko is a Pittsburg-based designer and adjunct faculty member of Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The posters are silk-screened and color inkjet prints of various sizes, sometimes with “the text printed on stickers which were applied by hand.” 6 posters for Film Kitchen are on display at Yasko’s web site<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Beer and sandwiches are often donated by local sponsors, as noted in 2006 by one blogger on the highs and lows, perks and praises<\/a> of the events. Incentives might push fringe newcomers but, in a world of buttered popcorn and syrup’d soft-drinks, certainly makes the audience feel right at home.<\/p>\n

With simple expectations, these monthly meet-ups whet one’s appetite for avant-garde and independent cinema in the format of a year-round film festival. Like events in Los Angeles like the Downtown Art Walk<\/a> (second Thursday afternoon-cum-evening), or events worldwide like likemind<\/a> (once-a-month Friday morning), you can pass on berating yourself for missing one and vow instead to catch the next. Through this kind of continuity over the years, Film Kitchen provides a reoccurring opportunity to foster a society for local film-goers. It shares in the spirit of regional cinema<\/a> while thriving as one community, one city, and in one venue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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