Braddock Films Inc.
Braddock Films has been producing documentaries since 1972 in both long and short formats. Tony Buba
"In an era of unprecedented mobility, Tony Buba is committed to staying in one place. He has been chronicling the decline of his hometown, Braddock, PA, for some forty years in documentaries including J. Roy—New and Used Furniture, the better-known Lightning Over Braddock, and his most recent film, We Are Alive! It is one of the reel world’s fine ironies that, in its death, this once-booming steel
31/07/2024
A made this film for Pittsburgh’s bicentennial.
Stigmata The long standing, sometimes bad‐boy of offbeat documentary returns to the Black Maria with another one of his good‐ natured stabs at the status quo and injustices…
11/07/2024
Sale of US Steel kicks up a political storm, but Pittsburgh isn't Steeltown USA anymore Pittsburgh's most storied steel company, U.S. Steel, is on the cusp of being bought by Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel Corp. in a deal that's kicking up an election year political maelstrom.
03/07/2024
31/05/2024
22/04/2024
I know some of you out there went to see the 45th anniversary release of Dawn of the Dead and you saw me get my arm ripped off at the blood pressure machine. What you didn't see what the great detail that was embedded in costume. You can only see the detail in the newly released Assistant Camera and Key Grip cut supervised by Tom Dubensky and Nick Mastandrea in gorgeous 64k that is only available in Basilicata, Calabria and Sardina. But through my connections, I was able to get a screen shot of the details you did not see.
22/04/2024
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/04/summer-lee-pennsylvania-anti-fracking-reelection-race/
Will anti-fracking congresswoman Summer Lee hold her Pennsylvania seat? Some unions with fossil fuel ties have endorsed her Democratic challenger.
17/04/2024
The great Mike Stout. Watch this video and you will see why we need to re-elect Rep. Summer Lee. A representative who will fight for us.
12/04/2024
I will have two short films screening on Saturday at 5pm
12/04/2024
As a Contested Pittsburgh Primary Nears, Climate Advocates Rally Around a Progressive Fracking Opponent, Rep. Summer Lee - Inside Climate News In the historic heart of Pennsylvania’s fossil fuel industry, Lee finds herself in a hotly contested primary against a moderate Democrat who is backed by a GOP-funded PAC.
07/04/2024
A vote for Summer Lee's opponent is basically a vote for Trump.
Summer Lee Calls Out Primary Opponent for Right-Wing Support "Her entire campaign is backed by Republicans, yet she says that I'm not a good enough Democrat," Lee said of Bhavini Patel during a debate Thursday night.
26/03/2024
November 1975 filming Sweet Sal at Brandywine Bar in Braddock, when 16mm ruled. Nick Mastandrea on slate and AC, Dusty Nelson on camera, film stock 16mm B&W reversal mag stripe, ASA 400. You shot whatever film you got your hands on or as the great filmmaker Tom Palazzolo advised shoot whatever film stock that just happens to fall “out of car trunk”.
19/03/2024
01/01/2024
For over five decades, filmmaker Tony Buba has been documenting the changes taking place across Pittsburgh and its surrounding region.
Featured in our exhibition Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground Buba’s video installation, 40°24.2983' N 79°58.251' N, 2023, weaves together footage of implosions of steel mills in the 1990s with the 2010 demolition of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospital in Braddock, PA. This demolition footage is accompanied by footage of protests that took place in Braddock as a result of these changes, centering the town’s citizens’ struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice.
In the exhibition, Buba’s work is presented alongside the work of other contemporary artists and architects whose practices narrate the complex stories of how fossil fuel economies have been produced and upheld; whom they have excluded and left vulnerable; and how they have shaped and disrupted cities, communities, and ecologies.
📅 ⚠️ Time is running out to experience this thought-provoking exhibition—the final day to see Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground is Sun., Jan. 7, 2024! Get your tickets online: https://carnegieart.org/exhibition/unsettling-matter-gaining-ground/
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Tony Buba, still from 40°24.2983’ N 79° 58.251’ N, 2023, Courtesy of the artist
01/01/2024
The exhibition ends on January 7th.
For over five decades, filmmaker Tony Buba has been documenting the changes taking place across Pittsburgh and its surrounding region.
Featured in our exhibition Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground Buba’s video installation, 40°24.2983' N 79°58.251' N, 2023, weaves together footage of implosions of steel mills in the 1990s with the 2010 demolition of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center hospital in Braddock, PA. This demolition footage is accompanied by footage of protests that took place in Braddock as a result of these changes, centering the town’s citizens’ struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice.
In the exhibition, Buba’s work is presented alongside the work of other contemporary artists and architects whose practices narrate the complex stories of how fossil fuel economies have been produced and upheld; whom they have excluded and left vulnerable; and how they have shaped and disrupted cities, communities, and ecologies.
📅 ⚠️ Time is running out to experience this thought-provoking exhibition—the final day to see Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground is Sun., Jan. 7, 2024! Get your tickets online: https://carnegieart.org/exhibition/unsettling-matter-gaining-ground/
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Tony Buba, still from 40°24.2983’ N 79° 58.251’ N, 2023, Courtesy of the artist
Sweet Sal comments of the sale of US Steel. Due to strong language, viewer discretion advised.
19/12/2023
This show ends on January 7h. I hope all of you get a chance to see this important exhibit. If you pay close attention to the four-channel installation that Tom Dubensky and I created for this exhibit, you will hear former US Steel CEO David Roderick say, we are in the business of making money not steel. He made that statement sometime in the 1980s.
Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground Drawing from the museum’s collection alongside a selection of new commissions and loans, Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground reflects on modernity’s reliance on fossil fuels and the mechanisms of extraction.
12/12/2023
Time for some Christmas Music.
PLEASE FORGIVE ME.mov A future Christmas classic by Steve Pellegrino. The is the first single released from the Christmas DVD "Playing to an Empty House. Please Forgive Me is the ...
05/12/2023
100 Ways to Cross the Border and Borderhole This series of films will be presented by Amber Bemak, a filmmaker, artist, and educator whose work is based in experimental and documentary film.
10/10/2023
Canners and One More Time In this deeply humane film, director Manfred Kirchheimer takes to the streets in an ode to the men and women who earn their daily bread by diligently collecting New York City’s bottles and cans. These individuals talk about their struggles, their families, and their dreams.
21/09/2023
A little more Madison ink.
21/09/2023
In today’s Cap Times
20/09/2023
Tony Buba Nicholas Mirzoeff September 28 – 29 Lecture and Discussion Lecture: The Visual Commons , September 28th, 4 pm, Elvehjem L150 Brownbag lunch and discussion: September 29th,10:30 am – 12:30 pm, University Club Room 313 Nicholas Mirzoeff will present his current project in a public...
“We respected the kids’ complexity, celebrated their liveliness, despaired of their future. And we loved them dearly. But it was impossible to oblige America’s notion that to be worthy film subjects, the working class must be saintlike, and to be embraceable, cinema-verité (or any art) must become a broken version of what the makers made.”
--Joel DeMott and Jeff Kreines
23/08/2023
Stop by the Carnegie and see my video installation.
Hope to see you on Saturday. Get to the museum early and enjoy Inside Out in the sculpture garden. Inside Out events are free and most events are open to audiences of all ages. Make a day of it and reserve your timed tickets to visit the museum before or after you enjoy Inside Out. This takes place from 12-5. The films start at 3pm.
26/07/2023
Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground Drawing from the museum’s collection alongside a selection of new commissions and loans, Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground reflects on modernity’s reliance on fossil fuels and the mechanisms of extraction.
14/07/2023
06/06/2023
Martin A young man, who believes himself to be a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvania town (Braddock, PA), where he tries to redeem his blood-craving urges.
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