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FALL 2008 SCREENINGS, EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS
Instructors Show & Open House | Members' Meeting & Camera Raffle | Just South of Here Opening | The Films of Dean Snider | Buffalo Youth Media Institute Application Deadline | Squealer Submissions Due | Halloween/ Election 2008 Spectacular! | Sound Mapping Workshop | Landscape & Memory Screening | Channels '08 Premiere Screening | Dysfunctional Holiday Party & Screening | Funding | Past Events | Links Exhibits take place in Squeaky Wheel's Cinema @ 712 Main Street, $4 members / $6 non-members (unless otherwise noted)
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Learn about what classes Squeaky Wheel is offering this season and meet the amazing group of artists who are teaching them at our fall 2008 Open House and Instructors Show. This season we will be offering an exciting array of hands-on and project focused workshops including old favorites like Photoshop, Grant Writing, Digital Video Production, Flash, InDesign, Audio Editing and Web Design as well as some fun workshops in experimental and new media production including Max/MSP/Jitter, Circuit Bending, Film Hand Processing, Art & Intuition and many more. The evening will feature films, videos, presentations and installations by award-winning artists J.T. Rinker, Dorothea Braemer, Brian Milbrand, Seon Hyoung Kim, Bill Sack, Ron Ehmke, Liz Knipe, Steven Ansell, Jax DeLuca and Jan Nagle. Arrive early to tour Squeaky Wheel's media arts production facilities and to speak with our teaching artists. Stay for the screening at 8pm which is sure to be an exciting, entertaining and inspiring event. To learn more about our fall schedule of classes, visit our workshops page at www.squeaky.org/workshops.
Squeaky Wheel's Annual Members' Meeting
Since 1996 artists Powell & Coleman have been traveling to Central America with work groups, building in a number of communities that are largely defined by poverty. They have chronicled their experience in journal entries, paintings and photographs, which will be on display at Squeaky Wheel though October.
During his relatively short lifespan, San Francisco based filmmaker Dean Snider produced hundreds of films. Hard to compare with any other filmmaker, Snider’s subversive stance and sardonic sense of humor enlivened his varied, quixotic films and real life antics. He once enacted a coup in the projection booth of the San Francisco Cinemateque, forcing a show of local films on the audience. On another occasion, he literally hijacked an entire Cinemateque audience by bus and delivered them to a screening at the No Nothing Cinema, the lefgendary film/performance venue he co-founded. Undoubtedly important and certainly overlooked, Snider’s films are now ready and waiting for wider attention. They are nothing short of a revelation. Douglas Katelus, curator
Increase sound awareness and focused listening by creating a site-specific sound map. This two-part workshop will include an introduction to Acoustic Ecology, (the pioneering work of R. Murray Schafer) and contemporary sound mapping projects. We will also discuss sound and image relationship, creative and radical cartography. For part two -participants will return with their edited sound maps to share with others.
Cade Bursell, Squeaky’s NEA-funded International artist resident this year, is an award winning media artist whose work has screened internationally. She was a Jacob K Javits Fellow from 1998 thru 2002 and received her MFA from San Francisco State University. She currently teaches media arts production in the Cinema and Photography Department at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL. Cade will present her own project, entitled Warming Trend, an experimental collage focusing on global warming. Other works include Woodward’s Gardens by Katherin McInnis, Song and Solitude by Nathaniel Dorsky, and Observando El Ciela by Jeanne Liotta.
Channels - Stories from the Niagara Frontier, now in its second year, is Squeaky’s production program which matches documentary filmmakers with grass roots initiatives and groups to collaboratively create documentary films about issues important to this region. The participating groups are Buffalo ReUSE, People United for Sustainable Housing (PUSH Buffalo), Journey’s End Refugee Services, and the Children’s Mental Health Coalition of WNY. The participating filmmakers are Carl Lee, Ruth Goldman, Brett Williams and Holly Johnson.
