Join us for a virtual info-session with Squeaky Wheel Curator Ekrem Serdar on how to apply to Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency. The curator will go over the program, the application questions, how panels rating criteria, and answer questions from the audience.
Saturday, February 28th at 4pm Free and open to the public the University at Buffalo CAS Office for Diversity, Equity, and Belonging invite you to…
Squeaky Wheel presents two films each by directors Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar that take on displacement, resistance, and the human toll of borders and settler-colonies.
Nadira, an elderly Palestinian, has been a refugee since the age of 12. Now she has to evacuate Damascus, too. She and her daughter Mona feared for their lives there, but the idea of a safe existence elsewhere is a distant dream. Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar receives unsettling videos and voice messages as they cross to the Greek island of Lesbos. He joins them there, on the long road to a new life.
The Infiltrators tells the true story of a radical group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – who get themselves detained in order to infiltrate a shadowy detention center and help other immigrants get free.
Mexico. The near future. Memo Cruz has always dreamed of leaving his tiny village and heading north. But when he is ultimately forced to leave, Memo finds a future so bizarre – border walls, shantytowns, hi-tech factories, remote control drones and aqua-terrorists – that it looks a lot like today.
“Filled with energy, rage, and the smallest measure of hope, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for these extraordinary times” -Film Society Lincoln Center
Squeaky Wheel presents a virtual artist talk with artists Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar to discuss their films that are screening as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance.
A visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, around, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank.
For just one weekend, watch all four films as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance online!
Join artist resident Ajunie Virk for a workshop that teaches participants how to create experimental audio by drawing directly onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film, a technique the artists uses herself to personalize sound and generate abstract audio layers within her own video works.
This skill share invites participants to experiment with autobiographical storytelling and the practice of autotheory—the blending of lived experience and critical thought—to create new forms of narrative that collapse the boundaries between personal and intellectual inquiry.
This workshop by visiting filmmaker Jason Rhee equips filmmakers, media artists, and researchers with practical strategies to build, negotiate, and sustain trust with participants—especially those from marginalized or vulnerable communities.
Ajunie Virk, Arielle Knight, and Jason Rhee will be presenting on their previous and current projects, along with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar.
Wednesday, May 13, 6 pm Free Squeaky Wheel presents a presentation of Gravitate by Amya Carter. Gravitate is an animation inspired by the cover art and…
Join us for an artist talk with Cameron A. Granger and Christina Corfield as part of our exhibition, With us at the center of our world: Animals, domestications, dreams
Submissions are now open to Squeaky Wheel's 23rd Animation Fest!
Squeaky Wheel is honored to host the inaugural COUSIN Symposium Friday July 17 - Sunday July 19. COUSIN is a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding…
M&T Fourth Friday Art Crawl: Friday, July 24, 2026, 5:00–8:00 pm Stop by Squeaky Wheel to see With us at the center of our world: animals,…
Chris Marker's iconic film The Case of the Grinning Cat, with short films by Serge Avédikian and Wiame Haddad
