\nSarah Jenkins\, Disappearing Acts\, 4 min\, 2022\nDarkness encroaches upon a loggy landscape of animated tricks and turns.\nJeffrey Zablotny\, Sub Terra\, 8.5 min\, 2022\nA routine tree inspection unexpectedly gives way to a journey into the deep. Set in a hidden subterranean world\, ‘Sub Terra’ is the haunting mystery of a cryptic\, first-person perspective. \nIvana Bosnjak Volda\, Thomas Johnson Volda\, Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse\, 10 min\, 2022\nA waitress goes about her daily routine serving coffee whilst having thoughts of escaping her reality. A costumer is constantly recording and listening back to the surrounding sounds of the café and is completely fixated by this task. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation\, but do either of them realise that they are themselves examples of this condition? \nClaire Schlaikjer\, Baking With Piggu\, 3.5 min\, 2023\nWarning: contains some flashing images. Piggu started life as a real stuffed pig\, sewn out of canvas and stuffed with recycled fabric insulation\, which I made in the spring of 2020. The pig gradually acquired a striking physical presence that I had not intended or expected. The sparseness of his construction made him enigmatic — he was a (literal) blank canvas whose staring eyes could suggest any emotion and contain any experience. He became a perfect muse\, as a physically pliable but spiritually unyielding subject. This led me to consider the complexity of our relationships with anything creature-like\, where familiarity is often confused with understanding. For this animation\, I wanted to explore this dynamic of misidentification\, and what it would be like if Piggu’s internal world was as real as I imagine it to be. In the story\, toys suffer the same unfulfilled desires and fantasies as people\, but their real tragedy comes from their inability to express themselves. Piggu inspires empathy\, but this empathy breeds relationships that can be as doting as they are callous. Through animation\, I was curious to see the effect of empathy towards creatures or objects which we cannot communicate with\, especially when those creatures are given the chance to react but not respond. \nBirgit Rathsmann\, Primitive Games: Love Letter\, 5 min\, 2018\nThree shapes created by an animator create havoc in her computer while she is on her lunch break. They write a love letter to their animator\, but since they don’t know what it’s like to have a body\, the letter is .. unusual.\nBirgit Rathsmann: Writer\, Director\, Producer\, Animator\nBlue Shape: River L. Ramirez (Pervert Everything\, Los Espookys)\nWhite Shape: Mary Houlihan (CEO Skyscraper)\nRed Shape: Becket Bowes \nEmily Sasmor\, Flore\, 2 min\, 2022\nFLORE is a one act opera. Flore’s partner calls her up to declare their love to her in an endless night. \nAsparuh Petrov\, Trace\, 7 min\, 2022\nА young writer dedicates his nights to hunting entangled phrases with his pen. The moment he is confronted with the pregnancy of his wife his world collapses. Lingering fears and painful memories overwhelm him and he needs to trace the missing piece. \nKahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore\, The Clay She Is Made Of\, 2 min\, 2023\nThe Clay She Is Made Of draws parallels between the profound strength and creativity of Sky Woman from the Rotinonhsyón:ni / Haudenosaunee creation story and the filmmaker’s mother. This two-minute animated and live-action film is narrated all in Kanyen’kè:ha (Mohawk). \nMegan Young\, Carry On\, 3 min\, 2023\nThis piece is part of an ongoing project\, titled With What We Could Carry\, considering the responsibilities we embrace and what we shed as we travel across borders and through time. It explores the complexities of heritage\, labor\, and technological advancement through social practice and computational rendering. The resulting animation combines 3D mesh and models of myself\, my mother\, and my children collected through LiDAR and photogrammetry scans. Our flesh and figures are represented as overlapping and traversable landscapes reflecting themes of migration\, matriarchy\, and the dreams of our elders. (The looping animation was originally produced for viewing as a media installation.) \nJingyi Wang\, Good Old Days Part.1\, 5 min\, 2023\nGood Old Days Part.1” is a 5-minute experimental film that tells a story about a city with a collective memory of a bygone era and its tangled residents. It’s done through a series of absurd cinematic shots\, pixelated spatial transitions\, scenario-based sounds\, and symbolic graphical repetition. It is part of an ongoing experimental media project that plays around film and its extended forms\, which examines the rebellion of psychic structure against its environment in digital space. It keeps pace with time and ends when the end is near.\n
\n\nAsparuh Petrov (1981) developed a passion for animation after he graduated from the High School of Applied Arts in Trojan in 1999. Since 2007 he has worked as a freelance animation director\, and has been creating his own animation projects. Asparuh is one of the lead directors of Compote Collective productions. In 2016 he founds PHAZZA – a platform for examination of our problematic reality with the means of animation.\nWhile working on commercial animation\, motion graphics\, music videos and artists’ videos\, Birgit Rathsmann co-founded an Improv comedy group for shy visual artists. Now\, Birgit loves creating characters who navigate awkward situations with humorous results\, and this has resulted in a number of short films. Primitive Games”” is an improvised animated web series and a collaboration with comedians River L. Ramirez and Mary Houlihan. \nClaire Schlaikjer is an artist\, animator\, and illustrator from London\, England. She holds a BA in Visual Art and Computer Science from Brown University. As a freelance animator\, she has worked on projects ranging from science education to social advocacy\, and has collaborated with artists and arts institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and Women & Their Work in Austin\, TX. Her personal artwork explores the place that animals hold in our collective imagination and the ways in which the evolution of their visual representations reflects our changing relationship with the natural world. \nEmily Sasmor is a new media artist based in Brooklyn\, NY. They create animated operatic visual albums telling stories about violence and the comforts upheld by it. Their work has appeared in various shows\, festivals\, and screenings including; Curyatid in Hudson Yards\, 20/92 Video Festival\, and Digerati Emergent Media Festival. They have been awarded a Cultural Counsel Video Grant\, and Guaranteed Income from CRNY. They run Single Channel\, an experimental art publishing house. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and a BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture\, Temple University. \nIvana Bosnjak Volda (1983) graduated from the Graphics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Animation at the University in Volda\, Norway. Ivana has been professionally involved in various stop motion projects across Europe\, and has led animation workshops for children and students. Thomas Johnson Volda (1984) graduated in Time Based Media from the University of Wales Institute\, Cardiff\, and at the New Media Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is multidisciplinary artist often combining animation and performance art disciplines in his work\, and has created puppet performances at numerous festivals across Europe. Ivana and Thomas co-directed award-winning stop-animation short films Simulacra (2014)\, Imbued Life (2019) and Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse (2022). \nJeffrey Zablotny is a director based in Toronto\, Canada. His film work is often marked by intricate sound design and unconventional use of visual effects as a way to explore how interior landscapes mirror a hidden world outside ourselves. His films have premiered at TIFF\, Austin Film Festival\, Hot Docs\, and internationally at festivals in Japan\, Germany\, and the United Kingdom. A member of VES (Visual Effects Society)\, his work has been made possible with support from the Canada Arts Council\, Ontario Arts Council\, and the NFB. \n镜伊Jingyi Wang is an artist and experimental filmmaker who lives and works in Shanghai and New York. Her work examines how psychic\, physical\, and symbolic structures imply and manifest themselves within everyday survival spectacles and sceneries. In her recent work\, she delves into the strangeness of private and public environments and the detachments of their subjects through film and computer graphics. \nKahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore is an independent filmmaker\, podcaster\, and educator. Moore is Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk)\, a fluent Kanyen’kè:ha speaker (ACTFL intermediate/high)\, and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand River territory. Moore is a founding member/co-owner of The Aunties Dandelion: a media-arts collective informed by traditional Onkwehòn:we (Indigenous) teachings and focused on revitalizing communities through stories of land\, language\, and relationships. She spent two decades in Washington\, DC as producer/director/writer with Discovery Channel\, National Geographic\, and others. Moore is a Banff 2023 Indigenous Screen Summit pitch participant and 2022 Banff Spark program participant for women who own media businesses. \nMegan Young is an interdisciplinary artist\, with a background in immersive and interactive design. Notable credits include ISEA in Hong Kong\, Open Spaces in Armenia\, Ammerman Center Biennial for Art & Technology at Connecticut College\, Open Engagement in Chicago\, and SPACES in Cleveland. She is a Lecturer and Digital Art Area Head at Indiana University and has previously taught for Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent State University. Young holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art + Media from Columbia College Chicago. \nSarah E. Jenkins is a queer Appalachian artist making work about extraction\, hidden labors\, and disappearance in an experimental animation practice. Their work has been shown at the MFA Boston\, Torrance Art Museum\, Emerson Contemporary\, and Wonzimer. Jenkins’ is a MacDowell Fellow and she was recently awarded a Changing Climate residency at SFAI. Their work is included in the forthcoming book Queering Appalachia’s Visual History: A Collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers\, University of Kentucky Press. Jenkins lives in Northampton\, MA with her darling cat\, Nessie.\n \nSponsors\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is presented with generous support from the Richard W. Rupp Foundation\, FGI Landscaping\, PUSH Buffalo\, TriMain Center\, Rigidized Metals\, BreadHive\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Rose Jade Consulting Coop\, Lumpy Buttons Gifts\, Good Neighbors Credit Union\, and Villa Maria College. The North Park Theater event is presented with generous support from Councilman Joel Feroleto. \n\nBanner image: A red and white still from the film Trace by Asparuh Petrov. Three hand drawn faces looking to the right; their faces are intercut with lines like a comic strip. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-20th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Trace-Animation-Fest.jpg.jpg GEO:42.9324531;-78.87566 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo NY 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1285 Elmwood Avenue:geo:-78.87566,42.9324531 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231102T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150752 CREATED:20251230T191524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191524Z UID:10001127-1698951600-1698958800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Mindy Seu’s Cyberfeminism Index DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 2\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\n@ Squeaky Wheel and online\nFree or suggested donation\, ASL interpretation provided\nTickets available below\nAn essential publication covering dozens of years of vital media art\, the recently published Cyberfeminism Index gathers over 1\,000 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media\, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces\, digital rights activist groups\, bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art. Squeaky Wheel is excited to welcome designer\, professor\, researcher\, and editor of Cyberfeminism Index Mindy Seu who will present on the project and will be joined in conversation with Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan\, Curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Copies of Cyberfeminism Index will be available for purchase courtesy of Burning Books. This event is presented in collaboration with Trinity Square Video. \nFor in-person attendees: See Squeaky Wheel’s location and accessibility info here. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. \nFor online attendees: Upon check-out\, you will receive an email titled “Your Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center order has been received!”. A private link will be included in that email; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. Online attendees can purchase a copy of Cyberfeminism Index through our partners at Burning Books here. \nBiographies of the presenters and about our partners\nMindy Seu (b. 1991\, California) is a designer and technologist based in New York City. Her expanded practice involves archival projects\, techno-critical writing\, performative lectures\, design commissions\, and close collaborations. Her latest writing surveys feminist economies\, historical precursors of the metaverse\, and the materiality of the internet. Mindy’s ongoing Cyberfeminism Index\, which gathers three decades of online activism and net art\, was commissioned by Rhizome\, presented at the New Museum\, and awarded the Graham Foundation Grant. She has lectured internationally at cultural institutions (Barbican Centre\, New Museum)\, academic institutions (Columbia University\, Central Saint Martins)\, and mainstream platforms (Pornhub\, SSENSE\, Google)\, and been a resident at MacDowell\, Sitterwerk Foundation\, Pioneer Works\, and Internet Archive. Her design commissions and consultation include projects for the Serpentine Gallery\, Canadian Centre for Architecture\, and MIT Media Lab. Her work has been featured in Frieze\, Dazed\, Gagosian Quarterly\, Brooklyn Rail\, i-D\, and more. Mindy holds an M.Des. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a B.A. in Design Media Arts from the University of California\, Los Angeles. She is currently Assistant Professor at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts and Critic at Yale School of Art. \nDr. Tina Rivers Ryan is Curator at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and an internationally recognized expert in the history of media art\, including video and digital art. Her exhibitions at the AKG include 2021’s “Difference Machines: Technology and Identity in Contemporary Art” (co-curated with Paul Vanouse and winner of the 2022 Award of Excellence from the Association of Art Museum Curators) and 2022’s “Peer to Peer” (the first U.S. museum survey of artists working with blockchain technologies). Her next exhibition\, “Electric Op\,” will examine the six-decade history of the relationship between geometric abstraction and media art. In addition to her curatorial work\, she is a regular contributor to Artforum and has written commissioned essays for many of the world’s leading museums\, including The Met\, Dia\, and the V&A. Dr. Ryan holds five degrees in art history\, including a BA from Harvard and PhD from Columbia. \nBurning Books is a radical bookstore in Buffalo\, NY. We opened in September of 2009 on the anniversary of the Attica prison uprising.\nWe focus exclusively on social justice issues and work to support individuals and movements that are struggling against oppression and domination in all its forms. We have a highly curated selection of titles dealing with activism\, race\, antifascism\, environmentalism\, colonialism\, indigenisim\, capitalism\, feminism\, queer studies\, animal liberation\, class\, disability\, and more; including books for children\, middle graders\, and young adults. We also carry posters\, games and gift items – all following our mission of social justice and sustainability. Through our speaker series\, we bring vital perspectives from authors and activists around the country to discuss paths towards positive change in our world. We are happy to be a partner of – and the main distributor for – the Certain Days Freedom for Political Prisoners yearly calendar\, which acts as a major fundraiser for U.S. Political Prisoner support across the country. If you’d like to help ensure that the kind of radical and empowering ideas that Burning Books has fostered remain alive and kicking\, please take a moment to sign up for Friends of Burning Books. \nFounded in 1971\, Trinity Square Video is one of Canada’s first artist-run centres and its oldest media arts centre. We are a not-for-profit\, charitable organization. For 50 years\, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Our activities are guided by a goal to increase our members’ and audiences’ understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity Square strives to create supportive environments\, encouraging artistic and curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education\, production and presentation supports. As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines\, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception\, materiality and the virtual. We consider all of our artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection\, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming\, jury structures\, inter-organizational relationships\, et cetera. In addition to holding aesthetic worth in its own right\, our artistic programming extends our education and production activities in order to generate new knowledges. Trinity Square’s programming is guided by three priorities: 1) promoting an expanded definition of media arts; 2) promoting the meaningful engagement of diverse voices in all levels of our operations; and 3) supporting and nurturing the production of new works by artists and curators. Our membership represents the diversity of the city and honours the original mandate of the organization—seeking to reduce barriers to access related to race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, and socio- economic and physical ability. \nImage description: A photograph of a thick green book with the title Cyberfeminism Index by Mindy Seu. Image courtesy of Inventory Press. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/mindy-seus-cyberfeminism-index/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Hybrid ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Mindy-Seu-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231017T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150752 CREATED:20251230T191524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191524Z UID:10001123-1697569200-1697576400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Echolocations: Films in translation and transcription DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, October 17\, 7 pm ET\n@ Journey’s End Refugee Services (2495 Main St #530\, Buffalo\, NY 14214) and online\nFree or suggested donation\nTickets available below\nGathering nine short films\, this screening looks at how voice and language are made legible across borders and power. Bringing together essay films and personal non-fiction films\, historical analyses and experimental films\, the filmmakers’ approaches to subtitles\, captions\, translations\, and interpretation grapple with the histories\, present\, and futures of imperialism\, colonialism\, racism\, and ableism. Alternately playful\, angry\, contemplative\, utopian\, and generous\, the films help us imagine new relationships\, between films and audiences\, and between each other\, across languages and voices. \nFeaturing films by Alex Dolores Salerno\, Astria Suparak\, champoy\, JJJJJerome Ellis\, Johann Diedrick\, Nadia Shihab\, Saif Alsaegh\, Sky Hopinka\, and Buffalo filmmaker Olivia Ong Evans who will be in person. Presented as part of [Speaking in Foreign Language]. \nThis event will take place in person at Journey’s End Refugee Services (JERS) and online. \nFor in-person attendees: JERS is located on the fifth floor of Tri-Main Center; head left after you exit the elevator. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. \nFor online attendees: Upon check-out\, you will receive an email titled “Your Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center order has been received!”. A private link will be included in that email; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nAccessibility: For in-person audiences: ASL interpretation can be requested with 3 days notice for the Q&A with Olivia Ong Evans. For both in-person and online attendees: Several of the films have open captions. Some of the films\, such as champoy’s english is yr mother tongue and Astria Suparak’s On the Neon Horizon have no spoken dialogue\, while Nadia Shihab’s Echolocation elects not to translate moments where Iraqi Turkmen is spoken. The subtitles in Sky Hopinka’s wawa actively think through the act of translation from Chinuk Wawa to English. Alex Dolores Salerno’s El Dios Acostado provides captions and audio descriptions in English and Spanish. Please see individual film notes below. \n
\n\nThe total program length is ~85 minutes. Program notes courtesy of the artists.\n\nchampoy\, english is yr mother tongue\, 4 min\, 2020 \nWhen the American colonial education system in the Philippines imposed English as the sole language for teaching\, suppressing indigenous languages and turning classrooms into sites of linguistic dominance. How did we learn to embrace translation as a playful act? How did we reclaim our agency as a people and assert our own identities in the face of oppressive language policies? How How De Karabaw De Batuten. \nSaif Alsaegh\, 1991\, open captions\, 12 min\, 2018 \n1991 revolves around a conversation between the filmmaker\, an Iraqi asylum-seeker living in the US\, and his mother Bushra\, an Iraqi immigrant who was living in Turkey while she awaited approval to immigrate to the US. Both are in uncertain positions regarding their immigration statuses and have not been able to see each other for years. 1991 navigates the distance between them. Through a facetime phone conversation\, the film expresses the ways that a relationship becomes virtual and symbolic across forced distance. 1991 is set in a cabin where the filmmaker lives a semi-imaginary\, peaceful life\, building fires\, cooking\, and dancing. The central phone conversation details Bushra’s memory of the filmmaker’s birth in the middle of the 1991 Gulf War and the danger and suffering she went through. Through poetic juxtaposition of the virtual landscape of the phone\, the calm landscape of the cabin\, and the chaotic landscape of memory\, the film paints a cruel image of the horror of war\, displacement\, and separation. \nNadia Shihab\, Echolocation\, open captions\, 9 min\, 2021 \nThe rain in Oakland\, my grandmother’s home in Baghdad\, my aunts’ voices in What’s App\, my daughter learning to count to 10\, my brother playing the darbuka\, the cicadas in Texas\, the walls of my studio\, the search for new forms.\nNote: Dialogue in Iraqi Turkman is intentionally not translated / subtitled. \nJJJJJerome Ellis\, Impediment is Information\, open captions\, 15 min\, 2021 \nThis music-video-poem work centers on an 18th century newspaper advertisement for the recapture of a fugitive slave with “an impediment in his speech.” A handheld camera captures blurry conifers; a saxophone prays to a mountain. By rearranging the words of the advertisement to create lines of poetry\, I am seeking new meanings and sites of resistance in the archive. The work was commissioned by ISSUE Project Room in New York City. It premiered on Juneteenth\, a day that recognizes the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. In creating this work for the occasion of Juneteenth\, I wanted to celebrate Black freedom practices. I think these practices divinely exceed official proclamations\, emancipatory and otherwise. \nJohann Diedrick\, Dark Matters\, 2021 \nDark Matters exposes the absence of Black speech in the datasets used to train voice interface systems in consumer artificial intelligence products such as Alexa and Siri. Utilizing 3D modeling\, sound\, and storytelling\, the project challenges our communities to grapple with racism and inequity through speech and the spoken word\, and how AI systems underserve Black communities. \nAstria Suparak\, On the Neon Horizon\, 8:27 min\, 2023 \nOn the Neon Horizon is a short video essay that takes one of the world-building tics of white science fiction — gratuitous signage in Asian languages — to consider its utopian potential and dystopian applications. \nFantastical mise en scène\, breathtaking B-roll footage\, and special effects deliriums from four decades of mainstream sci-fi by white American\, Australian\, Canadian\, European\, and New Zealander filmmakers craft an insidiously Asian futurescape — sometimes achieved by simply shooting in a present-day Asian country or a North American Chinatown. In aggregate\, these productions inextricably tether non-white cultures to criminality and contagion\, portraying Asian cultures and people as existential threats to white Western ideas of freedom. \nSky Hopinka\, wawa\, open captions\, 4 min\, 2014 \nFeaturing speakers of chinuk wawa\, an Indigenous language from the Pacific Northwest\, this film begins slowly\, patterning various forms of documentary and ethnography. Quickly\, the patterns tangle and become confused and commingled\, while translating and transmuting ideas of cultural identity\, language\, and history. Courtesy of Video Data Bank. \nAlex Dolores Salerno\, El Dios Acostado\, 11 min\, 2020 \nEl Dios Acostado entangles conversations of rest\, care\, and colonialism\, and asks us to consider what the land has to teach us about rest. The video incorporates access as part of its aesthetic. Adding to the slow pace of the video\, all of the visual descriptions and narration are repeated twice\, once in Spanish and once in English\, with a doubling of large captions centered in the frame. The video begins with a nap alongside the mountain “Mandango”\, meaning “dios acostado” or “sleeping god”\, and describes the gentrification of the small town of Vilcabamba\, which was dubbed “the valley of longevity” by European and North American researchers in the 70s who the artist’s mother encountered as a child. The video then cuts to her hometown\, San Pedro de la Bendita\, a nearby town spared from worldwide recognition. Introduced through a view of family tombstones at the town’s cemetery\, the artist’s mother describes her relationship to her hometown\, highlighting the love and care that can flourish with a relationship to land and community. \nOlivia Ong Evans\, Identity Karma\, 11 min\, 2021 \nIdentity Karma is an abstract video project that emerged from a period of research and reflection on Suharto’s New Order Era in Indonesia. Creating the video was a way to reflect on the intergenerational consequences of cultural repression\, and the personal effects of anti-Chinese discrimination. It is an homage to my ancestors\, to my mother\, and to the land. The video was guided by the question: What happens to our cultural and racial identities when we are alone? It jumps between over-saturated\, multi-layered moments and landscapes removed from social context\, and scattered words in English\, Bahasa Indonesia\, Simplified Chinese\, and Hokkien. The distance and frustration of miscommunication co-exists with the closeness and familiarity that can be expressed through language. Footage from Bogor\, Indonesia and Haudenosaunee land in Buffalo and Western New York interact throughout the video. \n
\n\nAlex Dolores Salerno (b. 1994\, Washington D.C.) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn\, NY. Informed by queer-crip experience\, community\, and culture\, they work to critique standards of productivity\, notions of normative embodiment\, 24/7 society\, and the commodification of rest. Salerno received their MFA from Parsons School of Design and their BS from Skidmore College. They have exhibited at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt)\, Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Castellón (Castellón)\, ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts (Brussels)\, Art Windsor-Essex (Canada)\, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation’s 8th Floor Gallery\, the Ford Foundation Gallery (NYC)\, among others. Salerno is a recipient of the 2022 Wynn Newhouse Awards\, and their work has been featured in the New York Times and Art in America. They recently participated in the Visual Artist AIRspace Residency at Abrons Arts Center (2022-2023)\, and they are currently in residence at BRIClab: Contemporary Art Residency Program at BRIC (2023-2024). \nAstria Suparak is an artist and curator based in Oakland\, California. Her cross-disciplinary projects address complex and urgent issues (like institutionalized racism\, feminisms and gender\, and colonialism) made accessible through a popular culture lens\, such as science fiction movies\, rock music\, and sports. \nchampoy (pronouns: they/them/he/him/she/her/siya ) is a Filipinx interdisciplinary artist\, filmmaker and educator weaving historical and personal narratives through film\, installation and performance.” \nJJJJJerome Ellis is a proud stutterer. Through music\, literature\, performance\, video\, and photography he researches relationships among blackness\, disabled speech\, divinity\, nature\, sound\, and time. His body of work includes: contemplative soundscapes using saxophone\, flute\, dulcimer\, electronics\, and vocals; scores for plays and podcasts; albums combining spoken word with ambient and jazz textures; theatrical explorations involving live music and storytelling; and music-video-poems that seek to transfigure archival documents. Born in 1989 to Jamaican and Grenadian immigrants\, he lives in Norfolk\, Virginia\, USA with his wife\, ecologist-poet Luísa Black Ellis. They like walking in the woods and drinking tea together. \nJohann Diedrick (he/him) is an artist\, engineer\, and educator who makes listening rooms for encountering new sonic possibilities off the grid. His performances\, installations\, and sculptures surface resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. \nNadia Shihab is an artist whose work explores the personal\, the relational and the diasporic. Her first feature documentary Jaddoland was awarded five festival jury awards including the Independent Spirit “Truer than Fiction”” Award in 2020. Her recent short films include Sister Mother Lover Child (2023)\, Echolocation (2021) and Amal’s Garden (2012). Her work has screened internationally\, including at Cinema du Réel\, Walker Art Center\, Berkeley Art Museum\, Black Star Film Festival\, Images Festival\, DOXA\, Camden International Film Festival\, Kassel Dokfest and Cairo International Film Festival. Her creative practice is preceded by a decade of work as a community practitioner and housing advocate in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was raised in west Texas by immigrant parents from Iraq and Yemen and is an Assistant Professor in Film in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. \nOlivia Ong Evans is an artist living in Buffalo\, New York on Haudenosaunee homelands. Her video art often explores themes of migration and identity construction through experimental glitch. To shape identity from change\, to find meaning in misunderstanding\, to imagine home. Her video Identity Karma was created as part of the Squeaky Wheel Workspace Residency in the Summer of 2021. \nSaif Alsaegh is a United States-based filmmaker from Baghdad. Much of Saif’s work deals with the contrast between the landscape of his youth in Baghdad growing up as part of the indigenous Chaldean minority in the nineties and early 2000s\, and the U.S. landscape where he currently lives. His films have screened in festivals including Cinéma du Réel\, Kurzfilm Hamburg\, Kassel Dokfest\, Aesthetica Short Film Festival\, and in galleries and museums including the Wisconsin Triennial at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Rochester Contemporary Art Center. \nSky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was born and raised in Ferndale\, Washington and spent a number of years in Palm Springs and Riverside\, California\, Portland\, Oregon\, and Milwaukee\, Wisconsin. In Portland he studied and taught chinuk wawa\, a language indigenous to the Lower Columbia River Basin. His video\, photo\, and text work centers around personal positions of Indigenous homeland and landscape\, designs of language as containers of culture expressed through personal\, documentary\, and non fiction forms of media. His work has played at various festivals including Sundance\, Toronto International Film Festival\, Ann Arbor\, Courtisane Festival\, Punto de Vista\, and the New York Film Festival. His work was a part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial\, the 2018 FRONT Triennial and Prospect.5 in 2021. He was a guest curator at the 2019 Whitney Biennial and participated in Cosmopolis #2 at the Centre Pompidou. He has had a solo exhibition at the Center for Curatorial Studies\, Bard College\, in 2020 and in 2022 at LUMA in Arles\, France. He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University in 2018- 2019\, a Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow for 2019\, an Art Matters Fellow in 2019\, a recipient of a 2020 Alpert Award for Film/Video\, a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow\, and was a 2021 Forge Project Fellow. He received the 2022 Infinity Award in Art from the International Center of Photography\, and is a 2022 MacArther Fellow. \n \nAstria Suparak\, On the Neon Horizon\, 8:27 min\, 2023Saif Alsaegh\, 1991\, 12 min\, 2018Alex Dolores Salerno\, El Dios Acostado\, 11 min\, 2020Johann Diedrick\, Dark Matters\, 2021Nadia Shihab\, Echolocation\, 9 min\, 2021Olivia Ong Evans\, Identity Karma\, 11 min\, 2021JJJJJerome Ellis\, Impediment is Information\, 15 min\, 2021Sky Hopinka\, wawa\, 4 min 2014champoy\, english is yr mother tongue\, 4 min\, 2020\nImages from left to right\, top to bottom: Astria Suparak\, On the Neon Horizon (2023); Saif Alsaegh\, 1991 (2018); Alex Dolores Salerno\, El Dios Acostado (2020)\, Johann Diedrick\, Dark Matters (2021); Nadia Shihab\, Echolocation (2021); Olivia Ong Evans\, Identity Karma (2021); JJJJJerome Ellis\, Impediment is Information (2021); Sky Hopinka\, wawa (2014); champoy\, english is yr mother tongue (2020).\nBanner image: JJJJJerome Ellis\, Impediment is Information (2021). URL:https://squeaky.org/event/echolocations-films-in-translation-and-transcription/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/impediment-still-1.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20231017 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240226 DTSTAMP:20260412T150752 CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001129-1697500800-1708905599@squeaky.org SUMMARY:[Speaking in Foreign Language] DESCRIPTION:[Speaking in Foreign Language] brings together several of Squeaky Wheel’s Fall/Winter 2023 activities–screenings\, presentations\, and a solo exhibition–within a curatorial framework on how voice and language function across borders and power. \nThe series was developed through an engagement with\, and brings together\, the work of several former Squeaky Wheel Workspace residents–including Emily Watlington\, Jordan Lord\, Johann Diedrick\, Olivia Ong Evans\, and Saif Alsaegh–within a larger media arts context\, including feature films by Sharlene Bamboat and Trinh T. Minh-ha\, and short films by Alex Dolores Salerno\, Astria Suparak\, champoy\, JJJJJerome Ellis\, Nadia Shihab\, and Sky Hopinka. Additional events TBA. \n\n \nScreening | Tuesday\, October 17\, 7 pm ET\, in-person and online \nEcholocations: Films in Translation and Transcription\nGroup screening with work by Alex Dolores Salerno\, Astria Suparak\, champoy\, JJJJJerome Ellis\, Johann Diedrick\, Nadia Shihab\, Olivia Ong Evans\, Saif Alsaegh\, and Sky Hopinka \n\n \n \nExhibition opening | Friday\, November 10\, 5–8 pm \nJordan Lord’s The Voice of Democracy\nOn view through February 10. Featuring a newly commissioned essay by Amy Ching-Yan Lam. \n\n \nScreening | Tuesday\, December 5\, 7 pm ET @ Journey’s End Refugee Services and online \nTrinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam\n\n \nScreening | Wednesday\, December 6\, 7 pm @ Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center and online \nSharlene Bamboat’s If From Every Tongue it Drips\nPresented by Humanities Institute/Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program Film Series at the University at Buffalo \n\n \nPresentation | Friday\, December 8\, 7 pm ET\, in-person @ Squeaky Wheel and online \nEmily Watlington presents The Radical Accessibility of Video Art (for Hearing People)\n\nImage descriptions from top to bottom:\nA still from Identity Karma by Olivia Ong Evans. A bright blue and turquoise video still. There are multilayered legal documents and forms that are abstracted and blurry\, with only some words visible. The legible text includes “Declares her wish to change her name\,” “Name\,” and “Surname.”\nA still from Impediment is Information by JJJJJerome Ellis. A video still shows conifers in a snowy Wyoming landscape. A saxophone rests in a stand in the snow. The words “they try to fell black being” appear in white text overlaid on the video. The sky is blue.\nA still from the film The Voice of Democracy shows a dim living room\, in which a tv hangs on the wall. The tv displays two older white people\, the filmmaker’s parents\, sitting with a gold lamp in between them. The filmmaker’s father looks angry and their mother looks concerned. The tv image is paused on a Youtube window\, which reads: “Mom and Dad interview selects\,” below which a series of other videos are recommended including “The Biggest Snubs of the Olivier Awards\,” “Top 25 Roller Coasters\,” and “Food & Wine Festival.” Reflected in a mirror below the television are the filmmaker’s parents sitting in the same set-up as their image on the television\, with the same gold lamp between them. They are looking across the room at the filmmaker\, a 30-something white person with a buzzcut and a beard\, who looks back at them with their arms folded and legs crossed\, with a serious and sympathetic look. Their father is pointing at the television\, saying something. In the center of the image\, between the mirror and the television\, is a caption that reads\, “Why?”\nA still from Trinh T. Minh-ha’s Surname Viet Given Name Nam. A mostly dark image\, with a barely lit woman with black hair looking to the left of the image.\nA still from If From Every Tongue It Drips by Sharlene Bamboat. A person sits on a wooden rocking chair in a bright orange room sunshine spilling in. The person in the chair is half out of frame arms holding a piece of paper. Yellow caption on screen reads: “hence\, matter is an infolding\, an in-volution. hmmmmmmmmmmm”. Image and description courtesy of the artist.\nLiza Sylvestre\, Captioned-Channel Surfing (still)\, 2016. Courtesy of the artist. A movie still\, close-up of a white man and woman wearing summer clothes in a rural setting looking excited in a phone booth. A caption reads “They are so young and excited and happy.” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/speaking-in-foreign-language/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Event Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Identity_Karma_C.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230928T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150752 CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001115-1695927600-1695934800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:The Animation Fest: A Retrospective @ North Park Theatre DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 28\, 7 pm ET\n$7\nPurchase tickets to in-person screening at North Park Theatre (or just show up!)\nPurchase tickets to online screening via Eventbrite\nJoin us at the legendary North Park Theatre for a special retrospective screening that brings together 10 short films from the past 20 years of our Animation Fest! The short films collected here exemplify our little fest’s promise and potential: Personal visions and experiments\, and surprising and poignant uses of tools and technologies; and social and political commitment and critique. Open to young people and adults\, this special screening is Squeaky Wheel’s big fundraiser for the year – we invite our communities near and far to join us in celebration! \nThe 10 filmmakers present a vital cross section of our many communities\, from legends of the field to former Squeaky Wheel students from Buffalo and beyond\, including films by Adele Han Li\, Amanda Bonaiuto\, Ayoka Chenzira\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, Helen Hill\, Jazmyn Palermo\, Jodie Mack\, Leslie Supnet\, Maria Zjaia\, Miranda Javid\, and Robert C Banks. \nBegun as an outdoor screening in 2004\, the fest celebrates animation in all its forms. Often organized by emerging guest curators\, the fest has featured hundreds of classic and cutting edge animated works. All funds from this event go towards our award-winning exhibition\, education\, and equipment access programs. Join us! \nPlease note that the final two films\, X: The Baby Cinema and Second Sun feature flickering effects. Jodie Mack’s Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World will not be available online\, and will only be screened in person. The total duration of the in-person screening is ~53 minutes; the online screening duration is ~50 minutes. \n
\n\nMaria Ziaja\, One Speck in the Universe\, 1 min\, open captions\, 2013\nMaria Ziaja\, Flying Bird\, 1 min\, 2013\nMaria Ziaja created these two videos during her time taking a Stop-Motion Animation class as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Tech Arts for Girls program\, taught by Alice Alexandrescu; the two films were included in the 2013 edition of the Animation Fest\, programmed by Squeaky Wheel’s 2013 staff and interns\, including Jax Deluca\, Mark Longolucco\, and Ryan Crowley. \nHelen Hill\, Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century\, 10 min\, 2001\nMadame Winger wants you to make a film about something you love. She shows you her favorite low budget filmmaking techniques\, from camera less animation to processing your own film in a bathtub. Filmed in 16 mm. Helen Hill’s work was featured in the first edition of the Animation Fest. Special thank you to Mark Johnson and the Harvard Film Archive. \nHannah R.W. Hamalian\, The Golden Age\, 9:58 min\, open captions\, 2021\n“An experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream.” – Hannah R.W. Hamalian. The Golden Age was included in the 2022 edition\, curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh; her work was previously included in the 2017 edition guest curated by Savion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo. \nAyoka Chenzira\, Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People\, 10:26 min\, open captions\, 1985\n“I was very concerned with the question of black women in this country and self-image aesthetics. If you look at all the commercials that come out and tell you how to fix yourself\, they are all based on the idea that there is something wrong with you. And so\, having a child\, these things became very glaring\, and I think that’s a part of Hairpiece. Hairpiece is funny\, but it comes from a position of real anger.” – Ayoka Chenzira. Included in the 2004 edition of the Animation Fest\, Hair Piece was one of the twenty-five films selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2018. The film received a 4K restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation with funding from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation\, which is the version that is on view. Film courtesy of Kino Lorber and Milestone Films. \nAdele Han Li\, Chella Drive\, 3:29 min\, digital video on projection\, sound on speakers\, 2016.\n“A dreamlike memory of a teenager’s summer complacency and the luscious suburban environment that surrounds her. Made using hand drawn animations projected onto real life settings and rephotographed frame by frame.” – Adele Han Li. Chella Drive as included in the 2016 edition curated by Ekrem Serdar. \nJodie Mack\, Unsubscribe #4: The Saddest Song in the World\, 2:50 min\, 2010\n…broken-hearted and mashed up. – Jodie Mack. This film was included in the 2012 edition of the Animation Fest; Mack’s films were included also in the 2016 edition of the fest. Film courtesy of Canyon Cinema.\n \nAmanda Bonaiuto\, Batfish Soup\, 5 min\, 2016\n“Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls\, boiling stew and a bang.\nDIRECTOR’S NOTES:\nBatfish Soup is a fictionalized absurdist film based on memories of freakish childhood visitations with my grandparents. Though the film’s spark was autobiographical\, the film transformed over the course of its production into something more fictional. This film epitomizes my interest in the darkly humorous underpinnings of domestic drama. I produced this film as my first year film in the MFA Experimental Animation Program at California Institute of the Arts.”\nBatfish Soup was included in the 2017 edition of the Animation Fest\, guest curated by Jean Zhu. Bonaiuto work was additionally screened in the 2019 edition\, guest curated by Leanne Goldblatt. \nMiranda Javid\, What Humans Do\, 6:40 min\, 2023\n“A macro view of human-actions\, as told from within a singular body. The film is a catalog of homo sapien instincts; its sequences interlace extractive qualities of our species with embodied sensory experience\, in favor of a mindful awareness of what humans do to their habitats and planet Earth at-large.” – Miranda Javid. \nJazmyn Palermo\, Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland\, 9:54 min\, 2018\n“Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland is a stop-motion animation that explores a transgender perspective of finding oneself. As Teenie enters a world of fairies\, witches\, creatures\, ghouls and vampires\, they find themself on an adventure in the world of people they have only heard of in scary stories. They find friends and helpful hands along the way on their adventure of exploration and self discovery.” – Jazmyn Palermo. Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland was included in the 2020 edition\, guest curated by Tabia Lewis. \nRobert C Banks\, X: The Baby Cinema\, 5 min\, 1992\nDrawing by hand directly on 16mm film\, Banks challenges commercial appropriations of the image of Malcolm X. The film was included in the 2007 edition of the Animation Fest\, guest curated by Kerry Maeve Sheehan.\n \nLeslie Supnet\, Second Sun\, 3 min\, 2014\n“The rising sound of drums emphasizes flashes of lights\, images of the solar system and a post-apocalyptic imagining of the birth of our Second Sun.” – Leslie Supnet \n“Leslie Supnet’s hand-drawn animation piece is an extension of her previous work First Sun (2014)\, with the monochrome drawings of the latter giving way to bright primary pencil colours. Like its predecessor\, Second Sun extensively employs basic geometrical shapes to represent cosmic phenomena and is scored to an exhortative percussive soundtrack hinting at a ritual\, a summoning. The figures move strictly horizontally or vertically on checkered paper as though underscoring their mathematically precise cyclicity\, with the central solar circle spawning clone stars\, moons\, planets and an entire solar system. The overall impression is that of witnessing a trance-inducing cultic invocation.” – Experimenta India” \n
\n\nWorking in painting\, video\, and installation\, Adele Han Li explores creating immersive and evocative environments through mixing materials and colliding surfaces. Her work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries throughout the US and internationally. Beyond her own creative projects\, Adele was previously programmer and festival manager of the Slamdance Film Festival\, and is passionate about cultivating inclusive and nurturing spaces for fellow artists. She studied animation at CalArts and painting at Yale and is now playing with textiles\, projectors and ceramics in her home studio just outside Los Angeles\, California. \nAmanda Bonaiuto (b. 1990) is an animation director\, artist\, and educator living in New York. She is best known for her short films and commissioned pieces which have screened at film festivals and galleries worldwide. She’s inspired by humor and tilted realities. She received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston in 2012 and an MFA in Experimental Animation from the California Institute of the Arts in 2018. She is an assistant professor of Illustration at Parsons School of Design\, and makes films and commissions in her studio. \nMeet Ayoka Chenzira\, the multi-talented and award-winning filmmaker\, Emmy and NAACP nominated television director\, and digital media artist.\nAs a child\, Ayoka discovered her interest in storytelling while listening to women talk in her mother’s Philadelphia beauty parlor. With a background in modern dance\, photography\, and music\, she discovered her passion for filmmaking after being taken to every age-inappropriate movie that her cinephile parent could find. Since then\, Ayoka is known to work across a range of genres\, including drama\, science fiction\, documentary\, animation\, and interactive cinema. As an actor’s director\, able to work with various acting styles and degrees of experience\, Ayoka’s visionary style of storytelling and character development takes center stage as does her ability to emotionally and visually elevate a story. Read more here. \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions.\nHannah’s work has screened and shown at festivals internationally\, including ADF’s Movies by Movers\, KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival\, Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio\, USA)\, and the Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest (New York\, USA). She received her BA from Carleton College and her MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, and she currently teaches at Lane Community College in Eugene\, OR. \nHelen Hill (1970 – 2007) was an experimental animator\, filmmaker\, educator\, artist\, writer and social activist who lived her last years in New Orleans\, Louisiana. A native of Columbia\, South Carolina\, Hill revealed her artistic talents at an early age\, making her first short\, animated Super 8 films when she was eleven. While studying English at Harvard (BS ’92)\, she minored in Visual and Environmental Studies where she made three 16mm animated short films: Rain Dance\, Upperground Show and Vessel. After receiving an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Experimental Animation\, Hill\, along with her husband Paul Gailiunas\, moved to his native Canada where he was studying medicine and where she continued to create films and teach film animation at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (now NSCAD University) and at the Atlantic Filmmakers Cooperative (AFCOOP). Soon after\, Hill and Gailiunas moved to New Orleans where Gailiunas would found a medical clinic for artists and low-income patients and where Hill\, meanwhile\, co-founded the New Orleans Film Collective and taught filmmaking. Read more here. \nJazmyn Palermo is a visual and expanded media artist living and working in Buffalo\, NY. They studied Fine Art at Alfred University with a focus in photography and video art. Their work explores a transgender perspective on fairy tales\, folklore\, and horror themes incorporating a stop-motion process and a lot of papier-mache. Their process includes asking their friends to put on a wig and move very\, very slowly. Jazmyn is inspired by the wonderful people they know and the beautiful place they live. They would like their work to create a comfortable place to enjoy the magic of finding yourself. \nJodie Mack (born 1983; London\, UK) is an experimental animator. Her films unleash the kinetic energy of material remnants of domestic and institutional knowledge to illuminate the relationship between decoration and utility. Straddling the boundary between rigor and accessibility\, her cinema questions how we ascribe value to things.\nMack’s 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues including the Locarno Film Festival\, the Toronto International Film Festival\, the New York Film Festival\, the Jeonju International Film Festival\, and the Viennale. She has presented solo programs at the 25FPS Festival\, Anthology Film Archives\, BFI London Film Festival\, Harvard Film Archive\, National Gallery of Art\, REDCAT\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale\, and Wexner Center for the Arts among others. Her work has been featured in publications including Artforum\, Cinema Scope\, The New York Times\, and Senses of Cinema. She was a 2017/18 Radcliffe Fellow; a 2019 Artist in Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts; a 2021 MacDowell Fellow; and a 2022 Visual Studies Center Fellow. She is a Professor of Animation at Dartmouth College. \nLeslie Supnet is an experimental filmmaker who creates media works that explore loss and change. Using animation\, live-action\, found footage and material exploration\, Supnet’s process is guided by lyricism and personal affect\, often bending analog and digital techniques. Leslie completed her MFA in Film at York University in 2016. Leslie’s works have screened at festivals such as TIFF\, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)\, International Film Festival Oberhausen\,Images Festival\, Onion City\, The Edge of Frame Weekend at the London International Animation Festival and as part of special programmes at the National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec\, Art Gallery of Hamilton and the AGO. She has created commissions for Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival\, ArtSpin/Pleasuredome\, Film POP!/POP! Montreal and Plug In ICA. \nMaria Ziaja is from Buffalo\, NY\, and is most passionate about Sustainability and Environmental Policy. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Environmental Studies and Russian and has worked in environmental consulting\, non-profit conservation initiatives\, and EHS policy for energy companies. She currently works at the Greenway Institute\, where she is helping reshape engineering education around goals of equity and sustainability. Before moving out of Buffalo for college\, Maria spent her formative years taking TechArts classes at Squeaky Wheel\, both at the Ansonia Building and Market Arcade locations. She feels that over the years these classes helped her grow creatively and develop an appreciation for the arts that still influences her work (now in the education sector). She is honored to be part of the Animation Fest! \nMiranda Javid (she/her) is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator currently living in Kingston New York. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. \nRobert C. Banks Jr. was born and raised in Cleveland\, Ohio in 1966\, and has attended Cleveland Institute of Art and Cleveland State University\, and has also served in the U.S. Air Force. Inspired by his father\, Banks is an experimental filmmaker\, cinematographer\, and teacher of filmmaking and photography at numerous colleges and universities. Banks’ films have been screened at numerous prestigious film festivals and art institutions\, both domestically and abroad\, such as Sundance Film Festival\, SXSW Film-Music Festival\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Museum of Modern Art\, The Robert Flaherty Film Seminar\, Chicago Underground Film Festival\, and Ann Arbor. He is a recipient of numerous awards\, including Filmmaker of the Year at the Midwest Filmmaker’s Conference\, and his film retrospectives have been featured at The BBC British Short Film Festival\, The Cleveland Cinematheque\, and The Walker Center for the Arts. One of Banks’ best-known works is the 1992 short film X: The Baby Cinema\, which chronicles the commercialization of Malcolm X’s image and legacy. Some of his other films include Motion Picture Genocide\, My First Drug\, the Idiot Box\, Outlet\, Goldfish and Sunflowers\, AWOL\, Autopilot\, and Don’t Be Still\, all of which were shot and edited on 16 and 35 mm film. Several of his short films have been added to the private collections of institutions such as The Yale University Film School and The Walker Center for the Arts. Most recently\, Banks has completed his first 35 mm feature film\, Paper Shadows\, which was seven years in the making. \nSponsors\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is presented with generous support from the Richard W. Rupp Foundation\, FGI Landscaping\, PUSH Buffalo\, TriMain Center\, Rigidized Metals\, BreadHive\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Rose Jade Consulting Coop\, Lumpy Buttons Gifts\, Good Neighbors Credit Union\, and Villa Maria College. The North Park Theater event is presented with generous support from Councilman Joel Feroleto. \n\nBanner image: Hannah Hamalian\, The Golden Age. Yellow\, green\, and black paint is smeared into an abstracted version of a familiar cartoon dog character. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-animation-fest-a-retrospective-north-park-theatre/ LOCATION:North Park Theatre\, 1428 Hertel Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14216\, United States CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hamalian_golden-age_02-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230901T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230901T213000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150752 CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001110-1693594800-1693603800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Zain Alam at Silo City: I am sounding a sacred space DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 1\, 2023\n7–8 pm: Performance at Silo City\, Marine A with Zain Alam\, Dayatra Amber\, and Zaimah Habeeb (aka Zaimah Beloved)\n8:30 pm: Refreshments and conversation with Zain Alam and S Shiraz Ali at Duende\nFree or suggested donation\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to welcome back Zain Alam for a special performance of his work\, I am sounding a sacred space. Utilizing Silo City’s immense resonance\, Alam and Buffalo’s own Dayatra Amber and Zaimah Habeeb (aka Zaimah Beloved) will each recite the azaan (the Islamic call to prayer)\, which Alam will distill over its duration into tonal content alone. The performance will be followed by a conversation between Alam and scholar S. Shiraz Ali on the 2nd floor of Duende. \nI hope to bring a lived sense of sound in the Islamic tradition essential for the project’s aesthetic vision: drawing attention away from the meaning of the Arabic words alone and to the rich\, diverse traditions of recitation\, heard as music in and of themselves. How can sound create sacred space\, rather than vice-versa? In the long reverb and comforting resonances of Silo City\, the workshop performance revealed to me the healing properties of sound—particularly sound carried forward by natural echoes and amplified by nothing more than the resonant qualities of the space. I’m looking forward to incorporating this knowledge into a finalized performance\, thinking deeply about how vocal practices in religious tradition can be taken outside of their usual institutional context and used in pursuit of creating sacred\, healing spaces of our own. – Zain Alam \nThe performance will begin at 7 pm at Marina A in Silo City. Enter Marina A through the back door in the garden of Duende. After a brief break\, we invite you to the 2nd floor of Duende for a conversation between Alam and S. Shiraz Ali. \nDocumentation\nThe following video showcases excerpts from the live performance that took place on September 1\, 2023. \n\nAbout the artist\, featured performers\, and speakers\nZain Alam is an artist and musician of Indian-Pakistani origin based in Brooklyn\, NY. Described as “a unique intersection\, merging the cinematic formality of Bollywood and geometric repetition of Islamic art\,” his recording project Humeysha began during his year working as an oral historian for the 1947 Partition Archive. His work is a project of translation using contemporary pop forms\, found sound\, and oral history as means of investigating one’s position in an outside tradition or community. Alam’s practice extends his sonic vision into video\, performance\, and writing. His works are braided together by a passion for the borrowed voice\, re/de-contextualization\, and bricolage — for how a personal mosaic of sound can empower minority and marginalized to engage in self-creation on their own terms. His essays have been published in Miami Rail\, Buzzfeed\, and The New Yorker\, and Humeysha has been covered by the New York Times\, Vice\, and Village Voice. His performances have been staged at venues including Public Arts\, Webster Hall\, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Alam has most recently completed fellowships with Bruce High Quality Foundation\, Marble House\, and South Asian American Digital Archive. \nAlam was a Workspace Resident in Spring 2022\, where he first worked on the project at Silo City. See a brief video of him talking about the project here: \n\nDayatra Amber is an Artist\, Educator\, Word Holistic Practitioner and mother of three\, who resides in Buffalo\, NY. A delicate blend of Clinical Mental Health Counseling\, the Arts\, Astrology\, Metaphysics\, Restorative Trauma Informed practice\, self-reflection\, LOVE & Holistic Healing\, DayatraAmber is a whole vibe. As a military veteran\, she earned a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology at SUNY Buffalo\, and Masters serves as a communitu in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Canisius. Dayatra Amber is a lifelong Performance Artist. She debuted as an actress at Ujima Theatre Company in 2009 and began teaching theatre in 2014. DayatraAmber has performed as a Spoken Word Artist since 1998. She published her first book of Spoken Word Art in 2016 entitled Liberta. Her passion for community has lead her to a movement & radio program called Project Access to AFreeKa\, where she serves as a community organizer and personality affectionately known as DJ Bullet. \nZaimah Habeeb\, aka Zaimah Beloved is a professional singer and songwriter. She has previously released 4 studio albums that utilize catchy and beautiful melodies conjoined with clever lyrics\, to tackle challenging subjects\, such as social justice issues and God consciousness. She is presently in the studio to complete her 5th studio album\, which she calls “an album of a lifetime”. Zaimah also works as an online elementary Arabic teacher with the Islamic Learning Institute\, as well as being in her first year as a Qur’an student pursuing her Ijaazah in Hafs. Zaimah has stated she is most proud of her work as creator of “Tajweed from the Cradle to the Grave”\, which is a tajweed and fluency tutoring service\, provided free of charge to children and elderly students who are currently at the beginning and intermediate levels of Arabic fluency and Tajweed. \nS. Shiraz Ali is a scholar of Islamic intellectual and cultural history. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at University of California\, Berkeley\, where he researches the development of philosophy and rhetoric in Muslim South Asia. Ali has contributed to initiatives like PeaceNiche/The Second Floor\, Matnsaz\, Zer Zabar Paesh\, and the 2018 documentary Salam: The First ****** Noble Laureate. He holds a master’s in the study of religion from Harvard University. He was born and raised in Karachi. \nThis event is presented with Lyceum at Silo City. The Lyceum at Silo City is an urban land management nonprofit based at Silo City in Buffalo\, NY. Our modern-day lyceum captures Aristotle’s ‘walking and teaching’ and participatory method with our boots in the soil immersive approach to ecological training and experiential arts and cultural programming. Our work includes regional restoration ecology\, integrated site-responsive arts\, and intentional community-building that connects the public with Silo City’s unique urban landscape\, situated amongst the city’s largest collection of historical grain elevators. We create exceptional experiences for those who love learning\, collaborating\, and discovering. \nBanner image: Zain Alam walking with his back to the camera in a partially enclosed area on a sunny day. He is dressed in white. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/zain-alam-at-silo-city-i-am-sounding-a-sacred-space/ LOCATION:Silo City\, 85 Silo City Row\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14203\, United States CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Zain-Alam-Silo-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230825 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191523Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191523Z UID:10001114-1692921600-1696118399@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19 DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, August 25\, 5–8 pm\nOn view Tuesday–Fridays\, 12–5pm through September 30\, 2023\nFree and open to the public\nOrganized and curated by Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio\, and presented at Squeaky Wheel\, Buffalo Arts Studio\, and Buffalo Game Space.\nAmatryx Gaming Lab & Studio presents Creativity in the Time of Covid-19\, an exhibition of pandemic artwork and creative expression. The exhibition is the outcome of a three year project examining how people ranging from professional artists to first-time creatives used creativity during the Covid-19 pandemic. The project defined creative expression broadly\, including traditional and experimental art forms as well as creative hobbies such gaming\, baking\, crocheting\, and much more. \nCreativity in the Time of Covid-19 is on display August 25-September 30\, 2023\, with an Opening Reception on Friday\, August 25\, 5:00–8:00 PM. There will be a series of short talks starting at 6:00 PM in the Buffalo Arts Studio gallery space\, featuring speakers Natalie Phillips (Michigan State University)\, Lawrence Carter-Long (DisArt)\, and members of the Amatryx lab. A closing reception will take place on September 22\, 2023 at 3:00 PM in the Buffalo Arts Studio gallery space\, and feature a talk by speaker Tina Rivers-Ryan (Buffalo AKG Art Museum). The exhibition and receptions are free and open to the public. \nCreativity in the Time of Covid-19 began with experiences common to many during the pandemic lockdowns: being stuck at home without physical access to the spaces and communities people were used to\, and looking for ways to connect\, fill the time\, and process varied emotions. The project partners\, including faculty from Michigan State University\, University at Buffalo\, Washington University in St. Louis\, and United States Naval Academy\, noticed how many people tried out new forms of creative expression or began new creative projects in response to the difficulties of life in lockdown. With the financial support of the Mellon Foundation\, the project partners surveyed thousands of people across many states and sixteen countries (ranging from the US to Korea to Indonesia and beyond) about their creative expression during the pandemic. The result of this work is a collection of thousands of experiences\, stories\, and creative works from around the world that gives a broad\, diverse picture of the role creativity played in living during the pandemic. \nCreative works from the collection will appear in a series of online and physical exhibitions with each partner organization beginning in Fall 2023 and running through Spring 2024. The first of these exhibitions is Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio Presents: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19\, with community partners Buffalo Arts Studio\, Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\, and Buffalo Game Space. The Amatryx exhibition focuses particularly on LGBTQ+\, BIPOC (Black/Indigenous/Person of Color)\, and/or Western New York-based creative works. In doing so\, Director Cody Mejeur hopes that the exhibition will “prioritize the marginalized voices of communities often left out or forgotten in mainstream narratives.” As Mejeur notes\, LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities were often some of the hardest hit during the pandemic\, and the Buffalo-based exhibition aims to start off the series by drawing attention to that trend and the people creating in these communities. \nAs part of the exhibition’s opening night\, the Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio will also be launching the first full release of their current video game project\, Trans Folks Walking. Trans Folks Walking is a 3D\, first person narrative game made with Unity that explores experiences of trans embodiment\, being\, and mobility. The game currently puts players in several situations drawn from the experiences of trans folks in contemporary America\, ranging from the everyday such as using the bathroom through the particular such as being trans in a Christian church. The game creates space for trans folks to share their stories and for players to experience small parts of what it means to be trans. The game is intentionally designed as an anthology of short experiences that will grow in collaboration with trans people and their communities. The game will release on August 25\, 2023 for PC and Mac on the game website itch.io\, with a Steam release to follow. \nThe Buffalo exhibition contains creative work in many forms\, including paintings\, photographs\, films\, songs\, video games\, crochet\, zines\, and mixed media sculptures. These works will be spread across multiple gallery spaces in the Tri-Main Center\, with visual and physical appearing in Buffalo Arts Studio; film\, video\, and digital media in Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center; and games and virtual reality in Buffalo Game Space. Participants are encouraged to explore works in each space on opening night\, and throughout the exhibition during each organization’s normal business hours. \nAmatryx Gaming Lab & Studio (AGLS) is a lab in the Department of Media Study at University at Buffalo dedicated to gaming\, virtual reality\, social justice\, and community storytelling projects. The lab combines cutting edge research on games\, culture\, and narrative with development projects in analogue\, digital\, and virtual reality games. Amatryx is committed to the diverse exploration of social justice narratives with intersectional queer and feminist values\, such as antinormativity\, relationality\, coalitionality\, and resistance. The lab thinks critically about play and narrative as means for imagining more equitable and transformative futures. \nFor more information\, please visit: \nAmatryx and Trans Folks Walking \nBuffalo Arts Studio \nBuffalo Game Space \nCreativity in the Time of Covid-19 \nCreativity in the Time of Covid-19 is made possible by a Just Futures Initiative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Image: Loom by TD. Image courtesy Amatryx Gaming Lab & Studio. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/amatryx-gaming-lab-studio-creativity-in-the-time-of-covid-19/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Partners ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Loom.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230824T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001112-1692900000-1692907200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:2D Stop-Motion World Building with Photoshop with Maggie Hazen DESCRIPTION:*New date* Thursday\, August 24\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. Computers with Adobe Photoshop provided.\nIn this hands on workshop\, Workspace Resident Maggie Hazen will lead participants as they create their own stop motion animations. Maggie will first cover the basics of world-building and the process of designing a visual language that represents the world you want to create. Students will then learn to use 2D stop motion animation and Photoshop to create unique worlds. Participants will work in teams to make short animated films\, which will be screened at the end of the workshop. Laptops or desktops with Adobe Photoshop will be provided. \n \nBiography of the artist\nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/2d-stop-motion-world-building-with-photoshop-with-maggie-hazen/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/2.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230822T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001113-1692727200-1692734400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Weaving the Magic Back into Reality: Writing Speculative Fiction for Film with Alicia Solstice Hawkins DESCRIPTION:*New date* Tuesday\, August 22\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nOpen to ages 16+. Journals and writing material provided\nIn this lecture and workshop\, Workspace Resident Alicia Solstice Hawkins will present on how speculative fiction offers subversive narratives that challenge oppressive worldviews\, while reimagining powerful and liberatory counter-narratives. This will be followed by exercises on how participants can incorporate speculative fiction into their documentary or fiction film projects. \nSpeculative fiction is an umbrella term for artworks that include fantastical aspects and can incorporate sub-genres such as science fiction\, horror\, fantasy\, and magical realism. This workshop will examine speculative fiction in contemporary film\, with an emphasis on BIPOC creators. Although initially associated with works focused on Eurocentric sensibilities\, speculative fiction has become a compelling genre for filmmakers to use to offer social critiques\, reclaim spaces stolen by oppressive practices\, dismantle the logics of oppression\, and explore liberation. \nDuring the first half of the workshop\, we will watch example films\, discuss specific strategies filmmakers use to integrate fantastical elements into their films\, and analyze what critiques their narratives offer. Then\, Alicia will lead a mini-writing workshop. A discussion of some foundations for expanding a cinematic storytelling toolkit through speculative fiction will be included\, such as world-building\, structural techniques\, developing a visual language\, and research. \nBiography of the artist\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nBanner image: Alicia Solstice Hawkins standing on a beach. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/weaving-the-magic-back-into-reality-writing-speculative-fiction-for-film-with-alicia-solstice-hawkins/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/1.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230818T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001109-1692385200-1692392400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet our residents: Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 18\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nRegister here\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Summer 2023 Workspace Residents! Alicia Solstice Hawking (Los Angeles\, CA) and Maggie Hazen (Hudson Vallery\, NY) will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring their time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on media art projects with significant ties to Buffalo’s history and current landscape. Alicia Solstice Hawkins will work on Don’t Go Back to Sleep\, a a poetic and observational 15-minute documentary about Bob\, an elder\, almost 80 years of age\, who attempts to re-engage his art practice while contending with the aftermath of a major stroke. Charting Bob’s life starting from Buffalo’s Fruit Belt neighborhood\, the city’s East and West Sides\, and Los Angeles\, where he resides now\, the film will follow several different timelines of his life through his poignant\, witty\, and moving voiceover paired with poetic imagery and sound. Maggie Hazen will work on Night Moth: A Mythology of Escape\, a mixed reality project made in collaboration with DW. DW\, who lives in Western New York\, is a formerly incarcerated young artist who was recently released from Brookwood Secure Center for Youth in New York’s Hudson Valley; Hazen met her while teaching art classes at the facility in 2019. Night Moth revolves around Luna\, a 3D digital avatar for DW\, and Luna’s journey of self-discovery\, liberation\, and healing. Night Moth will culminate in four artworks\, including a video installation exhibition\, a documentary\, a sketchbook\, and an interactive concept website. \nIn-person attendees can enjoy food\, including vegetarian options\, from Ali Baba Kebab. Learn how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. \n Online attendees can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo learn more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\nAlicia Solstice Hawkins: I was born and raised on the Lower West side of Buffalo. A childhood in the Rust Belt informs my aesthetic and inspires me to craft stories that highlight perseverance and explore multiple perspectives that are not usually featured in mainstream narratives. I often focus on topics related to complex and intersecting identities\, the tension between the healing and antagonistic power of nature\, and unexpected resilience. \nI earned a MA in documentary film from UW\, Seattle\, and my award-winning thesis film was screened at various festivals\, colleges\, and museums throughout the US and Canada. After working as an educator and media producer for organizations with social and racial justice initiatives\, I returned to graduate school and earned an MFA from Temple University with an emphasis on screenwriting. Recent screenwriting projects include Horseshoe Falls\, a feature-length film set on the Lower West Side of Buffalo in the early ‘90s\, and The Jar\, a queer speculative fiction film set in Days Park. For more\, please see: aliciafilm.com \nMaggie Hazen is a New York-based visual artist from Los Angeles. Hazen’s artistic practice is characterized by the transformative power of sculpture\, video\, collage\, performance\, and installation\, which she employs to explore the complex ways in which subjects interact with and perform within the spaces they occupy. Through the synthesis of narratives drawn from popular culture and institutional systems\, Hazen’s works aim to deconstruct the familiar and make it strange\, revealing what lies hidden in plain sight. Hazen is the founder and an active member of the Columbia Collective\, which is dedicated to supporting the visibility of young incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists who have been rendered invisible by the system. Launched in 2019 at the Columbia Secure Center for Girls in the Hudson Valley\, the collective has since grown to find a new home at the Brookwood Secure Center for youth. \nHazen’s work has been exhibited\, screened and performed at institutions including The Bronx Museum\, Bronx\, NY; Foreland Contemporary Art Campus\, Catskill\, NY; Pulse Miami Beach as part of Pulse Play\, Miami\, FL; The Museum of Tolerance\, Los Angeles\, CA; Microscope Gallery\, Brooklyn\, NY; Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA; Light Year on the Manhattan Bridge\, Brooklyn\, NY; The Granoff Center at Brown University\, RI; Performance Works Northwest\, Portland\, OR; The CICA Museum in South Korea; and The Boston Young Contemporaries exhibition; Boston\, MA; among others. Hazen has held residencies at Pioneer Works\, Brooklyn\, NY; De:Formal online artist residency; The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, Shanghai\, China\, I:O residency at the Helikon Art Center\, Izmit\, Turkey; Vermont Studio Center in Vermont and The Pasadena Side Street Projects\, Pasadena; CA. She participated as a fellow in the Bronx AIM program and The Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art at European Graduate School in Switzerland. She has studied at Biola University\, Brown University\, and the Rhode Island School of Design. She has taught at the Rhode Island School of Design\, New York University\, The Stevens Institute of Technology\, The Shanghai Institute of Visual Art\, and the Bard College Clemente courses in the humanities program. She is currently a visiting artist-in-residence at Bard College in the Studio Arts program. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Portraits of Alicia Solstice Hawkins and Maggie Hazen superimposed on a blue red backgrop. Alicia Solstice Hawkins is standing on a beach in her photograph. Next to her is a portrait of Maggie Hazen\, a white queer person from Southern California. She has blonde hair and is wearing a black beanie hat and a black sweater. She is candidly looking into the camera with a curious gaze. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-alicia-solstice-hawkins-and-maggie-hazen/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Alicia-and-Maggie.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231104 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001119-1690502400-1699055999@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Celebrating 20 years of our Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel is celebrating 20 years of our Animation Fest and you’re invited! Ahead of the 20th edition taking place this November\, you can visit Squeaky Wheel to see highlights from our past editions in the Retrospective Exhibition\, and join us on September 28 at the North Park Theatre for the Retrospective Screening. Click the links below for all the details! \n \nAnimation Fest at 20: A Retrospective Exhibition\nOn view through September 30 at Squeaky Wheel\, Tuesday–Friday\, 12–5pm and by appointment \n \nThe Animation Fest: A Retrospective @ North Park Theatre\nThursday\, September 28\, 7 pm ET @ the North Park Theatre and online \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s 20th Animation Fest\nFriday\, November 3\, 6 pm ET @ Buffalo AKG Museum and online. The full lineup will be announced in August. Stay tuned! \n\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is presented with generous support from the Richard W. Rupp Foundation\, FGI Landscaping\, PUSH Buffalo\, TriMain Center\, Rigidized Metals\, BreadHive\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Rose Jade Consulting Coop\, Lumpy Buttons Gifts\, Good Neighbors Credit Union\, and Villa Maria College. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/celebrating-20-years-of-our-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Event Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AnimationFestBanner.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20231001 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191506Z UID:10001107-1690502400-1696118399@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Animation Fest at 20: A Retrospective DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, July 28\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nOn view through September 30\, 2023\, Tuesday–Friday\, 12–5 pm and by appointment\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to announce an exhibition featuring five key works drawn from the history of our annual Animation Fest. Begun as an outdoor screening in 2004\, the fest celebrates animation in all its forms. Often organized by emerging guest curators\, the fest has featured hundreds of classic and cutting edge animated works from Buffalo and across the globe. In anticipation of the 20th edition of the Fest taking place this Fall\, Squeaky Wheel presents a retrospective exhibition of the fest\, featuring five artists who have screened in prior editions\, interspersed with posters\, program notes\, documentation\, and other ephemera from the Fest’s history. \nOpening as our summer youth workshops are taking place\, the exhibition intends to inspire generations young and old with the possibilities of the genre. All movies are\, technically\, physiologically\, animation: film frames flicker\, pixel turn on and off\, our eyes create the movement between the frames. The moniker of “animation” is a Trojan horse for radical visions. The short films exhibited – by Adele Han Li\, Ayoka Chenzira\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, Jazmyn Palermo\, and Maria Ziaja – include works made by legendary figures and former Squeaky Wheel students\, from Buffalo and beyond. They exemplify some of the Animation Fest’s promise and possibility: personal visions and experiments; surprising and poignant uses of tools and technologies; and social and political commitment and critique. \nThe exhibition will be open Tuesdays through Fridays 12–5 pm and by appointment. Click here for visit\, transportation\, and access information for our new location. To make an appointment\, including fully masked visits\, or inquire about group tours\, email ekrem@squeaky.org. \nWorks in the exhibition\nAccess: See films with open captions below; written audio descriptions are provided for films without captions on their respective wall labels. The films in this exhibition are suitable for ages 13 and up. \n\nAyoka Chenzira\, Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy Headed People\, 10:26 min\, 16mm film presented on digital video\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 1985.\n“I was very concerned with the question of black women in this country and self-image aesthetics. If you look at all the commercials that come out and tell you how to fix yourself\, they are all based on the idea that there is something wrong with you. And so\, having a child\, these things became very glaring\, and I think that’s a part of Hairpiece. Hairpiece is funny\, but it comes from a position of real anger.” – Ayoka Chenzira. Included in the 2004 edition of the Animation Fest\, Hair Piece was one of the twenty-five films selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress in 2018. The film received a 4K restoration by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation with funding from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation\, which is the version that is on view. Film courtesy of Kino Lorber and Milestone Films.\nMaria Ziaja\, One Speck in the Universe\, 1 min\, digital video on LCD monitor\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 2013.\nMaria Ziaja\, Flying Bird\, 1 min\, digital video on LCD monitor\, sound on headphones\, 2013.\nMaria Ziaja created these two videos during her time taking a Stop-Motion Animation class as part of Squeaky Wheel’s Tech Arts for Girls program\, taught by Alice Alexandrescu; the two films were included in the 2013 edition of the Animation Fest\, programmed by Squeaky Wheel’s 2013 staff and interns\, including Jax Deluca\, Mark Longolucco\, and Ryan Crowley.\nAdele Han Li\, Chella Drive\, 3:29 min\, digital video on projection\, sound on speakers\, 2016.\n“A dreamlike memory of a teenager’s summer complacency and the luscious suburban environment that surrounds her. Made using hand drawn animations projected onto real life settings and rephotographed frame by frame.” – Adele Han Li. Chella Drive as included in the 2016 edition curated by Ekrem Serdar.\nJazmyn Palermo\, Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland\, 9:54 min\, digital video installed on CRT monitor\, sound on headphones\, 2018\n“Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland is a stop-motion animation that explores a transgender perspective of finding oneself. As Teenie enters a world of fairies\, witches\, creatures\, ghouls and vampires\, they find themself on an adventure in the world of people they have only heard of in scary stories. They find friends and helpful hands along the way on their adventure of exploration and self discovery.” – Jazmyn Palermo. Teenie Hams’ Adventures in Genderland was included in the 2020 edition\, guest curated by Tabia Lewis.\nHannah R.W. Hamalian\, The Golden Age\, 9:58 min\, digital video on LCD\, sound on headphones\, open captions\, 2021\n“An experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream.” – Hannah R.W. Hamalian. The Golden Age was included in the 2022 edition\, curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh; her work was previously included in the 2017 edition guest curated by Savion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo.\n\nStills\n\n \nBiographies of the artists\n Adele Han Li Working in painting\, video\, and installation\, Adele Han Li explores creating immersive and evocative environments through mixing materials and colliding surfaces. Her work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries throughout the US and internationally. Beyond her own creative projects\, Adele was previously programmer and festival manager of the Slamdance Film Festival\, and is passionate about cultivating inclusive and nurturing spaces for fellow artists. She studied animation at CalArts and painting at Yale and is now playing with textiles\, projectors and ceramics in her home studio just outside Los Angeles\, California. \n Ayoka Chenzira \nMeet Ayoka Chenzira\, the multi-talented and award-winning filmmaker\, Emmy and NAACP nominated television director\, and digital media artist.\nAs a child\, Ayoka discovered her interest in storytelling while listening to women talk in her mother’s Philadelphia beauty parlor. With a background in modern dance\, photography\, and music\, she discovered her passion for filmmaking after being taken to every age-inappropriate movie that her cinephile parent could find. Since then\, Ayoka is known to work across a range of genres\, including drama\, science fiction\, documentary\, animation\, and interactive cinema. As an actor’s director\, able to work with various acting styles and degrees of experience\, Ayoka’s visionary style of storytelling and character development takes center stage as does her ability to emotionally and visually elevate a story.\nAyoka’s indie films highlight stories about Black women and have been exhibited at international film festivals\, around the world\, and acquired by prestigious institutions including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is one of the first African American women to write\, produce and direct a 35mm feature film\, Alma’s Rainbow\, which was recently restored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences\, along with her short film collection. Set in Brooklyn\, the comedy/drama follows the interior lives of a budding teenage girl\, her no-nonsense mother and a glamorous globe-trotting aunt.\nAs a self-taught stop motion and digital media animator\, Ayoka has used these techniques to explore American history and concepts related to identity and standards of beauty for Black women. In 2018\, her animated film Hair Piece was one of twenty-five films inducted into the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress along with Jurassic Park\, The Shining\, and Brokeback Mountain. Her film\, Zajota & the Boogie Spirit was one of the first to use frame-by-frame video and blend cell and computer animation\, and for which she was honored with the Sony Innovator Award. As of 2022\, Bowie State University’s first stop-motion animation studio now bears the name Studio Ayoka Chenzira.\nIn 2018\, Ayoka’s television career took off when Ava DuVernay tapped her to direct episodes of OWN’s hit family drama Queen Sugar\, starring Rutina Wesley\, Dawn-Lien Gardner and Kofi Siriboe\, for which she garnered an NAACP nomination for directing. Since Queen Sugar\, Ayoka has worked non-stop as a television director\, drawing on her years of experience as a filmmaker. She is known for her visual style\, inventiveness\, and technical skills while being a creative partner and collaborator.\nRecently\, Ayoka directed episodes of the CBS reboot of the iconic series Dynasty\, starring Elizabeth Gillies and Grant Show\, who reprised the role of Blake Carrington. As a director of young adult fiction\, Ayoka directed episodes of the award-winning Netflix drama Trinkets featuring Quintessa Swindell and Brianna Hildebrand and helped to navigate the complex world of teenage identity.\nThen pivoting to the carefully crafted world of period drama series\, Ayoka was one of four directors selected by Sony/Amazon to direct the period sports comedy-drama\, A League of Their Own\, based on the beloved Penny Marshall film of the same title and starring Abbi Jacobson\, Nick Offerman\, D’Arcy Carden\, and Chanté Adams\, and for which she received an Emmy nomination for directing.\nBlending history and science fiction\, as one of four directors of the FX series Kindred\, Ayoka navigated two time periods for the adaptation of Octavia Butler’s celebrated and critically acclaimed novel. Working with historians\, Ayoka introduced visual representations of culture and intimidation in inventive ways that became part of the narrative.\nA lifelong fan of science fiction and fantasy\, in 2022 Ayoka directed the Spectrum/AMC psychological thriller Beacon 23\, a Canadian production based on the novel by The New York Times best-selling author\, Hugh Howey and starring Lena Headey and Stephan James. Ayoka’s episode was filmed entirely across four sound stages and included substantial visual effects and face replacements for body doubles. Working with a choreographer\, she developed a unique sign language; with composers Ramin Djawadi (Pacific Rim\, Game of Thrones\, Iron Man)\, and William Marriott (Westworld\, Game of Thrones\, Jack Ryan) she created chants sung by an outer space community of rebels.\nAyoka broke new ground with her production of HERadventure\, a sci-fi/fantasy interactive cinema project that uses gameplay to navigate the story. The project was first presented in 2013 at South-by-Southwest where it was projected onto a building as players navigated the coming-of-age story featuring a reluctant young woman from another planet who comes to Earth to find her sister and ends up a superhero.The first interactive cinema project funded by the National Endowment for the Arts\, HERadventure features a first for the interactive cinema genre — a woman of color as a superhero. The project led to an invitation by TEDxAtlanta where Ayoka presented the Power of Diverse Sci-fi/Fantasy Storytellers\nAyoka earned a BFA in Film from New York University\, an EdM Adult and Higher Education from Columbia University/Teachers College\, and is the first African American to earn a PhD in Digital Media from the George Institute of Technology. She served as the Division Chair for the Arts at Spelman College\, where she created majors in documentary filmmaking\, photography\, and dance performance & choreography\, the firsts at an HBCU. In addition\, she helped to raise funds for a new\, the March Schmidt Campbell Center for Innovation in the Arts\, currently under construction where a documentary film production lab will bear her name.\nWith an impressive track record of success and dedication to storytelling\, Ayoka Chenzira is a filmmaker\, television director\, and digital media artist to watch.\nAyoka Chenzira lives in Atlanta and is dedicated to centralizing women protagonists and elevating stories by and about women.\n \n Hannah R.W. Hamalian \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions.\nHannah’s work has screened and shown at festivals internationally\, including ADF’s Movies by Movers\, KLIK Amsterdam Animation Festival\, Athens International Film and Video Festival (Ohio\, USA)\, and the Squeaky Wheel Animation Fest (New York\, USA). She received her BA from Carleton College and her MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, and she currently teaches at Lane Community College in Eugene\, OR.\n \n Jazmyn Palermo \nJazmyn Palermo is a visual and expanded media artist living and working in Buffalo\, NY. They studied Fine Art at Alfred University with a focus in photography and video art. Their work explores a transgender perspective on fairy tales\, folklore\, and horror themes incorporating a stop-motion process and a lot of papier-mache. Their process includes asking their friends to put on a wig and move very\, very slowly. Jazmyn is inspired by the wonderful people they know and the beautiful place they live. They would like their work to create a comfortable place to enjoy the magic of finding yourself.\n \n Maria Ziaja Maria Ziaja is from Buffalo\, NY\, and is most passionate about Sustainability and Environmental Policy. She graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Environmental Studies and Russian and has worked in environmental consulting\, non-profit conservation initiatives\, and EHS policy for energy companies. She currently works at the Greenway Institute\, where she is helping reshape engineering education around goals of equity and sustainability. Before moving out of Buffalo for college\, Maria spent her formative years taking TechArts classes at Squeaky Wheel\, both at the Ansonia Building and Market Arcade locations. She feels that over the years these classes helped her grow creatively and develop an appreciation for the arts that still influences her work (now in the education sector). She is honored to be part of the Animation Fest! \nBanner image: Adele Han Li\, Chella Drive. A pencil-drawn girl is falling\, sinking into a speckled blue abyss. Above her are vague upside-down reflections of a grecian column\, a sculpture\, and some regal looking planters. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-animation-fest-a-retrospective-exhibition/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ChellaDrive_still5.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230728 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230829 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191506Z UID:10001111-1690502400-1693267199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Call for submissions: Squeaky Wheel's 20th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Deadline: August 28\, 2023\, 11:59 PM\nNotification Date: October 1\, 2023\nSqueaky Wheel announces the call for submissions for our annual Animation Fest! Celebrating its 20th year\, we are proud to continue a festival showcasing artworks made in a diverse variety of animation techniques such as stop-motion\, claymation\, 3D animation\, hand-painted film\, special effects\, and motion graphics. Past festivals have showcased work from both rising artists as well as established artists. \nThe 20th Animation Fest will be held online and in-person on Friday\, November 3\, 2022\, an in-person screening at the Buffalo AKG Museum and a virtual screening through Squeaky Wheel. Films in the virtual program will be accessible for 24 hours thereafter for general audiences\, and 72 hours for Squeaky Wheel members. If selected\, you will be asked for a downloadable copy of your film. \nEach individual submission should not exceed ~10 minutes.\nThere is no submission fee.\nAll selected artists will receive a screening fee of $100 per selected film. (International applicants must have a Paypal account to receive their screening fee).\nAll selected artists will receive a one year membership to Squeaky Wheel.\nMultiple submissions per artist are accepted. Multiple submissions per artist are accepted. Artists who are African/Black\, Indigenous / Native / Aboriginal\, POC\, creatives with disabilities\, women\, 2SLGBTQIA+\, and artists who face systemic and structural barriers are highly encouraged to apply. \nClick here to submit\nPlease direct any questions about the application process and your submissions to Ekrem Serdar at ekrem@squeaky.org \nBanner image: An illustration of a red film projector against a starry backdrop. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-for-submissions-squeaky-wheels-20th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Open Call,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/AnimationFestBanner.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230721T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230721T123000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10001106-1689939000-1689942600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:In conversation: hiba ali with Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham DESCRIPTION:Friday\, July 21\, 2023\, 11:30 am ET\n@ online and viewable for 24 hours\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin us for a virtual event celebrating the closing of hiba ali’s solo exhibition\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. hiba ali will be joined by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham to have a conversation on the histories\, themes of their exhibition\, followed by a brief Q&A. The exhibition utilizes videos\, music\, textiles\, amongst other media. Through storytelling\, oceans we carry: rough as silk explores the figure of the silk worm through visualizing the history and continued presence of African-descent communities from the Swahili-Indian ocean. They map the relationships between the Swahili coast of East Africa\, South India and the Arab world. \nAudiences are invited to join live\, or can view the event for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive a code to view the event for 72 hours. \nYou will see the Zoom link after you checkout and receive it in your email inbox within 24 hours. If you have issues registering\, please email ekrem@squeaky.org \nRead more about hiba ali’s exhibition at Squeaky Wheel here. \nBiographies\nhiba ali is a producer of moving images\, sounds\, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago\, toronto and eugene. born in karachi\, pakistan\, they belong to east african\, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili\, urdu\, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term art and publication projects: the first being an art-based phd project that examines womyn of colour’s labour\, and architecture of surveillance as it exists within the monopoly of amazon (corp.) and the second being a series of works that addresses music\, cloth and ritual practices that connect east africa\, south asia and the arabian peninsula in the swahili-indian ocean region. \nthey are an assistant professor at the college of design in the art & technology program at the university of oregon in eugene and they teach on decolonial\, feminist\, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies. currently\, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at queens university in kingston\, ontario. their work has been presented in chicago\, stockholm\, vienna\, berlin\, toronto\, new york\, istanbul\, são paulo\, detroit\, windsor\, dubai\, austin\, vancouver\, and portland. they have written for the following magazines: “c”\, the seen\, newcity chicago\, art chicago\, art dubai\, the state\, medium’s zora\, rtv\, and topical cream. \nnote: the profile picture indicates the need to not be perceived by all carceral\, surveillant and monitoring systems including the corporeal\, digital and virtual. the use of lowercase on this site denotes a turn away from egotism embedded in the english language (danah michele boyd) and towards ideas of the collective (bell hooks) and reminds us of the many realities\, names and glyphs that cannot be said in such a colonial language. \nBeheroze Shroff teaches in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis\, Indians of African descent in Gujarat\, Shroff has published widely in several journals and anthologies\, and documented on film different aspects of contemporary Siddi life\, in Gujarat. Most recently\, in 2020\, Shroff co-edited a three-volume publication titled Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora\, which explores the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have shaped and have been shaped by histories\, cultures\, and societies of South Asia. Her documentaries have been shown in public and academic venues: at Monsoons and Migrations: Unleashing Dhow Synergies– Conference in Association with the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF); The African Diaspora in Asia conference (TADIA) Goa; Samosa Arts and Culture Festival (Nairobi); Max Planck Institute (Halle); School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London; Schomburg Library and Museum of Black Culture (New York); Malcolm X Library (San Diego\, California) and Pan African Film Festivals (Los Angeles)\, among others. \nZavier Wingham (he/they) is a writer\, editor\, and PhD candidate in the joint program for History and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University\, with an additional concentration in the history of the African Diaspora. Their dissertation research explores how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race\, slavery\, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914\, as well as how Africans in the Ottoman empire experienced these processes of racialization and sought to create new kinds of community and ways of living. Their work has been supported by Fulbright\, ARIT\, and Koç University’s ANAMED. More of their work can be found at zavierwingham.com \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: documentation of hiba ali\, oceans we carry: rough as silk. The video in the cyclone (rough as silk) is projected on a wall; a green wavelike video is projected on a canvas on the floor. There are two green chairs facing the wall. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/in-conversation-hiba-ali-with-beheroze-shroff-and-zavier-wingham/ LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Virtual ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hibaaliroughassilk-scaled.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230520T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230520T130000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191505Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191505Z UID:10001095-1684584000-1684587600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Equipment Orientation DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 20\, 12 pm\nFree\nJoin us Saturday\, May 20 at noon for our first equipment orientation of the year. We’ll briefly preview Squeaky’s rental inventory and discuss how to get started with basic functions\, handling\, and operations of each piece of equipment. It’s a great time to come with your questions and find out how renting from Squeaky Wheel can support your creative moving image visions! URL:https://squeaky.org/event/equipment-orientation-2/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Access,Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Equip-Orientation.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230413T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001093-1681408800-1681419600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Soon-rye Yim's 와이키키 브라더스 (Waikiki Brothers)\, with Molly Hyo Kim DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 13\, 2023\, 6–9 pm\n@ Journey’s End Refugee Services (2495 Main Street\, Suite #530)\nFree or suggested donation\nPresented as the opening of the symposium Genre\, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama\, Soon-rye Yim’s 와이키키 브라더스 (Waikiki Brothers\, 109 min\, 2001) is about high school friends who form a band and struggle to find success\, relationships and happiness. The screening will be followed by a lecture by Molly Kim of Hanyang University about the film’s writer and director\, Soon-rye Yim. The lecture\, “Korean Cinema and The Single Woman: Korean Women Filmmakers through Yim Soon-rye\,” will be the opening keynote lecture of UB Asia Research Institute’s Korean studies symposium\, followed by a Q&A with Margaret Rhee\, assistant professor of Media Studies at SUNY Buffalo and The New School\, and Ekrem Serdar\, curator at Squeaky Wheel. Special thank you to Kathy Spillman and Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nMolly Hyo Kim is Adjunct Professor of the College of Humanities at Hanyang University. She earned a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Illinois\, Urbana-Champaign\, an M.A. in Cinema Studies from New York University\, and a B.A. in Communication and Culture from Indiana University at Bloomington. She has published her works in Acta Koreana\, the Journal of Cultural Studies\, the International Journal of Korean History\, and more. \nMargaret Rhee is a poet\, scholar and new media artist. Rhee’s debut poetry collection\, “Love\, Robot\,” was published in 2017 and has been named a 2017 Best Book of Poetry by Entropy Magazine and awarded a 2018 Elgin Award by the Science Fiction Poetry Association and the 2019 Best Book Award in Poetry by the Asian American Studies Association. \nAs a new media artist\, her project The Kimchi Poetry Machine is exhibited at the Electronic Literature Review Volume III and included in the anthology Art as Social Practice: Technologies for Change(Routledge\, 2022). From 2008 – 2018\, with collaborators from the San Francisco Department of Public Health\, she co-lead the participatory project From the Center which focused on digital storytelling\, women of color\, and HIV/AIDS education in the San Francisco Jail. \nRhee is an assistant professor at The New School in the School of Media Studies. Prior to The New School\, Rhee held a faculty appointments at the University at Buffalo-SUNY\, Harvard\, and University of Oregon. Rhee earned her Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley in ethnic studies with a Designated Emphasis in new media studies\, and her B.A. in Creative Writing/English from the University of Southern California. \nThis symposium Genre\, Gender and Language in Korean Film and Drama will feature scholars from the U.S\, Asia and Europe examining a wide range of topics in Korean film and television\, including sexuality\, LGBTQ representation\, translation\, violence\, and popular productions like Squid Game and Parasite. This event is sponsored by the UB Asia Research Institute\, Academy of Korean Studies\, and Squeaky Wheel. Cosponsors include the UB Departments of Media Study\, English\, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies\, Art\, and Linguistics\, UB Asian Studies Program\, Global Film Studies Minor Program\, and Gender Institute. \nImage: A still from Waikiki Brothers. Four young people looking off to the side of the camera lens on a sunny day. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/soon-rye-yims-%ec%99%80%ec%9d%b4%ed%82%a4%ed%82%a4-%eb%b8%8c%eb%9d%bc%eb%8d%94%ec%8a%a4-waikiki-brothers-with-molly-hyo-kim/ LOCATION:Journey’s End Refugee Services\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite #530\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/waikiki-brothers.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230411T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000878-1681236000-1681246800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:16mm Camera-Less Filmmaking with Dena Kopolovich DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 11\, 2023\, 6–9 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nJoin visiting artist Dena Kopolovich for a special workshop on cameraless filmmaking with 16mm film! Intended for ages 16 and up\, participants will learn about motion picture film\, and manipulate the surface of film using a variety of camera-less techniques: painting\, scratching\, masking\, and tape-lifting to create an original\, collective experimental film on 16mm. The workshop will culminate with a screening at Squeaky Wheel where we’ll watch the film on loop. A light dinner will be provided; you can indicate dietary restrictions during checkout. \nBio of the instructor \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Dena Kopolovich. Several strips of 16mm film against a lighttable. Some are in color and some are in black and white. Some of the films have hand scratched lettering on their emulsion. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/16mm-camera-less-filmmaking-with-dena-kopolovich/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Dena-Kopolovich-film-strips.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230407T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000877-1680894000-1680901200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Meet the Residents! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, April 7\, 2023\, 7 pm ET\nOnline + in-person @ Squeaky Wheel \nFree or suggested donation. ASL interpretation provided. \nClick here for tickets\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this virtual artist talk with our Spring 2023 Workspace Residents! Dena Kopolovich (Flushing\, NY)\, Elenie Chung (Los Angeles\, CA)\, Laura Jaramillo (Durham\, NC)\, and Miranda Javid (Port Ewen\, NY) will be presenting and speaking to their previous and current projects\, and engage in a Q&A moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nDuring time with Squeaky Wheel\, the residents will be working on a variety of projects including animations\, hybrid works\, lyrical essays on cinema\, and non-fiction films. Dena Kopolovich will be working towards the completion of her upcoming short film Container Film\, an experimental essay film created in a hybrid 16mm and digital format\, that engages with Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay\, “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction”. Elenie Chung will be assembling All the Films in My Grandfather’s Closet a planned hybrid docu-fiction\, telling the tale of Chung’s grandfather\, a Chinese Trinidadian whose life had been defined by an early marriage\, resistance to cultural customs and the changing times in Trinidad and Tobago from the 1930s to 2020s. Laura Jaramillo will be developing a book of lyrical essays investigating the fraught history of Colombian national cinema during the War on Drugs and global neoliberalization\, interwoven with her own biography as a diasporic Colombian and her family’s history. Miranda Javid will continue animating\, sound recording\, and editing Human Behavior\, a three-minute hand-drawn film drawn with sumi ink on tracing paper\, which asks viewers how even small gestures can impact others. \nIn-person attendees can find information on how to get to Squeaky Wheel’s new location at Tri-Main Center here. The event will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nTo find out more about the Workspace Residency\, click here. \nBiographies of the residents\n \nDena Kopolovich (b.1991) is a multimedia artist & filmmaker from New York. Her recent work uses past and present aesthetics to investigate the origin and continuity of meaning. She is interested in using cinematic forms to explore the derivation of instinctive human rituals & objects. In 2022 she completed a fellowship at LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture\, where she spent a year creatively interrogating ancient mythological texts. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Film & Media Department at Hunter College and a Teaching Artist at the cinema-arts non-profit Mono No Aware. Dena received her education from the Purchase College Conservatory of Theater Arts\, with a concentration in Directing and the Integrated Media Arts MFA at Hunter College. \nElenie Chung is a filmmaker and artist\, born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago\, currently based in Los Angeles\, CA. She is interested in using female relationships as a method of illustrating cultural disconnection and ancestral amnesia. Her films have screened in international festivals and art exhibitions. Since attending the University of California\, Los Angeles to achieve an MFA in Film Directing/Production\, she has been working remotely at Women Make Movies\, a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City and has been contributing to film organizations in Los Angeles to amplify under-recognised films by women\, international and non-white filmmakers. \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nWorkspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nImage description: Four photographs against a graphic background. Left to right and top to bottom are: a portrait of Dena Kopolovich\, gazing off to the left and smiling\, wearing a light brown turtleneck\, with curly long auburn hair that is styled down. The background is a brick wall painted two different shades of red; A close up of Elenie Chung\, a young woman of East Asian descent wearing glasses and with short black hair. She is wearing a green and pink checkered wool scarf; Laura Jaramillo\, a woman in a black dress stares off to the right of the frame. There are trees and foliage behind her; and Miranda Javid\, a femme iranian woman in her mid-thirties stands in front of lush trees. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Workspace-Spring-2023.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230405T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001091-1680717600-1680724800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Visual Media for Poets with Laura Jaramillo DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 5\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\n\n\n\n\nIntended for all audiences\, visiting poet and researcher Laura Jaramillo will lead Visual Media for Poets\, on how to use visual media to write poetry\, even for people who have never written it. \nWhile many assume poetry is incomprehensible or not for them\, almost everyone has a favorite television show or movie that makes them feel things. This workshop takes those feelings as the material of the poem. \nParticipants will look at and discuss samples of written poetry that are in dialogue with the moving image such as Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee and Tisa Bryant’s Unexplained Presence. We will pay special attention to how these writers use movement between image and text to draw out questions of biography and identity. \nSqueaky Wheel will provide journals and writing tools; bring your laptops\, but laptops can also be requested from Squeaky Wheel. Just bring yourselves! \nBio of the instructor \nLaura Jaramillo is a critic and poet working at the intersection of film and media theory\, lyrical poetry\, and essay. She received her PhD in critical theory from Duke University where she wrote her dissertation on avant-garde Latin American and Spanish cinema. She is the author of two books of poetry\, Material Girl (subpress\, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem\, 2022). Her writings on film and contemporary media have appeared in JumpCut\, Feminist Media Histories\, and IndyWeek. She is currently at work on a book of essays about the death and rebirth of Colombian cinema during the neoliberal era. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha\, Other Things Seen\, Other Things Heard (Ailleurs)\, 1978\, documentation of performance (rehearsal) at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, 1978. A woman is seen with her back turned against us\, holding two rope like objects going down to the floor. In front of her is a wall with a projection on it that says “Redemption.” URL:https://squeaky.org/event/visual-media-for-poets-with-laura-jaramillo/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/jaramillo-cha.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230404T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191452Z UID:10000874-1680631200-1680638400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Animation on Paper with Miranda Javid DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 4\, 2023\, 6–8 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nCome to Squeaky Wheel for a special animation workshop with visiting artist Miranda Javid! Based on the artists own way of working using translucent paper\, participants will learn how they can quickly and intuitively create their own animations with a smartphone\, a free app\, some tracing paper\, and drawing materials. This workshop is intended for participants 16 and up\, and is open to all experience levels. \nParticipants can bring their own smartphones or request an iPad from Squeaky Wheel. You can download the Stopmotion app to be utilized in the class here. \nBio of the instructor \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator with a Masters in Fine Art from the University of California Irvine and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her animations describe topics like cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. These films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, Slamdance\, the Flaherty Seminar\, and Malt Adult. She is a Kenan Fellow\, a Denniston Hill resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have been shown at Commune1 in Cape Town\, S Africa\, The Baltimore Museum of Art\, The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina\, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia\, PA. Currently\, she lives in unceded Munsee territory also known as the Hudson Valley in New York State. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is generously supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts\, County of Erie and County Executive Mark Poloncarz\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of Governor and the New York State Legislature\, and individual members\, businesses\, and supporters. Learn more about the program here. \nImage courtesy of Miranda Javid. Black ink on crinkly paper. The image is a drawing of a loosely drawn hand holding onto a leaf. Previous frames or past moments of the movement fading in a trail behind the hand. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/animation-on-paper-with-miranda-javid/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Javid-Leaf-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230324 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230521 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191452Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191452Z UID:10000880-1679616000-1684627199@squeaky.org SUMMARY:hiba ali | oceans we carry: rough as silk DESCRIPTION:On view March 24–May 20\, 2023\nFree and open to the public\nSqueaky Wheel presents a solo exhibition by artist hiba ali that utilizes videos\, music\, textiles\, amongst other media. Through storytelling\, oceans we carry: rough as silk explores the figure of the silk worm through visualizing the history and continued presence of African-descent communities from the Swahili-Indian ocean. They map the relationships between the Swahili coast of East Africa\, South India and the Arab world. \nThe geographic location of the Indian Ocean contains the history of trade\, that includes enslaved people\, gold\, spices\, and many other cultural aspects that continue to be present in the lives of its people and diasporas. ali’s work activates the healing modalities of music\, sound and storytelling as offering points of dialogue and contextualization. Their work anchors audiences in discussions of global anti-Blackness\, colorism\, and colonialism\, broadening our understanding of these topics beyond the US. \nMarking Squeaky Wheel’s first exhibition at our new space in the Tri-Main Center\, the opening of the exhibition will feature remarks with the artist in person. A newly commissioned essay co-authored by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham on hiba ali’s work will be available at the opening\, and made available online. \nThe exhibition is on view Tuesdays through Fridays\, 12–5 pm and by appointment. Click here for visit\, transportation\, and access information for our new location. To make an appointment or inquire about group tours\, email ekrem@squeaky.org . \nali\, who was selected as Squeaky Wheel’s pilot Artist & Mentor residency program in Fall 2020\, will also participate in several public programs taking place in Buffalo and our region. Special thank you to Claire Schneider and Jean-Michel Reed\, Lindsey Lodhie and the Alternative Cinema Series at Colgate University\, and Paige Sarlin and the PLASMA Speaker Series at the University at Buffalo. See more information below. \nPublic programs\nFriday\, March 24\, 6–8 pm @ Squeaky Wheel\nOpening of the exhibition with brief remarks by the artist \nMonday\, March 27\, 6:30 pm @ University at Buffalo North Campus\, CFA 112\nhiba ali at the PLASMA Speaker Series\, presented by the Department of Media Study. Click here for more information. \nTuesday\, March 28\, 6:30 pm @ Colgate University\, Hamilton\, NY\nhiba ali at the Alternative Cinema Series. Click here for more information. \nFriday\, July 21\, 11:30 am ET @ online\nIn conversation: hiba ali\, with Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham. Click here for more information. \nBrochure and Mix Tapes\nClick here to download a PDF of the brochure\, featuring a newly commissioned essay by Beheroze Shroff and Zavier Wingham. \nBelow\, you can find the soundcloud embeds to the mixtapes that accompany the indian ocean mixes vinyl installation (2020-2023) \nsparkle nation · silent reading hour w/ H1BA (Hiba Ali)_ep7\nH 1 B A · indian ocean mix II: music as ritual w/ nada sayed @houseoflolia\, montez press radio\, nov 19th\, 2020\n \nExhibition Documentation\nAbout the artist and contributors\nhiba ali is a producer of moving images\, sounds\, garments and words. they reside in many time zones: chicago\, toronto and eugene. born in karachi\, pakistan\, they belong to east african\, south asian and arab diasporas. they are a practitioner and (re)learner of swahili\, urdu\, arabic and spanish languages. they work on two long term art and publication projects: the first being an art-based phd project that examines womyn of colour’s labour\, and architecture of surveillance as it exists within the monopoly of amazon (corp.) and the second being a series of works that addresses music\, cloth and ritual practices that connect east africa\, south asia and the arabian peninsula in the swahili-indian ocean region. \nthey are an assistant professor at the college of design in the art & technology program at the university of oregon in eugene and they teach on decolonial\, feminist\, anti-racist frameworks in digital art pedagogies. currently\, they are a phd candidate in cultural studies at queens university in kingston\, ontario. their work has been presented in chicago\, stockholm\, vienna\, berlin\, toronto\, new york\, istanbul\, são paulo\, detroit\, windsor\, dubai\, austin\, vancouver\, and portland. they have written for the following magazines: “c”\, the seen\, newcity chicago\, art chicago\, art dubai\, the state\, medium’s zora\, rtv\, and topical cream. \nnote: the profile picture indicates the need to not be perceived by all carceral\, surveillant and monitoring systems including the corporeal\, digital and virtual. the use of lowercase on this site denotes a turn away from egotism embedded in the english language (danah michele boyd) and towards ideas of the collective (bell hooks) and reminds us of the many realities\, names and glyphs that cannot be said in such a colonial language. \nBeheroze Shroff teaches in the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. A long-time scholar of Siddis\, Indians of African descent in Gujarat\, Shroff has published widely in several journals and anthologies\, and documented on film different aspects of contemporary Siddi life\, in Gujarat. Most recently\, in 2020\, Shroff co-edited a three-volume publication titled Afro-South Asia in the Global African Diaspora\, which explores the ways in which Africans and people of African descent have shaped and have been shaped by histories\, cultures\, and societies of South Asia. Her documentaries have been shown in public and academic venues: at Monsoons and Migrations: Unleashing Dhow Synergies– Conference in Association with the Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF); The African Diaspora in Asia conference (TADIA) Goa; Samosa Arts and Culture Festival (Nairobi); Max Planck Institute (Halle); School of Oriental and African Studies and Institute of Commonwealth Studies University of London; Schomburg Library and Museum of Black Culture (New York); Malcolm X Library (San Diego\, California) and Pan African Film Festivals (Los Angeles)\, among others. \nZavier Wingham (he/they) is a writer\, editor\, and PhD candidate in the joint program for History and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University\, with an additional concentration in the history of the African Diaspora. Their dissertation research explores how changing Ottoman elite conceptions of race\, slavery\, and blackness in the Ottoman Empire contributed to new forms of racialization of enslaved and manumitted Africans between the 1840s and the outbreak of the First World War in 1914\, as well as how Africans in the Ottoman empire experienced these processes of racialization and sought to create new kinds of community and ways of living. Their work has been supported by Fulbright\, ARIT\, and Koç University’s ANAMED. More of their work can be found at zavierwingham.com \n \nThis project was made possible through support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. \nBanner image: hiba ali\, in the cyclone (rough as silk). Three green curly haired beings\, with brown skin and tan highlights\, big green eyes\, round nose\, pink lips\, are swirling in three separate spirals on top of a shiny green silk fabric with ripples in the background. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/hiba-ali-oceans-we-carry-rough-as-silk/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Exhibition ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/hiba-ali.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230303T203000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191504Z UID:10000879-1677870000-1677875400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Exhalations: Films by Kalpana Subramanian DESCRIPTION:***New date: Friday\, March 3\, 2023\, 7 pm ET***\nIn-person @ Journey’s End Refugee Services\, and online\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to register\nFor over 20 years\, Kalpana Subramanian has created a remarkable body of work spanning films\, media art\, children’s books\, scholarship\, and curatorial work. Her recent work is invested in a cinema of breath: a framework for radical cinema grounded in intersectional-feminist and decolonial thought\, alternative approaches to embodiment\, and what Achille Mbembe calls “the universal right to breathe.” This solo screening by the celebrated film and media practitioner brings together recent and older short films from 2002 to the present day\, including the entirety of her Light Mediated series. The filmmaker will be present for a Q&A following the screening. \nThis online and event will take place in the theater of Journey’s End Refugee Services\, located at the 5th floor of Tri-Main Center. Please note that the online event will only have the films\, not the Q&A with the artist. The online films will be available for 24 hours. Squeaky Wheel members will receive extended access for 72 hours. \nProgram\nTotal duration: 54 minutes. Please note that woolgathering contains flickering imagery. \nThe Maze of Lanes (SD\, 6 min\, Sound\, Color\, 2002) \nIncantation (HD\, 8 min 37 sec\, sound\, color\, 2021) \nwoolgathering (HD\, 3 min 10 sec\, sound\, color\, 2020) \nTattva (HD\, 4.34 min\, Sound\, Color\, 2018) \nLight Mediated Series \nLiquid is Light (8mm transferred to Digital\, 4 min 2 sec\, sound\, B&W\, 2016) \nEmpyrean (HD\, 6 min 20 sec min\, silent\, color\, 2016) \nLight Rooms (HD\, 1 min 45 sec\, silent\, color\, 2016) \nPrismatic Resonance (HD\, 12 min 46 sec\, sound\, color\, 2016) \nA Dialogue of Dissonance (HD\, 6 min 23 sec\, Sound\, Color\, 2016) \nBio\nKalpana Subramanian is an artist-filmmaker and scholar of experimental film and media. Her current research investigates the poetics of breath in experimental film using a transcultural and interdisciplinary approach. Her work has been supported by grants including a Humanities Institute Advanced PhD Fellowship (University at Buffalo\, 2022-23)\, the UK Environmental Film Fellowship (2006) and the Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellowship (University of Colorado Boulder\, 2015-16). Her films have been presented at venues including the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival\, Toronto International Film Festival\, Interfilm Berlin\, National Gallery of Modern Art (Mumbai\, India)\, UNESCO (France)\, Antimatter Media Arts (Canada)\, Asia Society\, Union Docs and Flaherty NYC Seminar (USA) among others. She has received awards for her films at the Documentary Festival of History and Archeology (Perugia\, Italy\, 2015)\, Montana CINE International Film Festival (2003\, 2005) and CMS Vatavaran (2008). Her curated film programs have been screened at the Alternative cinema series (Colgate University\, USA)\, Bristol Experimental Expanded Film (UK) and Simon Fraser University (Canada) among others. She is presently a doctoral candidate and an adjunct lecturer at the Department of Media Study\, University at Buffalo. \nSpecial thank you to Kathy Spillman and Journey’s End Refugee Services. \nBanner image: Kalpana Subramanian\, Incantation (2021). A photograph depicting multiple images projected on a surface. The shadows of what look like two young people\, arms on each other’s shoulders\, standing under an arched gateway to a historic building in Delhi\, India. Upon this image is an extended hand\, palm open. It looks like the young people are in the palm. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/exhalations-films-by-kalpana-subramanian/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Kalpana-Subramanian-Incantation-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221215T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001086-1671127200-1671134400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky's Sneaky Peeky DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 15\, 6–8 pm\nFree at 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\nRSVP here\nWe’re moving and we want to hear from you! Join us for our Annual Meeting and a sneak peek into our new home base at the Tri-Main Center (2495 Main Street\, Suite 310) . Hear from our Executive Director\, renew your membership (or become a new member!)\, and give us your feedback on how to utilize the new space. Wine\, beer\, and light fare will be provided. Be sure to RSVP at the link above! \nImage description: An illustration of young people making a movie together. Illustration by Tom Holt. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeakys-sneaky-peeky/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/TomHolt-scaled.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221111T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221112T200000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001084-1668189600-1668283200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Deniz Tortum's September 1955 and Floodplain DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 11\, 6–8 pm and Saturday\, November 12\, 2022\, 3–5 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nReserve a viewing time here or show up!\nSqueaky Wheel invites you to a special event for you to experience two virtual reality experience by Deniz Tortum\, September 1955 and Floodplain. We are excited to welcome back Tortum\, who was a Workspace Resident researching virtual reality documentary practices in 2017\, in conjunction with his virtual reality intensive taking place that weekend. Viewers can sign up at the link above to reserve a viewing time for September 1955. \n \nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). A wide image taken outdoors on a partially sunny day. A dirt road\, plastic chairs\, and some houses are visible. Someone is sitting on a chair\, their back turned against us. On the left\, a minaret is visible.\nDeniz Tortum\, Floodplain\nVirtual reality on Oculus Rift\, 15 min\, 2018 \nA mysterious tree watches over a forest while humans traverse its paths\, planning construction zones and searching for a lost person. As civilization slowly unravels\, quiet new dynamics emerge. \nFloodplain is set against a man-made environmental crisis and explores our relationships to each other at the end of nature. If we can no longer be what we were\, can we really become something new? Can we be a forest\, or a stone; can we be a multitude of organisms; can we be nothing? Can we be something that we don’t know we can be yet? \n \nDeniz Tortum\, September 1955 (2016). A sun dappled room with a cabinet full of photography film. Two pictures are hanging on the wall; one of a person with a camera\, the other of a soccer team lined up. A coat and fedora hang in the corner by a comfortable chair.\nDeniz Tortum with Çağrı Hakkı Zaman & Nil Tuzcu\, September 1955\nVirtual Reality on Vive\, 8 min\, 2016 \nThe 8-minute virtual-reality documentary depicts the Istanbul Pogrom\, a government-initiated organized attack on the minorities of Istanbul that took place on September 6-7\, 1955. This interactive installation places the viewer in a reconstructed photography studio in the midst of the pogrom\, allowing one to witness the events from the perspective of a local shop-owner. \nDrawing on the photographic archive of Maryam Şahinyan (1911-1996) and Osep Minasoğlu (1929-2013)\, Armenian photographers who lived in Istanbul at the time\, the installation materializes an extinct space. The wall in the virtual studio that exhibits Sahinyan’s photos is transformed into a documentation of the raids and their aftermath in the physical space; by overlapping the layouts of the two spaces the project experiments with the transition from a virtual to physical experience. The experience of the space induced by participating in the mundane activities of the photography studio aims to generate unique historical narratives that are reproduced and enacted by the viewer. \nBiography of the artist \nDeniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, SxSW\, IFFR\, IDFA\, Sheffield Doc/Fest\, Hot Docs\, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021\, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival. His latest feature film Phases of Matter (2020) premiered at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020 and received the Best Documentary awards at Istanbul and Antalya Film Festivals. He has worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative\, where his research focused on immersive media. In 2019\, he was featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. \nThis event is presented in partnership with ASI and the Arts Council for Wyoming County\, and made possible with funds from the NYSCA in Partnership with Wave Farm: Immersive Art & Technology Initiative\, with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. Special thank you to Çağrı Hakkı Zaman. \nBanner image: Deniz Tortum\, Floodplain (2018). URL:https://squeaky.org/event/deniz-tortums-september-1955/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Screen-Shot-2022-10-25-at-11.46.12-AM.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20221014T190000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001083-1665768600-1665774000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 19th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 14\, 2022\, 5:30 pm ET\nIn-person at the Burchfield Penney Art Center as part of M&T Second Fridays\nFree or suggested donation\nTo attend the in-person event\, just come to BPAC!\nFor the online screening\, register here\n \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present the annual 19th Animation Fest! The annual festival features some of the most exciting voices working in animation today\, from Western New York and beyond. \nThe eleven short films in the 19th Animation Fest feature animation techniques such as rotoscoping\, 3D animation\, stop-motion\, hand-drawn celluloid films\, music videos and documentary works. These unique and personal films address topics and concerns such as gender and sexuality\, women in the history of animation\, disability and belonging\, the perceptual possibilities of animation\, and much more. \nFeaturing films by Ahmad Saleh\, Anne-Marie Bouchard\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, James Leong Holston\, Kelly Gallagher\, LIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital)\, Lynn Kim\, Marisa Michaels and Sianna Le\, Poyen Wang\, Wenhua Shi\, and Youmee Lee. Curated by Ekrem Serdar and Zainab Saleh. \nAccess information: \nFor in-person viewers\, see accessibility information for BPAC here. The in-person screening will feature an ASL interpretation for the introduction and Q&A. See individual film descriptions for caption and subtitle information in the “Program” section below. \nFor online viewers: See individual film descriptions for caption and subtitle information in the “Program” section below.The screening will be available to view for 24 hours\, and 72 hours for Squeaky members. Ahmad Saleh’s Night is not available for online viewers. \nPlease see the individual film descriptions for content notes. Some of these films may contain strong themes such as war\, trauma\, body dysmorphia\, flicker\, or images that may be unsuitable for young children. \n Program \nYoumee Lee\, Rite of Identity\n4:16 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA \nA 2D animation film about a deaf girl who has exceptional artistic talent but struggles with an overwhelming soundscape. Many deaf symbols and motifs are conveyed through her lens. The film is based on Youmee Lee’s personal experience as a deaf student in a mainstream school. \nWenhua Shi\, Because the Sky is Blue\n4 min\, sound\, 2021\, USA \nMuybridge captured the galloping horse one hundred forty years ago in a brief 12 frames. The duration of today’s social media video clips is similar to Muybridge’s brevity. Wenhua tries to reimagine what subject Muybridge would capture today. All source footage is from Wenhua’s social media feed. He used the cyanotype method to reprint the individual frames to create the final short videos. \nAnne-Marie Bouchard\, Bleue\n2:48 min\, sound\, 2021\, Canada\nContent notes: Flickering imagery \nAn improvised film around the color blue and a questioning. This gestural film is woven over my moods during the pandemic lock-down. Constraints: 100 feet of transparent film; work on the persistence of vision (drawings 1 image out of 2). Acrylic paint\, nail polish\, and inks are applied directly on 16mm film. Marie-Loup Cottinet improvised the music on her cello over the animation. \nJames Leong Holston\, Olive and Otis\n5:20 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Animated nudity\, body dysphoria\, brief animated images of surgery and blood \nA short animated horror film about dysphoria\, gender transition\, and the self. \nMarisa Michaels and Sianna Le\, You Are What You Eat\n1 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA \nA short\, gem-like and precise animated film by two students working collaboratively at Nichols School. Winner of the Squeaky Wheel award at the 2022 Nichols School Flickfest. \nHannah Hamalian\, The Golden Age\n9:58 min\, sound\, English with captions\, 2021\, USA \nAn experimental documentary examining the traumatic history of being a woman at work in the animation industry. I put myself into conversation with a generation of women who experienced restricted creative opportunities in animation and a lack of acknowledgement as artists. Each manipulated frame is an ode to the disregarded labor of women\, wielded to create films that told young girls to dream. \nPoyen Wang\, Recess\n4:16 min\, silent\, 2020\, USA \nRecess is a moving image work from The Black Sun series\, which is informed by the literature of Japanese author Motojiro Kajii. Melancholy atmosphere permeates throughout a series of dreamlike vignettes in Recess\, depicting a boy-man figure sitting alone in a timeless\, cave-like classroom. The wind blows the curtains; ceiling fans operate endlessly; clouds slowly pass through the blue sky; a group of butterflies subtly flap their wings on a bulletin board. Conversely\, the protagonist remains still while a ray of sun breaks the darkness of the room through the window\, almost like a rope\, illuminating the statue-like figure. Written in a confessional manner\, Kajii conflates fiction and autobiography\, reflecting on the banality and wonder of quotidian life through the vision of a dying person. Reinterpreting Kajii’s literature through my lived experience as a queer person and an immigrant from East Asia\, I create a series of portraits and still lifes to explore repressed emotions and foreground mortality and alienation as a universal human experience. \nKelly Gallagher\, In the Future\n3:30 min\, sound\, English with captions\, 2021\, USA \nKnowing that another world is possible\, individuals young and old share their hopes and dreams for the future. \nAhmed Saleh\, ليل (Night)\n16 min\, sound\, Arabic with English subtitles\, 2021\, Palestine/Germany\nContent notes: Non-violent depictions of war victims and parental trauma \nThe dust of war keeps the eyes sleepless. Night brings peace and sleep to all the people in the broken town. Only the eyes of the mother of the missing child stay resilient. Night must trick her into sleeping to save her soul.\nPlease note: This film will only be available in the in-person screening \nLynn Kim\, CONDUIT\n5:25 min\, sound\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Flickering imagery \nA running body powers the cycle between states of being. CONDUIT is a tribute to Korean musical rituals and the wonder of locomotion\, both spiritual and physical. \nLIZN’BOW (Liz Ferrer & Bow Ty Enterprises Venture Capital)\, Dame Leche\n3:24 min\, sound\, English and Spanish partially subtitled\, 2022\, USA\nContent notes: Flickering imagery\, brief language \nLiz Ferrer and Bow Ty’s collaborative work spans film making\, photography\, video\, and performance art. Through a queer and comedic lens\, their work together has been building a reputation for critiquing American and Latin pop. Their most recent projects together are feminist reggaeton band Niña and new media collaborative LIZN’BOW. Niña is a feminist reggaeton duo and performative art project. They started this project to bring diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. Dame Leche was directed\, produced\, written\, edited\, and animated by Liz Ferrer and Bow Ty. This video is part one of our visual album Niñalandia. Niñalandia pushes social constructs by bringing diverse voices to the traditionally male genre of reggaeton. Dame Leche is set in a post climate change Miami where half of the city is underwater\, people ride jet skis to work and everyone has an addiction to leche. This project has been funded by Oolite Arts Ellies Creator Award. \n \n Filmmaker biographies \nAhmad Saleh is a Palestinian/German writer and director. His first film\, HOUSE\, 2012 was nominated for the German Short Film Award and his second film\, AYNY\, 2016 won the Student Academy Award. Recently he finished his third short film\, NIGHT and is developing his first feature. \nAnne-Marie Bouchard lives and works in Québec City. She directed several experimental videos and installations. Her work is about exploring the mysteries and wonders of the world and questioning the way we perceive and analyze it. To sense\, to feel\, to be immersed\, and to question: her cinema is poetry.\n \nHannah R.W. Hamalian (she/her) is an artist intrigued by how complicated the world is. In her animation and film practice she tends towards an experimental and poetic mode of expression\, working with the movement of animation in collaboration with dance and landscape to represent paradox and complexity. She uses an interdisciplinary approach to aim for the emotional core of an experience and craft immersive soundscapes that create a space specifically designed for asking questions. \nJames Leong Holston is a Los Angeles-based animator and filmmaker originally from Berkeley\, California. He studied Experimental Animation at the California Institute of the Arts and graduated in 2022. \nKelly Gallagher is a filmmaker\, animator\, and Associate Professor of Film at Syracuse University. Her creative work is rooted in themes of resistance\, struggle\, political histories\, and personal explorations. Her award-winning films and commissioned animations have screened internationally at venues including: the Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, the Smithsonian Institution\, and Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent animations have also screened on Netflix and PBS. She’s presented solo programs of her work at institutions including: SFMOMA\, Close-Up Cinema London\, SF Cinematheque\, and Wexner Center for the Arts. \nLiz and Bow‘s work has been featured at Mana Contemporary\, Squeaky Wheel\, Borscht Film Festival\, ICA Miami\, The Bass Museum\, The Satellite Show Art Fair Art Basel\, Albright-Knox Art Gallery\, The Koubek Center\, Cunsthaus\, MOCA Miami\, Museum of Modern Art Santo Domingo\, and Albright Knox Center. They are recipients of the Knights Art Challenge award from the Knight Foundation\, Franklin Furnace Grant\, Locust Projects WaveMaker\, Oolite Arts Ellies Award\, Knight Sundance Short Film Miami Intensive Fellows\, Atlantic Center for the Arts Residency\, Elsewhere Southern Constellations Fellowship\, Caldera Arts Residency\, Squeaky Wheel Residency\, Borscht Film Festival Grant\, En Residencia Fellowship\, Tempus Projects Residency Fellowship\, Acre Residency\, and La Sierra de Santa Marta Residency. \nLynn Kim is a Korean American filmmaker and educator who uses live-action and animation techniques to create short films that explore the social conditions and realities of the human body. She is particularly interested in how questions around gender\, race\, health and sexuality can be explored through metaphorical and abstract means\, and her work is often centered in her own body and lived experiences. \nPoyen Wang was born in Taiwan and is currently based in New York City. His recent practice employs world building through 3D computer graphics to create narratives that grapple with issues of identity\, sexuality and masculinity. He has solo exhibitions at Taipei Digital Art Center (2020)\, 18th Street Arts Center (Los Angeles\, 2018)\, Flux Factory (New York\, 2018)\, and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2016). \nWenhua Shi pursues a poetic approach to moving image making\, and investigates conceptual depth in film\, video\, interactive installations and sound sculptures. His work has been presented at museums\, galleries\, and film festivals. He is the founder and one of curators of RPM Fest. \nBased in upstate New York\, Youmee Lee is a deaf Korean American animator who weaves narrative illustrations into her art. She currently teaches courses on deaf art and cinema after earning her M.F.A. in Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology. Growing up with limited access to the aural world\, she delved entirely into the visual world and studied art in New York City\, Amsterdam\, and Seoul. As a first-generation American raised by an immigrant family\, her work is a colorful tapestry of her intersectionality. She strives to deconstruct the stigma towards people with disabilities. Youmee continues to explore storytelling with different materials\, embodying the nuances of sign language and physical movements. Her goal is to create visually poetic work that is accessible to a wide audience. \nAbout our Partner Sponsor \nAnimators belong at Villa. Look around: Animation is everywhere—movies and TV\, advertising\, video games. Future animators are curious\, creative\, and embrace technology in meaningful ways. But most importantly—they’re storytellers. They have rich imaginations and take inspiration from other disciplines like photography\, music\, and film. At Villa\, you’ll channel what you discover to create characters and environments that capture the interests of a range of audiences. Click here for more information. \nImage: Lynn Kim\, CONDUIT (2022). A traced image of a person moving over a black backdrop. An abstract white shadow falls on the floor. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-19th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Burchfield Penney Art Center\, 1300 Elmwood Ave\, Buffalo\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Lynn-Kin-Conduit.jpg GEO:42.932726;-78.8783211 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Burchfield Penney Art Center 1300 Elmwood Ave Buffalo 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1300 Elmwood Ave:geo:-78.8783211,42.932726 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220924T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10001082-1664020800-1664053200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's Excellent Adventure! DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, September 24\, 2022\nTeam check-in: starts at 11 AM\nGameplay: 12–4 PM\nParty: 6–9 PM\nSliding scale: $10-25 per person.\nLocation: Anywhere! With optional opening and closing events at Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\nClick here for tickets\nClick here for the event guide+ team placards \n* Event guide available on September 24\, 2022\, at 12 pm ET \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is on! \nBring your creativity and a team of up to 4 of your friends and family. Compete to win prizes by posting photos and videos to Instagram to solve clues. \n\n\n11:00 am-12 pm – Check in at Five Points Bakery\, grab a team photo\, and register before the clues drop! \n\n\n12:00 pm – Clues released and the Excellent Adventure Begins! \n\n\n4:00 pm-Finish Line. The Excellent Adventure ENDS! No late photo posts will be accepted. \n\n\n6:00 pm-Party! – and winners are announced \n\n\nHailed by Buffalo Spree magazine as the “Best New Fundraiser”\, the Excellent Adventure is “a brilliant mashup of scavenger hunt and selfie culture…truly family-friendly\, educational\, and\, most of all\, super fun.” \nGet to know the place you live\, share your creativity\, have fun with your friends\, and win prizes.\nHere is the deal: \n\n\nTeams have four hours \n\n\n50 clues in 5 categories \n\n\nBonus points awarded for creativity and effort \n\n\nClues completed by posting photos and videos to instagram with hashtag #squeakyadventure \n\n\nThe Excellent Adventure promises to bring out the artist\, tour guide\, historian\, and/or goofball in all of us! Players can take part in their own backyard or on the other side of the world. All you need is an internet connection\, a smart phone\, and a few hours for fun. \nAnd did we mention there is an After Party!? \nIf you are local\, celebrate a day of adventuring through Buffalo at Five Points Bakery with music from ABCDJ. There will be food and drinks available for purchase\, and all proceeds benefit Squeaky Wheel\, an excellent excuse to get out and enjoy the last Saturday of September. \nDon’t want to quest for clues – why not come and party anyway! We have a special party-only ticket available (only $10)\, so you can still support Squeaky Wheel\, check out the work of the Excellent Adventure teams and celebrate the winners at the Five Points After Party\, 6-9 pm. \n“The Squeaky Wheel Excellent Adventure was a great opportunity to get outdoors\, be creative\, and see lots of Buffalo sights that I don’t often take the time to notice. My friends and I had a lovely afternoon of competitive fun and learned some new ways to use digital media!” \n—Sarah Wooton\, 2020 participant\, Team Inspector Catjets \nA panel of Excellent Adventure judges made up of media professionals and community members will review submissions\, assigning points for the completion of each clue\, and assigning bonus points for creativity or effort. At exactly 4 pm\, gameplay ends. No late submissions! At 6 pm we’ll gather at Five Points Bakery for the after-party where posts will be shared on screens and prizes will be awarded. DJ? Check. Dancing? Check. Fun? Absolutely! \nWhat does my ticket support? \nSqueaky Wheel’s mission is to continue a legacy of innovation in media arts through access\, education\, and exhibition. We envision a community that uses digital media and film to celebrate freedom of expression and diversity of voice. Buying a ticket to this fundraising event supports the amazing work that Squeaky Wheel does to bring Media Arts Education to youth\, schools\, seniors\, artists\, and communities throughout and beyond Western New York. \n \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s Excellent Adventure is made possible through the generous support of Five Points Bakery\, Allen Street Consulting\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo Spree\, Buffalo State College Dept. of Communication\, Catholic Health\, Delaware Camera\, FGI Landscaping\, Lumpy Buttons\, PUSH Buffalo\, Rigidized Metals\, UB Media Study. \nBanner photo: A collage of posts from previous Excellent Adventures responding to prompts such as (left to right\, top to bottom): Favorite Public Artwork\, Favorite Mural\, Hottest Wings\, Photo Finish Team Photo\, Team Headstand\, Make a New Friend\, Five Fall Colors\, Twisted Tongues\, Stupid Human Trick. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-excellent-adventure-3/ LOCATION:Five Points Bakery\, 44 Brayton Street\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14213\, United States CATEGORIES:Special Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/Screen-Shot-2022-09-16-at-3.38.47-PM.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220827T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220827T213000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191451Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191451Z UID:10000862-1661628600-1661635800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Silo City Reading Series (with Johann Diedrick) DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, August 27\, 7:30 pm @ Silo City\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get your tickets\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to collaborate with Just Buffalo Literary Center in presenting the Silo City Reading Series! Featuring poets Jericho Brown\, JBLC Poetry Fellow Ashia Ajani\, a musical performance by Florist\, we are excited to finally welcome artist Johann Diedrick to Silo City as originally intended: Diedrick will be performing Prelude to Wake\, which he worked on remotely for Silo City as a Workspace Resident in 2020. \nPrelude to Wake is an urgent\, mournful\, and world-building sonic performance that centers the loss of ourselves and environments due to climate change. The work is performed by a fictional character named “The Sound Collector” who collects buried vibrations and releases them from material through an ancient technological device. Combining field recordings\, original music composition\, and generative audio techniques\, Prelude to Wake stages an encounter between the audience\, a past that we are losing due to catastrophe\, and what may exist in the future. \nBiography of the artist \nJohann Diedrick is an award-winning artist\, engineer\, and musician that makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for experiencing the world through sonic encounter. He surfaces resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for revealing new sonic possibilities off the grid. He is the Director of Engineering at Somewhere Good\, a 2022 Future Imagination Collaboratory Fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU\, a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a 2020 Pioneer Works Technology resident\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented internationally at MoMA PS1\, the New Museum\, Ars Electronica\, Science Gallery Dublin\, Somerset House\, and multiple NIME conferences\, among others. \nAbout Just Buffalo \nJust Buffalo Literary Center’s mission is to create and strengthen communities through the literary arts. And for more than 45 years\, we have brought the world’s greatest writers to Buffalo\, hosted poetry events and readings\, and supported the development of young writers. We believe in the love of reading\, the art of writing\, and the power of the literary arts to transform individual lives and communities. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/silo-city-reading-series-with-johann-diedrick/ LOCATION:NY CATEGORIES:Performance ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Silo-City-Reading-Series-August-27-2022-min.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220826T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220826T210000 DTSTAMP:20260412T150753 CREATED:20251230T191436Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191436Z UID:10000864-1661540400-1661547600@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Jenson Leonard's Workflow DESCRIPTION:Friday\, August 26\, 7 pm ET\nOnline or in-person at Squeaky Wheel\nFree or suggested donation\nClick here to get tickets\nOnline and in-person at Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14203). For in-person attendees: Participants must be masked through the duration of the event. The online video will be available to register and view for 24 hours. SW members will have access to the event for 72 hours. \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a screening of Jenson Leonard’s newest short video Workflow. Presented as the closing event of the artists exhibition GLAND PRIX\, Leonard will be joined by his Summer 2020 co-resident Johann Diedrick for a conversation on the film after the screening. \nLearn more about GLAND PRIX here. \n“Drawing from Aria Dean’s essay ‘Notes on Blaccelleration’\, Workflow is a film centered around the velocity and momentum of blackness as it relates to the philosophical concept of acceleration-the idea that the only way out of capitalism is through its intensification. Workflow is primarily concerned with the interplay of blackness and aesthetic vocabularies of finance capital\, how the black (non)subject grapples with its commodified status within the labor market despite\, or resultant of its own history as a commodity via chattel slavery\, threading linkages between the primitive accumulation of the New World and speculative accumulation of latter day. Workflow is defined as “the sequence of industrial\, administrative\, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion”\, my film seeks to disabuse notions of completion wherein blackness is\, as Dean notes\, ‘always already accelerationist’ via its incongruence with western humanism\, and thus always already disengaged from the locomotive fetish of capital. The film presents a quarterly earnings report for a fictitious financial advisory firm that depicts a floating phantasmagoric Michael Jackson Halloween mask espousing a surrealist poem/public relations speech that points to the shared grammars inherent in afro pessimism and speculative finance. Behind the floating head\, stock footage premised around the shape of ‘the grid’ and the promise of sustainability & renewability highlight the inherent relationship of infrastructure\, visual knowledge production\, and statecraft.” – Jenson Leonard \nBiographies of the artists \nJenson Leonard\, (artist) b. Detroit\, Michigan\, and raised in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, United States of America. Lives and works in New York\, United States of America. Initially a poet\, Jenson Leonard became interested in memes during his six-year tenure as a cook at a Belgian waffle kiosk. He found himself drawn to the immediacy and reach of instant publication on social media\, the confluence of which exacerbate the arguably inherent power of the image for those who see. His early work used the canonical Twitter meme format\, but developed into the more ornately parodic style that predominates in the left-leaning corners of Facebook. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Pratt Institute. He has completed residencies at Obracadobra (Oaxaca\, Mexico)\, Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo\, NY) and Pioneer Works (Brooklyn\, NYC). His work has been featured in VICE Motherboard\, Juxtapoz\, AQNB\, and Rhizome. \nJohann Diedrick (guest speaker for Screening: Jenson Leonard’s Workflow\, taking place on August 25\, 2022) is an award-winning artist\, engineer\, and musician that makes installations\, performances\, and sculptures for experiencing the world through sonic encounter. He surfaces resonant histories of past interactions inscribed in material and embedded in space\, peeling back vibratory layers to reveal hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours\, workshops\, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life\, a sonic engineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware products for revealing new sonic possibilities off the grid. He is the Director of Engineering at Somewhere Good\, a 2022 Future Imagination Collaboratory Fellow at the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU\, a 2021 Mozilla Creative Media Award recipient\, a 2020 Pioneer Works Technology resident\, a member of NEW INC\, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine\, Musicworks Magazine\, and presented internationally at MoMA PS1\, the New Museum\, Ars Electronica\, Science Gallery Dublin\, Somerset House\, and multiple NIME conferences\, among others. \nImage description: An image from Workflow\, courtesy of Jenson Leonard. A floating\, plastic\, seemingly smiling mask of Michael Jackson with no eyeballs is super-imposed on a distorted landscape of futuristic blue skyscrapers. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jenson-leonards-workflow/ LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/wfscreencap2-min.jpg GEO:42.8906261;-78.8721258 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Squeaky Wheel 2495 Main Street Suite 310 Buffalo NY 14214 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=2495 Main Street\, Suite 310:geo:-78.8721258,42.8906261 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR