A group screening that looks at how voice and language are made legible across borders and power. With work by Alex Dolores Salerno, Astria Suparak, champoy, JJJJJerome Ellis, Johann Diedrick, Nadia Shihab, Olivia Ong Evans, Saif Alsaegh, and Sky Hopinka.
Featuring 10 films made near and far, the 20th edition of Squeaky Wheel’s Animation Fest features animations made in a variety of media, forms, and materials, from stop-motion puppetry, AI generated imagery, hand-drawn works and more.
Trinh T. Minh-ha’s profoundly personal documentary explores the role of Vietnamese women historically and in contemporary society.
Sharlene Bamboat's If From Every Tongue it Drips follows a queer Urdu poet as she traces the connections between quantum physics and political movements in South Asia.
Celebrating the closing of Jordan Lord's solo exhibition The Voice of Democracy, Squeaky Wheel invites audiences from Buffalo and beyond to watch the works in the exhibition online, and join us for a screening and conversation between the artist and Pooja Rangan.
Shot between 2014 and 2017, Spaces of Exception investigates and juxtaposes the struggles, communities, and spaces of the American Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp.
Squeaky Wheel presents an evening of films, actions, and conversation with artist Jason Livingston, featuring his celebrated film Ancient Sunshine.
Send your short animated films to Squeaky Wheel's 21st Animation Fest!
Join us at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum or online for the 21st edition of Squeaky Wheel's annual animation fest!
As part of The Big Picture series, Squeaky Wheel is excited to screen Vague Questions by Nick Mas and Silas Rubeck.
Chitrangada Choudhury & Aniket Aga's Seed Stories (2024) forcuses on a village in the Niyamgiri mountains of Odisha's Eastern Ghats, where a heroic effort is underway: barefoot ecologist Dr. Debal Deb and his 3 member-team are conserving in-situ over 1000 endangered heirloom varieties of rice.
Part of the public programs of the exhibition The Image in its Absence, this screening take on archives and collective memories: where we search for and see them, their possibilities and limitations in crafting a collective future.
No Other Land was recorded between 2019–2023 and shows the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers; and the alliance which develops between the Palestinian activist Basel and Israeli journalist Yuval. The film will be followed by a discussion lead by LOLA and Jewish Voice for Peace Buffalo.
A screening of short films to benefit the farmlands of Gaza, the films in Seed Songs for Palestine engage themes of seed sovereignty and Indigenous resilience, highlighting the intrinsic connections between land, culture, and self-determination.
Submit your short films to the 22nd edition of our annual Animation Fest!
Squeaky Wheel is excited to host the Latin American Film Festival with artist Sofía Gallisá Muriente!
Join us for an evening of delights at Squeaky Wheel's 22nd Animation Fest!
Sri Lanka made headlines in 2022 when a massive economic crisis catalyzed sustained, peaceful protests and forced regime change. Colombo is where policy decisions are made, but in a democracy, it is villages like Dutuwewa that make their voices heard. How has the country coped?
Peter Blow's 1999 documentary traces the human cost of the uranium mining that was used in the U.S.' atomic bombs upon the Sahtu Dene village of Deline in the Northwest Territories.
Come enjoy the work being made by the A/V Club! From documentary to music video to animation, the variety of work created by this talented…
