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SUMMARY:Hands as Far as the Eye Can See
DESCRIPTION:April 5th \n7:30pm \nAlbright Knox Art Gallery \nFREE & Open to the Public \nJoin us at the Albright Knox Art Gallery during their ‘First Fridays’ for a screening of student works made in response to artist Htein Lin’s exhibition “A Show of Hands”. This multi-youth program project explores the work of Artist Htein Lin as a jumping off point to create multi-media works that look at the role of hands and the stories of people. Squeaky Wheel’s two flagship media arts programs\, West Side Studio\, and Buffalo Youth Media Institute produced individual works that circle around the image and performance of the hand as a common visual connection between all the works. The pieces will explore everything from personal stories\, food traditions\, and even include poems from Just Buffalo’s Writing Center’s young writers. This screening will be a series of vignettes that relate and react to the work of Htein Lin as well as highlight the depth and talent of media arts in Buffalo young makers. \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with the young filmmakers. \nInformation about Htein Lin’s exhibition can be found here.  \n \nWest Side Studios \nLead Teaching Artist – Jesse Deganis-Librera \nTeaching Assistants – Raymari Hughs & Bhakti Williams-Brown \n  \nBuffalo Youth Media Institute  \nTeaching Artists – Lewgua Benson & Kevin Kline \n  \nJust Buffalo Writing Center \nLead Teaching Artist – Robin Jordan \n  \n\nThere is a free shuttle running from the West Side of Buffalo to the Albright Knox at various Locations throughout the day. Click Here for Details.  \n  \nSqueaky Wheel’s West Side Studios & Buffalo Youth Media Institute would like to\nthank our amazing supporters & partners: M&T Charitable Foundation\, First Niagara\nFoundation\, Josephine Goodyear Foundation\, Cameron & Jane Baird Foundation\,\nChildren’s Foundation of Erie County\, Marks Family Foundation\, Margaret L. Wendt\nFoundation\, Best Buy Foundation\, Erie County Cultural Funding\, City of Buffalo\,\nNational Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts\, the Buffalo\nCenter for Arts & Technology\, and PUSH Buffalo. \nThis program is part of M&T FIRST FRIDAYS @ THE GALLERY at the Albright-Knox Art\nGallery. On the first Friday of every month—from 10 am to 10 pm—admission to part\nof the museum and select events are free for everyone. \n     
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LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
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SUMMARY:Worldline ⃝ Timeline
DESCRIPTION:With filmmaker Bryan Oliver Green in-person\, and a live Skype performance by Dana McKnight\nFriday\, April 5\, 7pm\n$7 General / $5 Members / Free for ArtsAccess Pass holders\n***A limited amount of free tickets for this screening will be set aside for members of the Black and indigenous community. Click here to claim your ticket.***\n \nSqueaky Wheel presents an evening of films and performances that form a constellation of times and spaces outside of colonial thought. The screening features a live science-fiction Skype performance by artist Dana McKnight; Bryan Oliver Green’s Recurrence Plot: The Family Circle (2018)\, adapted from a short story by Black Quantum Futurism’s Rasheedah Phillips; Amanda Strong’s Mia’ (2015)\, a supernatural stop-motion film of a young Indigenous female street artist who finds ways to root herself within her ancestry; and concluding with John Akomfrah’s essential 1996 film\, The Last Angel of History\, which examines the relationships between Pan-African culture\, science fiction\, intergalactic travel\, and rapidly progressing computer technology. Join us for a special evening traveling through space and time\, with visiting filmmaker Bryan Oliver Green in person. \nThis event is presented as part of the public programming accompanying Black Quantum Futurism: ON THE EDGE OF THE BUSH / A LONG WALK INTO THE UNKNOWN\, on view at Squeaky Wheel\, Jan 25–April 20\, 2019. Special thanks to Vtape and Icarus Films. \nProgram \n\nMia’ (Salmon)\nAmanda Strong\n8 min\, digital\, sound\, 2015\nA young Indigenous female street artist named Mia’ walks through the city streets painting scenes rooted in the supernatural history of her people. Lacking cultural resources and familial connection within the city\, she paints these images from intuition and blood memory. She has not heard the stories from her Elders lips\, but has found her own methods to re-discover them. The alleyways become her sanctuary and secret gallery\, and her art comes to life. Mia’ is pulled into her own transformation via the vessel of a salmon. In the struggle to return home\, she traverses through polluted waters and skies\, witnessing various forms of industrial violence and imprint that have occurred upon the land. \nMia’ is a hybrid documentary using animation and sound as a vehicle to tell the story of transformation and re-connection. Indigenous people in Canada experienced displacement once commercial trade turned into settlement. Today the urban population of Native people now outnumbers those living on-reserve. Many struggle being disconnected from their land\, rites\, and protocol. This film is not an adaptation or a re-telling of a traditional story but is based in the circular time of\, and passage of\, oral history. Mia’ challenges the notions and format of conventional documentaries and presents Indigenous oral traditions as truth and not myth or legend. (Description courtesy of Vtape.) \n\nRecurrence Plot: The Family Circle\nBryan Oliver Green\, adapted from a short story by Rasheedah Phillips\n16 min\, digital\, sound\, 2018\nA crystal\, memory-storing bracelet transports a young mother back to the day of her own mother’s traumatic death and challenges the notion that time flows in only one direction… \nUntitled live skype performance\nDana McKnight\n~10 min\, 2019 \n\nThe Last Angel of History\nJohn Akomfrah\n45 min\, digital\, sound\, 1996 \nJohn Akomfrah\, director of Seven Songs of Malcolm X\, returns with an engaging and searing examination of the hitherto unexplored relationships between Pan-African culture\, science fiction\, intergalactic travel\, and rapidly progressing computer technology. \nThis cinematic essay posits science fiction (with tropes such as alien abduction\, estrangement\, and genetic engineering) as a metaphor for the Pan-African experience of forced displacement\, cultural alienation\, and otherness. \nAkomfrah’s analysis is rooted in an exploration of the cultural works of Pan-African artists\, such as funkmaster George Clinton and his Mothership Connection\, Sun Ra’s use of extraterrestrial iconography\, and the very explicit connection drawn between these issues in the writings of black science fiction authors Samuel R. Delaney and Octavia Butler. \nIncluded are interviews with black cultural figures\, from musicians DJ Spooky\, Goldie\, and Derek May\, who discuss the importance of George Clinton to their own music\, to George Clinton himself. Astronaut Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. describes his experiences as one of the first African-Americans in space\, while Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols tells of her campaign for a greater role for African-Americans in NASA. Novelist Ismael Reed and cultural critics Greg Tate and Kodwo Eshun tease out the parallels between black life and science fiction\, while Delaney and Butler discuss the motivations behind their choice of the genre to express ideas about the black experience. \nIn keeping with the futuristic tenor of the film\, the interviews are intercut with images of Pan-African life from different periods of history\, jumping between time and space from the past to the future to the present\, not unlike the mode of many rock videos or surfing the Internet. \nBanner image: John Akomfrah\, The Last Angel of History\,1996. Courtesy of Icarus Films.
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SUMMARY:The Big Picture: A Member Community Screening
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis event has been POSTPONED!!!!!!!!! \nScreening date: December 15\, 2018\, 4 pm \nJoin the creative community on Saturday\, December 15 at 4 pm for The Big Picture at Squeaky Wheel!  Producer Fred Massey Jr. will be talking about his new project Breakin’ Legs\, a video series showcasing overlooked music scenes incubating in equally overlooked cities.  The first episode focuses on Benny the Butcher from Buffalo\, NY.  Come check out the project’s progress and\, if you yourself are a maker\, how you can get your own Big Picture event here at Squeaky Wheel!\n\nThe Big Picture is an access program initiative designed to provide local artists a platform to showcase their projects and to receive feedback; to impact and be impacted by the community of makers\, viewers\, critics & supporters and to grow from the experience. So join us on Saturday\, December 15 at 4 pm and become part of The Big Picture!\n\nIf you have any questions please contact Mark Longolucco via mark@squeaky.org \n\n 
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SUMMARY:SHAKEDOWN
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 1\, 7pm\n@ Varsity Theatre (3165 Bailey Ave)\n$10 Screening\n$20 Screening + After-party benefitting Dreamland\nClick here to buy tickets. \nAs Buffalo’s LGBTQ+ spaces face closings and erasure\, Squeaky Wheel presents Leilah Weinraub’s SHAKEDOWN (2017). Documenting a series of Black lesbian dance and strip parties in the 2000s\, Weinraub’s film is a tender\, hilarious\, and utopic portrait of a space and community. Join us at Varsity Theatre for the screening of this vital film with director and Hood by Air co-founder Leilah Weinraub in person\, followed by a benefit party for Dreamland at Sweets Lounge featuring a performance by burlesque troupe Femme Noire. \nAs a director\, Weinraub resists operating as a liaison between viewer and subject; she seems more interested in the play between voyeurism and fantasy. Shakedown is neither an experimental art film nor an anthropology of gay\, black femme performance in L.A. Rather\, Weinraub sought to capture a moment and turn it into cinema. – Cassie da Costa\, New Yorker \nIt’s a dreamy glimpse into a scene subjected to outrageous pressures — from the spectral cop of homophobia and even more from the real cops — that was a wellspring of fun\, love\, desire and good times regardless. – Hannah Black\, Dazed \nLeilah Weinraub’s bold\, immersive documentary\, SHAKEDOWN (2017)\, both enthralls and makes us question how we think about sex and its presentation on camera. A tribute to Weinraub’s talent\, the film takes us into the eye of the spectacle — the dance club floor with dynamic\, erotic figures of Black female dancers who strip for women — and then elegantly pulls us back. Weinraub finds a place of distance and subtle re-calibration where nothing is what it at first appears. This is a fitting approach for a film that celebrates a communal physical and symbolic space in which one can create a perfectly fluid\, slippery identity to be desired and worshipped for — a state of grace\, as we come to understand\, that still rarely exists outside subaltern club culture. – Ela Bittencourt\, Hyperallergic \nSHAKEDOWN presented in collaboration with Dreamland\, Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project. Thanks to our sponsors at the Varsity Theatre\, and Sweet Lounge. \nBanner image: Leilah Weinraub\, Shakedown. 2017. Still courtesy Leilah Weinraub.
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SUMMARY:Buffalo International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 6\, 10am–7pm\nPurchase Tickets Here  \nBuffalo International Film Festival returns to Squeaky Wheel for its twelfth year with a special showcase of films by students in our youth education initiatives. BIFF presents a juried selection of films with regional and global perspectives. \n10am: BIFF Shorts: Youth by Squeaky Wheel (1hr) FREE!\n11am: Panel: Make Your Movie in WNY (1hr)\n12:15pm: Panel: Women in Film (1hr)\n1:30pm: Panel: What Kind of Producer are You?(1hr)\n3pm: Geometry of Desire (1:31hr)\, with The Girls Were Doing Nothing Wrong (17min)\n5:15pm Playing Frisby in North Korea (1:20hr) with\, The Pledge (7min)\, Black (4min)\, and Unforgivable (30min) \nMore information on the films can be found at the festival website
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/buffalo-international-film-festival-3/
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SUMMARY:Premiere Screening: A Long\, Long Now
DESCRIPTION:Brought to you by: Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center\, Buffalo Center for Art & Technology \nPowered by AT&T \n \nJoin us at The Burchfield Penney on Thursday\, August 30th at 1 pm for the premiere screening of our Buffalo Youth Media Institute’s film\, A Long\, Long Now. The film will be presented with the students and a Q&A with the young filmmakers after the screening. \nDescription\n\nIn this hybrid documentary/narrative film\, students of the Buffalo Youth Media Institute explored different possibilities of future and technology and how they relate to current uses and equity of those technologies. The film is a combination of interviews with future thinking artists and elected officials mixed with fantastical skits offering up machines that can cure social\, economic\, or cultural ills of our communities. The film’s premise is that this project exploring hopes and fears about the future of technology is found 300 years in the future by the people who exist then. The film then is put back together by the people of that time and presented to the best of their understanding of our culture is at that time. This film is part fiction and part truth-seeking meant to leave us all thinking of what our role is when it comes to the future and equitable technologies that can benefit us all. \n \n-Zaire Goodman\n2nd year Buffalo Youth Media Institute Student\n\n\n\nInterviews with\n\n\nAmerican Artist: Interdisciplinary Artist whose work extends dialectics formalized in Black radicalism and organized labor into a context of networked virtual life. Their practice makes use of video\, installation\, new media\, and writing to reveal historical dynamics embedded within contemporary culture and technology. \nStacey Robinson: Designer\, Illustrator and Professor of Art at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His art speculates futures where Black people are free from colonial influences. Along with John Jennings\, he is part of the collaborative duo ‘Black Kirby\,’ which explores Afro Speculative existence via the aesthetic of Jack Kirby. Robinson’s work is rooted in traditional comic illustration and is calm and beautiful. Subtly expressing a desire for an equitable future for bodies and identities of color. \nDevin Hentz: is a researcher and writer based in Dakar\, Senegal. She recently participated in the second session of the RAW Academie\, directed by Chimurenga\, at RAW Material Company before working there as a librarian and researcher. She is the founder of the B/Look Club which meets once per month to activate the archive of RAW Base (RAW’s Library). Her writings have been published in LESS Magazine and the upcoming issue of Something We Africans Got. Her areas of interests include\, Afro/African futures\, development narratives in Africa\, dress practices\, and radical pedagogy. \nPhillip Stearns: is the creator of the Year of the Glitch\, a yearlong glitch-a-day project\, and Glitch Textiles\, a project exploring the intersection of digital art and textile design. Stearns’ work is concerned with our relationships with technologies. Through deconstruction and reconfiguration the technologically mediated environment is approached as an assemblage\, where human activity plays a role of equivalent importance to environmental agency. From this perspective\, the development and application of our technologies\, machines and tools reveals our perceptual biases\, desires\, dreams and fears—both conscious and unconscious. Cultural values and meaning\, then\, can be viewed as derivative\, shaped by the particular conditions facilitating the distribution of agency through cascading exchanges of mediated interactions. \n\nCrystal People-Stokes: Assemblymember Crystal D. Peoples-Stokes has faithfully served New York State’s 141st Assembly district since 2003. An advocate with clear and principled service\, she has always put people and policy before politics. She was appointed as Chair of the Assembly’s Committee on Governmental Operations in 2015. This committee maintains oversight on ethics reform and FOIL requests\, state police\, homeland security\, disaster and emergency preparedness\, MWBE\, crime victims\, human rights\, and military and naval affairs. In June 2017\, she was voted by her colleagues to be Chair of the New York State Legislative Women’s Caucus which is a bi-partisan and bi-cameral group.\n\nSean Ryan: Assemblymember Sean Ryan serves the people of the 149th District in Buffalo\, NY. Sean’s broad legal experience includes work for Neighborhood Legal Services\, private law practice collaboration with the Learning Disabilities Association of WNY\, concentrating on the rights of disabled students\, and the Legal Aide Bureau of Buffalo. His legal career highlights include a record award for a victim of housing discrimination\, a successful challenge to a school district’s denial of special education services to children enrolled in parochial schools\, and an action to compel enforcement of Buffalo’s Living Wage Ordinance.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public
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SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 15th Animation Fest!
DESCRIPTION:Screening 1\nSaturday\, August 4\, 12pm\nat the Frank E. Merriweather Library\n\nScreening 2\nFriday\, September 7\, 7:30pm\nat the Albright Knox Art Gallery \nAll screenings are free and open to the public! \nSqueaky Wheel is proud to announce our 15th Animation Festival! This free\, all-ages\, family-friendly affair with the famous Squeaky edge is a showcase of short animated film\, featuring a variety of techniques\, from hand-made film to 3D animation. Guest curated by Savion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo (D.O.P.E. Collective)\, we are proud to present the biggest animation fest yet. Make sure to attend all screenings to see all the films! \nAmong the works featured in the festival are Orisha’s Journey\, an African tale of a girl named Orisha who journeys into the spirit world; Two Spirit\, a reflection on the term indicating someone of native descent who possesses both male and female spirits; Mahogany Too\, an experimental Nollywood sequel to the lustrous 1975 Diana Ross drama. Other works visualize the snapping boasts of Muhammad Ali; elegantly explore Brazillian dance and Yoruba spirituality through hand-painted animation; and showcase the trials of a black queer youth who tries to find acceptance. Foregrounding artists of African and Indigenous/Native descent\, the screening features works from around the world\, and the possibilities of science fiction courses through the veins of all three screenings. \nWith films by Adrian Baker\, Donovan Vim Crony\, Sergio Di Bitetto\, Hannah R.W. Hamalian\, Carrie Hawks\, Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil & Jackson Polys\, Elizabeth LaPensée\, Laura Marguiles\, Lucas Martell\, Everard McBain\, Teouria Morris\, Abdul Ndadi\, Akosua Adoma Owusu\, Ibrahim Waziri\, Don Jonathan Webb\, and Jin Woo. \n  \n \nOrisha’s Journey by Abdul Ndadi\n \nHepa! by Laura Margulies\n \nPlugin by Sergio Di Bitetto\n \nBeautiful\, by Jin Woo\nScreening 1 Program\nHepa! by Laura Margulies\n6:30min\, 16mm on digital\, 1998\nAward winning (NYFA and Dance Films Association)\, Hepa! played at the Sundance film festival. It is a hand painted\, animated exploration into Brazilian Capoeira\, dance\, Orishas and drum. Live action footage blended with animation. Featuring Marivaldo Dos Santos of Stomp. \nCelflux Reluctant Heroes Trailer by Everard McBain\n1:45min\, digital\, 2017\nThe trailer for the upcoming animated series Celflux. \nPlugin by Sergio Di Bitetto\n4:29min\, digital\, 2014\nPlugin is the story of a mechanical city in which every citizen is a part of the city itself\, responsible for generating lights by connecting the male and female parts of the mechanism. Everyone seems to fit into this perfect puzzle except the main character\, G-O\, a man who does not match the rest of his world. G-O finally finds his perfect match – another man – but the City Authority try to stop this uncommon union. It is up to G-O and Ico to show their city that every connection is after all part of the same energy – love. \nMuhammad Ali – “How Great I Am” (Animated) by Don Jonathan David Webb\n1min\, digital\, closed captioned\, 2017\nMuhammad Ali was so much more than a professional boxer\, he was a global icon\, civil-rights activist\, and an American hero.\nThe audio used in this animation was from a 1974 event promoting the upcoming Ali-Foreman fight (aka “The Rumble in the Jungle”).\nAli’s use of poetry\, language and humor was a tool he utilized to build momentum\, and in a sense\, to proclaim victory in his upcoming fights.\nThis animated video is dedicated to him. The Greatest! \nThe Violence of a Civilization without Secrets by Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil\, Jackson Polys\n10min\, digital\, 2017\nAn urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty\, the undead violence of museum archives\, and postmortem justice through the case of the “Kennewick Man\,” a prehistoric Paleo-American man whose remains were found in Kennewick\, Washington\, in 1996. \nAnnie & Dave by Teouria Morris\n2:50min\, digital\, 2018\nWithin a classroom at North Ridge High sits Annie\, a girl with a big appetite and Dave\, a quiet misunderstood boy. Over the course of the class Annie’s eating gets Dave in trouble repeatedly with their strict teacher\, who tolerates no disobedience from her students. In the end a truce is formed\, a new friendship is beginning and sharing food is tolerated. \nOrisha’s Journey by Abdul Ndadi\n5:20\, digital\, 2014\nBased on African folklore; “Orisha’s Journey” is the fantasy tale of a girl called Orisha\, who ventures into the spirit world and must learn the importance of remembering her roots. \nemptying\, to make room for overflowing by Hannah R.W. Hamalian\n5min\, digital\, 2017\nWhat if there are really gleaming cities hung upside-down over the desert sand? A girl contends with her fate by taking on a var hiiety of forms. A cube becomes a vessel\, a site of transformation\, a container of the universe. \nMahogany Too by Akosua Adoma Owusu\n3min\, Super-8mm on digital\, 2018\nInspired by Nollywood’s distinct re-imagining in the form of sequels\, Mahogany Too\, interprets the 1975 cult classic\, Mahogany\, a fashion-infused romantic drama. Starring Nigerian actress Esosa E.\, Mahogany Too\, examines and revives Diana Ross’ iconic portrayal of Tracy Chambers\, a determined and energetic African-American woman enduring racial disparities while pursuing her dreams. Mahogany Too uses analog film to achieve its vintage tones which emphasizes the essence of the character\, re-creating Tracy’s qualities through fashion\, modeling\, and styling. \nAquarium by Hannah R.W. Hamalian\n4:46min\, digital\, 2018\nThe composition of the human body is interpreted through fractal geometric shapes\, which are released into pulsating movements. A monochromatic visual world pairs with a fragmented soundtrack to speculate about the possibility of cohesion. Limbs and pieces assemble and disassemble within a red pool\, as desire for unity is mediated. \nNOISE GATE by Donovan Vim Crony\n8min\, digital\, 2013\nNOISE GATE is an experimental sci-fi short film about a dimensional traveling Scientist who is in search of the ultimate reality. His only passage into that realm is something called the NOISE GATE. \nScreening 2 Program\nHepa! by Laura Margulies\n6:30min\, 16mm on digital\, 1998\nAward winning (NYFA and Dance Films Association)\, Hepa! played at the Sundance film festival. It is a hand painted\, animated exploration into Brazilian Capoeira\, dance\, Orishas and drum. Live action footage blended with animation. Featuring Marivaldo Dos Santos of Stomp. \nBeautiful\, by Jin Woo\n7:40min\, digital\, 2014\nThis picture portrays the society’s heavy influence on the unification of individual characters in this world. \nPlugin by Sergio Di Bitetto\n4:29min\, 2014\, digital\nPlugin is the story of a mechanical city in which every citizen is a part of the city itself\, responsible for generating lights by connecting the male and female parts of the mechanism. Everyone seems to fit into this perfect puzzle except the main character\, G-O\, a man who does not match the rest of his world. G-O finally finds his perfect match – another man – but the City Authority try to stop this uncommon union. It is up to G-O and Ico to show their city that every connection is after all part of the same energy – love. \nOrisha’s Journey by Abdul Ndadi\n5:20min\, digital\, 2014\nBased on African folklore; “Orisha’s Journey” is the fantasy tale of a girl called Orisha\, who ventures into the spirit world and must learn the importance of remembering her roots. \nMuhammad Ali – “How Great I Am” (Animated) by Don Jonathan David Webb\n1min\, digital\, closed captioned\, 2017\nMuhammad Ali was so much more than a professional boxer\, he was a global icon\, civil-rights activist\, and an American hero.\nThe audio used in this animation was from a 1974 event promoting the upcoming Ali-Foreman fight (aka “The Rumble in the Jungle”).\nAli’s use of poetry\, language and humor was a tool he utilized to build momentum\, and in a sense\, to proclaim victory in his upcoming fights.\nThis animated video is dedicated to him. The Greatest! \nCelflux Reluctant Heroes Trailer by Everard McBain\n1:45min\, digital\, 2017\nThe trailer for the upcoming animated series Celflux. \nBuried by Adrian Baker\n3:10min\, digital\, 2013\nBuried: Ohlone activist and educator Corinna Gould talks about the destruction of sacred sites\, with a focus on the shellmounds in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. \nThe Violence of a Civilization without Secrets by Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil\, Jackson Polys\n10min\, digital\, 2017\nAn urgent reflection on indigenous sovereignty\, the undead violence of museum archives\, and postmortem justice through the case of the “Kennewick Man\,” a prehistoric Paleo-American man whose remains were found in Kennewick\, Washington\, in 1996. \nblack enuf* by Carrie Hawks\n22:16min\, digital\, closed-captioned\, 2016\nA queer oddball seeks approval from black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials. This short animated documentary takes you on a quest for belonging. \nBio of the curator \nSavion “Ineil Quaran” Mingo is an afro-futurist multidisciplinary artist and ghetto organizer born in Buffalo\, NY and raised in the Kenfield/Langfield Projects. Through his fine art and multimedia collages he recreates memories and dreamscapes incorporating themes of self-preservation\, Black celebration\, imagination\, and grief. He developed his skill by blocking-out neighborhood sidewalks with chalk drawings and studying digital tutorials. Institutionally he attended Buffalo Academy of Visual Performing Arts and briefly\, Villa Maria College majoring in animation. Growing up Ineil indulged in: Walt Disney animations\, climbing trees\, the epics of ancient religions and folklore\, anime\, early 2000’s hip hop and R&B\, science fiction adventure\, and his gullah/geechee heritage. \nIn 2014 he co-owned\, graphic design business and zine distributor\, VENT. Soon after in 2015 he co-founded D.O.P.E. Collective (Dismantling Oppressive Patterns for Empowerment)\, a Black youth-led anti-oppressive arts organization that aims to strengthen  local resources for creative and exploited communities which resists through art forms and arts movements considered: white-washed\, extreme\, stigmatized\, political\, and/or experimental.  \nIneil Quaran is now developing work for his first solo art show and is continuing to cultivate resources supporting the East Side\, melaninated creatives\, and all the black and brown *QTs! \n*QT = queer and trans people \nBios of the artists \nOver the past two decades Adrian Baker has produced\, written and directed numerous projects for television and the web\, including the award-winning animated poetry series SlamBox\, which was produced in partnership with Youth Speaks. As Creative Director for MadLab Creative his client list included DreamWorks Records\, Sony Screenblast\, and Wild Brain Animation. Adrian’s current project is Injunuity\, an episodic documentary using a unique mix of animation\, music and real audio to explore modern American life from a contemporary Native American perspective\, which aired nationally on PBS in November\, 2013 and has been seen (in part or whole) in numerous film festivals worldwide. Injunuity 2.0 is now in production. The project also includes an educational portal and is being produced in partnership with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) and Vision Maker Media. In addition to his animation\, Adrian has also worked extensively in the education field as a teacher\, mentor and coach\, has published several pieces of short fiction and has optioned a feature length screenplay. Currently Adrian lives in Oakland\, California with his wife and daughter.” \nDonovan Vim Crony is a film/TV Producer and visual artist living and working in Los Angeles. His work focuses on fusing themes of rock & roll and speculative fiction (sci-fi\, horror\, fantasy) in contemporary and dystopian societies. His visual art style is highly influenced by comic book and anime culture as seen through the lens of the African diaspora. For more information on Donovan Vim Crony\, visit www.vimcrony.com. IG: @VimCrony \nSergio Di Bitetto is an Italian animator and designer born in a small town of the south of Italy who has always dreamed to work in the Cartoons industry. Grew up with Disney’s classical feature films and Japanese anime\, he developed his skills attending an artistic high school\, then moving to Milan where he obtained his degree in Media design and Multimedia Arts. After graduating he had the chance to enter in the business as motion graphic designer and compositor\, working for many Italian and international brands in the TV and video commercial industry. After three years of work experience in this field\, he decided to go back to his passion for animation\, moving to Canada where he attended the Classical Animation program at Vancouver Film School. He’s now currently working the animation industry in Canada\, while trying to pursuing his childhood dream to tell story that will inspire the world. \nHannah R.W. Hamalian is a filmmaker engaged in demonstrating complexity in order to point to the richness of life. Through animation\, live action\, and appropriated video\, she asks questions of herself and her viewers in order to untangle the forces that shape people into who they are. Interpreting being as a daily process of renewal rather than a static mode\, her work often centers the body as a site of transformation. She is drawn to motion and immersive soundscapes as tools to create experiences of expanded possibility. She is currently based in Milwaukee\, Wisconsin where she is an instructor in the Film department at UW-Milwaukee. \nCarrie Hawks harnesses the magic of animation to tell stories. The artist works in a variety of medium including drawing\, doll-making\, and performance. Their work addresses gender\, sexuality\, and race. They have shown in New York\, Atlanta\, Kansas City\, Toronto\, and Tokyo. They hold a BA in Art History & Visual Arts from Barnard College and a BFA in Graphic Design from Georgia State University. Their first film\, Delilah\, won the Best Experimental Award at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival (2012). Their films have screened at BlackStar Film Festival (Philadelphia)\, CinemAfrica (Stockholm\, Sweden)\, and MIX Queer Experimental Film Festival (New York). black enuf* won the ‘Best Animation’ at Reel Sisters of the Diaspora\, and ‘Best Women’s Short Film-Audience Award’ at the 30th Annual Out on Film Festival in Atlanta\, Georgia. \nAdam Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist. He attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor\, relation\, and transgression. His and his brother Zack’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, UnionDocs\, e-flux\, and the Walker Art Center. \nZack Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist. His work centers on indigenous narratives in the present—and looks towards the future—through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Along with his brother Adam\, he is a Gates Millennium Scholar\, UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow\, and current Sundance Native Film Fellow. \nElizabeth LaPensée\, Ph.D. is an award-winning designer\, writer\, artist\, and researcher who creates and studies Indigenous-led media such as games and comics. She is an Assistant Professor of Media & Information and Writing\, Rhetoric & American Cultures at Michigan State University. Most recently\, she designed and created art for Thunderbird Strike (2017)\, a lightning-searing side-scroller game which won Best Digital Media at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. \nLaura Marguiles began animating in 1988 as a means to combine her love of dance and art. Animation has continued to inspire Laura\, who has spent over twenty five years exploring paint in motion. Her personal films have been screened worldwide in film festivals (Sundance\, Ann Arbor\, Margaret Mead\, Anima Munde\, Asifa\, New York Children’s Film Festival\, and Cardiff International Film Festival\, Hawaii International Film Festival\, Honolulu Museum of Art\, etc) and her commissioned work has aired nationwide (PBS\, CBS\, MTV\, VH1\, Sundance Channel etc.). She has received awards and grants from Cinedance Film Festival\, Broadcast Design\, Asifa East\, Ann Arbor\, and Creativity Magazine\, New York University\, the New York Foundation for the Arts\, Dance Films Association\, Te PEW Charitable Funds. Besides creating her own flms\, Laura has worked as a designer and colorist at MTV Animation on the classics Te Head\, Beavis and Butthead and Daria and as a freelance illustrator\, animator and artist. Laura has taught animation at Pratt\, New York Film Academy\, School of Visual Arts\, Punahou School\, I’olani School\, Hawaii Women in Filmmaking  and at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she was on the faculty and taught for thirteen years. She has been teaching animation at the Academy of Creative Media at the University of Hawaii since 2015. She continues to work on freelance jobs. Most recently she supervised the animation as well as creating animation for a collaborative event Symphony of Birds at Blaisdell Cancert Hall in Honolulu. “ \nLucas Martell’s first short film Pigeon: Impossible has been shown in over 250 festivals in 43 countries\, and won more than 20 awards including Best Short at the Montreal World Film Festival and Best in Show at ArtFutura in Spain. The film was also a viral hit online\, having passed 11 million views on YouTube alone. Since Pigeon: Impossible\, Lucas has developed several feature animation projects and runs Mighty Coconut\, a full- service animation studio in Austin\, Texas. The OceanMaker is his second 3D animated film. \nEverard McBain is the Creative Director and CEO of GemGfx. GemGfx is a multidisciplinary design consultancy based in Trinidad and Tobago. He has been involved in the field of Graphic Design for over 14 years. He is also the art director and co-author of the graphic novel Celflux which he created along with his wife Dixie Ann Archer-McBain. \nBorn in Buffalo\, NY\, Teouria Morris’s ultimate goal would be to live in a world filled with free Hamilton tickets\, swarms of puppies\, and lakes full of chocolate. A senior at Villa Maria College\, Teouria\, is an artist\, animator\, and a visual development artist. Originally wanting to pursue only Animation\, she was eventually won over by the beauty of environments such as Tarzan and Big Hero 6. When shes not drawing or creating interesting characters\, she can be found eating or dancing around the classroom\, usually on a sugar-rush. \nAbdul Ndadi is an independent animator of Ghanaian descent living in New York City. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2013. His animated short Orisha’s Journey (based on African folklore) premiered in Japan at the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and screened at over 50 film festivals across the globe. A believer in the strength of the human spirit to overcome all adversities\, with his work he’d like to give a platform for those who feel voiceless and help build a bridge of common understanding for all people. Abdul works as a freelance artist for film and commercial productions. \nAkosua Adoma Owusu (born January 1\, 1984) is a Ghanaian-American filmmaker\, producer and cinematographer whose films address the collision of identities\, where the African immigrant located in the United States has a “triple consciousness.” Owusu interprets Du Bois’ notion of double consciousness and creates a third cinematic space or consciousness\, representing diverse identities including feminism\, queerness and African immigrants interacting in African\, white American\, and black American culture. Her films have screened internationally including Rotterdam\, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin\, Toronto\, New Directors/New Films\, BFI London Film Festival and San Francisco International Film Festival among others. She was a featured artist at the 56th Robert Flaherty Seminar programmed by renowned film critic Dennis Lim. In 2015\, she was named by Indiewire as one of 6 preeminent Avant-Garde Female Filmmakers Who Redefined Cinema. Currently\, she divides her time between Ghana and New York\, where she works as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. \nJackson Polys is a visual artist who seeks to dissolve artificial boundaries between perceptions of traditional Native art forms\, practices\, and contemporary life. He holds an MFA in visual arts from Columbia University. He is the recipient of a 2017 NACF Mentor Artist Fellowship and is advisor to Indigenous New York at the Vera List Center. \nIbrahim Waziri Teaching Children About Africa & The World: There’s always something new going on as the world around them hurtles on and changes. With Bino and Fino’s curiosity and thirst for learning there is always something new to discover.  It could be an African dish\, an animal\, a heavy tropical lightning storm\, a country\,a fruit\, a word in an African language\, a musical instrument\, African geography\, a folktale… Featured in ​Huffington Post​ \, ​Blavity​ and ​CNN​. With over 2 million ​Youtube​ Views\, public screenings in over 7 countries\, customers in over 10 countries Bino and Fino opens up a fantastic world of learning for children. The show has been embraced by parents and educators in countries like the USA as a genuine way to teach about diversity\, Africa and more.  \nDon Jonathan Webb uses his passion for history to tell stories that highlight and honor the richness of the African-American experience. Using 2D animation he creates short vignettes that seek to educate\, inspire and entertain viewers. \nJin Woo is an independent short animation director since 2012. VJ. Went to Krakow ASP 2016 dropped off in 2017. Graduate from Kaywon Art School 2012. Born and grew up in S.Korea but also lived in the different countries as an outsider.
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SUMMARY:Let's Start the Conversation: Hues of Humanity
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 30\, 2018\n3:30pm\nFree and open to the public \nAs part of Squeaky Wheel’s Community Screenings\, we are pleased to present Hues of Humanity\, a film produced by Rachel and Dianna Henderson\, co-founders of Colorfully Beautiful. Addressing topics such as empathy and emotional awareness the film attempts to build permanent bridges through authentic conversation. Join us for an audience/filmmaker talk back on how we can all contribute something in order to help positively co-create our existing realities. \nMember Profile: Rachel Henderson \n \nIf you walked into our media lab at any given time this Spring you probably would have come across Squeaky Wheel member\, Rachel Henderson editing her latest film on one of our lab stations. This season we are pleased to introduce Rachel here in our special Members Spotlight.  \nBorn and raised in Buffalo\, Rachel joined Squeaky Wheel as an Artist Member in July of 2017. After a move back home from Los Angeles\, California\, she found that Squeaky Wheel answered all her technical questions! Rachel began her journey in film after receiving her B.A. in Communication from Roberts Wesleyan College where she was also awarded title of Alum of the Year. From the workshops provided to equipment rental\, Squeaky Wheel has given her both the access and the freedom to create her own work. Currently she is assisting on productions for both the Albright Knox and Buffalo Public Schools and is working on her own independent mini-doc.  \nOn her latest film Henderson states: \n“I’m extremely invested in creating a story that the audience feels like it’s something they’ve never seen before or creating a perspective they’ve never thought of. Illuminating new ideas\, concepts\, realities.”
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/lets-start-the-conversation-hues-of-humanity/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bring Your Own Tony
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, May 11\n6:30pm door | 7pm show\nFree and open to the public \nTony as hypnotist\, Tony as magician\, Tony as naturalist\, Tony on a bike\, Tony on skype! As we near the end of Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective\, and the multi-institutional celebrations that took place throughout early 2018\, we are excited to celebrate with an evening of films and videos featuring the late polymath\, made by his friends\, colleagues\, and students. We remember our founder fondly\, and hope to offer a fun and warm gathering for our community\, with a couple of surprises thrown in. \nFeaturing work from 1984–2016\, originating in Super 8mm to cellphone snaps\, by Alice Alexandrescu\, Martha Colburn\, Stephen Gallagher\, David Gracon\, Tyler Hubby\, David McCreery\, Zeljko McMullen\, and Lara Odell. \nProgram \np0st-it t0ny\nAlice Alexandrescu\n2min\, 2010\nImpromptu performance. Tony Conrad asked for my input on a superbly complex topic in media analysis. I gave him my best answer to fit the time constraints of a graduate level course and left the room. \nWilderness Theater\nAnya Lewin & Lara Odell\n11min\, digital\, 2006\n“Wilderness Theater is a collaborative video by Anya Lewin and Lara Odell\, with Tony Conrad as The Naturalist. Two bears\, one brown and one white (played by Lewin and Odell)\, somnambulate through multiple split-screen spaces: a desert\, a snowscape\, a post-industrial ruin\, a forest\, and an interior dreamscape. The white bear\, or ghost bear\, is maybe the brown bear’s unwanted thought. Meanwhile\, a naturalist logs his visions of the bears with a camera and notebook.” \nWomen in Jail Doc\nDavid McCreery\n10min\, 2010\nA “documentary” of Tony Conrad at work in his studio\, in preparation for filming his film “women in jail” w/ Tony Conrad\, Anna Brantwood and George Sherer. \nTony as my violin priest \nMartha Colburn\n2:30min\, 2014\nThis is one of the last rolls of sound super 8mm ever processed. I made it one afternoon in tonys studio. He dressed up and we made a little set and he played violin. \nTangible Man\nStephen Gallagher\n15min\, 1984\nTangible Man (TM\, also for trademark or transcendental meditation) is a critique of artist’s ability to render their interior world tangible in the form of an artwork. \nWe Are Fools – Scene 1 : The Magician\nZeljko McMullen\n5min\, 2013\nOver the course of 7 years\, I made an experimental feature film based off of different artists invoking archetypes from the Major Arcana of the Tarot. I set the stage for each of the 22 scenes\, and had different artists improvise within it. \nTony Conrad: Bryant Park (excerpt)\nTyler Hubby\n6:53min\, 2016\nTony Skypes his media class while discussing his the installation of ‘Bryant Park Moratorium’ and later visits contemporary Bryant Park. \nWe Ride Bikes!\nDavid Gracon\n10:30min\, 2000\nThis is a short lo-fi documentary about Buffalo’s first Critical Mass bike ride. Critical Mass is a celebration of community\, public space and bike culture. The Buffalo Police shut down this ride and a debate ensued regarding bicycle rights. \nBanner image: Tony Conrad with a video camera\, c. mid-1990s. Image courtesy Tony Conrad Archives 
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SUMMARY:Chris Marker’s Level Five
DESCRIPTION:Laura\, a French programmer\, is tasked with creating a video game about the Battle of Okinawa. Using the internet to conduct her research she is led down a rabbit hole of philosophical debates\, while she tries to make sense of her own history in relation to human history. \nReleased when the internet was still in its infancy\, Level Five (104min\, 1997) offers a startlingly prophetic vision of the ability to archive and alter history\, while probing the limitations of human memory. The film is a mesmerizing and utterly unique hybrid of documentary and science fiction. Curated with an introduction by Squeaky Wheel’s Fall 2018 Curatorial Intern James Werick. Courtesy of Icarus Films. \n Preview \nBio of the curator\nJames Werick graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2017\, with a BA in Media Study. In addition\, he spent one semester in 2017 at Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka\, Japan. He is currently writing a film script\, and working at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/level-five/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Shu Lea Cheang presents: I.K.U. This is not LOVE. This is SEX.
DESCRIPTION:Envisioned as a sequel to Blade Runner\, the “japanese sci-fi porn film” I.K.U. (74min\, 2001) scandalized audiences when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Following the adventures of seven sexy replicants as they attempt to gather data for the I.K.U. system (which enables touchless orgasms)\, I.K.U. is a cyberpunk fuck film for the internet generation\, made by visionary multi-media artist Shu Lea Cheang. The artist will be in person to deliver an introduction to her film. \n“I.K.U. is a phenomenon that wants to refuse definition and… crosses all categories – geographic\, physical\, conceptual – with a demented flourish. As much trans-genre as it is trans-gender\, I.K.U. also wants to merge video and film into a fresh digital universe large-scale enough to overwhelm the viewer.” – B. Ruby Rich\, Rhizome\n \nThis screening is part of a three event series presented by the PLASMA series at the Department of Media Study\, SUNY Buffalo and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. Don’t miss the Shu Lea Cheang’s screening of FLUIDØ on Saturday\, March 10 at Hallwalls\, and her artist talk at the Department of Media Study on Monday\, March 12! \nPreview \nBio of the artist\nAs an artist and filmmaker\, Shu Lea Cheang has worked with various art mediums and film formats\, including installation\, performance\, net art\, public art\, video installation\, feature length film and mobile web serial. As a net art pioneer\, her BRANDON (1998-1999) was the first web art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim museum New York. She has been crafting her own film genre of new queer cinema\, calling them eco-cybenoia (FRESH KILL\, 1994)\, scifi cyberpunk (I.K.U.\, 2000)\, scifi cyphepunk (Fluidø\, 2017). From homesteading cyberspace in the 90s to her current retreat to BioNet\, Cheang takes on viral love\, bio hack in her current cycle of works. She is currently developing UKI-cinema interrupted with mobile game intervention; Unborn0x9\, a hacking performance with open source ultrasound stethoscope and Mycelium Network Society\, an organic living network initiative. More info at http://mauvaiscontact.info\n \nImage: Shu Lea Cheang. I.K.U.: This is not LOVE. This is SEX. (2001)
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SUMMARY:A Few Short Films That Engage In Struggle
DESCRIPTION:Presented as part of the public programming for our current exhibition belit sağ: Let Me Remember\, this program of short experimental and documentary films revolve around the struggle against white supremacy in the United States\, state repression of the Kurdish people\, and settler colonialism in Palestine. The screening explores how these works\, involving struggles far flung from each other\, connect and the common strategies and aesthetics they share. Featuring work by Basma Alsharif\, Decolonize This Place\, Rhys Hall\, Adam Khalil\, Zack Khalil\, and Jackson Polys\, and belit sağ. Curated with an introduction by Nitasha Dhillon. \nProgram (~60 minutes) \nDecolonize This Place\, Anti-Columbus Day Tour: Decolonize This Museum\, digital video\, 3:23 minutes; 2016) \nRhys Hall\, To Free A Butterfly\, digital video\, 11:18 min\, 2016 \nAdam Khalil \, Zack Khalil\, and Jackson Polys\, The Violence of a Civilization without Secrets\, digital video\, 9:43 minutes; 2017 \nBasma Alsharif\, We Began by Measuring Distance\, digital video\, 19:00 min\, 2009 \nbelit sağ\, Ayhan and Me\, digital video\, 14:17 min\, 2015 \nBio of the curator\nNitasha Dhillon has a B.A. in Mathematics from St Stephen’s College\, University of Delhi\, and attended the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York and School of International Center of Photography. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Media Study – University of Buffalo in New York. Nitasha’s practice joins research\, aesthetics\, organizing\, and action as part of MTL Collective with Amin Husain. As MTL\, they are co-founders of Tidal: Occupy Theory\, Occupy Strategy magazine\, Global Ultra Luxury Faction\, the direct action arm of Gulf Labor Artists Coalition\, Strike Debt and Rolling Jubilee\, Direct Action Front for Palestine\, Decolonial Cultural Front\, and most recently\, Decolonize This Place\, a movement space and formations in New York City that combine cultural events with organizing\, art\, and action around five strands of struggle: Indigenous Struggle\, Black Liberation\, Free Palestine\, Global Wage Worker\, and De-Gentrification. \nBanner image: Image: Rhys Hall\, To Free A Butterfly\, digital video\, 2016
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SUMMARY:Sleeping Sickness
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, December 6th\, 2017\nUlrich Köhler’s Sleeping Sickness (2011)\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel Members \nA Silver Bear winning Berlin School post-script to our series on Christian Petzold. Ebbo and Vera have lived in Africa a long time because of Ebbo’s job\, but Vera wants to return to Europe to be close to her daughter\, who is studying at a boarding school. \n“This remarkably assured third feature by the young German director Ulrich Köhler—winner of Best Director at this year’s Berlin Film Festival—transports us to Cameroon\, where German doctor Ebbo (Pierre Bokma) and his wife have spent two decades combating an epidemic of sleeping sickness in the local villages. Soon\, they will return to Europe and to lives long ago put on hold\, and this has created a crisis for Ebbo\, who\, like Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz\, has spent too much time up river to ever come back down. Meanwhile\, a young black doctor—a Frenchman born to Congolese parents—travels to Africa to evaluate the efficiency of Ebbo’s program. But when he arrives\, nothing goes according to plan\, and despite his heritage\, he feels very much a stranger in a strange land. Finally\, the two subjects of this haunting meditation on Africa’s past and future dovetail—effortlessly\, seamlessly—and the cumulative impact is stunning.” – Film Society of Lincoln Center
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SUMMARY:Chantal Akerman's One Day Pina Asked...
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 29\, 2017\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel members \nAn encounter between two of the most remarkable women artists of the 20th century\, One Day Pina Asked…(1983) is Chantal Akerman’s look at the work of choreographer Pina Bausch and her Wuppertal\, Germany-based dance company. \nIn the film\, the Belgian film director gives us an opportunity to consider Bausch’s architectural stage and complex emotional practice. Bausch’s work (as expressed in Akerman’s film) expresses a movement that encompasses both gendered violence and expressions of love\, with a kindness generated by pacing. One Day Pina Asked… gives us careful\, sharply aimed shots of stage movements\, backstage practice sequences\, and an iconic eye-to-eye closing sequence with Bausch herself. We’re invited to do more than watch a film transcription of a dance event; instead\, Akerman’s work challenges us by suggesting the interstices of the physical and the emotional\, the structured and incidental\, and the space before the curtain rises. \nCurated\, and featuring an introduction by Squeaky Wheel Curatorial Intern Colleen Stapleton. \n“Both [Bausch and Akerman] create reflective\, large-scale visual compositions that convey a powerful but ambiguous emotional intensity.” —Stephen Holden\, The New York Times
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/one-day-pina-asked/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:To and From 1967: Ephraim Asili's African Diaspora Series
DESCRIPTION:Ephraim Asili\, Fluid Frontiers (2015)\nNovember 19\, 2017\n3pm\n@ Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\, 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208 (map)\nFree and open to the general public\nWith Ephraim Asili in person\, and followed by a Q&A with the artist moderated by Max Anderson. \nAs part of To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to present an in-person screening with Hudson based filmmaker Ephraim Asili and his African Diaspora Series. \n“In seven years\, the filmmaker Ephraim Asili has completed a remarkable cycle of five films regarding his own relationship with the greater African diaspora. These films—Forged Ways (2011)\, American Hunger (2013)\, Many Thousands Gone (2015)\, Kindah (2016)\, and Fluid Frontiers (2017)—document not only his travels across Brazil\, Canada\, Ethiopia\, Ghana\, Jamaica\, and the United States\, but also a personal search for the connections of cultures across space and time. American Hunger\, for example\, features images of a vandalized statue of Ghana’s first prime minister Kwame Nkrumah accompanied by recordings of his speeches in which he declares his hope for Ghana’s future. Asili cuts from this lost vision of accomplishment and idealism to a shot of a woman on the street in Ghana holding a mass-produced bag bearing Barack Obama’s face\, bringing together the legacy of US imperialism and the complicated feelings that accompanied the first black president of the United States. With its observational 16mm cinematography and its precise use of sound and music\, Asili’s work is critical and speculative\, listening intently to the resonances of words and gestures that span centuries and oceans.” Ekrem Serdar\, Brooklyn Rail. \nProgram \nForged Ways\n2011 | 15min | Ethiopia / United States\nFilmed on location in Harlem (NY) and Ethiopia\, Forged Ways oscillates between the first person account of a filmmaker\, a man navigating the streets of Harlem\, and the day to day life in the cities and villages of Ethiopia. \nAmerican Hunger\n2013 | 19min | Ghana / United States\nOscillating between a street festival in Philadelphia\, the slave forts and capitol city of Ghana\, and the New Jersey shore\, American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies. \nMany Thousands Gone\n2015 | 8min | Brazil / United States\nFilmed on location in Salvador\, Brazil (the last city in the Western Hemisphere to outlaw slavery) and Harlem\, NY ( an international stronghold of the African Diaspora)\, Many Thousands Gone draws parallels between a summer afternoon on the streets of the two cities. A silent version of the film was given to jazz multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee to use an interpretive score. The final film is the combination of the images and McPhee’s real time “sight reading” of the score. \nKindah\n2016 | 00:12:00 | Jamaica / United States\nKindah was shot in Hudson\, NY and Accompong\, Jamaica. Accompong was founded in 1739 after rebel slaves and their descendants fought a protracted war with the British leading to the establishment of a treaty between the two sides. The treaty signed under British governor Edward Trelawny granted Cudjoe’s Maroons 1\,500 acres of land between their strongholds of Trelawny Town and Accompong in the Cockpits. Cudjoe\, a leader of the Maroons\, is said to have united them in their fight for autonomy under the Kindah Tree — a large\, ancient mango tree that still stands to this day. The tree symbolizes the kinship of the community on its common land. \nFluid Frontiers\n2017 | 00:23:00 | Canada / United States\nFluid Frontiers is the fifth and final film in an ongoing series of films exploring Asili’s personal relationship to the African Diaspora. Shot along the Detroit River\, Fluid Frontiers explores the relationship between concepts of resistance and liberation exemplified by the Underground Railroad\, Broadside Press\, and artworks of local Detroit Artists. All of the poems are read from original copies of Broadside Press publications by natives of the Detroit Windsor region and were shot without rehearsal. \nBio\nEphraim Asili is a Filmmaker\, DJ\, and Traveler whose work focuses on the African diaspora as a cultural force. His films have screened in festivals and venues all over the world\, including the New York Film Festival\, NY; Toronto International Film Festival\, Canada; Ann Arbor Film Festival\, MI; San Francisco International Film Festival\, CA; Milano Film Festival\, Italy; International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Netherlands; MoMA PS1\, NY; LAMOCA\, CA; Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, MA; and the Whitney Museum\, NY. As a DJ\, Asili can be heard on his radio program In The Cut on WGXC\, or live at his monthly dance party Botanica. Asili currently resides in Hudson\, NY\, and is a Professor in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College.
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SUMMARY:To and From 1967: The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Brett Story\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes\, 2015\nSaturday\, November 18\n4pm\n@ Frank E. Merriweather Jr. Library\, 1324 Jefferson Ave\, Buffalo\, NY 14208 (map)\nFree and open to the general public\nWith Brett Story in person. The screening will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Meg Knowles. \nAn ingenious\, prismatic approach with a consistent formal beauty. — Variety \nAs part of To and From 1967: A Rebellion with Martin Sostre\, Squeaky Wheel is excited to present of the acclaimed documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes with director Brett Story in person. \nThe Prison in Twelve Landscapes\, 90min\, 2015\, USA\nMore people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history\, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. The Prison in Twelve Landscapes is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead\, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives\, from a California mountainside where female prisoners fight raging wildfires\, to a Bronx warehouse full of goods destined for the state correctional system\, to an Appalachian coal town betting its future on the promise of prison jobs. \nBio\nBrett Story is a writer and independent non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto and New York. Her films have screened at True/False\, Oberhausen\, Hot Docs\, the Viennale\, and Dok Leipzig\, among other festivals. Her first feature-length film\, the award-winning Land of Destiny (2010)\, screened internationally and was broadcast on both Canadian and American television. Her second feature documentary\, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize for Canadian Feature Documentary at Hot Docs\, the Prize for Best Canadian Documentary at the DOXA Documentary Festival\, and a Special Jury Mention at the Camden International Film Festival. The film will be broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2017. Her journalism and film criticism have appeared in such outlets as CBC Radio and The Nation magazine\, and she is currently completing a book manuscript for the University of California Press titled The Prison out of Place. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Place\, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She was the recipient of the Documentary Organization of Canada Institute’s 2014 New Visions Award and the 2016 Governor General’s Gold Medal from the University of Toronto for academic excellence. Brett is a 2016-2017 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow.
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SUMMARY:Christine Choy presents: Who Killed Vincent Chin?
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 10\, 2017\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel Members | Free for students with valid ID \nWho Killed Vincent Chin? (1989) is a gripping documentary directed by Christine Choy & Renee Tajima-Peña that focuses on the events surrounding the murder of Chinese-American man\, Vincent Chin\, by two white autoworkers from Detroit in 1982. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary\, we will be screening this groundbreaking work with Christine Choy in person\, who will lead a discussion following the screening. \nChristine Choy is a New York City based filmmaker who has won numerous awards including a John Simon Guggenheim and a Rockefeller. She currently teaches at NYU Tisch School of Performing Arts.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/who-killed-vincent-chin/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ramon Zürcher's The Strange Little Cat
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, November 1st\, 2017\n7pm\n$7 General | $5 Squeaky Wheel Members \nA comedic examination of the everyday that evolves out of an extended family-dinner gathering\, Ramon Zürcher’s The Strange Little Cat (2013) “…is an intimate yet otherworldly… highly original debut.” (NY Times) \n“In his investigation of one family’s life\, Zürcher does not omit the reality that even members of the closest families inevitably retain their own mysteries.” – Eleni Deacon\, Cleo Journal \nPresented by Cultivate Cinema Circle.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/strange-little-cat/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Buffalo International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, October 7\n 11am\, 12:15pm\, 3pm\, 4:30pm\n Tickets here $10 unless specified. Buy tickets here. \nSqueaky Wheel is once again excited to host the Buffalo International Film Festival! Join us for three remarkable screenings\, plus a special panel talk on Women in Film! More information can be found at buffalofilm.org \n11:00am BIFF Shorts: Youth Program (free)\nJoin us for a screening local youth showcase freaturing films created by students of Squeaky Wheel’s youth education programs. The works will be a selection of exceptional short experimental works and documentary based projects done by Buffalo Youth. This event is free and open to the public. \n12:15pm : 8 Borders 8 Days (Amanda Bailly\, 2017)\nA gut-wrenching first person account of Sham\, a fierce single mother of two\, as she escapes the Syrian civil war.\nShowing with:\nOne Word (Caleb D. Shaffer\, 2017)\nSammi\, a shy African refugee struggles to adapt to her new life in the UK as he comes out of his shell.\nMore Than Two Days (Ahmed Abdelnaser\, 2017)\nTwo teenage boys reconcile a past trauma in Ahmed Abdelnaser’s understated Qatarie drama in More Than Two Days. \n3pm: Women in Film Panel\nModerated by Tilke Hill\nA discussion with filmmakers about their work and what it means to identify as a woman behind the lens in film and media industries today. With Savanna Washington\, Ali Weinstein and more. Followed by Q&A. \n4:30pm BIFF Shorts: Experimental\nA cinematic platform for abstract expressions\, poetic essays\, and unique perspectives. 53 minutes. \nEnd of Time Milcho Manchevski\nTime has stopped and the universe has contrasted into the size of a grain of rice in Micho Manchevski’s visual essay on culture and temporality. \nSigit Phil Hastings\nSignal Intelligence – the act of collecting/intercepting information takes an interstellar journey through the microscopic image in Phil Hastings Sigint. \nPortrait of Snow Roy Zheng\nAn encounter with a younger artist allows legendary visual artist and experimental film pioneer Michael Snow the opportunity to reflect on his career. \nNiofar Hugo Lemant\nTracing the steps of a French girl in rural Senegal\, Hugo Lemant’s explores the ties that bind in a haunting abstract essay on humanity and cultural exchange. \nThe Fourth Kingdom Adan Aliaga\nA poetic exploration of a New York City redemption center for plastics where immigrants and underdogs come together to chase the illusive American Dream. \nManufactured Obsolescence Elijah Pike\nA critique of materialism\, technology\, and commodities designed for obsolescence. \nCorp Pablo Polledri\nAmbition\, exploitation of labour\, environmental pollution\, human degradation..all in a day’s work in Pablo Polledri’s playfully horrific animated essay. \nAngry Black B*tch April Kelly\nA glimpse into different interpretations of anger within black women combining spoken word\, hypnotic performances and cinematography.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/buffalo-international-film-festival-2/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kristen Johnson's Cameraperson
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, October 4th\, 2017\n 7pm\n Free and open to the public \nWhat does it mean to film another person? How does it affect that person – and what does it do to the one who films? \nA boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into Cameraperson (2016)\, a tapestry of footage captured over the twenty-five-year career of documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson. Through a series of episodic juxtapositions\, Johnson explores the relationships between image makers and their subjects\, the tension between the objectivity and intervention of the camera\, and the complex interaction of unfiltered reality and crafted narrative. A work that combines documentary\, autobiography\, and ethical inquiry\, Cameraperson is both a moving glimpse into one filmmaker’s personal journey and a thoughtful examination of what it means to train a camera on the world. \nPresented by Cultivate Cinema Circle.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/cameraperson/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 14th Animation Fest
DESCRIPTION:Aaron Bjork\, Tectonics\, digital video\, 2015\nFriday\, September 1\, 2017\n7:30pm\n@ the Albright-Knox Art Gallery \nFree and open to the public as part of M&T First Fridays. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest returns for its 14th year with animations by emerging and established artists from around the world! Designed for ages 6 and up\, this family-friendly affair is an annual showcase culled from a public call for submissions and features some of the most innovative artists working across various media. \nThis year’s 49 minute program will take place once again at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery during M&T First Friday. Demonstrating a wide range of animation methods\, from stop-motion\, hand-drawn works\, pieces made with open source custom software\, analogue video effects\, and more\, the program tells stories about diverse forms of existence and the nature of life. The screening includes works such as a philosophical science fiction film\, a screen-printed life story\, an absurd domestic drama\, and a mysterious trip towards enlightenment\, among others. Throughout the program you will witness all kinds of transformations\, either of life itself or of emotions that lead to surprising outcomes. Bring your family\, bring your friends! \nCurated by Jean Zhu\, Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2017 Curatorial Intern. Squeaky Wheel’s 14th Animation Fest is generously sponsored by Villa Maria’s Animation Program. \nProgram ~49 minutes \nShip of Fools | Josh Shaffner\n6:00min\, digital\, 2016\nLife on earth through time and space from the present time to 4000 years ahead\, in non-chronological order. The settings change\, humans do not. It’s “a cry for help.” \nWednesday with Goddard | Nicolas Ménard\n4:30min\, digital\, 2016\nA personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. \nAdam | Evelyn Jane Ross\n2:27min\, digital\, 2017\nIn the beginning of them\, she created us. She is not the Adam that you’ve known for your whole life. \nBatfish Soup | Amanda Bonaiuto\n4:35min\, digital\, 2016\nWacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls\, boiling stew\, and a bang. A fictionalized absurdist film based on memories of freakish childhood visitations. \nLo | Ted Wiggin\n3:10min\, digital\, 2017\nWe must protect this house. \nHeavy Blanket | Cory Feder\n6:57min\, digital\, 2016\nUnderneath the heavy blanket there is a train stopping in all the same places and it is passing between all the known and unknown evils of today and yesterday. Who is to say what evil really is; what makes a train stop in one place over and over again? \nIllusions | Dominica Harrison\n5:22min\, digital\, 2016\nSometimes the most tragic accidents could lead to the happiest endings… Animated beautifully with screen-printing technique. \nHead Cleaner | Emily Pelstring\n7:00min\, digital\, 2015\nHand-drawn and digital animation\, analog video effects\, re-photography and video feedback transform images issuing from an apparently malfunctioning machine. Tongue-in-cheek commentary on entertainment technology’s fraught relationship to individual agency and identity\, and its role in the standardization of expression and behaviour\, underlies a loosely suggested coming-of-age narrative. \nTectonics | Aaron Whitney Bjork\n2:56min\, digital\, 2015\nAn examination of the human life process\, birth–life–death. This video is a collection of Aaron’s signature hand cut vinyl drawings. \nBio of the curator\nJean Zhu (b. Shanghai\, China) is a New York City and Buffalo based artist and recently studying Media Study and Sociology at University at Buffalo. She has exhibited at a number of venues in New York State including Silo City\, BT&C Gallery\, Gallery r\, Honey Ramka\, Tender Trap\, University at Buffalo with seasoned artists and peer student artists from Pratt Institute\, School of Visual Arts\, New York University\, Rochester Institute of Technology\, and Parsons School of Design.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-14th-animation-fest/
LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jerichow
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 7\, 2017\n 7pm\n @ Squeaky Wheel\n General $7 | $5 for Squeaky Wheel Members \nFate brings a trio together in Jerichow (2008)\, a small town in eastern Germany plagued by a population exodus and unemployment. An ex-soldier’s encounter with a couple of Turkish descent – the owner of a chain of snack bars and his enigmatic wife – pushes all three over the edge. A sexy\, tightly constructed remake of The Postman Rings Twice (1946). \nA taut\, German-made thriller\, Jerichow adds a bit of European xenophobia to the pulp traditions of passion and betrayal. – Stephen Rea\, Philadelphia Inquirer \nVisit cultivatecinemacircle.com for more info.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/jerichow/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Kathleen Collins' Losing Ground
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 17\, 2017\n7pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel\nGeneral $7 | $5 for Squeaky Wheel Members\nPreceded by Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People (1984) by Ayoka Chenzira \n“A NEARLY LOST MASTERWORK” —The New Yorker \n“EFFERVESCENT\, BRAINY\, and SEXY” — The Village Voice \nFunny\, brilliant\, and personal\, Kathleen Collins’ Losing Ground (1982) should have ranked high in the canon of 1980s American independent cinema but was never theatrically released. A key narrative feature written and directed by a black woman\, Collins’ passing at the age of 46 almost meant the films erasure from history\, until the filmmakers daughter and Milestone films set out to restore this vital work telling the story of a marriage of two remarkable people\, both at a crossroads in their lives. Sara (Seret Scott)\, a black professor of philosophy\, is embarking on an intellectual quest to understand “ecstasy” just as her painter husband Victor (Bill Gunn) sets off on a more earthy exploration of joy. Losing Ground is here paired with another key work of 80s black cinema\, the 10 minute animated musical satire Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People (1984) by Ayoka Chenzira\, regarding the question of self image for African American women living in a society where beautiful hair is viewed as hair that blows in the wind and lets you be free. Curated by Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2017 Curatorial Intern Caitlin Margaret Coder who will deliver introductory remarks. Special thanks to Women Make Movies and Milestone Films.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/kathleen-collins-losing-ground/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Villa Maria College Film & Animation Screening
DESCRIPTION:Still from The Perfect Day by Vincent Czapla\nMay 13th\, 2017\n 1pm\n @ Squeaky Wheel\n Free and open to the public \nWe are excited to present the work of junior and senior animations students in Villa Maria College’s BFA in Animation Program in our microcinema this spring. The program includes short animated films created by the students\, with the guidance of the faculty\, from initial storyboard\, to animation\, to final edit. Also included in the screening\, will be a few notable shorts from our new BFA in Digital Filmmaking program\, which launched in the fall of 2016. Including work by Vincent Czapla\, Christopher Harper\, Kevin Fan\, Ginette Melendez\, Tiyame Gomillion\, among others. \nFollowing the screening the show continues at Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri-Main Center 2495 Main Street\, Suite 500)\, from 5-8pm\, where 22 additional juniors and seniors will be displaying their work in more specialized fields\, such as 3D digital modeling\, character design\, motion graphics\, and character animation. \nVilla Maria College’s Animation program is ground in the fundamentals of animation and fine art. See where your talent can take you.
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SUMMARY:Yella
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 10\, 2017\n7pm\n@ Squeaky Wheel\nGeneral $7 | $5 for Squeaky Wheel Members\nAs part of Lonely Ghosts: The Early Films of Christian Petzold \n“An enigmatic thriller. The kind of movie that tantalizes the mind.” —Stephen Holden\, The New York Times \n“Narrowly escaping her volatile ex-husband\, Yella (Nina Hoss) flees her small hometown in former East Germany for a new life in the West. She finds a promising job with Philipp\, a handsome business executive with whom an unlikely romance soon blossoms. But just as Yella seems poised to realize her dreams\, she finds herself haunted by buried truths that threaten to destroy her newfound happiness. Christian Petzold’s Yella is a stylish and deliciously suspenseful mystery.” (Cinema Guild) \nCultivate Cinema Circle’s series Lonely Ghosts: The Early Films of Christian Petzold\, highlighting the work of the essential German filmmaker continues with one of his signature works. An unofficial remake of the 1962 film Carnival of Souls\, this is the third time the filmmaker and actor Nina Hoss worked together in their celebrated series of collaborations.
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SUMMARY:Bijou
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 27\, 2017\n8pm\n@ Dreamland\n$5 Suggested Donation\nIn collaboration with Just Buffalo\, on the occasion of Studio: Eileen Myles. \nSqueaky Wheel and Dreamland with Just Buffalo are pleased to present April’s Reel Queer film screening\, the groundbreaking erotic whirlwind Bijou. “A living\, breathing sensual and sensory experience”\, (Dangerous Minds) Wakefield Poole’s 1972 film is a transformative experience. The screening will be followed by discussion led by curator RE Katz. Special thanks to Vinegar Syndrome. \nBijou @ Reel Queer is presented in conjunction with Just Buffalo’s STUDIO reading featuring Eileen Myles\, which will take place at the Evergreen Commons on Thurs\, April 27\, 2017 at 7:30pm. \nBijou\nWakefield Poole\n75 min\, 1972 \n“Acclaimed director Wakefield Poole’s second feature\, the surreal and trippy Bijou\, set a new standard for explicit cinema when it opened in 1972. The film concerns a construction worker (Bill Harrison) who witnesses a car accident and pockets the female victim’s purse in which he discovers her invitation to a club named Bijou.” – Vinegar Syndrome
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/bijou/
LOCATION:Dreamland\, 387 Franklin St\, Buffalo\, 14202
CATEGORIES:Screenings
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SUMMARY:Visions of an Island: Sky Hopinka in Person
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, April 15\n 7pm\n @ Squeaky Wheel\n General $7 | Free for Squeaky Wheel Members\n Presentation followed by a live Q&A with the artist \n“Staggeringly beautiful” – The New Yorker \n“The searching\, striking digital films of Sky Hopinka are complex formal arrangements\, conceptually and aesthetically dense\, characterized by an intricate layering of word and image. But they are also wellsprings of beauty and mystery\, filled with surprising confluences of speech and song\, color and motion.” – ArtForum \nMilwaukee based artist Sky Hopinka will present a screening of three of his films at Squeaky Wheel. Sky Hopinka’s lyrical\, gorgeous works approach both his own heritage and history as a Ho-Chunk Nation national and descendent of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians\, as well as the reverberations of the the continuing injustices that confront indigenous peoples. Included in this screening are his award winning films Jaaji Approx. (2015) that addresses the filmmakers relationship with his father\, wawa (2014)\, an experimental documentary that features speakers of Chinuk Wawa\, a Native American language from the Pacific Northwest\, Visions of an Island (2016) which was recently selected to be part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial. The artist will also present a new in-progress work titled Dislocation Blues made during his travels to Standing Rock over the past year. Co-presented with PLASMA at The Department of Media Study\, SUNY at Buffalo. \nProgram:\nTotal length: ~78min \n \nVisions of an Island \n15min / 2016\nAn Unangam Tunuu elder describes cliffs and summits\, drifting birds\, and deserted shores. A group of students and teachers play and invent games revitalizing their language. A visitor wanders in a quixotic chronicling of earthly and supernal terrain. These visions offer glimpses of an island in the center of the Bering Sea. \nwawa \n6min / 2014\nFeaturing speakers of Chinuk Wawa\, a Native American language from the Pacific Northwest\, Wawa 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. \n \nJáaji Approx.\n7:36min / 2015\nLogging and approximating a relationship between audio recordings of my father and videos gathered of the landscapes we have both separately traversed. The initial distance between the logger and the recordings\, of recollections and of songs\, new and traditional\, narrows while the images become an expanding semblance of filial affect. Jáaji is a near translation for directly addressing a father in the Hočak language. \n \nAnti-Objects\, or Space Without Path or Boundary\n13:05 min / 2017\n“The individual is not an autonomous\, solitary object but a thing of uncertain extent\, with ambiguous boundaries. So too is matter\, which loses much of its allure the moment it is reduced to an object\, shorn of its viscosity\, pressure and density. Both subject and matter resist their reduction into objects. Everything is interconnected and intertwined.” —– Kengo Kuma\nThe title of this video\, taken from the texts of the architect Kengo Kuma\, suggests a way of looking at everything as “interconnected and intertwined”\, as are the historical and the present\, the tool and the artifact. Images and representations of two structures in the Portland Metropolitan Area that have direct and complicated connections to the Chinookan people who inhabit(ed) the land are woven with audio tapes of one of the last speakers of chinuk wawa\, the Chinookan creole\, chinuk wawa. These localities of matter resist their reduction into objects\, and call anew for space and time given to wandering as a deliberate act and the empowerment of shared utility.\nCommissioned by Design Week Portland\, for publication in February\, 2017. \n \nI’ll Remember You as You Were\, Not as What You’ll Become\n12:32 min / 2016\nAn elegy to Diane Burns on the shapes of mortality\, and being\, and the forms the transcendent spirit takes while descending upon landscapes of life and death. A place for new mythologies to syncopate with deterritorialized movement and song\, reifying old routes of reincarnation. Where resignation gives hope for another opportunity\, another form\, for a return to the vicissitudes of the living and all their refractions. \n“I’m from Oklahoma I ain’t got no one to call my own. \nIf you will be my honey\, I will be your sugar pie way hi ya \nway ya hi ya way ya hi yo” \n-Diane Burns (1957-2006) \nDislocation Blues\n~18 min / In-progress\nAn incomplete and imperfect portrait of reflections from Standing Rock.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/visions-of-an-island-sky-hopinka-in-person/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cultivate Cinema Circle: Ghosts
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 5\n 7pm\n @ Squeaky Wheel\n General $7 | Free for Squeaky Wheel Members \nA man travels from Paris to Berlin in search of his wife. He finds her in a psychiatric hospital in Spandau and takes her back to Paris. Every year\, the wife makes the journey to Berlin\, desperately searching for her daughter who was abducted in 1989 at the age of three. She was never found. The wife meets a young vagabond named Nina. A drifter who doesn′t seem to have a home of her own\, Nina roams about the city with Toni\, taking the world as it comes\, stealing whatever she can\, here and there. The wife is convinced that Nina is her lost daughter. \n“Ghosts are the spirits of those who refuse to believe they′re dead. Ghosts haunt the realms in between life and death\, hoping that love will help them to regain life. These are the ghosts that are the subject of this film.” – Christian Petzold \nGhosts / 2005 / 85 minutes / German / Color \nThroughout 2017\, Cultivate Cinema Circle\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel and the Goethe Institute Boston\, will be presenting a monthly series dedicated to the essential German filmmaker Christian Petzold. A graduate of the renowned German Film and Television Academy (dffb)\, who often collaborated with his fellow alum Harun Farocki\, Petzold has established a critical\, vital cinema since beginning his career in the early 90s.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/cultivate-cinema-circle-ghosts/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Black Celebration + in complete world
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 22\, 2017\n 7pm\n @ Squeaky Wheel\n General $7 | Free for Squeaky Wheel Members \nNEW DATE: Please note that this screening has been postponed due to the weather; it will take place on Wednesday\, March 22nd. \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present a pairing of films that variously aim to question common political assumptions and their reverberations\, with a pairing of Tony Cokes’ 1988 short film Black Celebration and Shelly Silver’s 2008 documentary in complete world. Special thanks to Shelly Silver and Electronic Arts Intermix. Guest curated by Squeaky Wheel’s Fall 2016 curatorial intern Bella Clemente.\n\n\nBlack Celebration\, Tony Cokes\, 1988\, 17 minutes\nin complete world\, Shelly Silver\, 2008\, 55 minutes\n\n\n\n\nTony Cokes’ Black Celebration pairs up newsreel footage of the 1960s race riots with textual commentary and music from the 1980s\, when the film was made. Depeche Mode lyrics are printed on the screen\, referencing the song that named the film.  Cokes intent for Black Celebration was to give a social critique of the 1960s\, questioning the reasons behind the urban riots\, and suggesting that they were partially due to a rebellion against capitalism. Instead of showing this footage with its corresponding newsreel audio\, music and text eliminate the portrayal of these riots as “criminal or irrational”.  The newsreels show the riots in Los Angeles\, Boston\, Newark\, and Detroit\, and display burning fires\, policemen and military tanks in a stark black-and-white contrast.  Cokes changes the viewer’s impression of the race riots by clashing violent visuals with pop sounds of the 80s.\n\n\n\n“Do you feel like you make enough money?”\n“Does global warming exist?”\nThese are some of the questions you will hear during Shelly Silver’s in complete world. Shot before the election of Barack Obama in 2008\, Shelly Silver found herself “angry and disillusioned with the US\, and more importantly\, NYC” and wanted to see and feel what others were experiencing at that time. The interviews carefully woven together in this piece were filmed in a heated time\, and the questions Silver asks to her subjects are ones she struggled to answer herself. Two very important features come out over the course of these interviews. The first is the spectrum of answers for each question\, and how well they match up with the appearance of the speakers. Is the person young? A woman? Well-dressed? What is the color of their skin?  How do these physical characteristics line up with assumed answers? Second\, Silver leaves each question open and remains silent and respective\, allowing her subjects to develop their perspectives past talking points. Silver’s questions in in complete world range from the philosophical to the political\, creating a broad survey of thoughts and beliefs that are messier than they might first appear.  – Bella Clemente\n\n*\n\n\nBella Clemente is a D.C./Rochester transplant living in Buffalo. She works for metal sculptor\, Albert Paley\, as a Studio Assistant. She was the Curatorial Intern for Squeaky Wheel in the Fall of 2016\, where she made many new art connections in Buffalo. She graduated from the University of Rochester in 2016 with a B.A. in Studio Arts and a B.S. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences. She enjoys making prints and volunteering at the Albright-Knox in her free time.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/black-celebration-in-complete-world/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:The State I Am In
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 1st\n 7pm\n @ Squeaky Wheel\n General $7 | Free for Squeaky Wheel Members \nStarting Cultivate Cinema Circle’s series dedicated to the essential filmmaker Christian Petzold\, The State I Am In depicts a teenager (Julia Hummer) who travels back to Germany with her fugitive parents (Barbara Auer\, Richy Müller)\, former terrorists in need of money.  For 15 years now\, the parents have been leading an underground existence\, hiding among the anonymous tourists on the beaches of Portugal. They have broken a taboo: they have conceived a daughter. A girl who has never swapped clothes with her friends\, never skipped classes in school\, camped out at lakes\, got drunk and broken off with her boyfriend in ice-cream parlours. A girl who is alone. \nThe parents are just about to establish some sort of legal identity for themselves in Brazil\, when a slight negligence causes everything to fall apart around them. And again they are on the run\, which brings them back to Germany. Meanwhile\, their daughter has fallen in love. A love which will lead to a tragedy and destroy the family. \nThe State I Am In / 2001 / 106 min / digital / Germany \nThroughout 2017\, Cultivate Cinema Circle\, in collaboration with Squeaky Wheel and the Goethe Institute Boston\, will be presenting a monthly series dedicated to the essential German filmmaker Christian Petzold. A graduate of the renowned German Film and Television Academy (dffb)\, who often collaborated with his fellow alum Harun Farocki\, Petzold has established a critical\, vital cinema since beginning his career in the early 90s.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/the-state-i-am-in/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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