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SUMMARY:Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, March 19\, 2026\, 7 pm at Burning Books (420 Connecticut St\, Buffalo\, NY 14213)\nFree or $10 suggested donation. Limited seating\, first-come\, first-serve\nSleep Dealer (90 minutes\, 2008) is a science-fiction film set on the U.S. / Mexico border that tells the story of Memo Cruz (Luis Fernando Peña)\, a young man from Mexico who dreams of coming to the United States. However\, in this brave new borderland\, crossing is impossible\, and Memo ‘migrates’ in a new way — over the net. By connecting his body to the net Memo controls a machine that performs his labor in America\, sending his pure work without the body of the worker. \nA film that has gained a cult following since its release (when it was awarded awards at Sundance\, the Gotham Awards\, and the Berlin Film Festival)\, the films ideas on remote labor\, unmanned war\, and border maintenance remains terrifyingly prescient 18 years later. \nSleep Dealer is my first feature film. I made it\, in part\, because I love science fiction. I grew up watching Star Wars\, Brazil and Blade Runner. However\, at a certain point\, I realized that despite the genre’s wild stories and countless special effects\, there were some things that were unimaginable – and that maybe there was an opportunity to do something radically new with sci-fi… The paradox of a world connected by technology\, but divided by borders\, is the central concept of Sleep Dealer. Other present-day realities inspired my futuristic fantasy: violent reality shows like COPS\, private military contractors like Blackwater\, remote control drones like the Predator Drone\, the trend of outsourcing jobs over the web\, the impending global water crisis\, and the ubiquity of video sharing sites YouTube to name a few. This is a science-fiction with many anchors in today’s reality. Sleep Dealer is my first film. It’s not anything like a Star Wars or a Blade Runner. In many ways it’s a humble film. But it’s also an honest attempt to use science- fiction film to say something new\, and something true\, about our world today. – Alex Rivera\, 2008 \nFor attendees: The screening will take place at Burning Books located at 420 Connecticut Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14213. Street parking is available. For transportation by bus\, it is near stops for the 3\, 19\, 22\, and 101 bus lines. Seating is first-come\, first-serve. \nThis screening is presented as part of the series\, Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance. Support for this program is provided by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special thank you to Leo Goldsmith and Paige Sarlin. \n \nAbout the filmmakers\nAlex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization\, migration\, and technology. Rivera’s first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a cyberpunk thriller set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial theatrical release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Rivera’s second feature\, The Infiltrators\, won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Infiltrators uses documentary and scripted forms to tell the true story of Dreamers who ‘infiltrate’ a detention center to get immigrants out. Rivera is currently developing a few new cyberpunk projects and\, with support from the Ford Foundation\, a feature documentary on the history of deportation titled Banishment. Alex Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow\, Sundance Fellow\, Creative Capital Grantee and was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. He studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles. He is an Associate Professor of Filmmaking Practice at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School. \nBanner image: A still from Alex Rivera’s film Sleep Dealer. A man with his mouth obstructed by some strange technology is connected to a larger machine by a mess of blue wires. He is looking intently ahead as if looking somewhere else.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/alex-riveras-sleep-dealer/
LOCATION:Burning Books\, 420 Connecticut Street\, Buffalo\, 14213\, United States
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SUMMARY:Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer's EMPTY METAL
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, March 21\, 2026\, 7 pm ET\nat Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center\n$8 general\, $6 students/seniors\, $5 members of Squeaky Wheel and Hallwalls\n“Filled with energy\, rage\, and the smallest measure of hope\, Empty Metal is a new kind of political film for these extraordinary times” -Film Society Lincoln Center \nAn unsettling and cutting political thriller\, EMPTY METAL features an apathetic punk band who are ensnared to commit a series of assassinations by an Indigenous family whose mother communicates telepathically with her meditation companions\, a Rastafarian hacker\, and a Buddhist whose son is a member of a secret militia. These disparate actors are united by rage\, boiled in the history of the United States\, and finding itself at a point of no return in our contemporary moment. Inspired by Lizzie Borden’s classic Born in Flames (1983)\, Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s film has been widely acclaimed since its debut in 2018. It is an essential portrait of current day American violence and politics\, and posits its inevitable consequences. \nSqueaky Wheel and Hallwalls is excited to screen this modern day classic\, and to welcome co-director Bayley Sweitzer who will be in person for a post screening Q&A. Special thank you to Tammy McGovern and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center. \n\nAdam Khalil & Bayley Sweitzer\, EMPTY METAL\, 83 minutes\, 2018. \nBiographies of the artists\nBAYLEY SWEITZER (b. 1989) is a filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn. His practice revolves around repurposing narrative film form in order to convey radical political possibilities. His work has been shown at Film Society Lincoln Center (New York City)\, International Film Festival Rotterdam\, Walker Art Center (Minneapolis)\, Museum of Modern Art (New York City)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Berlinale\, Centro de Cultura Digital (Mexico City)\, the Sharjah Biennial\, and numerous other galleries\, museums\, and film festivals. Sweitzer is the recipient of a 2021 Creative Capital Award\, a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship\, and has received moving image commissions from the Park Avenue Armory (New York City)\, Gasworks (London)\, and Spike Island (Bristol). \nSweitzer also works professionally as a focuspuller and is a member of the International Cinematographers Guild\, IATSE Local 600. \nADAM KHALIL (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor\, relation\, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and a co-founder of COUSINS Collective as well as a frequent collaborator with Zack Khalil\, Bayley Sweitzer and more. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art\, Sundance Film Festival\, Walker Arts Center\, Lincoln Center\, Tate Modern\, HKW\, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit\, Toronto Biennial 2019 and Whitney Biennial 2019\, among other institutions. Khalil is the recipient of various fellowships and grants\, including but not limited to a Herb Alpert Award in the Arts 2021\, Creative Capital Award\, Sundance Art of Nonfiction\, Jerome Artist Fellowship\, Cinereach and the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Adam Khalil is a core contributor to the public secret society New Red Order. \nThis event is presented with support from Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \nBanner image: A still from EMPTY METAL. A person with gritted teeth\, singing into a microphone.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/adam-khalil-and-bayley-sweitzers-empty-metal/
LOCATION:Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center\, 341 Delaware Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14202\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alex Rivera & Khaled Jarrar
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, February 24\, 7 pm ET\nOnline on Zoom. Click here to register.\nSqueaky Wheel presents a virtual artist talk with artists Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar to discuss their films that are screening as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance\, and answer questions from the audience. The screening series take on the human toll of borders and the organized and individual ways people evade and resist them. Featuring both cult classic works and acclaimed documentaries\, the films – with Rivera’s work focusing on the maintenance and violence of the US border\, and Jarrar’s focusing on power struggles\, in particular as they relate to Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora – showcases the logistical\, ethical\, and bureaucratic logics of border regimes\, and points to intertwined solidarities. \nInfiltrators: Films on borders and resistance is supported by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our co-presenters at Jewish Voice for Peace – Buffalo. Khaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators is courtesy of Third World Newsreel\, and his film Notes on Displacement is courtesy of Cinema Politica. Special thank you to Paige Sarlin and Leo Goldsmith. \nBiographies of the artists\nAlex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization\, migration\, and technology. Rivera’s first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a cyberpunk thriller set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial theatrical release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Rivera’s second feature\, The Infiltrators\, won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Infiltrators uses documentary and scripted forms to tell the true story of Dreamers who ‘infiltrate’ a detention center to get immigrants out. Rivera is currently developing a few new cyberpunk projects and\, with support from the Ford Foundation\, a feature documentary on the history of deportation titled Banishment. Alex Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow\, Sundance Fellow\, Creative Capital Grantee and was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. He studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles. He is an Associate Professor of Filmmaking Practice at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School. \nKhaled Jarrar was born in Jenin\, Occupied Palestine in 1976. He lives and works in Ramallah. Jarrar completed his studies in interior design at Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996. Upon graduating he smuggled himself to work as a carpenter in Nazareth\, living as an underground “illegal” worker. In 1998 Jarrar enlisted in an intensive military training which resulted in working for Arafat as a personal body guard until Arafat’s death in 2004. Attempting to create a life between the military and an artistic practice\, Jarrar entered the field of photography in 2005. Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art – Palestine\, Ramallah in 2011 and completed an MFA in fine art from the University of Arizona in 2019. \nJarrar\, a multidisciplinary artist\, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens through highly symbolic photographs\, videos\, film\, and performative interventions. His State of Palestine project was featured in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Where We Lost Our Shadows\, his filmic collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun\, was shown at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Jarrar’s work has been featured at Maraya Art Centre\, Sharjah; the New Museum\, New York City; the University of Applied Arts\, Vienna; the 15th Jakarta Biennale; 52nd October Salon\, Belgrade; Al-Ma’mal Foundation\, Jerusalem; and the London Film Festival. Infiltrators\, Jarrar’s first feature length film\, was a documentary about the business of Palestinian’s “illegally” crossing and won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Documentary\, Jury Special Award and the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012. Notes on Displacement\, his second feature length\, about a Palestinian refugee’s flight from Syria to Germany\, received a world premiere at the IDFA Envision Competition in November 2022. \nPhotographs of Alex Rivera courtesy of the artist. Photograph of Khaled Jarrar courtesy of Cinema Politica.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/alex-rivera-khaled-jarrar/
LOCATION:Virtual\, NY\, United States
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SUMMARY:Khaled Jarrar's Infiltrators
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, March 25\, 2026\, 7 pm at Burning Books (420 Connecticut St\, Buffalo\, NY 14213)\nFree or $10 suggested donation. Limited seating\, first-come\, first-serve\nKhaled Jarrar’s stunning Infiltrators (70 minutes\, Palestine / United Arab Emirates\, 2012) is a visceral road movie that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through\, under\, around\, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers and border walls in the highly militarized West Bank. Alternating between cigarette breaks\, detours\, waiting\, and moving\, Infiltrators depicts the cunning\, unnerving\, and constant struggle to defy captivity and occupation. \nFor attendees: The screening will take place at Burning Books located at 420 Connecticut Street\, Buffalo\, NY 14213. Street parking is available. For transportation by bus\, it is near stops for the 3\, 19\, 22\, and 101 bus lines. Seating is first-come\, first-serve. \nThis screening is presented as part of the series\, Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance. Support for this program is provided by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Film courtesy of Third World Newsreel. \n \nAbout the filmmaker\nKhaled Jarrar was born in Jenin\, Occupied Palestine in 1976. He lives and works in Ramallah. Jarrar completed his studies in interior design at Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996. Upon graduating he smuggled himself to work as a carpenter in Nazareth\, living as an underground “illegal” worker. In 1998 Jarrar enlisted in an intensive military training which resulted in working for Arafat as a personal body guard until Arafat’s death in 2004. Attempting to create a life between the military and an artistic practice\, Jarrar entered the field of photography in 2005. Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art – Palestine\, Ramallah in 2011 and completed an MFA in fine art from the University of Arizona in 2019. \nJarrar\, a multidisciplinary artist\, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens through highly symbolic photographs\, videos\, film\, and performative interventions. His State of Palestine project was featured in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Where We Lost Our Shadows\, his filmic collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun\, was shown at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Jarrar’s work has been featured at Maraya Art Centre\, Sharjah; the New Museum\, New York City; the University of Applied Arts\, Vienna; the 15th Jakarta Biennale; 52nd October Salon\, Belgrade; Al-Ma’mal Foundation\, Jerusalem; and the London Film Festival. Infiltrators\, Jarrar’s first feature length film\, was a documentary about the business of Palestinian’s “illegally” crossing and won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Documentary\, Jury Special Award and the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012. Notes on Displacement\, his second feature length\, about a Palestinian refugee’s flight from Syria to Germany\, received a world premiere at the IDFA Envision Competition in November 2022. \nBanner image: A still from Khaled Jarrar’s film\, Infiltrators. The frames of several people can be discerned against a city backdrop at night time. Clouds are lit in orange from the city lights.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/khaled-jarrars-infiltrators/
LOCATION:Burning Books\, 420 Connecticut Street\, Buffalo\, 14213\, United States
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SUMMARY:Online access | Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, March 27–Sunday\, March 29 online\n$10 General / Free for Squeaky Wheel members\nFor one weekend only\, you can watch all four films as part of Infiltrators: Films on borders and resistance in the comfort of your own home! The four films\, by Alex Rivera\, Alex Rivera and Cristina Ibarra\, and Khaled Jarrar\, take on the human toll of borders and the organized and individual ways people evade and resist them. Featuring both cult classic works and acclaimed documentaries\, the films – with Rivera’s work focusing on the maintenance and violence of the US border\, and Jarrar’s focusing on power struggles\, in particular as they relate to Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora – showcases the logistical\, ethical\, and bureaucratic logics of border regimes\, and points to intertwined solidarities. Along with the films\, you will also receive a recording of the artist talk with Alex Rivera and Khaled Jarrar that took place on March 24th. \nThe films include: \n\nKhaled Jarrar’s Notes on Displacement\nAlex Rivera & Cristina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators\nAlex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer\nKhaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators (US viewers only)\n\nOnline access to the screenings are free for members of Squeaky Wheel. Not a member yet? Memberships start at $30/year (that’s $2.50/mo). Click here to sign up. \nFor online attendees: Private links will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the films through Sunday\, March 29. Please note that Khaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators is only available for US viewers. \nAccessibility: Spanish subtitles are available for Alex Rivera & Christina Ibarra’s The Infiltrators\, and closed captions are available for both The Infiltrators and Rivera’s Sleep Dealer. Khaled Jarrar’s films are in Arabic with English subtitles. \nThis event series is supported by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our co-presenters at Jewish Voice for Peace – Buffalo. Khaled Jarrar’s Infiltrators is courtesy of Third World Newsreel\, and his film Notes on Displacement is courtesy of Cinema Politica. Special thank you to Paige Sarlin\, Jason Livingston\, and Leo Goldsmith. \nBiographies of the filmmakers\nAlex Rivera is an award-winning filmmaker whose work explores themes of globalization\, migration\, and technology. Rivera’s first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, a cyberpunk thriller set on the U.S./Mexico border\, won awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival\, was screened at the Museum of Modern Art\, and had a commercial theatrical release in the U.S\, France\, Japan\, and other countries. Rivera’s second feature\, The Infiltrators\, won the NEXT: Audience Award and the Innovator Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The Infiltrators uses documentary and scripted forms to tell the true story of Dreamers who ‘infiltrate’ a detention center to get immigrants out. Rivera is currently developing a few new cyberpunk projects and\, with support from the Ford Foundation\, a feature documentary on the history of deportation titled Banishment. Alex Rivera is a 2021 MacArthur Fellow\, Sundance Fellow\, Creative Capital Grantee and was The Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University. He studied at Hampshire College and lives in Los Angeles. He is an Associate Professor of Filmmaking Practice at ASU’s Sidney Poitier New American Film School. \nCristina Ibarra is a Sundance award-winning filmmaker with a 20-year practice rooted in her border crossing roots along the Texas-Mexico border. The Infiltrators is a docu-thriller about undocumented activists on a secret mission inside a detention center is currently being distributed by Oscilloscope. It won the Audience and the Innovator Award in the NEXT section at the Sundance Film Festival in 2019\, among other notable festival awards. The New York Times calls her previous award-winning documentary\, Las Marthas\, about wealthy South Texas border debutantes who honor George Washington in Laredo\, Texas “a striking alternative portrait of border life”. It premiered on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2014 and is distributed by Women Make Movies. The Last Conquistador\, a documentary about the racially conflicted construction of a monument to a conquistador in El Paso\, Texas\, was broadcast on POV in 2008. USA Today describes it as “Heroic”. Her award-winning directorial debut\, Dirty Laundry: A Homemade Telenovela\, was broadcast on PBS in 2001. She is the recipient of fellowships from Soros\, Rauschenberg\, Rockefeller\, NYFA\, CPB/PBS\, NALIP\, Firelight\, the Sundance Women’s Initiative and Creative Capital\, among others. \nKhaled Jarrar was born in Jenin\, Occupied Palestine in 1976. He lives and works in Ramallah. Jarrar completed his studies in interior design at Palestine Polytechnic University in 1996. Upon graduating he smuggled himself to work as a carpenter in Nazareth\, living as an underground “illegal” worker. In 1998 Jarrar enlisted in an intensive military training which resulted in working for Arafat as a personal body guard until Arafat’s death in 2004. Attempting to create a life between the military and an artistic practice\, Jarrar entered the field of photography in 2005. Jarrar graduated from the International Academy of Art – Palestine\, Ramallah in 2011 and completed an MFA in fine art from the University of Arizona in 2019. \nJarrar\, a multidisciplinary artist\, explores modern power struggles and their sociocultural impact on ordinary citizens through highly symbolic photographs\, videos\, film\, and performative interventions. His State of Palestine project was featured in the 7th Berlin Biennale. Where We Lost Our Shadows\, his filmic collaboration with Pulitzer prize winning composer Du Yun\, was shown at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. Jarrar’s work has been featured at Maraya Art Centre\, Sharjah; the New Museum\, New York City; the University of Applied Arts\, Vienna; the 15th Jakarta Biennale; 52nd October Salon\, Belgrade; Al-Ma’mal Foundation\, Jerusalem; and the London Film Festival. Infiltrators\, Jarrar’s first feature length film\, was a documentary about the business of Palestinian’s “illegally” crossing and won the FIPRESCI Award for Best Documentary\, Jury Special Award and the Muhr Arab Documentary Special Jury Prize at the Dubai International Film Festival in 2012. Notes on Displacement\, his second feature length\, about a Palestinian refugee’s flight from Syria to Germany\, received a world premiere at the IDFA Envision Competition in November 2022. \nBanner image: An orange gradient overlaid with the text “INFILTRATORS: Films on borders and resistance. Online this weekend! Free for members of Squeaky Wheel.”
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/online-access-infiltrators-films-on-borders-and-resistance/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sound in the Margins: Drawing audio on 16mm film with Ajunie Virk
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 14\, 6:30–8:30 pm\nFree or $10 suggested donation; open to ages 16+.\nLimited seats available; register below\nJoin artist resident Ajunie Virk for a workshop that teaches participants how to create experimental audio by drawing directly onto the optical soundtrack of 16mm film\, a technique the artists uses herself to personalize sound and generate abstract audio layers within her own video works. \nThis hands-on workshop methods in mark-making\, sound reading\, and editing to craft unique sonic textures. Participants will be introduced to historical and artistic antecedents\, including the work of Daphne Oram and Arseny Avraamov\, and learn analog and digital tools – including 16mm projectors\, the Photosounder software\, among others. \nAttendees: Participants are welcome to bring their own laptops\, but can also request one in the registration form. You can install the Photosounder software here. Additional materials will be provided. We’ll be ordering a pizza for everyone. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm. \nFunding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books\, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore\, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency\, Alicia Hawkins\, Donte McFadden\, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here. \nBiography of the artist\nAjunie Virk is an Indian-American writer-director and animator whose work investigates the relationship between surveillance\, identity\, and paranoia in a diasporic middle-America\, conjuring up narratives that force viewers to face uncomfortable truths only apparent after objects of nostalgia are stripped of their familiar contexts. An alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University\, Virk was an artist-in-residence at Bunker Projects\, Brew House Arts\, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, and the Yale Norfolk School of Art. A recipient of the Anne Dowden and Samuel Rosenberg awards\, she has recently screened works at the Coaxial Art Foundation\, Roski Mateo Gallery\, and Light Matters Festival\, among others. \nBanner image: A still from an animation by Ajunie Virk of a group of people crawling along the strings\, dampers\, and hammers of the inside of a piano.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sound-in-the-margins-drawing-audio-on-16mm-film-with-ajunie-virk/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Autotheory and the Poetics of the Self: Storying the Personal with Arielle Knight
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 16\, 6:30–8:30 pm\nFree or $10 suggested donation; open to ages 16+.\nLimited seats available; register below\nJoin Squeaky Wheel and visiting artist resident Arielle Knight for a short form writing workshop! This skill share invites participants to experiment with autobiographical storytelling and the practice of autotheory—the blending of lived experience and critical thought—to create new forms of narrative that collapse the boundaries between personal and intellectual inquiry. Drawing from practices in experimental film\, performance\, and essay-making\, this session will guide participants in transforming fragments of memory\, personal archives\, and embodied experiences into generative creative material. \nParticipants will engage in short writing and reflection exercises that explore how personal narrative can serve as both evidence and theory\, as well as how storytelling becomes a method for survival\, healing\, and critique. Examples of artists and thinkers who employ autotheory to reframe vulnerability as a tool for intervention will be presented\, including excerpts from texts by bell hooks\, Audre Lorde\, and Maggie Nelson. \nThrough group discussion and individual exercises\, participants will learn strategies for translating autobiographical material into multiple media forms—moving image\, sound\, installation\, and text—and discuss the ethics of working with one’s own story and the stories of others. By the end of the workshop\, each participant will have developed a short creative concept or fragment that reflects their own approach to merging self-experience and theory in creative practice. \nThe filmmakers presents this skill-share as an offering; centering on creating a supportive and exploratory environment\, where storytelling becomes a form of research and resistance\, allowing each participant to reimagine how the personal can illuminate the collective and the political. \nAttendees: Notebooks and pens for the workshop will be provided\, though participants are welcome to bring their own. We’ll be ordering a pizza for everyone. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm. \nFunding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books\, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore\, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency\, Alicia Hawkins\, Donte McFadden\, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here. \nBiography of the artist\n \nDirector and producer Arielle Knight is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of GoodKnight Films Inc.\, acclaimed for her innovative storytelling that illuminates untold narratives across the Black diaspora. Working at the intersection of documentary and hybrid forms\, her films and collaborations examine how communities navigate social\, economic\, and embodied precarity. She draws on surreal interpretations of political\, social\, and domestic realities\, blurring boundaries between nonfiction and fantasy to create cinematic spaces of escape and freedom. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute\, Southern Documentary Fund\, Catapult Film Fund\, and the Ford Foundation\, among others. Through intimate\, personal narratives\, Knight continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary cinema with a vision rooted in Black futurity\, imagination\, and experimentation. \nImage: A still from And Counting\, a film by Arielle Knight. Two Black people laying on a wooden floor\, their heads next to each other. One of them is smiling while gesturing and talking\, the other has their eyes closed\, their head resting on their hands. The sun beams on them from a window.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/autotheory-and-the-poetics-of-the-self-storying-the-personal-with-arielle-knight/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Residencies,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Building Trust On and Off Camera: Ethical Practices with Film Participants with Jason Rhee
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, April 21\, 6:30–8:30 pm\nFree or $10 suggested donation; open to ages 16+.\nLimited seats available; register below.\nTrust is the foundation of ethical and effective documentary\, participatory\, and community-based filmmaking. This workshop by visiting filmmaker Jason Rhee equips filmmakers\, media artists\, and researchers with practical strategies to build\, negotiate\, and sustain trust with participants—especially those from marginalized or vulnerable communities. Drawing on the themes of informed consent\, accessibility\, privacy\, and reciprocity\, participants will explore how transparent communication and mutual accountability can transform the filmmaker-participant relationship. \nThe filmmaker will introduce topics and facilitate discussion on power dynamics\, long-term relationships\, and anonymized case studies where trust broke down\, and also provide participants with toolkits such as sample consent forms and checklists for informed consent. Optionally\, participants are also welcome to introduce specific trust challenges in their own projects and workshop them with their peers. \nAttendees: Notebooks and pens for the workshop will be provided\, though participants are welcome to bring their own. We’ll be ordering a pizza to share. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main center after 7:30 pm. \nFunding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books\, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore\, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency\, Alicia Hawkins\, Donte McFadden\, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here. \nBiography of the artist\n \nJason Rhee (Director/Producer/Cinematographer) is a Korean American filmmaker with a passion for telling stories centered around his childhood and the AAPI community. Jason spent a decade in comedy prior to working on his feature film at institutions like The Onion and Conan. With a background in screenwriting and comedy\, he helped produce three one- woman shows with comedian Kellye Howard\, including directing a sold-out run at the Steppenwolf Theater as part of its 2022 LookOut series. Jason recently served as a cinematographer for PBS WTTW’s Firsthand webseries on migrants\, unhoused Chicagoans\, and peacekeepers. \nBanner image: A still from Jason Rhee’s in-progress The Untitled EJ Lee Documentary. Untitled A petit young Asian woman wearing a burgundy red jersey and dribbling a basketball in front of an opposing tall player in a white jersey\, all within the backdrop of a crowded arena.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/building-trust-on-and-off-camera-ethical-practices-with-film-participants-with-jason-rhee/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:A/V Club April
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, April 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \n  \nSaturday\, April 18\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, April 22\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, May 16\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, May 20\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, June 13\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, June 17\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \n  \n  \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc.  Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n  \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n  \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-april/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Meet the Residents: Ajunie Virk\, Arielle Knight\, Jason Rhee
DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed due to unforeseen reasons. The new date is Friday\, April 24\, 7 pm ET\nIn-person at Squeaky Wheel and online\nFree or suggested donation; get tickets below\nSqueaky Wheel is pleased to present this hybrid artist talk with our Spring 2026 Workspace Residents! Ajunie Virk\, Arielle Knight\, and Jason Rhee will be presenting on their previous and current projects\, along with a Q&A with the residents moderated by curator Ekrem Serdar. \nFor in-person attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Catering from Ali Baba Kebab\, with vegetarian options\, will be provided. \nFor online attendees: A private link will be sent to you; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nAccessibility: If you’d like to request ASL interpretation for either in-person or the online viewing\, please contact ekrem@squeaky.org by April 2. You can view additional information on Squeaky Wheel’s accessibility information here. \nAjunie Virk will be working on A Foot Off the Windowsill\, a feature length experimental film which follows a recovering addict whose fragile first relationship and year of sobriety collide as she scours her house to destroy a shadow she judges to be a cockroach. The roach—an insect often seen as toxic\, despite its essential role in ecosystems to break down remnants and waste—enters the character’s pristine home\, disrupting their curated world and forcing a reckoning with societal expectation\, relinquishment\, and authenticity. The film blends the use of  3D animation\, green screen performance\, and motion capture to highlight the inconsistencies in the personas we build to dodge the shame inherent in pursuing perfection. \nArielle Knight will be working on an installation version of And Counting… a hybrid documentary and fiction film that conveys the fractured experience of “carceral time”. The film follows a mother and her formerly incarcerated son’s journey home\, confronting their wounds and their hopes to rebuild their bond. Knight’s approach draws on the power of hybridity not as artifice\, but as a means of approaching reality more truthfully. During the residency\, the filmmaker will repurpose and recontextualize materials that did not make it into the short film—outtakes\, archival footage\, and experimental sound pieces—integrating them into an immersive multi-channel environment. \nFilmmaker Jason Rhee will be working on The Untitled EJ Lee Documentary\, an intimate feature-length film  that goes beyond basketball to unveil the untold story of Eun Jung “EJ” Lee\, a diminutive but powerful figure in the world of women’s basketball. The film tells a basketball story that’s never been told before: a female Asian immigrant in the southern U.S. who reached enormous heights on the biggest stages as a player and attempts to do the same as a coach. Following sports narratives  such as Last Chance U\, The Heart of The Game\, and Hoop Dreams\, the film showcases intimate verité footage of EJ and the players on and off the court\, the societal issues that they faced\, and the historical journey of EJ becoming one of the best basketball players in the world. In a society that tends to worship male sports icons\, The Untitled EJ Lee Documentary  seeks to inspire young women\, girls\, members of the AAPI community\, older adults\, and sports enthusiasts at large\, ushering a resilient and awe-inspiring woman into the pantheon of American sports heroes. \nFunding for this session of Squeaky Wheel’s Workspace Residency is provided by the Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Thank you to our friends at Rust Belt Books\, Buffalo’s largest used bookstore\, for sponsoring this session of the residency. Special thank you to the panelists of this session of the residency\, Alicia Hawkins\, Donte McFadden\, and Joan Nobile. Learn more about the program here. \nBiographies of the artists\n \nAjunie Virk is an Indian-American writer-director and animator whose work investigates the relationship between surveillance\, identity\, and paranoia in a diasporic middle-America\, conjuring up narratives that force viewers to face uncomfortable truths only apparent after objects of nostalgia are stripped of their familiar contexts. An alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University\, Virk was an artist-in-residence at Bunker Projects\, Brew House Arts\, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture\, and the Yale Norfolk School of Art. A recipient of the Anne Dowden and Samuel Rosenberg awards\, she has recently screened works at the Coaxial Art Foundation\, Roski Mateo Gallery\, and Light Matters Festival\, among others. \n \nDirector and producer Arielle Knight is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of GoodKnight Films Inc.\, acclaimed for her innovative storytelling that illuminates untold narratives across the Black diaspora. Working at the intersection of documentary and hybrid forms\, her films and collaborations examine how communities navigate social\, economic\, and embodied precarity. She draws on surreal interpretations of political\, social\, and domestic realities\, blurring boundaries between nonfiction and fantasy to create cinematic spaces of escape and freedom. Her work has been supported by the Sundance Institute\, Southern Documentary Fund\, Catapult Film Fund\, and the Ford Foundation\, among others. Through intimate\, personal narratives\, Knight continues to expand the possibilities of contemporary cinema with a vision rooted in Black futurity\, imagination\, and experimentation. \n \nJason Rhee (Director/Producer/Cinematographer) is a Korean American filmmaker with a passion for telling stories centered around his childhood and the AAPI community. Jason spent a decade in comedy prior to working on his feature film at institutions like The Onion and Conan. With a background in screenwriting and comedy\, he helped produce three one- woman shows with comedian Kellye Howard\, including directing a sold-out run at the Steppenwolf Theater as part of its 2022 LookOut series. Jason recently served as a cinematographer for PBS WTTW’s Firsthand webseries on migrants\, unhoused Chicagoans\, and peacekeepers.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/meet-the-residents-ajunie-virk-arielle-knight-jason-rhee/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Hybrid,Residencies
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SUMMARY:Comics & Illustration
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Girls\nSpring 2026\nSaturdays\, May 2 – May 23 (4 weeks)\n10am – 1pm\nSliding scale fee: $0-$90 (No one turned away for lack of funds)\n  \nTAG is for girls+ (including nonbinary and trans students) in grades 5-8. \n  \nJoin us to draw comics and more! \n  \nPandemic related funding allowed us to offer the program for free to all for several years\, but that funding has ended. We have developed a sliding scale fee system to ensure that the class is still affordable for everyone\, so please choose the ticket that fits your budget (including $0). Let us know if you have any questions! \nTicket options for each four-week session are:\n$0\n$30 ($7.50 per week)\n$60 ($15 per week) \n$90 ($22.50 per week) \n  \nScroll down to “get tickets” to register. \nTech Arts for Girls has received generous support from the New York Sate Council on the Arts\, Children’s Foundation of Erie County\, and Cameron and Jane Baird Foundation.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/comics-illustration/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Tech Arts for Girls,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:FX6 Camera Orientation
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, May 2 1:00 – 2:00 pm\nFree (Squeaky Wheel Members only. Not yet a member? Click here for details)\nopen to ages 16+\nRegister with the “tickets” button at the bottom of this page\n  \nRent the Sony FX6 and create beautiful\, professional looking productions. This workshop is required in order to reserve the camera and and any associated peripherals unless approved by our Tech Director. Squeaky Wheel membership is also required. \n  \nClass limited to 6 participants. \nContact Mark at mark@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nInstructor: Mark Longolucco \n  \nMARK LONGOLUCCO is Squeaky Wheel’s Tech Director. An artist and musician based out of Buffalo\, NY\, both his audio and visual works seep out into the world through traditionally uncharacteristic formats and venues\, often marrying older analog media tools with new digital technologies in an attempt to create forms that both familiar and nostalgic as well as unconventional and anomalous. \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/fx6-camera-orientation-5/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Equipment,Rental
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SUMMARY:Amya Carter's Gravitate
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 13\, 6 pm\nFree\nSqueaky Wheel presents a presentation of Gravitate by Amya Carter. Gravitate is an animation inspired by the cover art and song\, “Falling For You” by Louie Zong. It reimagines the song as a space inspired visual world that reflects the emotional process of being drawn to someone\, using floating forms\, subtle motion\, and cosmic design to express tone and feeling. \nBiography of the artist\nAmya Carter is an independent digital media designer originally from Baltimore\, Maryland\, and is currently based in Buffalo\, New York. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Buffalo State University\, where she developed a strong passion in visual communication and digital storytelling. Her work focuses on creating narrative-driven experiences\, most often through 3D design\, where she explores the relationship between motion\, environment\, and emotion. Drawing inspiration from atmospheric visuals\, Amya’s projects aim to immerse viewers in strategically constructed worlds that feel both expressive and intentional. She is particularly interested in how abstract concepts and subtle details can shape a viewer’s perception and emotional response. Through a combination of technical precision and creative experimentation\, her work blends storytelling with visual design\, resulting in work that is visually engaging and conceptually driven.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/amya-carters-gravitate/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Thesis presentation
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SUMMARY:A/V Club May
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, May 20\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \n  \nSaturday\, May 16\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, May 20\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, June 13\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, June 17\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, July 18\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, July 22\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \n  \n  \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc.  Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n  \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n  \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-may/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:With us at the center of our world: animals\, domestications\, dreams
DESCRIPTION:Opening Friday\, June 12\, 2026\, 6–8 pm\nExhibition hours: Tuesday–Saturday\, 12–5 pm\, extended hours through 8 pm on Wednesdays\, and by appointment\nOn view through September 11\, 2026\nSqueaky Wheel presents an exhibition and public programs thinking through and on non-human animals. The artists – working in animation\, essay films\, speculative narratives\, installation work\, among other forms – address domestication\, colonialism\, extinction\, and conservation\, and the toll humans extract from our co-inhabitants on earth. The exhibition features work by Amy Ching-Yan Lam\, Annika Eriksson\, Cameron A. Granger\, Christina Corfield\, Deniz Tortum & Sister Sylvester\, G. Anthony Svatek\, Miranda Javid\, and Noor Abuarafeh\, with films by Serge Avédikian\, Chris Marker\, and Wiame Haddad in the screening program. \nThe title of the exhibition – with us at the center of our world – is from John Berger’s quintessential essay “Why Look at Animals?”\, describing the place and role humans placed animals: how we may have seen and defined ourselves\, our world through and with them. The works take on various perspectives\, looking with and at animals\, and how the forces of capitalism\, control\, colonialism\, and war are now intertwined in our relationships with them. Thinking through these forces\, the collected works in the exhibition ask: what is the world that humans and animals are at the center of\, and are other worlds possible? \n\nLeft to right: Annika Eriksson\, The Community (2010); Miranda Javid\, Little Winds That Died Immediately (2019); Noor Abuarafeh\, Am I the ageless object at the museum? (2018); Deniz Tortum & Sister Sylvester\, Our Ark (2022).\nThe exhibition features multiple strands for visitors to think through our relationship with non-human animals. Miranda Javid’s characteristically spectacular animated work Little Winds That Died Immediately features small animals as they try to survive under the force of humans using the artist’s signature transformative style\, with its subtle and evocative soundtrack heard through the gallery. Amy Ching-Yan Lam’s Looty Goes to Heaven is written from the perspective of Looty\, a small Pekingese dog that was stolen by British troops and gifted to Queen Victoria. The speculative fiction work—with Looty’s life told in the book and her restful afterlife in the video work made with Emerson Maxwell—speaks tenderly and often humorously to the obscene legacies left by the British empire on China during the Second Opium War. Cameron A. Granger’s stunning Just Below Heaven imagines the dreams and inner life of a pigeon trained for the machinery of American control; while Christina Corfield’s installation Pony Players Review thinks through the connections and settlements enabled in the U.S. by the Pony Express. Cutting together technology advertisements across decades that feature animals and nature in selling televisions\, G. Anthony Svatek’s A Whole New Species harkens to the everpresent narrative of ownership\, spectacle\, and control over our world. Thinking through curated forms of animal collection such as zoos—what Berger called “living monument(s) to their own disappearance”—Noor Abuarafeh’s Am I the ageless object at the museum? considers zoos\, museums\, and cemeteries through an evocative narrative and footage of zoos in Palestine\, Switzerland\, and Egypt. Paired in the center of the exhibition with Abuarafeh’s work\, Deniz Tortum and Sister Sylvester’s Our Ark documents the possibilities and consequences of efforts to backup virtual replicas of the world. Finally\, Annika Erikkson’s video The Community features a carpet with several street cats in Turkey\, opening a space for us to consider the roles and responsibilities of domestication\, and the possibility of creating new spaces for human animals and non-human animals to gather. \n\nLeft to right: Cameron A. Granger\, Just Below Heaven (2025); Christina Corfield\, Pony Players Review (2020-Present); G. Anthony Svatek\, A Whole New Species (1956–2026); Amy Ching-Yan Lam with Emerson Maxwell\, Looty Goes to Heaven (2022).\nAdditional work will be shared with a screening of films\, including Chris Marker’s Chats Perchés (The Case of the Grinning Cat) accompanied by the short films Serge Avédikian’s Chienne D’histoire (Barking Island) and Wiame Haddad’s Sang Titre. Avédikian’s animated film\, Chienne D’histoire\, tells the story of the 1910 dog exile and massacre in Ottoman Istanbul\, where thousands of dogs were rounded up and sent to a nearby Island to die in an attempt to modernize the empire in its final years; the film quite clearly asks us to make the connection between the event and the Armenian Genocide. Meanwhile\, Wiame Haddad’s brief and subtle film\, Sang Titre features mysterious Super 8 footage of a donkey that mourns the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The short films will be screened with Chris Marker’s iconic documentary of the 2000s\, Chats Perchés (The Case of the Grinning Cat)\, where the filmmaker reflects on French and international protest movements and culture at the start of the Iraq War through the sudden appearance of alluring portraits of grinning yellow cats through Paris. Click here to learn more about the screening on its respective page. \nSqueaky Wheel is excited to feature the work of former Workspace Residents Deniz Tortum\, G. Anthony Svatek\, and Miranda Javid in this exhibition. Curated by Ekrem Serdar. This exhibition is supported by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Special thank you to Andreas Bertman at Filmform – The Art Film & Video Archive in Sweden\, Fırat Sezgin and Ecegül Bayram at the Institute of Time\, Luigi Loy at Sacrebleu Productions\, Bob Hunter at Icarus Films\, Carra Stratton\, Jenson Leonard\, Noor Abuarafeh\, Rachael Rakes\, Salome Kokoladze and Aurora Picture Show\, Sue Ding\, and Toleen Touq. \nVisitor and accessibility information:\nThe exhibition can be visited free of charge between 12–5 pm on Tuesdays\, Thursdays\, Fridays\, and Saturdays\, extended hours on Wednesdays from 12–8 pm. Appointments are also available; please email office@squeaky.org with the subject “Exhibition appointment”. \nSeating is provided for most work\, and additional seating is available upon request. See individual work descriptions for captioning and subtitle information. Works without captions have sound descriptions on wall labels.  \nClick here for Squeaky Wheel’s parking\, transportation\, and overall accessibility information. \nPublic programs and extended hours\nFriday\, June 12\, 6–8 pm\nExhibition opening\, with brief remarks by Curator Ekrem Serdar at 7 pm. \nWednesday\, June 24\, 7 pm\nArtist talk: Cameron A. Granger and Christina Corfield (click here for more information) \nWednesday\, August 5\, 7 pm\nScreening: Chris Marker’s The Case of the Grinning Cat\, with short films by Serge Avédikian and Wiame Haddad (click here for more information) \nFriday\, September 11\, 6–8 pm\nExhibition closing with extended hours. \n             About the artworks (click to expand)                        \nAmy Ching-Yan Lam\, Looty Goes to Heaven\nBook and video. Video made with Emerson Maxwell\, 4:30 min\, sound\, 2022 \n“Back at the gate to heaven\, Looty watched a hedgehog waddle its way through the hole in the thicket. Before she could go in\, she had to give the green-faced person a true account of her life. The green-faced person said\, in their gravelly voice\, ‘It can be as short or as long as you like. The only condition is that it must be absolutely true.'” \nA small Pekingese dog was taken from China at the end of the Second Opium War by British troops\, brought to England\, and gifted to Queen Victoria. This dog was renamed Looty\, in reference to how she was found during the looting of the Summer Palace (Yuanmingyuan) outside of Beijing. Looty lived for twelve years at the British royal palaces and died in 1872. It is not known where she was buried. \nThe Opium Wars were driven\, in part\, by the British demand for tea from China. In the 1800s\, the tea-drinking market\, including newly industrialized labour\, grew so big that British merchants cultivated a new\, exploitative opium industry to counter this trade deficit. Opium was grown by indentured labourers on plantations in South Asia\, then imported on a massive scale into China. Silver received from the sale of opium was then used to purchase tea. The objections of the Chinese state to this influx of cheap opium led to the Opium Wars. \nLooty was one of the first Pekingese dogs in England\, and her arrival informed new trends in chinoiserie\, dog breeding\, and eugenics. For close to fifty years\, Pekingese dogs were the most popular breed of toy dog in England.\nThis work was commissioned for the 2022 Commonwealth Games & Eastside Projects\, curated by Zoe Sawyer\, Tim Mills\, and Gavin Wade\, and supported by Canada Council for the Arts. Video: music by Hannah Guinan; sound mix by Michelle Irving; animation by Emerson Maxwell. \nNoor Abuarafeh\, Am I the ageless object at the museum?\nVideo Installation\, 15 mins\, Arabic with English subtitles\, 2018 \nThis video is based on a narrative developed through visits to various zoos and zoological institutions in Palestine\, Switzerland\, and Egypt. It is part of a larger body of work encompassing video\, video installations\, a novel\, and performances\, each exploring the concept of the museum from different angles. The projected video examines the construction of zoos and their historical relationship with museums\, as well as the connections between museums and cemeteries. These three entities share a common link to the discipline of history\, utilizing similar aesthetics in the representation and display of historical narratives. \nDeniz Tortum & Sister Sylvester\, Our Ark\nVideo\, 12:33 min\, English with open captions\, 2021 \nOur Ark is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world. We are backing up the planet\, creating 3D models of animals\, rainforests\, cities and people. We are archiving as if ecological collapse could be staved off through some digital Noah’s Ark of beasts and objects. Writer/Directors: Deniz Tortum\, Sister Sylvester. Producer: Fırat Sezgin. Editing: Sercan Sezgin. Original Music: Alican Çamcı. Associate Producer: Ecegül Bayram \nChristina Corfield\, Pony Players Review\nVideo installation with sound\, corrugated cardboard\, acrylic paint\, ink\, construction paper\, hot glue\, string\, Amazon boxes\, packing tape\, 2020–Present \nPony Players’ Review is a video installation project featuring re-enactments and reimaginings of film scenes\, and a series of cardboard installation sets that focus on the popular representation of the 19th century messenger\, the Pony Express. \nIn 1860\, the Pony Express was the fastest coast-to-coast messaging system in the US. It was in service for only 18 months after which the transcontinental telegraph replaced the pony with its almost instantaneous information relay. Looking back at the Express can give the process of information relay a form through which to imagine what it means to send messages and be connected. At the same time\, it also helps us think about how the systems and devices we use to send messages add something to how we feel about those messages. Sometimes\, the stories we attach to those messengers and messaging systems become more memorable or valuable than the messages themselves. \nThe installations that make up Pony Players’ Review look at stories and myths that surround the Pony Express — stories that communicate a specific (white\, masculinist) “official” national history of the United States and the role of western expansion to national growth. This project ties romantic images of the Old West to myths of progress\, efficiency\, and information circulation (otherwise known as message delivery) — these are potent myths that remain alive in tech industries and digital culture today. But myths are fictions none the less that can be re-written or over-written\, and most certainly challenged or torn down. \nCameron A. Granger\, Just Below Heaven\nFound wood\, pigeon feet\, rusted nails\, video\, 8:54 minutes\, English with open captions\, edition of 2 plus II AP\, 18 ½ × 55 ½ inches\, 2025 \nUsing behavioral theorist BF Skinner’s series of studies on the rock dove\, also known as the common pigeon\, Just Below Heaven recasts Skinner’s theory of behavior and control as a stage where the cultural scripts and modes that fuel the machinery of American life are brought under scrutiny. A pigeon has a dream\, and finds each one of us in it. \nAnnika Eriksson\, The Community\nDigital video\, 4:30 min\, 2010. Courtesy of Filmform – The Art Film & Video Archive \nIn Annika Eriksson’s The Community\, we encounter a story about Istanbul’s homeless cat community. For many years\, the cats were cared for by local cat lovers\, but today\, the cats have disappeared\, the result of a clean-up initiative that altered the cityscape. In Ray Oldenburg’s pamphlet The Great Good Place\, he refers to ‘the third place’\, where people gather and move between work and family affairs. It is as a place of good company and discussions\, the root of democracy\, and the vitality of society. The Community invites us to think about the implications of public space and third places for a city’s inhabitants\, both human and not. \nMiranda Javid\, Little Winds That Died Immediately\nGraphite animation on paper\, 6:20 min\, sound\, 2019 \nSmall animals struggle to survive under the force of disembodied\, human features. Some of these creatures are crushed\, smushed\, melted\, and sizzled\, while a resilient few withstand their encounter and amble on. Thousands of rendered and shaded graphite drawings on paper. \nG. Anthony Svatek\, A Whole New Species\nDigital video\, 1950–2026 \nA Whole New Species is a found-footage video installation that critically examines a trope in advertising: using spectacular nature imagery to sell television sets. In these commercials spanning several decades\, beautiful landscapes\, adorable butterflies\, and giant blue whales adorn glowing screens – imitating wildlife to be experienced indoors\, as biodiversity declines outside. A Whole New Species shifts the focus away from the device’s novelty and onto the nature used in the ad. \n            \n            Biographies of the artists (click to expand)                        \nAmy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer. Her practice looks to recover shared experience and feeling from the ruling structures of violence. She uses quotidian materials (like institutional debris) and processes (like jokes). Books and memories are often at the centre of her projects. Exhibitions\, performances\, and screenings have been presented at The Goldfarb Gallery\, York University (2025)\, Richmond Art Gallery (2023)\, Eastside Projects (2022)\, Seoul MediaCity Biennale (2021)\, SFU Galleries (2021)\, Centre Clark (2019)\, Truck Gallery (2018)\, aka artist-run (2018)\, the Western Front (2015)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (2013)\, and others. She is the author of Baby Book (2023)\, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards in Poetry; Property Journal (2024); and 83% Perfect (2025). Amy teaches creative writing in the English department of New York University. She was born in Hong Kong and lives in Lenapehoking / Brooklyn. Click here to visit her website. \nAnnika Eriksson is originally from Malmö and lives in Berlin since 2002. At the center of her artistic practice is an interest in social interaction: how do we live together\, what kind of societies do we create\, and what happens in the margins or in the transition from one social order to another? In her work\, the social has always involved a key emphasis on the slippages between the one ME into others – with a return to questions of interaction and exchange\, circular forms of communication\, self-abnegation and empathy. Her project also engages with the relations between humans and animals; of our interdependence\, slippages and connection\, but also registers of violation\, and the animal as a distinctively human projection surface. She has been exhibiting since the early 90s in various biennales and institutions\, for example the biennales in Istanbul\, Venice\, Sao Paolo\, Shanghai and Vienna; in institutions such as Bonner Kunstverein\, Tate Liverpool\, Hamburger Bahnhof\, Berlin\, Hayward Gallery\, London and Moderna Museet\, Malmö and Stockholm. \nCameron A. Granger is Sandra’s son & came up in in the Euclid\, Ohio. He likes pigeons\, video games\, & memes. Lately he’s been thinking about how myth making and narrative have been used as a means to police the imagination\, and making movies with his friends. He’s a lifetime member of MINT Collective\, long may it live\, and an alumni of Euclid Public Schools. Granger is an alumni of the Studio Museum in Harlem AIR program (21-22) and Skowhegan School for Painting & Sculpture (2017). His film\, Before I Let Go\, was awarded Best Experimental Film and the Audience Award at the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival. Granger lives and works between Columbus\, OH and Queens\, NY. Granger has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions at Kate Werble Gallery in New York\, NY\, No Place Gallery\, Columbus\, OH (2022); and Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA (2018)\, among others. He has shown in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1\, Long Island City\, NY (2022)\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in Detroit\, MI\, Jack Shainman The School\, Kinderhook\, NY (2022)\, and The Bemis Center for the Arts\, Omaha\, NE (2021). \nChristina Corfield is a British-born interdisciplinary artist and media scholar. She has published her research in academic journals such as The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture\, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Christina has exhibited her artwork in Europe and across the US\, most recently with a solo show at the Western New York Book Arts Center\, as well as Telematic Gallery\, San Francisco\, and Johansson Projects in Oakland\, CA. Her scholarly and artistic work focuses on media history\, media materiality and logistical media\, exploring how the perceived value of media and technology is negotiated through the stories we tell about them. \nDeniz Tortum (İstanbul\, 1989) works in film and immersive media. Among his recent work\, his feature documentary Phases of Matter (2020\, IFFR) explores a state-run teaching hospital in Istanbul; his essay video Our Ark (2021\, IDFA\, co-dir Sister Sylvester) reflects on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world\, a digital Noah’s Ark; and his virtual reality work Shadowtime (2023\, Venice Film Festival\, co-dir Sister Sylvester) explores the history of virtual reality and its relation to the climate crisis. Between 2014 and 2020\, he worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative. In 2019\, he was featured as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. His work has screened internationally\, including at the Venice Film Festival\, IFFR\, IDFA\, SXSW\, the Museum of the Moving Image among others. He is the co-founder of the interdisciplinary studio Institute of Time and the Istanbul-based film collective Görültü. He is currently leading a research project with Salt Istanbul about the 60s independent Turkish film scene; and developing Intrusions\, a film around spiritism and climate anxiety. \nHaving grown up at the foot of the Austrian Alps\, G. Anthony Svatek is awed by the living world and how it is increasingly impacted by our techno-urban lives. Anthony’s work screened at NYFF\, Intl FF Rotterdam\, Visions du Réel\, Ann Arbor\, Big Sky\, Prismatic Ground\, DOCNYC\, amongst others. Supporters include Ford Foundation JustFilms\, NYSCA\, Simons Foundation\, Austrian Cultural Forum NY. He is the recipient of the New Visions Golden Gate Award at SFFILM. Commissioned work includes projects for New York Magazine\, New York State Parks\, and Pioneer Works. He has staffed seasonally at the Flaherty Film Seminar\, The Climate Museum\, and the American Museum of Natural History. \nMiranda Javid is an animator\, curator\, and art educator living in the Hudson Valley of New York State. On her work\, collaborator Brendan Sullivan once said\, “Miranda’s work captures the pulsing network of the living\, the heft of bodies\, and the density of human experience. Her work is playful and also somberly scientific\, as it tracks time and decay with special attention to the body wading through it. There is a whole world in there\, traces of the big unknowables\, both the mystic and the muddled mess of human stuff. Within that unknowable mess\, ritual is the mark left in time.” Her films have shown nationally and internationally at festivals like the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Slamdance\, Flatpack\, Images\, Eyeworks Film Festival\, The Maryland Film Festival\, and Animation Block Party. She is a former Kenan Fellow\, Denniston Hill and Squeaky Wheel resident\, a Sherman Fairchild grantee\, and a recipient of the Nancy Harrigan Prize\, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Her drawings have shown at The Baltimore Museum of Art\, and The Mint Museum of Art in North Carolina. \nNoor Abuarafeh is a Palestinian artist based between Jerusalem and Rotterdam. Her practice spans video\, performance\, publications\, and video installations\, with a focus on the themes of memory\, history and archives and the complexities of tracking absence. Noor’s videos and performances are based on texts and call the complexity of history into question: how it is formed\, constructed\, made\, perceived\, visualized and understood. She asks how all these elements are related and investigates the possibility of representing the past when the past is still present. Her videos and socially-engaged works are based on interviews\, workshops and other participatory encounters.\nIn the past Abuarafeh has shown in solo and group exhibitions at De Appel (2024)\, Art Jameel (2024)\, Jakarta Biennale (2024)\, Frieze Museum (2023)\, Venice Biennale (2022)\, Berlin Biennale (2020)\, and Sharjah Biennale 13 (2017). She also participated in the Off-Biennale Gaudipolis in Budapest (2017) and the Qalandia International in Jerusalem (2018)\, among others. In 2019\, she held her first solo exhibition\, The Moon is a Sun Returning as a Ghost\, curated by Lara Khaldi in Jerusalem.\n             \nFeatured image: Still of Amy Ching-Yan Lam with Emerson Maxwell\, Looty Goes to Heaven (2022). A digitally animated photorealistic depiction of a small Pekingese dog. The dog is upside down with his paws in the air in a relaxed state. One of its eyes is open and looking at you.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/with-us-at-the-center-of-our-world/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Membership Hangout Open House!
DESCRIPTION:Squeaky Wheel members and membership-curious!\nDrop by on Saturday June 13 from 12-2pm to: \n\nhave a light lunch with us\ncheck out our new space\npoke around in the Squeaky Wheel archives\nshare what you’re working on and interested in!\n\nAll are welcome\, RSVP optional but encouraged!
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/membership-open-house/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Offer
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SUMMARY:A/V Club June
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 17\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \n  \nSaturday\, June 13\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, June 17\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, July 18\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, July 22\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, August 15\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, August 19\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc.  Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n  \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n  \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-june/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Artist talk: Cameron A. Granger & Christina Corfield
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 24\, 2026\, 7 pm\nFree or suggested donation\nYou can request an ASL interpreter for this event\, please contact ekrem@squeaky.org by June 1\nSqueaky Wheel presents a conversation with artists Cameron A. Granger and Christina Corfield\, moderated by Ekrem Serdar. The two artists will speak to their projects – Just Below Heaven (2025) and Pony Players Review (2020–present)\, respectively – as part of our current exhibition\, With us at the center of our world: Animals\, domestications\, dreams\, and answer questions from the audience. The exhibition presents the work of nine artists thinking through and on non-human animals. The artists – working in animation\, essay films\, speculative narratives\, installation work\, amog other forms – address topics of domestication\, colonialism\, extinction\, and conservation\, and the toll humans extract from our co-inhabitants on earth. The exhibition features work by Amy Ching-Yan Lam\, Annika Eriksson\, Cameron A. Granger\, Christina Corfield\, Deniz Tortum & Sister Sylvester\, G. Anthony Svatek\, Miranda Javid\, and Noor Abuarafeh. \nFor attendees: The event will take place at Squeaky Wheel. Please note that you cannot enter Tri-Main Center after 7:30 pm. Samosas from Ali Baba Kebab will be provided. \nThis event is supported by Teiger Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. \n \nStill: Cameron A. Granger\, Just Below Heaven (2025)\nBiographies of the artists\nCameron A. Granger is Sandra’s son & came up in in the Euclid\, Ohio. He likes pigeons\, video games\, & memes. Lately he’s been thinking about how myth making and narrative have been used as a means to police the imagination\, and making movies with his friends. He’s a lifetime member of MINT Collective\, long may it live\, and an alumni of Euclid Public Schools. Granger is an alumni of the Studio Museum in Harlem AIR program (21-22) and Skowhegan School for Painting & Sculpture (2017). His film\, Before I Let Go\, was awarded Best Experimental Film and the Audience Award at the 2023 BlackStar Film Festival. Granger lives and works between Columbus\, OH and Queens\, NY. Granger has exhibited his work in solo exhibitions at Kate Werble Gallery in New York\, NY\, No Place Gallery\, Columbus\, OH (2022); and Vox Populi\, Philadelphia\, PA (2018)\, among others. He has shown in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1\, Long Island City\, NY (2022)\, The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in Detroit\, MI\, Jack Shainman The School\, Kinderhook\, NY (2022)\, and The Bemis Center for the Arts\, Omaha\, NE (2021). \nChristina Corfield is a British-born interdisciplinary artist and media scholar. She has published her research in academic journals such as The Journal of Early Popular Visual Culture\, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies. Christina has exhibited her artwork in Europe and across the US\, most recently with a solo show at the Western New York Book Arts Center\, as well as Telematic Gallery\, San Francisco\, and Johansson Projects in Oakland\, CA. Her scholarly and artistic work focuses on media history\, media materiality and logistical media\, exploring how the perceived value of media and technology is negotiated through the stories we tell about them. \nFeatured image: Installation documentation of Christina Corfield\, Pony Players Review (2020–present).
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/artist-talk-cameron-a-granger-christina-corfield-with-ekrem-serdar/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk
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SUMMARY:Call for submissions: Squeaky Wheel's 23rd Animation Fest!
DESCRIPTION:Deadline: June 26\, 2026\, 11:59 PM\nNotification Date: August 22\, 2026\nSqueaky Wheel announces the call for submissions for our annual Animation Fest!  Celebrating its 23rd year\, we are proud to continue a festival showcasing short films and artworks made in a diverse variety of animation techniques\, including stop-motion\, claymation\, 3D animation\, hand-painted film\, motion graphics\, and more. All genres are welcome. Past festivals have showcased work from both emerging and established artists. \nThe 23rd Animation Fest will be held online and in-person on Friday\, December 4 2026 at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Films in the virtual program will be accessible for 24 hours thereafter for general audiences\, and 72 hours for Squeaky Wheel members. If selected\, you will be asked for a downloadable copy of your film and stills from your film. \n\nEach individual submission should not exceed ~10 minutes.\nThere is no submission fee.\nAll selected artists will receive a screening fee of $100 per selected film. (International applicants must have a PayPal account to receive their screening fee).\nAll selected artists will receive a one year membership to Squeaky Wheel.\nMultiple submissions per artist are accepted.\nFilms must have been completed within the past ~2 years.\n\nArtists who face systemic and structural barriers are encouraged to apply. Please direct any questions about the application process and your submissions to office@squeaky.org with the subject “Animation Fest” \nClick here to submit your films\nImage description: Documentation from the 20th Animation Fest retrospective at North Park Theater. A projection in a darkened movie theater. On the screen is the word “Filmmakers!”\, which is from Helen Hill’s 2004 short film Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/call-for-submissions-squeaky-wheels-23rd-animation-fest/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
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SUMMARY:Youth Film Lab Summer Intensive
DESCRIPTION:Youth Film Lab Summer Intensive\nThis program is full. Scroll down to “tickets” to join the waitlist.\nJuly 6-August 14\nMonday-Friday\n12-4pm\n6 weeks\nAges 13-18\, grades 8-12\n  \nSqueaky Wheel’s Youth Film Lab Summer Intensive is the deep dive version of our school year program. Join our wildly creative and welcoming community and collaborate on every aspect of the filmmaking process – scriptwriting\, storyboarding\, acting\, camera\, lighting\, sound\, editing\, and special effects. You’ll build critical media literacy skills and learn how to tell stories that are important to you. You’ll work with professional equipment and software\, highly experienced instructors\, and amazing guest artists. You’ll take field trips to local film sets and production studios\, and will have the opportunity to submit your work to film festivals. You’ll build skills that will prepare you prepare for college and for jobs in the film and television industry. \nYFL will take place primarily in our new production studio in the TriMain Center\, 2495 Main St. Suite 310\, in Buffalo. Snacks will be provided\, and participants are welcome to bring a lunch. \nQuestions? Need transportation assistance? Email caroline@squeaky.org or call 716-884-7172 \nOur programs are subsidized by grant funds and donations\, which helps us to keep our programs affordable. In order to ensure that this program accessible to everyone\, we have also implemented a sliding scale fee. \nSliding scale fee:  $0-$1760 \n$0 \n$220 ($36/week) \n$440 ($73/week) \n$880 ($146/week) \n$1320 ($220/week) \n$1760 ($293/week) \n \nPlease choose the ticket price that fits your budget\, including $0. \nIf you would like to contribute an amount that isn’t listed\, please register for the $0 ticket and email caroline@squeaky.org for instructions. \nNo one will be turned away for lack of funds. \nYFL is supported in part by the Josephine Goodyear Foundation.
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/youth-film-lab-summer-intensive/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Summer Program,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:Sampling in Symmetry: Digital Music Production
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth\nSampling in Symmetry: Digital Music Production\nJuly 13-17 (session 1A)\nMonday – Friday\n9am – 12:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nStudents entering grades 6-9 \n“Sampling in Symmetry” is an immersive\, hands-on workshop for aspiring artists and music\nproducers\, focusing on the art of sampling. Participants will learn how to chop\, loop\, and\nmanipulate audio samples\, building skills to create cohesive\, rhythmically captivating tracks.\nThe workshop explores crate-digging\, the foundations of hip-hop and electronic music\nproduction\, and the creative potential of symmetry in sound. \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: Deon Thedford\, aka Y.N.X.716 \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/sampling-in-symmetry-digital-music-production/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Summer Program,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:Digital Art and Technology Access
DESCRIPTION:DATA is a media arts and technology program designed for neurodivergent individuals ages 13-19. A series of year-round workshops builds creative and social skills. Students learn a range of media-based practices like illustration\, animation\, and game design to support individual and collaborative projects. We value long term relationships with students\, families\, and teachers.\nIn DATA we provide a minimum 4:1 student-to-instructor ratio\, noise-canceling headphones\, snacks\, and a separate sensory-friendly space outside the classroom for breaks. Most participants have Autism Spectrum Disorder and related diagnoses\, but a formal diagnosis isn’t require for participation. If you aren’t sure if your teen is a fit for DATA\, please reach out and we can help. Our patient and passionate instructors have extensive experience working with neurodivergent teens\, and all have relevant combined training and/or degrees in fields like fine art\, special education and social work. \nDATA is tuition free and space is limited.\nThe 2026 Summer Program is full. If you would like to be added the waitlist\, scroll down to “tickets” and complete the application form. You’ll be contacted if a spot opens up. \nInformation about the fall session will be available soon. \nJuly 13 – 24 (2 weeks)\nMonday – Friday\n9am-1pm\nBuffalo State University\nBuckham Hall\, room 141\n  \nThis summer we are thrilled to have interdisciplinary artist and educator Quincey Miracle as our instructor. We will use a range of digital tools for drawing\, animation\, and game design. Students will have the option of incorporating projects they are already working on\, or starting with fresh ideas. Snacks and bottled water are provided\, please bring your own lunch.  \n  \nScroll down to “tickets” to complete the simple application form.  Please note that this is an application that must be reviewed\, not a first-come first-serve registration. \nIf this is your first time applying to DATA\, you’ll hear from Caroline\, our Education Director\, to schedule a phone call or meeting to discuss the program in greater detail\, and to ensure that we are a good fit for each other. From there\, the Education team will review all approved applicants and fill any open spots. Preference is given to returning students\, those already on the waitlist\, and new applicants with the strongest interest. Anyone we aren’t able to invite to the summer session will be automatically added to the waitlist for future sessions. \nWhile we welcome all skill levels\, DATA is usually the best fit for students who can confidently work independently and who already know they have a strong interest in computer-based digital arts. We unfortunately aren’t able to support individuals with high one-on-one needs. \nQuestions? Please email caroline@squeaky.org\, or call 716-884-7172. \n\n  \nDATA is generously supported by The Children’s Guild Foundation\, The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation and the Golisano Foundation\, with nutrition support from Wegmans. Thank you!! \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/digital-art-and-technology-access-summer-2026/
LOCATION:Buckham Hall room B141\, Buffalo State University\, 1300 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States
CATEGORIES:DATA,Education,Free,Summer Session,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:Game Design & Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth\nGame Design & Storytelling\nJuly 13-17 (session 1B)\nMonday – Friday\n1pm-4pm\nOpen to all levels. \nStudents entering grades 6-9 \nUsing the story-based game engine Twine\, you’ll learn how to build your own choose-your-adventure style game! No coding or game design experience necessary. Do you love writing stories? Inventing characters? Building imaginary worlds? This class is for you!! \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/game-design-storytelling/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Summer Program,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:Experimental Digital Photography
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth\nDigital Collage\nJuly 20-24 (session 2A)\nMonday – Friday\n9am-12pm\nOpen to all levels. \nStudents entering grades 6-9 \nUsing smartphones and digital cameras\, you’ll learn to compose compelling original photographs. Then\, you’ll learn to use Adobe Photoshop to cut apart\, remix\, manipulate\, and reassemble your images to make imaginative and unique new collages and animated GIFs. \n  \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: Mikayla Kempski \n  \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/experimental-digital-photography/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Summer Program,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:Filmmaking 1
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth\nFilmmaking\nJuly 20-24 (session 2B)\nMonday – Friday\n1pm-4pm\nOpen to all levels. \nStudents entering grades 6-9 \nDuring this all around video production and editing session\, you’ll work with a team to produce a super short (micro) experimental film! You’ll write a short script\, rehearse it\, film it\, and edit the footage into a short film! It will be a fast paced week\, and you’ll leave with an amazing short film! Every summer this class is different\, so returning students are welcome and encouraged to take it again – you’ll build on your previous skills\, and the films will keep getting better! \nNOTE: Because we’ve had so many requests for video production workshops\, Digital Filmmaking is offered twice this summer (session 2B and session 4A). Both sessions will follow a similar structure\, but the experience will be completely different\, led by different instructors\, and it’s a-ok to register for both! \nClass limited to 8 participants. \n  \n  \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/filmmaking-1/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Summer Program,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:A/V Club July
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, July 22\, 6:30-8:30pm\nFree\, sign up below\nWe’ve added preceding Saturdays as A/V Studio days where members are encouraged to convene and work on projects in our lab to present for the meetup. Future dates will be: \n  \nSaturday\, July 18\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, July 22\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, August 15\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, August 19\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \nSaturday\, September 12\, 2-5pm A/V Studio \nWednesday\, September 16\, 6:30-8:30pm A/V Club Meetup \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin us for the next round of Squeaky’s A/V Club\, a monthly meetup for digital artists\, media artists\, sound artists\, video artists\, filmmakers\, animators\, game designers\, etc etc.  Come share works in progress\, talk skills and experiences\, and embrace the challenges of making media work in an informal\, constructive and exploratory environment. New members are always welcome and appreciated- we want to see your work! \n  \nHave a skill you want to share with the group? We’re looking for ways to share the little tidbits of wisdom we’ve picked up along the way from the various working methods we’ve employed while toiling in the studio. If you’ve found an interesting art hack\, have a passion for technical skill\, or find yourself knowledgeable in a topic you think might be good to pass along to fellow artists\, fill out this form and let us know! We’d like to include informal skill sharing as part of the A/V Club structure in the future. \n  \nNote: This is an interdisciplinary group\, so if you’re only interested in talking about a single art form\, then this might not be the right group for you. If you’re interested in sharing\, learning\, exploring\, and experimenting across forms\, genres\, styles\, processes\, and mediums\, then you’ll be right at home! \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/a-v-club-july/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Open Call,Skill Share
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SUMMARY:Tri-Main Center Art Crawl
DESCRIPTION:M&T Fourth Friday Art Crawl: Friday\, July 24\, 2026\, 5:00–8:00 pm\nStop by Squeaky Wheel to see With us at the center of our world: animals\, domestications\, dreams in our gallery! \nPartnering with local art organizations located within the TriMain Center\, Buffalo Arts Studio presents the M&T Fourth Friday Art Crawl. Visitors can enjoy the three exhibitions on display at Buffalo Arts Studio\, along with exploring the studios\, spaces\, and artworks from Aspire\, ArtWorks by People Inc.\, Eat Off Art\, Arts for Learning\, Squeaky Wheel\, and independent studios in the building. And enjoy live music provided by Music is Art! Music is Art’s mission is to use music and art to create opportunities\, foster a sense of community\, and provide access to creative outlets in Western New York. Founded by Goo Goo Dolls bassist Robby Takac\, its primary goals are to unify the region through music\, encourage individuals to find their own “musical voice\,” and encourage people to think about the role music plays in their lives. This is achieved through programs like its annual free festival and a popular instrument donation program. \nFeatured image: G. Anthony Svatek\, A Whole New Species (1956–2026)
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/tri-main-art-crawl/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Special Event
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SUMMARY:Comics!
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth\nComics!\nJuly 27-31 (session 3A)\nMonday – Friday\n9am-12pm\nOpen to all levels. \nStudents entering grades 6-9 \nStories and comics and zines oh my! Learn to use Krita\, an incredible free drawing and animation program\, to develop\, draw\, and color your own digital comics and zines! Students of all levels are welcome in this playful class where you can start something new or build on ideas you’ve been working on. You’ll learn with professional tools – our computer lab is outfitted with Apple desktop and laptop computers\, and Wacom digital drawing tablets. \nClass limited to 8 participants. \n  \nInstructor: Mikayla Kempski \n  \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n  \nComic by Christina\, age 13\, TAY 2025 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/comics-2/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Summer Program,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:2D Animation
DESCRIPTION:Tech Arts for Youth: 2D Animation\nJuly 27-31 (Session 3B)\nMonday – Friday\n1:00pm – 4:00 pm\nOpen to all levels. \nEntering grades 6-9 \nFrom character design to storytelling\, this workshop empowers young artists to express their creativity using frame-by-frame animation. Our instructor will guide beginner and more advanced students through the animation workflow\, from animating shapes and actions to developing more complex characters and movements. You’ll learn a range of 2D techniques\, including hand drawn animation on paper and digital animation. \nClass limited to 8 participants. \nInstructor: Kolya Kishinsky \nContact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 with any questions! \nMembers receive a 10% discount on all workshops. Not yet a member? Click here to join now\, and start using your discount right away! \n***Note: you can purchase classes and a membership at the same time\, and the discount will be applied to your cart automatically. If you are already a member\, fill your cart and then login as a “returning customer” from the “checkout” page to activate your discount. If your discount isn’t working\, email caroline@squeaky.org for help*** \n  \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/2d-animation/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:Education,Summer Program,Tech Arts for Youth,Youth Program
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SUMMARY:Paint-On-Glass Animation
DESCRIPTION:Paint on Glass Animation\nJuly 28-August 6 (2 weeks)\nTuesdays & Thursdays\n6:00-8:00pm\nSliding scale fee: $50-$200\, including materials \nOpen to all levels\, ages 16+ \nClass limited to 8 participants. \n \nJoin us to learn the beautiful and mediative process of paint-on-glass animation. We’ll use a range of brushes and non-traditional tools to move wet acrylic paint on a backlit glass surface. Using cameras and ipads\, we’ll photograph each new mark and assemble the frames into an animation sequence. The resulting animation reflects the detail of each brush stroke or texture. \nThe first two classes will focus on techniques\, including how to animate over a video. The second two classes will have room to explore a personal project. All tools\, materials\, and software are provided for use during class. You’ll leave with a shopping list for setting up an affordable animation station at home with your camera or mobile device. \nThis class is perfect for painters interested in animation\, animators interested in painting\, traditional artists looking to dip a toe into the digital world\, digital artists eager to touch physical materials\, and anyone looking to slow down through a process with truly infinite possibilities. The resulting animation can be hyper detailed or loose and experimental\, it’s up to you. Come move some paint around! \n  \nInstructor: Kolya Kishinsky \nKolya Kishinsky is a Providence\, RI based animator and current part time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He grew up in the Bay Area\, where in the foggy hills one’s hand disappears if it’s too far from the body. As in the fog\, his work focuses on searching\, autonomy and creating personal identity. He works in both stop motion and 2D animated mediums as well as holding a printmaking and illustration practice focused on telling surreal yet personal stories. We’ve been truly fortunate to have Kolya join us in Buffalo to share his skills with our youth programs for the last two summers\, and we’re thrilled to finally offer this workshop for adults. \nQuestions? Contact Caroline at caroline@squeaky.org or (716) 884-7172 \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://squeaky.org/event/paint-on-glass-animation/
LOCATION:Squeaky Wheel\, 2495 Main Street\, Suite 310\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14214\, United States
CATEGORIES:16+,Media Art Workshop
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