\nProgram duration is approx. 55 minutes. Descriptions provided by the artists. \nTony Nash\, Fabric\nDigital video\, 1:47 min\, 2025\nA funny interpretation about some things that happened to me\, based on facts \nJames John Gibbons\, WIYMMEIN?\nDigital video\, 5:22 min\, 2025\nIn this short documentary\, it follows the narrative of three different interviews and the interviewee’s most memorable experiences involving nature. Interviewees are presented with the same question at the beginning of each interview and the results vary greatly. Leading into fun stories involving personal accounts with nature. Each story is presented using varying visual techniques\, such as 2D digital animation\, stop-motion animation\, live-action footage\, and more! Warning: Explicit Language \nAmanda Besl\, An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Houseplants\nDigital video\, 5:10 min\, 2024\nMy experimental film\, An Illustrated Guide to Flowering Houseplants\, began as a reaction to the questionable and frustrating advice to “Bloom where you are planted” and follows both a woman and a Venus Flytrap\, one of which blooms by the end of the film. In truth\, an unhappy plant is just as likely to die as it is to flower when trapped in an inappropriate environment. I was interested in applying ideas of ecofeminism to an indoor garden to suggest an outgrown intimate relationship. The aesthetic reflects that of a vintage gardening show from the early 1970’s evoking ideas of outdated instruction subverted by personal experience. The soundtrack includes found audio from a public domain marriage training film from 1950. The surreal nature of the life within the paisley curtain references the short story The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. I was also inspired by filmmaker Maya Deren and her disorienting 1943 film\, Meshes of the Afternoon. \nGrace LaPrade\, Rain\nDigital video\, 1:19 min\, 2022\nIn this charcoal animated short\, a dog is sent out into the rain\, which turns into a flood. \nEmily Engel\, Tired Old Dog\nDigital video\, 3:11 min\, 2025\nTired Old Dog is an original song written by local musician\, Tyler Westcott and animated by Emily Engel. This project was a part of a beautiful collaboration between us and the life we shared with our beloved companion\, Princess Buttercup. It explores interconnected themes of love\, grief\, and spirituality. Animations made using analog rotoscoping techniques. Created by printing out individual frames and drawing over them with paint markers and oil pastels. They are then scanned back in and edited with After Effects and Premier Pro. \nChace Lobley\, Lego Rex: The Movie\nDigital video\, 2:22 min\, 2025\nThe film is called Lego Rex. There is a lizard\, pterosaur\, T-rex\, and a triceratops. I was inspired by the dinosaurs and their behavior\, how they behave like no other animals in nature. I was inspired by the ways of the Mesozoic era. \nJennie Thwing\, The World Said No\nDigital video\, 8 minutes\, 2025\nThe World Said No is a short animation based on the question\, “What if nature decided to fight back?” It is an allegorical animation about ecological apathy and its consequences. It was animated using a combination of cell animation and stop motion. \nCorinne Teed\, Feral Utopias\nDigital video\, 7:20 min\, 2016\nFeral Utopias is a multi-channel animation that incorporates studio recordings of LGBTQ subjects and scans of 19th-century wood engravings carved by colonial naturalists. Digitally collaged together\, the animation presents a speculative\, other-worldly space. Audiences are immersed in multi-voiced narratives that reveal cross-species alliances in a time of ecological devastation. Participants attest to the ways they have survived homophobia\, settler colonialism\, patriarchy\, and alienation through identification with animal species. \nIn her essay Melancholy Natures\, Queer Ecology\, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands writes “Recent queer scholarship on melancholia… is focused exactly on the condition of grieving the ungrievable: how does one mourn in the midst of a culture that finds it almost impossible to recognize the value of what has been lost?” Mortimer-Sandilands presents the embrace of melancholy as a political stance – preserving the beloved that society does not value. Relating the devastation of HIV/AIDS with that of climate change and extractive industries\, she offers a framework for queer ecology. From this stance of melancholy\, Feral Utopias documents voices and portraits of those on the margins. In the process\, we collaboratively define our existent\, ecocidal dystopia while articulating possibilities of alternative futures. \nMorgan Sears-Williams\, Through the Bushes and the Trees\, You’ll Find Me\n16mm on digital video\, 3:38 min\, 2024\nthrough the bushes and the trees\, you’ll find me intertwines the personal and political histories of Hanlan’s Point Beach\, the site of Canada’s first pride gathering in the early 1970s. A hole punch serves as a symbolic peephole\, reflecting the cruising areas on the beach that invite both spectatorship and participation. By situating the tender moments of queer affection amidst the vast body of water surrounding the Toronto islands\, the film celebrates and interrogates the histories and spaces of queer love and resistance. \nThis work was made by hole punching frame by frame using a cricut machine\, then manually taping together 10\,000+ frames. Digital scan and print made by Niagara Custom Lab. \nJelena Oroz (Director)\, No Room\nDigital video\, 6:22 min\, 2024\nThe cars are everywhere and they show no consideration for others. It’s time to get revenge! Produced and distributed by Vanja Andrijevic. \nStacey Sproule\, Sojourn\nDigital video\, 3:42 min\, 2025\nCentred on the South Shore of Ontario’s Prince Edward County\, a place of significant bio-diversity as well as a high density flight path for migratory songbirds\, Prince Edward County is also a popular tourist destination. This work was a meditation on access to nature\, land\, and temporary stays. The work is a way to grapple with rapid development\, loss of public access to nature and the ongoing destruction of habitat both in Prince Edward County and across the province. \nTia Brown\, re_set\nDigital video\, 1:23 min\, 2025\nHow do you reset in these challenging end times? \nAline Höchli\, Caries\nDigital video\, 9:41 min\, 2025 \n“Eager to create a monumental work of art\, a shaman remains blissfully unaware that she is painting her murals inside the mouth of a vain weather presenter. I like to tell stories that distort the world as we understand it. In my film Caries\, the disease that gives the story its title is not caused by acid-eroded tooth surfaces but by the inhabitants of the oral cavity smearing the teeth with wild murals. With this playful narrative style\, I want to encourage the audience to question the basic assumptions we hold about the world. Behind the absurd plotlines\, you can recognize connections to our reality. For example\, while brushing his teeth\, the weather presenter triggers a storm for the inhabitants of his oral cavity: so many of our everyday actions have a far bigger impact elsewhere in the world than we realize at first glance. Indeed\, the three cavepeople\, abruptly torn from their familiar surroundings because someone spits in another’s soup\, may prompt thoughts about immigration policy.” Distributor: Vanja Andrijevic \n
\n\nAline Höchli is an artist specializing in animated film and illustration. She studied film in the animation department at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts HSLU\, graduating in 2015. She founded KOLOSS Studio in 2016. Aline currently lives and works in Bern. Filmography: Caries (2025)\, Why Slugs Have No Legs (2019)\, Kuckuck (2017)\, He Sö Kherö (2016\, graduation film). \nAmanda Besl is an experimental filmmaker and painter living in Buffalo\, NY. Besl holds an MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art\, Bloomfield Hills\, MI and a BFA from SUNY Oswego. She uses natural history as a platform to explore social issues. She was awarded a 2024 NYSCA grant for Temple of Hortus\, a botanically inspired installation of 2-d\, 3-d\, and video work questioning curated and commercial approaches to nature\, hybridization\, mutation and collection. Besl is represented by ArtResource and her 2022 solo exhibition Blue Mythologies at The Raft of Sanity gallery began her foray into experimental filmmaking. \nChace is currently a practicing artist in Starlight Art WOW program at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Chace began making dinosaurs around the age of 14 when he got “play clay” as a Christmas gift. When asked what he enjoys about dinosaurs he said he found an intensity about the creatures that inspired him to think about “their behavior and design – how they were made”. He enjoys sharing his creative output with his family and friends. \nCorinne Teed is a research-based artist working in printmaking\, book arts\, time-based media\, and social practice. Their work lives at the intersections of queer theory\, ecology\, and critical animal studies in the context of settler colonialism. Much of their creative practice centers on relationships\, through collaboration\, participation\, interview-based research\, and encounters with the more-than-human. Their work is supported by ongoing relationships with communities working toward social justice and ecosystem health. Teed currently works as an Assistant Professor in Printmaking at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia\, PA. \nEmily Engel is a Buffalo\, NY-based artist and designer whose work reflects her unique perspective and personal experiences. Her artistic practice encompasses a range of mediums\, including chainstitch embroidery\, motion graphics\, and printmaking while blending both traditional and contemporary techniques in her work. \nGrace LaPrade is an artist from Buffalo\, New York. She works primarily as an illustrator for picture books\, but her roots go back to experimental animation\, having specialized in stop-motion matchbox NASCAR races at the age of 9. In books and animation\, she loves visualizing stories that explore what it means to be human in our world\, whether that be through small curiosities or grand imaginations. She uses analog processes to create tactile drawings that reflect the imperfect\, weird\, and awesome layers of being alive. \nMy name is James Gibbons. I am a 20 year old student who is currently attending SUNY Fredonia in New York. I major in Animation/Illustration at college and have loved drawing and animating for my entire life. I find my creative direction tends to lead in a more comedic direction\, I hope you like what I have to show! \nJennie Thwing is an artist\, animator\, and educator. She has received multiple awards\, including the 2014 Meyer Family Award for Contemporary Art\, an Environmental Art Project Grant at the Schuylkill Center\, a 2013 – 15 Center for Emerging Artists Fellowship; a 2014 SPARC Artist in Residence grant\, a 2014 & 2019 Queens Arts Fund Grant\, and Wyoming Council for the Arts 2024 Individual Artist Grant and a 2025 New York State Council on the Arts Support for Artists Grant.\n \nJelena Oroz (1987) graduated with a BA in Fine Arts Education from the Academy of Arts in Osijek. In 2014\, she obtained her MA degree in Animated Film and New Media from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb\, where she now works as a tenured professor. Jelena’s films have screened at numerous festivals around the world and won many awards. Filmography: No Room (2024)\, Letters From the Edge of the Forest (2022)\, Two for Two (2018)\, Wolf Games (2015\, graduation film)\, Fakofbolan: Forever or Never (2013\, music video)\, Comeback (2012\, student film)\, Waiting Room (2011\, student film) \nMorgan Sears-Williams (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and cultivator based in Toronto and Vancouver. Her practice reflects themes of feminist queer histories\, collective memory and exploring the materiality of moving images by using organic film developers. Investigating the use of analog film both as a form of projected image and as a sculptural material\, her current research focuses on how lived experiences inform queer aesthetics and articulations of memory and gender. Using plant-based film developers (also known as eco-processing) requires the artist to work directly with the film\, which results in an intimate collaboration among material\, concept\, and aesthetic. Bridging eco-processing\, experimental film and queer history (both personal and political) she aims to create intimate experiences for viewers to expand their ideas of queer space and time. She has exhibited her works across Turtle Island and internationally and was the recipient of the Roloff Beny Award in 2022\, Pandora Y. H. Ho Memorial Award and the Artscape Youngplace Career Launcher in 2017. In support of her artwork and research\, Morgan received the graduate scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council in 2023\, and has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Morgan was a founding member of The Rude Collective\, a queer arts collective amplifying voices of marginalized queer folks in Toronto. \nStacey Sproule is a Picton-based multi-disciplinary artist working in hand-drawn animation. Using and subverting animation techniques and processes she explores the liminal\, the ephemeral\, and the magical. She holds a BFA from OCAD in Drawing and Painting. Her work has been supported by the OAC\, she has received a full fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center\, and has exhibited at Forest City Gallery\, FADO\, the Art Gallery of Mississauga\, and others. Her work has been featured in festivals including 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival\, Les Sommets du cinéma d’animation\, the Rhubarb Festival\, and the West Virginia Mountaineer Film Festival. \nTia Brown is a multidisciplinary creative. They are the former editor of Utterance and their work has been featured in One for One Thousand\, CivicScience\, truthout\, and Qween City. Projections is an audiovisual examination of grief\, emotional uncertainty\, nature\, and the human. \nTony Nash: I am an artist living in Buffalo. \n \nSponsors\n \nVilla Maria College is the Reel Sponsor of Squeaky Wheel’s Animation Fest. Thank you to our sponsors Buffalo Spree\, Rigidized Metals\, Locust Street Art\, PUSH Buffalo\, Delaware Council Member Joel Feroleto\, Rich Products\, TriMain Center\, Harlequin Pet Service\, Hodgson Russ LLP\, Lumpy Buttons\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Evolve Fitness\, New York State Senator Sean Ryan\, and the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. \nBanner image: A still from Jelena Oroz’s No Room. Drawings of cars with cat like single eyes and legs on a street. A person is watching them from the window. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-22nd-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/NoRoom_07.jpg GEO:42.9324531;-78.87566 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo NY 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1285 Elmwood Avenue:geo:-78.87566,42.9324531 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241004T193000 DTSTAMP:20260522T164733 CREATED:20251230T191613Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191613Z UID:10001177-1728064800-1728070200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 21st Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, October 4\, 6 pm ET\nIn-person at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum and online\nIn-person is free as part of M&T First Fridays. Online is free or $10 suggested donation\nSqueaky Wheel is excited to present the 21st annual Animation Fest! Featuring eleven films from Buffalo and beyond\, this years edition provides a survey of gorgeous vistas and inventive joy\, with films made in a variety of techniques and media\, from charcoal drawings to 3D animation. \nThe films take on love and identity\, landscapes and gardens\, artificial intelligence\, and much more. Featuring films by Alisi Telengut\, Calvin Hardick\, Delia Hass\, Eva Davidova\, J. Ramos\, Kolya Kishinsky & Geneva Huffman\, Marina Santana De la Torre\, Miranda Javid\, S4RA\, Suncana Brkulj and Tony Nash. \nContent notes: The 10th film in the program\, Red Thumb\, features a foreboding atmosphere and a scene of a character choking another that may not be appropriate for young children. See film descriptions below for caption availability. \nTo attend in-person: The screening will take place at 6 pm at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s auditorium. Just show up! \nTo attend online: Get your ticket below! Upon check-out\, you will receive an email titled “Your Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center order has been received!”. A private link will be included in that email; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here. \nAlisi Telengut’s Baigal Nuur is courtesy of Fabian&Fred Studio. Suncana Brkulj’s Butterfly and Delia Hass’ On Hold are courtesy of Bonobo Studios. Special thank you to Fabian Driehorst\, Vanja Andrijevic\, Charlie Garland and Amina Boyd. This years edition of the Animation Fest was curated by Squeaky Wheel staff Carra Stratton\, Ekrem Serdar\, Mark Longolucco\, and Zainab Saleh. \n
\n\nProgram duration: ~53 minutes. Descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers and distributors. \nTony Nash\, Where Was I?\n1:37 minutes\, open captions\, 2024\nThis work was inspired by friendship and nostalgia. \nDelia Hess\, On Hold\n7:11 minutes\, 2024\nA young woman is stuck in the hold queue of a telephone hotline. A surreal episodic short film about the absurdities of urban life and the frustration of a paralysing standstill. \nMiranda Javid\, What Humans Do\n6:40 minutes\, open captions\, 2023\nA macro view of human-actions\, as told from within a singular body. Animated frame by frame with biodegradable ink + paper. \nMarina Santana De la Torre\, La Estación de las Rosas (The Season of the Roses)\n2:45 minutes\, Spanish with English subtitles\, 2024\nChronicle about freedom and sexual diversity. The film centres on the gay relationship between two university students who discover what life is like when they graduate. \nJ. Ramos\, Eldritch Kiss\n2:53 minutes\, open captions\, digital video\, 2024\nA workplace romance sparks up at a small convenience store. Claire is a shy\, awkward girl with a secret. Addie is a nice girl who is unaware of Claire’s truth. Will their newfound love survive Claire’s reveal? \nCalvin Hardick\, Silo\n1:17 minutes\, 2024\nA very personal and specific representation of universal creative energy manifested as a character. Inside of an impossible structure somewhere in the cosmos\, seen through the impenetrable safety of a viewing portal\, we get to witness the moment of ascension into the material plane. We\, the viewers\, our hoppy two dimensional friend\, and the being born in the silo are all segments of an infinite accordion\, seeing\, feeling\, sharing\, and expressing. \nS4RA\, bot3quim\n4:45 minutes\, Spanish with English subtitles\, 2023\nstage for intellectuals\, artists & freethinkers 2 meet\, a cultural institution that has become the sanctuary for creative expression & a symbol of resistance during the portugese dictatorship \nAlisi Telengut\, Baigal Nuur (Lake Baikal)\n8:56 min\, Buryat-Mongolian with English subtitles\, 2023\nThe formation and history of Lake Baikal in Siberia are re-imagined with hand-made animation\, featuring the voice of a Buryat woman who can still recall some words in her endangered Buryat-Mongolian language. \nEva Davidova\, Vinson And Flying Dancers Over A Lush Garden With Animals\n2:46 minutes\, 2024\nVinson and Flying Dancers Over a Lush Garden with Animals is an experimental animation investigating through hundreds of prompts the biases in the dataset of Runway’s LLM about dancers of color\, and the frustrating attempts at feeding concepts like Flying (we ended up writing Falling to achieve Flying)\, Bare Feet\, or Dancing with Animals. The sound is a mix by Eva Davidova\, based on Matthew D. Gantt experiments with Artificial Intelligence in sound. \nKolya Kishinsky and Geneva Huffman\, Red Thumb\n5:52 min\, 2024\nA stop motion short about a gardener who tries to control his environment as he discovers a pulsing red plant. As it physically grows so does their connection\, becoming his prized blooming obsession. \nSuncana Brkulj\, Butterfly\n8:07 minutes\, 2024\nA community of garden creatures all contribute to the flow of life\, using water from a fountain. When a butterfly gets stuck in the fountain\, they’re faced with an unfamiliar situation. \n
\n\nAlisi Telengut is a Canadian artist of Mongolian origin\, living between Berlin and Tiohti:áke/Montréal. Her work received multiple awards and nominations and has been screened and exhibited internationally\, including at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures\, Sundance Film Festival\, TIFF\, Videonale\, among others. \nCalvin Hardick is a multi-disciplinary illustrator and animator from Buffalo\, NY. \nDelia Hess studied animation at the Lucerne School of Art and Design in Switzerland. Since her graduation in 2012 she has been working independently on her own short film projects as well as on commissioned films and illustrations. She lives and works in Lucerne.\nFilmography: On Hold (2024)\, Emmen by the Lake (2021)\, Circuit (2018)\, Around the Stairway (2018)\, Morning Train (2012\, student film)\, Partition (2011\, student film)\, In the City (2011\, student film) \nEva Davidova explores behavior\, ecological disaster\, and the social implications of technology through performative works rooted in the absurd. Challenging a singular narrative\, she combines ancient mythology with current technologies to address the impending ecological catastrophe. Her practice involves research\, performance\, 360 video and 3D animation\, game engines\, participatory Virtual Reality\, and interactive\, site-specific immersive installations. Davidova has exhibited at the Bronx Museum\, the UVP at Everson Museum\, Buffalo AKG Museum\, MACBA\, CAAC Sevilla\, La Regenta\, ISSUE Project Room\, Harvestworks\, Instituto Cervantes\, and the Museum of Moving Image (MoMI) in New York. \nJ. Ramos is someone inspired by their own experiences with sexuality and mental health. They’re pursuing a BFA in Animation at Villa Maria College\, going into their senior year in 2024. They love animation and working on new projects as they come. \nKolya Kishinsky is a recent RISD graduate and Bay Area born animator 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.\nGeneva Huffman is a recent graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design\, working in both 2D and 3D aspects of illustration. She particularly enjoys fabrication in the world of stop motion and is constantly tinkering. Geneva is probably making something creepy and macabre this very moment. Be afraid\, be very afraid. \nMarina Santana is a Mexican Director\, cinematographer\, animator and sound designer. Her work explores dreams and eerie circumstances as well as fear of the unknown. She has screened at Ann Arbor\, Shorts México\, Festival Internacional de Cine de Hidalgo\, Austin Arthouse\, ICDOCS\, Pantalla de Cristal\, New York City International Film Festival and Trinidad y Tobago Film Festival. She holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and is an alumni of the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. \nMiranda Javid (she/her) is an animator\, curator\, and art-educator. Her animations describe cognitive experience\, human bias\, and the relationship between individuals and their communities. \nS4RA is an < non-binary && genderqueer > interdisciplinary artist that feeds on con*sensual power dynamics & gender role play through a /non/ linear looping hybrid process between digital animation & ( immersive : ) environments. also spends endless hours strolling through post-capitalism mazes & it’s influence on libidinal pleasure. \nSuncana Brkulj (1997) earned her MA in animation from the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. Her student films have been selected for screenings at prestigious festivals in Annecy\, Ottawa\, Zagreb\, Stuttgart\, and elsewhere\, winning several awards. After graduating\, Suncana undertook a residency at Open Workshop in Viborg\, where she made her first professional film\, Butterfly. \nTony Nash: I began painting about 50 years ago and now also enjoy making video artwork. \nSponsors\nThank you to Villa Maria College for being the Reel Sponsor of Squeaky Wheel’s Animation Fest. Thank you to our sponsors Buffalo Spree\, Rigidized Metals\, Rose Jade Consulting Co-op\, Delaware Council Member Joel Feroleto\, Tri-Main Center\, Harlequin Pet Services\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Rich Products Corporation\, Legislator April Baskin\, 26 Allen\, Lumpy Buttons\, Niagara Council Member David Rivera\, PUSH Buffalo\, Buffalo AKG Art Museum Altreuter & Berlin\, If Music Be. \n \nBanner image: A still from Suncana Brkulj’s Butterfly (2024). A colorful\, unrealistic. and dense landscape of cute creatures smiling or looking sad. Some are sitting next to each other\, some are dancing\, some have their hands up in joy. Two circles that could be the sun and moon overlook them. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-21st-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Hybrid,Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Butterfly.jpg GEO:42.9324531;-78.87566 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo NY 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1285 Elmwood Avenue:geo:-78.87566,42.9324531 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231103T190000 DTSTAMP:20260522T164733 CREATED:20251230T191524Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191524Z UID:10001131-1699034400-1699038000@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 20th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, November 3\, 6 pm ET @ Buffalo AKG Art Museum and online\nFree or suggested donation\nTickets for online screening below. In-person audiences can just come to the AKG!\nFeaturing 10 films made near and far\, the 20th edition of Squeaky Wheel’s Animation Fest features animations made in a variety of media\, forms\, and materials\, from stop-motion puppetry\, AI generated imagery\, hand-drawn works and more. \nThe 10 films in the programs present a smorgasbord of delights\, personal visions\, and topics\, including internet-era love letters\, surreal narratives\, family relationships\, and films both energetic and joyful\, and somber and quiet. The fest features work by Asparuh Petrov\, Birgit Rathsmann\, Claire Schlaikjer\, Emily Sasmor\, Ivana Bosnjak Volda and Thomas Johnson Volda\, Jeffrey Zablotny\, Jingyi Wang\, Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore\, Megan Young\, and Sarah E. Jenkins. The 20th Animation Fest was curated by Squeaky Wheel staff members Caroline Doherty\, Ekrem Serdar\, Mark Longolucco\, and Meg Specksgoor. \nFor in-person attendees: No tickets are required; the event is free as part of the museum’s First Fridays. The event will begin in the auditorium of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum at 6 pm. \nFor online attendees: Upon check-out\, you will receive an email titled “Your Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center order has been received!”. A private link will be included in that email; the event will be available at the link at the start date and time. You will have access to the event for 24 hours; Squeaky Wheel members receive 72 hour access. Not a member yet? Sign up here.\n
\n\nSarah Jenkins\, Disappearing Acts\, 4 min\, 2022\nDarkness encroaches upon a loggy landscape of animated tricks and turns.\nJeffrey Zablotny\, Sub Terra\, 8.5 min\, 2022\nA routine tree inspection unexpectedly gives way to a journey into the deep. Set in a hidden subterranean world\, ‘Sub Terra’ is the haunting mystery of a cryptic\, first-person perspective. \nIvana Bosnjak Volda\, Thomas Johnson Volda\, Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse\, 10 min\, 2022\nA waitress goes about her daily routine serving coffee whilst having thoughts of escaping her reality. A costumer is constantly recording and listening back to the surrounding sounds of the café and is completely fixated by this task. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation\, but do either of them realise that they are themselves examples of this condition? \nClaire Schlaikjer\, Baking With Piggu\, 3.5 min\, 2023\nWarning: contains some flashing images. Piggu started life as a real stuffed pig\, sewn out of canvas and stuffed with recycled fabric insulation\, which I made in the spring of 2020. The pig gradually acquired a striking physical presence that I had not intended or expected. The sparseness of his construction made him enigmatic — he was a (literal) blank canvas whose staring eyes could suggest any emotion and contain any experience. He became a perfect muse\, as a physically pliable but spiritually unyielding subject. This led me to consider the complexity of our relationships with anything creature-like\, where familiarity is often confused with understanding. For this animation\, I wanted to explore this dynamic of misidentification\, and what it would be like if Piggu’s internal world was as real as I imagine it to be. In the story\, toys suffer the same unfulfilled desires and fantasies as people\, but their real tragedy comes from their inability to express themselves. Piggu inspires empathy\, but this empathy breeds relationships that can be as doting as they are callous. Through animation\, I was curious to see the effect of empathy towards creatures or objects which we cannot communicate with\, especially when those creatures are given the chance to react but not respond. \nBirgit Rathsmann\, Primitive Games: Love Letter\, 5 min\, 2018\nThree shapes created by an animator create havoc in her computer while she is on her lunch break. They write a love letter to their animator\, but since they don’t know what it’s like to have a body\, the letter is .. unusual.\nBirgit Rathsmann: Writer\, Director\, Producer\, Animator\nBlue Shape: River L. Ramirez (Pervert Everything\, Los Espookys)\nWhite Shape: Mary Houlihan (CEO Skyscraper)\nRed Shape: Becket Bowes \nEmily Sasmor\, Flore\, 2 min\, 2022\nFLORE is a one act opera. Flore’s partner calls her up to declare their love to her in an endless night. \nAsparuh Petrov\, Trace\, 7 min\, 2022\nА young writer dedicates his nights to hunting entangled phrases with his pen. The moment he is confronted with the pregnancy of his wife his world collapses. Lingering fears and painful memories overwhelm him and he needs to trace the missing piece. \nKahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore\, The Clay She Is Made Of\, 2 min\, 2023\nThe Clay She Is Made Of draws parallels between the profound strength and creativity of Sky Woman from the Rotinonhsyón:ni / Haudenosaunee creation story and the filmmaker’s mother. This two-minute animated and live-action film is narrated all in Kanyen’kè:ha (Mohawk). \nMegan Young\, Carry On\, 3 min\, 2023\nThis piece is part of an ongoing project\, titled With What We Could Carry\, considering the responsibilities we embrace and what we shed as we travel across borders and through time. It explores the complexities of heritage\, labor\, and technological advancement through social practice and computational rendering. The resulting animation combines 3D mesh and models of myself\, my mother\, and my children collected through LiDAR and photogrammetry scans. Our flesh and figures are represented as overlapping and traversable landscapes reflecting themes of migration\, matriarchy\, and the dreams of our elders. (The looping animation was originally produced for viewing as a media installation.) \nJingyi Wang\, Good Old Days Part.1\, 5 min\, 2023\nGood Old Days Part.1” is a 5-minute experimental film that tells a story about a city with a collective memory of a bygone era and its tangled residents. It’s done through a series of absurd cinematic shots\, pixelated spatial transitions\, scenario-based sounds\, and symbolic graphical repetition. It is part of an ongoing experimental media project that plays around film and its extended forms\, which examines the rebellion of psychic structure against its environment in digital space. It keeps pace with time and ends when the end is near.\n
\n\nAsparuh Petrov (1981) developed a passion for animation after he graduated from the High School of Applied Arts in Trojan in 1999. Since 2007 he has worked as a freelance animation director\, and has been creating his own animation projects. Asparuh is one of the lead directors of Compote Collective productions. In 2016 he founds PHAZZA – a platform for examination of our problematic reality with the means of animation.\nWhile working on commercial animation\, motion graphics\, music videos and artists’ videos\, Birgit Rathsmann co-founded an Improv comedy group for shy visual artists. Now\, Birgit loves creating characters who navigate awkward situations with humorous results\, and this has resulted in a number of short films. Primitive Games”” is an improvised animated web series and a collaboration with comedians River L. Ramirez and Mary Houlihan. \nClaire Schlaikjer is an artist\, animator\, and illustrator from London\, England. She holds a BA in Visual Art and Computer Science from Brown University. As a freelance animator\, she has worked on projects ranging from science education to social advocacy\, and has collaborated with artists and arts institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver and Women & Their Work in Austin\, TX. Her personal artwork explores the place that animals hold in our collective imagination and the ways in which the evolution of their visual representations reflects our changing relationship with the natural world. \nEmily Sasmor is a new media artist based in Brooklyn\, NY. They create animated operatic visual albums telling stories about violence and the comforts upheld by it. Their work has appeared in various shows\, festivals\, and screenings including; Curyatid in Hudson Yards\, 20/92 Video Festival\, and Digerati Emergent Media Festival. They have been awarded a Cultural Counsel Video Grant\, and Guaranteed Income from CRNY. They run Single Channel\, an experimental art publishing house. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago\, and a BFA from Tyler School of Art and Architecture\, Temple University. \nIvana Bosnjak Volda (1983) graduated from the Graphics Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and Animation at the University in Volda\, Norway. Ivana has been professionally involved in various stop motion projects across Europe\, and has led animation workshops for children and students. Thomas Johnson Volda (1984) graduated in Time Based Media from the University of Wales Institute\, Cardiff\, and at the New Media Department of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He is multidisciplinary artist often combining animation and performance art disciplines in his work\, and has created puppet performances at numerous festivals across Europe. Ivana and Thomas co-directed award-winning stop-animation short films Simulacra (2014)\, Imbued Life (2019) and Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse (2022). \nJeffrey Zablotny is a director based in Toronto\, Canada. His film work is often marked by intricate sound design and unconventional use of visual effects as a way to explore how interior landscapes mirror a hidden world outside ourselves. His films have premiered at TIFF\, Austin Film Festival\, Hot Docs\, and internationally at festivals in Japan\, Germany\, and the United Kingdom. A member of VES (Visual Effects Society)\, his work has been made possible with support from the Canada Arts Council\, Ontario Arts Council\, and the NFB. \n镜伊Jingyi Wang is an artist and experimental filmmaker who lives and works in Shanghai and New York. Her work examines how psychic\, physical\, and symbolic structures imply and manifest themselves within everyday survival spectacles and sceneries. In her recent work\, she delves into the strangeness of private and public environments and the detachments of their subjects through film and computer graphics. \nKahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore is an independent filmmaker\, podcaster\, and educator. Moore is Kanyen’kehà:ka (Mohawk)\, a fluent Kanyen’kè:ha speaker (ACTFL intermediate/high)\, and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand River territory. Moore is a founding member/co-owner of The Aunties Dandelion: a media-arts collective informed by traditional Onkwehòn:we (Indigenous) teachings and focused on revitalizing communities through stories of land\, language\, and relationships. She spent two decades in Washington\, DC as producer/director/writer with Discovery Channel\, National Geographic\, and others. Moore is a Banff 2023 Indigenous Screen Summit pitch participant and 2022 Banff Spark program participant for women who own media businesses. \nMegan Young is an interdisciplinary artist\, with a background in immersive and interactive design. Notable credits include ISEA in Hong Kong\, Open Spaces in Armenia\, Ammerman Center Biennial for Art & Technology at Connecticut College\, Open Engagement in Chicago\, and SPACES in Cleveland. She is a Lecturer and Digital Art Area Head at Indiana University and has previously taught for Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent State University. Young holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art + Media from Columbia College Chicago. \nSarah E. Jenkins is a queer Appalachian artist making work about extraction\, hidden labors\, and disappearance in an experimental animation practice. Their work has been shown at the MFA Boston\, Torrance Art Museum\, Emerson Contemporary\, and Wonzimer. Jenkins’ is a MacDowell Fellow and she was recently awarded a Changing Climate residency at SFAI. Their work is included in the forthcoming book Queering Appalachia’s Visual History: A Collection of Queer Appalachian Photographers\, University of Kentucky Press. Jenkins lives in Northampton\, MA with her darling cat\, Nessie.\n \nSponsors\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is presented with generous support from the Richard W. Rupp Foundation\, FGI Landscaping\, PUSH Buffalo\, TriMain Center\, Rigidized Metals\, BreadHive\, Buffalo Expendables\, Buffalo State College Communication Dept\, Rose Jade Consulting Coop\, Lumpy Buttons Gifts\, Good Neighbors Credit Union\, and Villa Maria College. The North Park Theater event is presented with generous support from Councilman Joel Feroleto. \n\nBanner image: A red and white still from the film Trace by Asparuh Petrov. Three hand drawn faces looking to the right; their faces are intercut with lines like a comic strip. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-20th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Trace-Animation-Fest.jpg.jpg GEO:42.9324531;-78.87566 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo NY 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1285 Elmwood Avenue:geo:-78.87566,42.9324531 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190906T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190906T203000 DTSTAMP:20260522T164733 CREATED:20251230T191304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191304Z UID:10000985-1567798200-1567801800@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel’s 16th Animation Fest! DESCRIPTION:Friday\, September 6\, 7:30pm\n@ Albright Knox Art Gallery\nFree as part of M&T First Fridays \nShowcasing animated shorts\, including 3D animations\, crayon kaleidoscopes\, and more this 16th edition of our annual Animation Fest is curated by Leanne Goldblatt\, and features films by Amanda Bonaiuto\, Cassie Shao\, Evan Tapper and Scott Sørli\, Hallie Bahn\, Kristjan Holm\, Krystal Downs and Alex Krokus\, LIZN’BOW\, Lori Malépart-Traversy\, Tammy Renée Brackett\, and Vanja Andrijevic. \nProgram ~47min \nOrbit \nTess Martin\n7 min digital file\, 2019\nThe Sun’s energy circulates through the Earth\, feeding the cycle of life. Everything is connected in a natural loop\, which repeats\, like the circular discs of magical optical toys. This perfectly balanced rhythm is disrupted by human excess\, throwing the cycle out of orbit and temporarily stopping the circulation of energy in nature. The natural cycle can and will continue\, only without the human race in the mix. Submitted by Vanja Andrijevic. \nThe Clitoris\nLori Malépart-Traversy\n3 min\, digital file\, 2016\, subtitled\nWomen are lucky\, they get to have the only organ in the human body dedicated exclusively for pleasure: the clitoris! In this humorous and instructive animated documentary\, find out its unrecognized anatomy and its unknown herstory. \nHEDGE \nAmanda Bonaiuto \n6 min\, digital file\, 2018\nA singularly comical/surreal vision of a family visiting a funeral home. \nnée Rabbit \nHallie Bahn \n3 min\, digital file\, 2018\nnée Rabbit confronts the mind’s struggle to maintain a true identity even as our memory begins to fade. Can we continue to know ourselves when we have no recollection of our past actions and reactions? Do we adapt our identity to incorporate this loss into our life’s story? Or do we resign ourselves to wake up each day anew and if so\, who are we? \nYour Black Friend \nKrystal Downs and Alex Krokus \n3 min\, digital file\, 2018\nBen Passmore‘s necessary contribution to the dialogue around race in the United States\, Your Black Friend is a letter from your black friend to you about race\, racism\, friendship and alienation. \nAll Your Photos \nTammy Renée Brackett \n2 min\, digital file\, 2019 \nA photo booth that promises to deliver ALL your photos for a quarter. \nThere Were Four of Us \nCassie Shao \n7 min\, digital file\, 2019\, subtitled\nIn a room\, there are four people. \nLife24 \nKristjan Holm \n9 min\, digital file\, 2019 \nConfirmed bachelor Einar Jernskjegg wins the lottery. \nGay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!)\nEvan Tapper and Scott Sørli\n5 min\, digital video\, 2018\, subtitled\nGay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!) was created for Nuit Rose\, Pride Toronto\, 2017. The previous year\, Black Lives Matter – Toronto intervened in the Toronto Pride parade\, resulting in significant changes to Pride 2017. Among the most controversial of BLM-Toronto’s demands was the removal of police floats in Pride marches and parades. The artists were disturbed by the negative response to this demand from gay cis white men that the artists encountered on social media and in person. These men had no memory\, nor understanding\, of the long history of police violence against the LGBT+ communities\, and especially against People of Colour\, a history that continues today. In solidarity with BLM-Toronto\, the artists animated a satirical Shame Parade in another world\, composed entirely of floats that document police violence against the LGBT+ communities in the greater Toronto area from the 1940s to the present day. \nFlowerbombs \nLIZN’BOW \n2 min\, digital file\, 2016\nFlowerbombs is an infomercial made during a 6 week new media feminist workshop series in partnership with Breakthrough Miami outreach program. \nBios of the artists and curator \nAmanda Bonaiuto (b. 1990) is an animator and artist originally from Massachusetts. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has screened at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival\, Stuttgart Festival of Animated Films\, Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Ottawa International Animation Festival\, Slamdance\, Pictoplasma\, and more. She is a 2017 Princess Grace Honoraria in Film. She graduated with an MFA in Experimental Animation from CalArts in 2018. \nCassie Shao is an Animation Artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of SAIC and Hench-DADA School of Cinematic Arts at USC. She works across the field of independent films\, music videos\, projection mapping\, advertising as well as animated television series. Her last short film Synched screened at festivals such as MIAF\, LIAF\, Athens Animfest and Anim!Arte\, and received two awards. Her collaborative project Black Bird with live action director Haonan Wang screened at Ars Independent\, Cucalorus and KLIK etc. It also won several awards including Best Animation at Ibiza Music Video Festival. She recently completed her MFA graduation film There Were Four of Us and is sending it worldwide. \nEvan Tapper received a BFA Honours from the School of Art\, University of Manitoba and a MFA from the School of Art\, Carnegie Mellon University. His multimedia work has been exhibited throughout Canada\, the United States\, Europe\, South America\, the Middle East\, Australia and Asia. He has received grants and awards from such organizations as the Canada Council for the Arts\, the Ontario Arts Council\, New York State Council on the Arts\, the Manitoba Arts Council\, and the Toronto Arts Council. Evan has held academic appointments at the State University of New York Fredonia\, McMaster University\, the Ontario College of Art and Design University\, and the University of Toronto. To view Evan’s work\, please visit: www.evantapper.net. \nHallie Bahn is an interdisciplinary artist working in stop-motion animation. Through her narratives and handcrafted sets\, Bahn’s practice explores themes of time\, memory\, and self-preservation. Bahn is currently completing her MFA in Visual Studies at Minneapolis College of Art & Design. \nKristjan Holm was born in 1976 in Tallinn\, Estonia. Graduated Estonian Academy of Arts in 1999 as an interior designer. In time the understanding that a room is limited to four walls\, started to trouble him though. An unexpected discovery that also film frame has four walls\, gave him the final impulse to change the subject and dedicate his life to investigating the ties between frames and walls. \nDoggo Studios is Krystal Downs and Alex Krokus. We freelance out of Brooklyn\, NY and our goal is to make cartoons of incredible power. Whether that is achieved through humor\, emotional storytelling or just looking really badass depends on the project. \nLIZN’BOW is a project in which we use media technology\, digital tools\, and community building exercises as vehicles to visualize\, play\, and explore different social and creative possibilities. We combine social practice and technology to create empowering collaborations with people. Our work provides space for people to form nuanced and expanded ideas of identity\, representation\, power\, and possibility. We have worked with NSU Art Museum\, Squeaky Wheel Media Center\, The Bass Museum\, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami\, Breakthrough Miami\, Hands to Help\, La Sierra Artist Residency Columbia\, Tempest Projects\, Cunsthaus\, Miami Lighthouse for the Blind\, Domino Park\, Borscht Film Festival\, the Koubek Center\, and Young at Art Museum of Fort Lauderdale. \nLori Malépart-Traversy was born in 1991 in Montreal\, Canada. She studied in Studio Arts and Film Animation at Concordia University\, where she graduated in 2016. Her graduation film\, The Clitoris\, has since been shown in more than 140 film festivals around the world and has received 15 prizes and mentions. She is now working on a project about female masturbation at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). \nScott Sørli’s transdisciplinary practice concerns itself with the moments when form and matter engage the political and economic forces that produce the city. He has taught design research at several architecture schools and has exhibited and published work internationally\, winning several awards. He was co-curator of “convenience”\, a window gallery that provides an opening for art that engages\, experiments\, and takes risks with the architectural\, urban and civic realms. GASP! is his first short film\, with best Judy and colleague Evan Tapper. \nTammy Renée Brackett creates work that poses epistemological questions regarding identity\, categorization\, and location. Brackett has an MFA in Electronic Integrated Art from the School of Art and Design at Alfred University and has exhibited work in China\, Japan\, Croatia\, Hungary\, and the United States. She is a recipient of the College Art Association Professional Development Fellowship for Visual Artists\, funded by the NEA. Her work has been included in the Albright Knox’s biennial exhibition Beyond/In Western NY\, at the Ball State Museum of Art\, and in a solo show titled Deer Dear at SUArt Galleries in Syracuse NY. Brackett is currently Professor and Chair of Digital Media and Animation at Alfred State College\, Alfred NY. \nTess Martin is an independent animator who works with cut-outs\, ink\, paint\, sand or objects. Her work often blurs the boundary between experimental and narrative\, animation\, film and art. She has received numerous grants\, prizes and artist residencies in support of her work which can be seen in festivals and galleries worldwide. Recent residencies include the Camargo Foundation (France\, 2019)\, the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy\, 2017) and Open Workshop (Denmark\, 2016). Filmography: Orbit (2019)\, Ginevra (2017)\, The Lost Mariner (2014)\, Mario (2014)\, They Look Right Through You (2013)\, Hula Hoop (2012)\, The Whale Story (2012)” \n16th Animation Fest curator: Leanne Goldblatt is a mother\, student\, and coach born and raised in Westchester\, N.Y. She is currently pursuing a masters in Studio Art at the University of Buffalo. As an interdisciplinary practitioner Leanne works primarily in the mediums of print\, sculpture\, and glass to create an autobiographical body of work. \n\nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is sponsored by Villa Maria College’s Animation program. Villa Maria College’s Animation Program teaches the fundamentals of animation and fine art\, and builds from there. The small classes are instructed by our renowned faculty\, and allow students to get a personalized\, hands-on education. \nBanner image: Gay Alien Shame Parade (GASP!) by Evan Tapper and Scott Sørli. Squeaky Wheel’s Animation Fest is sponsored by Villa Maria College’s Animation program. \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-16th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/GaspStill4.jpg GEO:42.9324531;-78.87566 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo NY 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1285 Elmwood Avenue:geo:-78.87566,42.9324531 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190405T203000 DTSTAMP:20260522T164733 CREATED:20251230T191229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191229Z UID:10000960-1554492600-1554496200@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Hands as Far as the Eye Can See DESCRIPTION:April 5th \n7:30pm \nAlbright Knox Art Gallery \nFREE & Open to the Public \nJoin us at the Albright Knox Art Gallery during their ‘First Fridays’ for a screening of student works made in response to artist Htein Lin’s exhibition “A Show of Hands”. This multi-youth program project explores the work of Artist Htein Lin as a jumping off point to create multi-media works that look at the role of hands and the stories of people. Squeaky Wheel’s two flagship media arts programs\, West Side Studio\, and Buffalo Youth Media Institute produced individual works that circle around the image and performance of the hand as a common visual connection between all the works. The pieces will explore everything from personal stories\, food traditions\, and even include poems from Just Buffalo’s Writing Center’s young writers. This screening will be a series of vignettes that relate and react to the work of Htein Lin as well as highlight the depth and talent of media arts in Buffalo young makers. \nThe screening will be followed by a Q&A with the young filmmakers. \nInformation about Htein Lin’s exhibition can be found here. \n \nWest Side Studios \nLead Teaching Artist – Jesse Deganis-Librera \nTeaching Assistants – Raymari Hughs & Bhakti Williams-Brown \n \nBuffalo Youth Media Institute \nTeaching Artists – Lewgua Benson & Kevin Kline \n \nJust Buffalo Writing Center \nLead Teaching Artist – Robin Jordan \n \n\nThere is a free shuttle running from the West Side of Buffalo to the Albright Knox at various Locations throughout the day. Click Here for Details. \n \nSqueaky Wheel’s West Side Studios & Buffalo Youth Media Institute would like to\nthank our amazing supporters & partners: M&T Charitable Foundation\, First Niagara\nFoundation\, Josephine Goodyear Foundation\, Cameron & Jane Baird Foundation\,\nChildren’s Foundation of Erie County\, Marks Family Foundation\, Margaret L. Wendt\nFoundation\, Best Buy Foundation\, Erie County Cultural Funding\, City of Buffalo\,\nNational Endowment for the Arts\, New York State Council on the Arts\, the Buffalo\nCenter for Arts & Technology\, and PUSH Buffalo. \nThis program is part of M&T FIRST FRIDAYS @ THE GALLERY at the Albright-Knox Art\nGallery. On the first Friday of every month—from 10 am to 10 pm—admission to part\nof the museum and select events are free for everyone. \n URL:https://squeaky.org/event/hands-as-far-as-the-eye-can-see/ LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/zhand2.png GEO:42.9324531;-78.87566 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo NY 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1285 Elmwood Avenue:geo:-78.87566,42.9324531 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170901T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170901T163000 DTSTAMP:20260522T164733 CREATED:20251230T191052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251230T191052Z UID:10000888-1504279800-1504283400@squeaky.org SUMMARY:Squeaky Wheel's 14th Animation Fest DESCRIPTION:Aaron Bjork\, Tectonics\, digital video\, 2015\nFriday\, September 1\, 2017\n7:30pm\n@ the Albright-Knox Art Gallery \nFree and open to the public as part of M&T First Fridays. \nSqueaky Wheel’s Animation Fest returns for its 14th year with animations by emerging and established artists from around the world! Designed for ages 6 and up\, this family-friendly affair is an annual showcase culled from a public call for submissions and features some of the most innovative artists working across various media. \nThis year’s 49 minute program will take place once again at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery during M&T First Friday. Demonstrating a wide range of animation methods\, from stop-motion\, hand-drawn works\, pieces made with open source custom software\, analogue video effects\, and more\, the program tells stories about diverse forms of existence and the nature of life. The screening includes works such as a philosophical science fiction film\, a screen-printed life story\, an absurd domestic drama\, and a mysterious trip towards enlightenment\, among others. Throughout the program you will witness all kinds of transformations\, either of life itself or of emotions that lead to surprising outcomes. Bring your family\, bring your friends! \nCurated by Jean Zhu\, Squeaky Wheel’s Spring 2017 Curatorial Intern. Squeaky Wheel’s 14th Animation Fest is generously sponsored by Villa Maria’s Animation Program. \nProgram ~49 minutes \nShip of Fools | Josh Shaffner\n6:00min\, digital\, 2016\nLife on earth through time and space from the present time to 4000 years ahead\, in non-chronological order. The settings change\, humans do not. It’s “a cry for help.” \nWednesday with Goddard | Nicolas Ménard\n4:30min\, digital\, 2016\nA personal quest for spiritual enlightenment leads to romance and despair. \nAdam | Evelyn Jane Ross\n2:27min\, digital\, 2017\nIn the beginning of them\, she created us. She is not the Adam that you’ve known for your whole life. \nBatfish Soup | Amanda Bonaiuto\n4:35min\, digital\, 2016\nWacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls\, boiling stew\, and a bang. A fictionalized absurdist film based on memories of freakish childhood visitations. \nLo | Ted Wiggin\n3:10min\, digital\, 2017\nWe must protect this house. \nHeavy Blanket | Cory Feder\n6:57min\, digital\, 2016\nUnderneath the heavy blanket there is a train stopping in all the same places and it is passing between all the known and unknown evils of today and yesterday. Who is to say what evil really is; what makes a train stop in one place over and over again? \nIllusions | Dominica Harrison\n5:22min\, digital\, 2016\nSometimes the most tragic accidents could lead to the happiest endings… Animated beautifully with screen-printing technique. \nHead Cleaner | Emily Pelstring\n7:00min\, digital\, 2015\nHand-drawn and digital animation\, analog video effects\, re-photography and video feedback transform images issuing from an apparently malfunctioning machine. Tongue-in-cheek commentary on entertainment technology’s fraught relationship to individual agency and identity\, and its role in the standardization of expression and behaviour\, underlies a loosely suggested coming-of-age narrative. \nTectonics | Aaron Whitney Bjork\n2:56min\, digital\, 2015\nAn examination of the human life process\, birth–life–death. This video is a collection of Aaron’s signature hand cut vinyl drawings. \nBio of the curator\nJean Zhu (b. Shanghai\, China) is a New York City and Buffalo based artist and recently studying Media Study and Sociology at University at Buffalo. She has exhibited at a number of venues in New York State including Silo City\, BT&C Gallery\, Gallery r\, Honey Ramka\, Tender Trap\, University at Buffalo with seasoned artists and peer student artists from Pratt Institute\, School of Visual Arts\, New York University\, Rochester Institute of Technology\, and Parsons School of Design. URL:https://squeaky.org/event/squeaky-wheels-14th-animation-fest/ LOCATION:Buffalo AKG Art Museum\, 1285 Elmwood Avenue\, Buffalo\, NY\, 14222\, United States CATEGORIES:Screenings ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://squeaky.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Animation-Bjork.jpg GEO:42.9324531;-78.87566 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Buffalo AKG Art Museum 1285 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo NY 14222 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=1285 Elmwood Avenue:geo:-78.87566,42.9324531 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR