The Third Coast: 100-year Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty
Featuring live projections on the Connecting Terminal Grain Elevator

Friday, June 12th @ 9pm
Location: Erie Canal Harbor (Downtown Waterfront)
Cost: Free

Buffalo Going Green:
Buffalo Youth Media Institute Premiere Screening

Sunday, June 21st 3pm
Location: Market Arcade Film & Arts Center, 600 Main Street
Cost: Free

A collaboration with the Presevation Buffalo Niagara, the BUFFALO YOUTH MEDIA INSTITUTE (BYMI) gives high school students the opportunity to create their own self-directed documentary film about Buffalo under the guidance of professional filmmakers and historians. This year, the BYMI 2009 focus is on Buffalo Going Green, and features youth-produced documentaries about global warming, green burials, local food, alternative transportation, local recycling and reuse initiatives, zoo sustainability, bees and more!

Elapse (point of origin): miles, hours, minutes
MFA Thesis Exhibition by Lindsey Lodhie

On view: July 11th - August 29th
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 11th @ 7pm
Cost: Free

"Elapse" is a multi-channel film/video installation exploring spatial and temporal mapping through single-frame 16mm animation and experimental time-lapse photographic recording. Installation view consists of eight discrete journeys originating from two points of origin (one in the NE region of the country, Buffalo, NY and one in the NW region of the country, Portland, OR). Each journey was photographed frame by frame with B&W 16mm print stocks according to given rate of capture (such as 10 frames per 10 minutes). This MFA thesis exhibiton by Lindsey Lodhie (SUNY at Buffalo, Dept. of Media Study) will be on view in the Upstairs Gallery Space from July 11th - August 29th. Following the Opening Reception is a screening of works by Lindsey Lodhie & Francesco Gagliardi at 8pm.

Works in Translation
Video and Performance by Lindsey Lodhie & Francesco Gagliardi

July 11th @ 8pm
Cost: Free

trans•la•tion |trans`lā sh ən; tranz-| noun

1. a) the process of translating words or text from one language into another
   b) a written or spoken rendering of the meaning of a word, speech, book, or other text, in anotehr language.
   c) the conversion of something from one form or medium into another
2. [formal or technical] the process of moving something from one place to another

A program of single channel film/video and live performance exploring the notion of translation as a crossing - from one medium to another, from one form to another, from one place to another.

6th Annual Outdoor Animation Festival

Saturday, July 25th @ 9pm
Location: Days Park
Cost: Free

Enjoy an eclectic mix of short animations from around the world at this cozy location - pack picnic basket & blanket for a free night of fun under the stars!

Silent/Sound Outdoor Festival
The Last Laugh w/ Mike Basinski

Friday, August 21st@ 8:30pm
Location: Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Cost: Free

Poet Mike Basinski will perform a live soundtrack to FW Murnau's The Last Laugh (1924), a silent film that tells the tale of an experienced doorman at a fancy hotel who is suddenly demoted to lavatory attendant. Stunned and humiliated, the old man struggles to carry on with his life. After a period of denial, the man accepts his loss of status and unexpectedly inherits the fortune of a gentleman whose eccentric will states that his money shall go to "that person whom he has last seen while alive": his death occurs while alone with the lavatory attendant. With this magical happening, the former doorman's life goes from bitter emptiness to the ultimate worldly fulfillment. Watch this classic under the stars at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery!

Funding Support

Major funding for Squeaky Wheel's screenings is provided by the Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program, which is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

   

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