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EXHIBITIONS Winter/Spring 2006 Exhibits take place in Squeaky Wheel's Cinema @ 712 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14202 $4 members / $5 non-members (unless otherwise noted) |
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JANUARY |
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Winter 2006 Instructors Show & Open House Friday, January 13th @ 7:00 PM Cost: Free 
The Instructors Screening & Open House will be a fun-filled evening of films, videos, installations and presentations to launch Squeaky Wheel's winter/spring season of media arts workshops. The Open House, beginning at 7:00 PM, will provide opportunities to tour Squeaky Wheel, meet and chat with our award-winning group of teaching artists and learn about the workshops we have coming up. At 8:00 we will begin the screening which will feature documentary, animation and experimental media work by Squeaky Wheel instructors including Dorothea Braemer, Brian Milbrand, Vincenzo Mistretta, J.T. Rinker, Jamie Phelan, Tammy Wetzel, Z. Mann Zilla, Julie Perini, Liz Knipe and Joanna Raczynska. Visit our workshops page to see a schedule of upcoming workshops. |
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FEBRUARY |
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Love & Sex: The Peepshow Saturday, February 25th @ 8:00 PM - 2:00 AM Cost: $15 per person
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MARCH |
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Local Access Residency Screening Friday, March 3rd @ 8:00 PM 
Local artists Jax DeLuca, Hettie Kauffmann & Andrew Wurl present new work
made during their residency at Squeaky Wheel. The purpose of the Local Access Residency Program
is to provide free access to media technology to committed media artists with vision, who lack
sufficient resources and funds, no matter where they are in their media careers. DeLuca will
show a piece that documents a series of public performances based on repressed daydreams, fantasies
and delusions in order to integrate aspects of the private "dream" self into the public world.
Kauffmann's single channel video, All That Dazzles, parallels the idea of how a kind of mass
media engine can divide and control the flow of information to a mass audience. Wurl will show two
new works, including an animation and a short video on semantics. The next deadline for applications is
June 16, 2006. Visit our opportunities page to learn more about
this residency program or to download an application.
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Lamb or Lion Open Screening Wednesday, March 8th @ 8:00 PM Cost: Free |
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Louis Massiah Friday, March 10th @ 8:00 PM 
Mr. Massiah is the founder and executive director of
the Scribe Video Center in Philadelphia, a media arts organization that
provides low-cost workshops and equipment access to emerging video and
filmmakers and community organizations. He is an independent filmmaker
who has produced and directed a variety of award-winning documentary
films for public television. Known for his explorations of civil rights
themes and crises in the African-American community, his credits include
two films in the Eyes on the Prize II series and The Bombing of Osage
Avenue, about the burning of a black section of Philadelphia as
a result of the police bombing of the headquarters of the group MOVE.
He is also the director of
W.E.B. DuBois: A biography in Four Voices. Massiah has received
awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the the National
Black Programming Consortium, the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters,
the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame and several Emmy award nominations.
In 1996, he was a recipient of a five year John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation fellowship.
On March 10, Louis Massiah will show The Bombing of Osage Avenue, the Precious Places
Community History Project, and Louise Alone Thompson Paterson: In Her Own Words. The
Precious Places Community History Project is a community history project conceived by
Scribe as a way for neighborhood residents to document the people, buildings, public
spaces and landmarks that hold the memory of a community and define where we live.
Louise Alone Thompson Patterson: In Her Own Words (18 min./Color/2002) is a documentary
tracing the life and times of Louise Alone Thompson Patterson, a civil rights and labor
activist who was dubbed “Madame Moscow” for her role in America’s communist movement.
Funding for this event provided in part by the University at Buffalo Dept. of Media Studies Graduate Club, UB Dept. of Media Study Programming Committee, UB Center of Urban Studies and the UB Samuel Capen Chair in American Culture. |
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Chain (2004/5, 99:00, 16mm) w/ Filmmaker Jem Cohen in person Friday, March 31st @ 8:00 PM & 10:00 PM Location: Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (341 Delaware Ave) Co-presented by Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center 
As regional character disappears and corporate culture homogenizes
our surroundings, it's increasingly hard to tell where you are. In
CHAIN, actual malls, theme parks, hotels and corporate centers
worldwide are joined into a monolithic "superlandscape" that shapes
and circumscribes t he lives of two women. One is a businesswoman
researching the international theme park industry for her home
company. The other is a young drifter, illegally living and working
on the fringes of a shopping mall.
Director's Statement: CHAIN was shot, primarily on 16mm film, over seven years, using a bare-bones crew or no crew at all. 
I began by making a decision to focus on the corporate
and commercial landscapes that I had previously "framed out" in my filmmaking,
and to try to understand how these places were affecting
the people within them. The subject seemed simultaneously banal and neglected.
Wal-Mart, for example, opens a new store roughly every two days.
(it was every four days when I began the project) and
yet the actual sites of such developments often take on a strange invisibility.
Their presence can begin to seem not only normal but inevitable. Rather
than examining this phenomenon through the facts, experts, and arguments
of the traditional documentary, CHAIN tells the stories of two women
as this environment shapes their lives.
Jem Cohen is a New York-based film- and videomaker. Often shooting in hundreds of locations with little or no additional crew, Cohen collects street footage, portraits and sounds. The projects built from these archives defy easy categorization, thriving on the collision between documentary, narrative and experimental approaches. Funding for this event provided in part by University at Buffalo Dept. of Media Studies Graduate Club and UB Dept. of Media Study programming committee. |
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APRIL |
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In A Nutshell: A Portrait of Elizabeth Tashjian (2005, 80:00, DV) w/ Filmmaker Don Bernier in Person Saturday, April 1st @ 8:00 PM 
Don Bernier has been making both experimental and documentary
media work since the early 1990s. A Maine native, Bernier received
a BFA at Kansas City Art Institute before going on to earn a
graduate degree in Media Study at SUNY-Buffalo in 1994.
From 1994 to 2001, Bernier taught media production and theory in colleges and community-based technology centers in western New York, the San Francisco Bay Area and greater Boston. Throughout this period, Bernier continued to make installation and time-based artwork which has been exhibited across North America. In late 2001, Bernier and his wife Tina Erickson, relocated to New York City, to focus more on documentary film and video production. On April 1st Don Bernier will screen his latest documentary, In A Nutshell. 
In A Nutshell chronicles the unique life of Elizabeth Yegsa
Tashjian: at birth in 1912, a first generation American of aristocratic Armenian
immigrants; at age nine, a concert violinist living on Manhattan's upper west side;
at twenty-one, an award-winning classical painter studying at the National Academy of
Design in New York; at age forty-seven, a devoted Christian Science healer; and, at
the youthful age of sixty, creator of the one and only Nut Museum. Today, at
ninety-two years old, Tashjian has found herself immersed in a strange new chapter of
her prolific life. After a series of tragic events surrounding her health and finances,
she is now penniless and confined to a nursing home against her will. The contents of
the Nut Museum have been permanently removed and her beloved home has been sold to the
highest bidder. Declared insane by her state-appointed conservators, Elizabeth Tashjian
is fighting to preserve her identity and regain the life she has built.
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Listening Glass (2004) by Rene Christen and Jasper Streit Interactive Installation, April 14 - May 19 @ Squeaky Wheel Opening Reception: Friday, April 14th, 7:00 - 9:00 PM 
Created by Australian electronic artists Rene Christen
and Jasper Streit, Listening Glass is a digital life form that feeds
on the sound waves and kinetics of the collective public. As people
pass the work it engages in 'conversation', responding
to the noises passersby emit.
The work pulsates with the collective pulse of the public. Like a DNA donation to the evolution of the entity, affecting the work in such a way that it becomes unique through the interminable interaction specific to its location. The absorption of the sound is much like the process of osmosis, where the soundscape of the work reflects fragments of the 'physical world'. the fragmentation of the incoming sound is important to the aesthetics of the soundscape, where the physical world sound is "frozen", re-arranged, stretched and pitched; the original altered, yet still discernible. The sonic intensity of the public also feeds the 'pixel cells' growing on the digital plane building up to a critical mass appearing as visual white noise. It consists of all frequencies at once, the saturation that is the opposite of emptiness. |
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Springtime Open Screening Wednesday, April 12th @ 8:00 PM Cost: Free |
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Funginii Saturday, April 28th @ 8:00 PM 
Funginii defines a race of woodland magical entities
that reside on the forest floor and are best known
for their raucous activities, which include the infusion of imaginative
possibilities into the otherwise quotidian evening hours. They hold
incense in Mayan structures. They place your car keys in strange places.
As an image, Funginii explores verbo-visual improvisational ensemble
performance score for voice and instruments. Words and Music by Don
Metz and Michael Basinski. Visuals by Brian Milbrand and Tom Holt.
BuffFluxus is an exploratory word/music performance ensemble that honors the tradition of imaginative and innovative text and score anchored performance. And sometimes don't. | ||||
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MAY |
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Mothers Open Screening Wednesday, May 10th @ 8:00 PM Cost: Free |
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Global Super 8 Day Sunday, May 14th @ 8:00 PM 
Free to participating artists! Our annual screening of Super 8 films from Buffalo and around the world. Submit your own super 8 movies that are five minutes long or less (contact us if you want to show a longer film) - home movies, found movies, old movies, but most especially new movies welcome! Deadline for submission of entries is Thursday, May 11th. |
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