Exhibits take place in Squeaky Wheel's Cinema @ 712 Main Street,
$4 members / $6 non-members (unless otherwise noted)
Peepshow 08
Saturday, February 9th – 7pm - 1am
Location: Broadway Market, 999 Broadway
Cost: $12 presale / $15 door
The sexiest art party of the year! Don't miss out on this, as there will be an abundance of films, installations, music and art, coupled with the opportunity to dance, drink, and have fun in this beautiful and historic location. Presale tickets available at Squeaky Wheel as well as Talking Leaves, Rust Belt Books, Positively Main Street and New World Records.
Installations & performances
Have your picture taken, with props, with local photographer Nancy Parisi in her interactive Be Bo Peep Polaroid photo booth.
Relax on Love Seat by media artist Sean Hovendick from Syracuse in which sounds of intimacy reverberate from an old love seat when the user sits on it.
Let yourself be surprised by Through The Looking Glass, a live-feed video installation by local media artist and photographer Courtney Grim.
Learn how to make your own chastity belt using macaroni, felt and buttons in Caesandra Seawell’s Sex Ed Classroom.
Practice your dating skills by speed dating members of the infamous Real Dream Cabaret.
Have someone draw on your body in Meat Market by local artist Tom Holt, while others are watching through a tiny peephole.
Bring a series of video clips to an orgasmic climax in Wii Touch, an interactive video installation by local artists Brian Milbrand and Holly Johnson.
Voyeuristically observe the happenings of the party in Michael Bosworth’s room-size, lounge-like camera obscura.
Learn about plant reproduction in The Secret Sex Life of Plants, a multi-media installation by local media artist Cheryl Jackson and writer Elizabeth Licata who are creating a beautiful yet funky space with live flowers, insects, sound as well as documentary footage of plant to reproduction.
Contemplate BreathDrawingBreath, a stunning installation by local artists Jody Hanson and Mark McLoughlin which combines time-based pinhole photography with real-time water projections with bubbles.
In the screening booths
I wish I had a date by Sean Hovendick intersperses appropriated educational film from the 50’s about how to date properly with video from the modern dating scene.
Upper, in the words of its maker, well-known video artist John Knecht from Colgate, NY “is full of color and clowns and polka music; but it slides down the slope of debauchery and excess and ends up, once again, in hell.”
Oral Cravings by Valerie Pawlowski from New York takes an ironic look at consumerism and its relationship to sex and the porn industry by using food.
A porno-mentary about Troy, NY by Dara Greenwald which chronicles the confessions of two women who love the same man – man we all happen to know!
Best of Love and Sex, a selection of the best work from past love and sex screenings, will feature works by Ron Ehmke, Tony Conrad, Meg Knowles, Jody Lafond and many others.
On the stage
There will be a great mix of live music in the entrance lobby: Brazilian jazz trio Don Metz, Heather Connor and Michael Colquhoun; guitar duo Nick Vega and Mike Golner, and the bands Mother Red and Handsome Jack are all playing.
A screen behind the bands will display video projection of various Peepshow and love-themed images.
In between sets Ilya Rose and her Bellydance Studio will explore the dark side with beautiful maidens dressed in fishnets and other sexy costumes performing belly dance and burlesque fusion dances.
Last, but not least, DJ Paul Szpakowski will make sure we are all in a dancing mood with groovy sounds from his vast collection.
Thanks to our Peepshow 2008 sponsors: Buffalo Spree, WBFO, Buffalo Rising, Broadway Market and Martin Kemp Designs
The Work of Pamela Enz
Friday, February 22nd @ 8pm
New York-based filmmaker, writer and performance artist Pamela Enz presents an evening of her work that includes a filmed interview with her mentor, Sam Shaw (producer of Cassavetes), who generously shepherded her through the production of oh, belly, belly, one of several shorts to be shown. Pamela Enz’s compelling narratives explore, in her words, “the miracles we wish for and sacrifices we make in the name of both love and survival.”
Local Artist Access Residency Screening
Friday, March 7th @ 8pm
Local artists Caroline Koebel, Ken Barney, Andrew Mitchell and Randall Taylor premiere the new work they created as part of 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.
Caroline Koebel's FLICKER ON OFF is a hand processed 16mm film that uses recorded moments of activation as key contributors to the activity of the artwork’s environment.
Photographer Ken Barney creates short films combining still photographs and video, producing time-lapsed motion studies.
Randall Taylor depicts the defragmentation and degenerative loss of time and memory as seen through the "mind's eye" of one misplaced individual.
Andrew Mitchell is shooting a documentary about HIV and spirituality.
Petting Zoo & To Give is to Receive is to Give w/ artists Ryan Tebo, M.P. Landis & Tom Abbs in person
Tuesday, March 18th @ 8pm
For nearly a decade jazz musician Tom Abbs & abstract painter M.P. Landis have collaborated on everything from films to CD covers to live performances. Just over a year ago they shared in the ultimate collaboration when Tom donated his left kidney to save M.P.'s life.
From Friday, March 14th until Saturday, March 22nd, Abbs and Landis will be touring the North East and Midwest with their newly finished documentary, "To Give is to Receive is to Give" and premiering their new live work "Petting Zoo" (information below)
To Give is to Receive is to Give is a video that charts the emotional journey of two artists as they delve into the depths and ascend the heights of collaboration. Seven years after they began their artistic collaboration (mp is a painter and tom is a musician) and four months after they began the collaborative relationship of being neighbors in the same brownstone in brooklyn, mp had kidney failure and began dialysis. In an act of tremendous generosity, tom decided to donate his kidney and mp accepted. This not only saved mp’s life, it also became a beautiful extension of their previous collaborations as artists and friends. Since the kidney transplant tom and mp’s lives and art have continued to grow, as has their relationship: they are now working together at esp disk.
Petting Zoo features live multimedia explorations by musician Tom Abbs and painter M.P. Landis. Witness a set of improvised music and visuals that will keep you guessing from beginning to end. Using a mix of overhead projection and live video along with triggered sound manipulation,Abbs and Landis bring you a set of multimedia entertainment like you have never seen.
NOTE: This tour is sponsored by the great avant-jazz label ESP-Disk' (http://espdisk.com). ESP's entire catalog will be on sale at every stop on the tour, with profits going to the Petting Zoo tour fund. We would like to thank ESP's founder Bernard Stollman for his support and guidance.
Walter Ungerer
Friday, March 28th @ 7pm
Reception for the artist at 7pm
Screening starts at 8pm
Squeaky Wheel welcomes Walter Ungerer, who has been working as a filmmaker and media artist for over forty-five years. The screening will feature work from Ungerer’s prolific career, including MEET ME JESUS (1965), which immediately gained national attention at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Untitled 2.1.2 (2002), The Awakening (2002), Lesley’s Song (2003) and Such As It Is (2007). Check out www.darkhorsefilms.org for more information.
Sponsored by the Dept. of Media Study, University at Buffalo
Bring your work or work-in-progress for insightful critique. Contact us beforehand if your work is longer than 5 mins. 16mm, super 8 , DVD, mini dv, VHS all welcome.
Seth Wochensky & DieDie Weng: 2 documentaries about rural life in China and the U.S.
Friday, April 11th @ 8pm
In the summer of 2004, Chinese filmmaker Diedie Weng followed American scholar Carol Bliss and Mosuo writer Lamu Gatusa to collect traditional Mosuo folk songs for Carol's research. Mosuo Song Journey presents a personal journey resonating with the singing of different generations of Mosuo people in a transitional period of their life under the influence of tourism, pop culture and education.
Shoot the Moon (45 mins.) documents Gentner's Commission Market, a traditional livestock and junk auction in Springville, NY. Running every Wednesday throughout the year since 1939, Gentner's is a rural institution. The freewheeling market is often overshadowed by story swapping and the old-time country atmosphere. "Filmmaker Seth Wochensky from Western New York is one of America's most talented and perceptive rural filmmakers. Wochensky's observational skills remind the viewer of the film of Les Blank. as does the filmmakers ability to earn the trust of his subjects." - Ozarks Regional Magazine.
“There’s something special about Philadelphia filmmakers. It isn’t just that this is my hometown – this is actually the reason I made it my home. The work is not only inspiring and innovative, the people behind the work are especially creative, culturally diverse, open to sharing ideas, and
supportive of each other in pursuit of the craft. In this collection of recent film and video, the selections span from documentary to narrative to experimental and include storytelling, poetry and dance. The range of
emotion and depth of thought is great. While some of us are not afraid to tackle life’s serious issues, let’s not forget a sense of humor! The presentation begins by tugging on the spirit and by the end, I hope, awakens
it.” - Deborah Rudman, curator, who will be there in person to present the work
Join us for our annual celebration of the home movie format that just won’t quit. Submit your film by Tuesday, May 6th to be a part of the action. Don’t have a Super 8 film? Then make one with Squeaky Wheel’s Super Super 8 Deal. For just $35 B &W/$45 Color, you will be provided a one day camera rental, one roll of film, a private hand processing session and telecine of your film to video. Contact tech@squeaky.org to sign up!
The Evolutionary Girls Club (EVO) is an international artist-activist collective coming to Squeaky Wheel to present a multi-media extravaganza of videos, prints and installations. The aim of this socially conscious and outspoken group is to create an inclusive global artist community and "to work together to inform and expand each other and their surroundings." The group has also done art exhibitions and workshops in Ukraine, Germany, Malaysia, Sweden, Poland, Hungary, Japan, and Finland.
The Intelligence Community Presents: THE FREE TRANSLATORS
A video screening plus "live tactical translating" featuring Miss Reading and Miss Recognition.
In consideration of over thirty years of critical feminist studies concerning women as subjects of language, the Free Translators ask: What is your source? What is your Who? Your Where? Your When? Your How? For those of us who do not know, The Free Translators offer an array of possibilities: Miss Reading, Miss Communication, Miss Appropriation, Miss Opportunity, Miss Literacy, Miss Informed and of course… (their own) misgivings.
In a world that invents and facilitates endless methods and technologies for successful communication, The Free Translators happily construe known grammars and vocabularies in favor of the barely heard and the incomprehensible with the purpose of uniting the political and poetic in language. Culling from a multitude of conflated narratives, The Free Translators present a program of video screenings deliberately complicating the textual content of our everydaylives and dedicated to the idea that multiple translations continually unhinge single meanings.
BIOGRAPHIES
Mary Billyou is a film and video maker living and working in New York City. She attended The Whitney Independent Study Program in 2003-2004. Her films and videos have shown throughout the United States, the Czech Republic, and in China. Her practice includes community building collaborations through both filmmaking production and in curated screenings. Her recent documentary on Arabic translator Mohamed Yousry showed at the microcinema venue at Sundance 2007. Her early films and videos are available on Big Miss Moviola compilations.
Sabine Gruffat is a media artist living and working in Madison, WI. Her films and videos have screened at festivals worldwide including the Image Forum Festival in Japan, the Split Film Festival in Croatia and the Ann Arbor Film Festival as well as microcinema venues/galleries the PDX Film Festival in Portland OR, Discount Cinema and The Ice Factory in Chicago, IL, and more recently, Hull screen U.K, The Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Filmmakers, and The Gramercy Theater in New York. Her photographs and video installations have been shown at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago, Art In General in New York, the Rochester Art Center and the Centro Cultural Telemar in Brasil.
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.
New York-based filmmaker, writer and performance artist Pamela Enz presents an evening of her work that includes a filmed interview with her mentor, Sam Shaw (producer of Cassavetes), who generously shepherded her through the production of oh, belly, belly, one of several shorts to be shown. Pamela Enz’s compelling narratives explore, in her words, “the miracles we wish for and sacrifices we make in the name of both love and survival.”
“There’s something special about Philadelphia filmmakers. It isn’t just that this is my hometown – this is actually the reason I made it my home. The work is not only inspiring and innovative, the people behind the work are especially creative, culturally diverse, open to sharing ideas, and
supportive of each other in pursuit of the craft. In this collection of recent film and video, the selections span from documentary to narrative to experimental and include storytelling, poetry and dance. The range of
emotion and depth of thought is great. While some of us are not afraid to tackle life’s serious issues, let’s not forget a sense of humor! The presentation begins by tugging on the spirit and by the end, I hope, awakens
it.” - Deborah Rudman, curator, who will be there in person to present the work
