PEEPSHOW 2011: It’s Complicated

PEEPSHOW 2011: It’s Complicated – Squeaky Wheel’s high-energy fundraising art party & art-stravaganza!
When: Saturday, February 26, 2011, 8:00 p.m. – 1:00a.m.
Where: DNIPRO Ukrainian Center (562 Genesee St.)
Price: $15 pre-sale and $20 at door price ($15 for students w/ ID)

Squeaky Wheel is at it again! On February 26th, this Buffalo based media arts center is hosting their annual fundraiser showcase this year at the Dnipro Ukrainian Cultural Center. This unique multi-level venue will be the jam-packed with works of art from over 40 artists, featuring a massive dose of live music performances, an art auction, and interactive art projects such as an auto-playing musical instrument consisting of 12 vibrating dildos by Brian Larson Clark, 50-foot-long kinetic sculptures crafted from flexible tubes containing intelligent lights that moves with the rhythm of the music by Joel Resnikoff and even a human mirror ball. Purchase your tickets today and become part of the fun and games this year.

For those of you interested to get the first crack at the art auction, get a ticket for the Peepshow PEEP! Pre-party from 7:00-8:00pm. Pre-party tickets are available online and include adjacent parking, first bid at the art auction, complimentary cocktails, authentic Ukrainian hors d’oeuvres, a VIP video screening at 8:00pm, and music by After Hours.

Advance tickets will be sold for $15 at Squeaky Wheel, Café Taza, Sweetness 7, Talking Leaves and online.

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15th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL

The Fifteenth Annual International Women’s Film Festival
@ the Market Arcade 639 Main Street, Buffalo, NY
on February 17, 2011 – March 31, 2011

The festival is running for six consecutive Thursdays and gives film lovers from Western New York a rare chance to see some authentically underground films from all over the world.

The IWFF, which is sponsored by UB’s Gender Institute, consists mostly of little-known films made by un- or underfunded independent women filmmakers. Festival programmer Ruth Goldman, in her second year at the helm, says she likes to cast as wide a net as possible when scheduling the festival. “I believe the festival should provide viewers with the opportunity to see films by women that they would not otherwise have the opportunity to see in a theater,” Goldman says.

Although most mainstream moviegoers will not recognize the filmmakers in the lineup, Goldman, who is an Adjunct Faculty in the Department of Media Study and a documentary filmmaker herself, says the point of the festival is not to give viewers something they are comfortable with. Instead, the festival should make viewers uncomfortable, it should make them think, and it should introduce them to new ways of seeing the movies. “As a programmer and educator,” Goldman says, “my intent is to provoke, in the best possible spirit of the word.”

To view the entire Spree Article: http://buffalospreemagazine.com/current/010211film.html

Channel 7 Clip: http://www.wkbw.com/programming/am-buffalo/video/Buffalo-Spree-Magazine—International-Womens-Film-Festival—January-20th-114305439.html

Film Fest Schedule:  http://genderin.buffalo.edu/filmfest.php

RUST BELT REELS: A Night of Short Films by Women

The UB Gender Institute is proud to present
the 14th Annual International Women’s Film Festival

Week Six: RUST BELT REELS: A NIGHT OF SHORT FILMS BY WOMEN

Thursday, March 25, 2010
7:00pm – 10:00pm
The Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre: 639 Main St. Buffalo
Students $5, General Public $9

Buffalo, NY is indelibly marked by the booming birth and excruciatingly slow death of the manufacturing industry in the United States. Rust permeates our architecture, our politics and our economy, as well as our daily lives and the art that we create. This screening poses the broad question: Does this slow rusty death–this creaky slam of factory gates–engender a particular voice, sound, shape, color, environment, his/herstory, mood or texture?

Please join us for the final week of this year’s International Women’s Film Festival. Rust Belt Reels is a sampling of work by current and former Buffalo filmmakers Lizzie Finnegan, Stephanie Gray, Ann Steuernagel, Julie Turner, Adrianna Hernandez-Stewart, Meg Knowles, Jody Lafonde and Jan Nagle.

Rust Belt Reels will also feature a special tribute to experimental animator and filmmaker Helen Hill with a screening of her short film, Madame Winger Makes a Film.

(Park in Washington Street lot behind the movie theater for $2 and bring parking stub to the Arcade ticket booth for $2 off your ticket purchase)

The festival runs Feb. 11 though Mar. 25 (no show on Mar. 11) and screenings take place at 7pm each Thursday.

14th Annual International Women's Film Festival February 11 – March 25, 2010

14th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL

FEBRUARY 11 – MARCH 25, 2010
genderin.buffalo.edu/filmfest

SCREENINGS:
Thursdays at 7 p.m., Market Arcade Film & Arts Center
639 Main St., Buffalo, NY

TICKETS:
$9 general admission / $5 for students, seniors, and Hallwalls members
(Your ticket purchase helps support women filmmakers, providing income through the rental costs we pay for their work. )

Programmed by Media Study instructor, Ruth Goldman. This a rare chance to see many excellent films. For a full schedule visit genderin.buffalo.edu/filmfest.

URFEST Traveling Film Festival

URFest (Urban Renewal Traveling Film Festival) is a nationally touring documentary film festival from Buffalo, NY that screens films with the goal of starting community dialogues about urban revitalization. Organized by MFA Loren Sonnenberg and featuring films by Media Study folks. Check out their cross-country schedule and let all your friends know they’re coming to a town near you!

www.urfest.com/
URFest on Facebook

FILMS:
Buffalo ReUSE: Building Community by Carl Lee focuses on the multi-faceted work of Buffalo ReUSE to deconstruct houses in order to create jobs and community. Produced by Squeaky Wheel.

We Need Food Not Bombs by Ron Douglas explores how a grassroots organization in Buffalo has built community through sharing food in opposition to violence.

We Own It by Loren Sonnenberg is a story about cooperative home ownership that follows Buffalo’s Nickel City Housing Cooperative through the purchase, renovation, and setup of their second community oriented (mostly non-student) cooperative house.

PUSHing People Power: Rebuilding Buffalo’s West Side by Ruth Goldman is a story about ordinary citizens working together to create and sustain an urban community that values sustainable and equitable housing, jobs and lifestyles. More info about PUSH. Produced by Squeaky Wheel