This Saturday, Squeaky Wheel celebrates their Fourth Annual Outdoor
Animation Festival. This free event showcases independent,
alternative, experimental and underground animators. In an
increasingly alienating and frustrating world, these animators have
turned towards accessible materials to cultivate their animation
techniques. The film makers build an antidote to slick mass production
and global mass culture, creating micro-environmental fairytales,
local histories and neo-psychedelia intended to jolt your senses awake
to a re-imagining of the present moment and new potentialities for
communal experience.
“Each year, we try to focus on different national film makers,” says Technical Director Brian Milbrand. This late evening experience contains the films of Jo Dery, such as
“Echoes of Bats and Men”. The film was a New York Times critic pick
with its anti-capitalist, pre-eco-apocalyptic feel in which the
viewer discovers Rhode Islands Industrial Revolution through the eyes
of a bat. This is just one of Dery’s many films that will be shown.
“A curator comes in and puts together the screening. This year we have Sullivan Sheehan as our curator,” explains Milbrand. All of the films that are shown during the Festival are family
friendly. If the weather does not cooperate, the festivities will be moved to Squeaky Wheel’s home base.
Saturday, June 30, 9pm
FREE
Squeaky Wheel’s 4th Annual Outdoor Animation Festival
Days Park
Squeaky Wheel
712 Main Street
Buffalo, NY 14202
tel: 716.884.7172
fax: 716.886.1619
office@squeaky.org
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