Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center

Tonight, 7 pm ET! Don’t miss Hala Lotfy’s essential Coming Forth by Day, followed by a conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker and Ekrem Serdar. Free or suggested donation; click below for more info and to register!

Tomorrow, 7 pm: An intimate day observed on the verge of the Egyptian Revolution, Hala Lotfy’s award-winning narrative feature Coming Forth by Day depicts the vigilance, routines, exhaustion and isolation that can accompany care work. Don’t miss the second event of our series Timeline(s) of Care, followed by a conversation with Hala Lotfy and Ekrem Serdar. Free or suggested donation. Register at the link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hala-lotfys-coming-forth-by-da

We're excited to announce Hiba Ali as our Artist & Mentor in Residence for Fall 2020! Ali will serve as an artistic and technical mentor for our advanced-track youth media program Saturday Cafe, and will be working on "On the language of anti-Blackness and the Indian Ocean", a digital project which uses Mozilla Hubs and Spoke with Blender to re-imagine linguistic and historical connections between South Asia, the Arab world and the Swahili coast of East Africa. Ali’s research... focuses on the history of the Indian Ocean slave trade, commonly misidentified as ‘the Arab slave trade,’ and its manifestation in the present as anti-Black racism, caste-class, and kafala system of the Indian Ocean region. Utilizing the digital interface of Mozilla hubs, live-recorded 360 video, and music, the artist will create an interactive space to name the roots of anti-Blackness and structural oppression as a means to eradicate it. The public will have the opportunity to engage with the artist at a panel discussion focusing on Afro-descent communities, the Indian Ocean and migration which will take place in December. See the artists bio and more information about the program by clicking on the link below. provided by Hiba Ali. See more

Next Wednesday, October 28: Join us for a virtual screening of Hala Lotfy’s 2012 intimately observed narrative feature film Coming Forth by Day, which follows a day and night in the life of a young woman named Suad living in Cairo on the days before the Egyptian Revolution. Living with her sick and disabled father, whom she takes care of with her nurse mother, Lotfy’s quiet and powerful film depicts the vigilance, routines, exhaustion and isolation that can accompany care wor...k. When Suad decides to leave the house for a few hours, a tide of change is set into motion. Set against the backdrop of a country at a moment of change, and titled after the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Lofty’s award-winning film heralded a new Egyptian cinema as it stretches time to imagine what comes tomorrow. The second event as part of our series Timeline(s) of Care, the film will be followed by a conversation and Q&A with curator Ekrem Serdar. The film is presented in Arabic, with English subtitles, and the conversation and Q&A will feature ASL interpretation and automated open captions. Free or suggested donation; click on the link below to register.

Western NY artists! The deadline to apply to the Spring 2021 session of our Workspace Residency is TONIGHT! We can’t wait to see your applications!

Missed The Cancer Journals Revisited last night? You didn't! You can register to view the film and conversation between Lana Lin and Dessane Lopez Cassell through this evening, 7 pm ET! Squeaky members who register will receive a private link to view the film through Monday evening. Don't miss this amazing film!

Tonight, 7 pm ET! Don't miss Lana Lin's The Cancer Journals Revisited, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and Dessane Lopez Cassell. Free or suggested donation. Check out the trailer below, and get your tickets here: https://bit.ly/cancerjournalsrevisited

This Friday, tune in at 7 pm ET for Lana Lin’s award-winning documentary, The Cancer Journals Revisited. We’re so excited to be able to share this extraordinary film, followed by a conversation and Q&A with the filmmaker and writer, curator Dessane Lopez Cassell. The film is presented with closed captions, and the conversation between Lin and Cassell featuring open captions and ASL interpretation. Free or suggested donation; don't miss it. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lana-lins-the-cancer-journals-

The deadline to apply to our Workspace Residency is this Saturday! Open to local applicants only, this session of the residency provides up to $950 in stipend & artist fees and up to $700 in financial assistance for child care and/or disability support, and access to the equipment of Squeaky, and our partners at The Foundry and Buffalo Game Space. Open to artists and researchers working in video, video games, sound, and more. Apply now! https://squeaky.org/workspace-residency/

Public Visualization Studio: Passing through the Heart November 13, 2020February 27, 2021 More info: https://squeaky.org//public-visualization-studio-passing-/

We want to take a moment to thank everyone involved in Excellent Adventure, our scavenger hunt fundraiser, to our committee members that worked tirelessly for the past five months (pictured above, minus a few). Thank you to our event and prize sponsors contributions that made this event possible, and all of the people who participated and submitted over 800 hilarious, creative, and fantastic posts! And thank you to our judges, Bow Ty, Jenson Leonard, and Liz Ferrer, and our MC Corey Grant Check out #SqueakyAdventure on Instagram to see all the submissions at

The Excellent Adventure starts SO SOON! Get your tickets now at the link below to take part and win great prizes! Ticket sales end at noon!