Punctures: Threading Histories Screening featuring Laura Kraning

Punctures: Threading Histories
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Arts Center
617 Main Street, Buffalo NY • (716) 884-7172

Wednesday, January 29, 7pm
$7 General / $5 Members / Free for Arts Access Pass Holders

How do textiles and media speak to individual, collective, and social histories? Featuring films by Alta Kahn, Cydnii Wilde Harris, Eytan İpeker, Laura Kraning, Lesley Loksi Chan, the Manaki Brothers, Senga Nengudi, and Susie Bennally, the eight films in this group screening include a found-footage film that utilizes Gone with the Wind to explore the cotton industry and transatlantic slavery in the United States; two films made as part of the project Navajo Film Themselves (1966) by Alta Kahn and Susie Bennally; and one of the few films shot in the Ladino language by Eytan Ipeker. With filmmaker Laura Kraning in person who will be present for a conversation and Q&A for her film Language of Memory. For the full program visit the Squeaky Wheel website.