__Uma árvore (One tree), Katia Maciel__

DV, silent; 01:51 loop; 2009




A tree moves around in a fixed landscape.

*On view October 10-14th @ Burchfield Penney Art Center*

*Breif, behind-the-screens curator's talk @ 6:30pm on Friday 10/11.*

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__About the artist:__

Katia Maciel is an artist, filmmaker and poet, and a professor at the School of Communication at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro since 1994.  
 
She published four books of poetry Plantio (2019) Trailer (2017) Repetir (2015) Zun (2012) and many essays and books about cinema and art -  Instructions for films (with Lívia Flores ebook 2013), Transcinemas (org. 2009), Cinema Sim (org. 2008), Experimental Brazil: Guy Brett (org. 2005), Sensory Networks (in partnership with André Parente, 2003), Cinema thinking in the Brazil (2000) and The Art of Disappearance: Jean Baudrillard (org 1997), among others.
 
She has made films, videos, installations, performances and exhibitions in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, England, France, Spain, Germany, Lithuania, Sweden and in China. Received, among others, and has received awards, including: Caixa Cultural Brasília Award (2011), Funarte of Stimulus to Artistic Creation in Visual Arts (2010), Itaucultural Directions (2009), Sérgio Motta (2005), Petrobras Digital Media (2003), Transmedia Itaúcultural (2002), Visual Arts Rioarte (2000).  
 
The artist’s work reflects the images own realm and it’s relationship with the landscape, objects, spoken word and romantic clichés.

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BIFF Offscreen: One tree

A tree moves around in a fixed landscape.

BIFF Offscreen

Burchfield Penney Art Center

__O Vento Sopra onde Quer (The Wind Blows Wherever it Wants), André Parente__

HDV, stereo; 10:47 loop; 2013


In *O Vento Sopra onde Quer*, André Parente focuses on cinema and gesture through images depicting hands from Robert Bresson films, an element quite characteristic of the French filmmaker's style. Through the hands we get to know the world, not only the space and the objects that occupy it, but life and death, violence and love giving. The hand shows that we are not stuck to the bottom of the sky, or the earth with which it seems to form one body.

*On view October 10-14th @ North Park Theatre*

*Breif, behind-the-screens curator's talk @ 9:30pm on Thursday 10/10.*
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__About the artist:__ 

André Parente is an artist and researcher of cinema and new medias. In 1987 he obtained his PhD from the University Paris 8 under the guidance of Gilles Deleuze. Full Professor at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where, in 1991, he founded the Nucleus of Image Technology (N-Imagem). Since 1977 he has been producing several videos, films and installations in which predominate a conceptual and experimental approach. His works have been exhibited in Brazil and abroad (Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, Mexico, Canada, Argentina, Colombia, China, Portugal, among others). He is the author of the books: Imagem-máquina (1993), Sobre o cinema do simulacro (1998), O virtual e o hipertextual (1999), Narrativa e modernidade (2000), Tramas da rede (2004), Cinema et narrativité (L’Harmattan, 2005), Preparações e tarefas (2007), Cinema em trânsito (2012), Cinemáticos (2013), Cinema/Deleuze (2013), Passagens entre Fotografia e Cinema na Arte Brasileira (2015), among others. In the recent years he was the recipient of the following prizes: Rumos - Transmídia do Itaú Cultural (2002), Petrobrás de Novas Mídias (2005), Sergio Motta de Arte e Tecnologia (2006), Petrobrás de Memória das artes (2008), Oi Cultural (2010), Caixa Cultural Brasília (2011), Funarte de Artes Visuais (2013) e Funarte de Incentivo a Arte (2012), Oi Cultural (2014), Prêmio Marc Ferrez (2015), Secretaria de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro (2016).


BIFF Offscreen: The Wind Blows Wherever it Wants

Through the hands we get to know the world, not only the space and the objects that occupy it, but life and death, violence and love giving.

North Park Theatre

__The Swan, Tammy McGovern__

DV, sound; 01:19 loop, 2018

A woman finds a version of beauty and acceptance on the stage of reality 
television programming.

*On view October 10-14th @ Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center*

BIFF Offscreen: The Swan

A woman finds a version of beauty and acceptance on the stage of reality 
television programming.

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

__Estéreo Nostalgias y Telepaseos por un Lugar en el Caribe (Stereo Nostalgia and Telematic Rides Along the Caribbean. Day 1.), Angélica Piedrahita__

HDV, with sound; 09:48 loop, 2018

Aided by a mobile viewing device, the artist presented locals with stereoscopic images taken by the Virginia based photographer Horace D. Ashton in 1913 for Underwood & Underwood, and asked them about the places shown. The stereoscopic 3D technique seems to bring up strong experiences and memories of the city. 

Observers try to locate the images in coherent narrations and in the process, unfold different historical layers of the city as well as contemporary environmental and urban planning problems. 

The path of the video follows the routes marked by the Victorian-era photographic tour, originally produced to show middle class North Americans a picturesque view of Latin America.

*On view October 10-14th in the media gallery @ Hostel Buffalo-Niagara from 5pm to 9pm daily.*

*Opening celebration during BIFF's [Night Zero Party](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/night-zero-party/), with brief, behind-the-screens curator's talk @ 8pm.*
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__About the artist:__

Angélica Piedrahita (1981) is a Colombian multimedia artist, living and working in Monterrey, Mexico, where she is a Professor at the Universidad de Monterrey UDEM. She received an MFA in Media Art Production from SUNY University at Buffalo with the support of a Fulbright Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited in the Bauhaus – Universite at Weimar, The New School for Social Research and video festivals such as Pixel Point Slovenia, Loop Barcelona, KLEX Malasya, Megapolis NY, Videograma and Festival Internacional de la Imagen, at Colombia. As a researcher, she had collaborated in the edition of books and district programs in Art, Science and Technology in the US and Colombia. She worked as assistant professor at Javeriana University in Bogotá Colombia for 10 years. Her most recent work is built around the relationship between images, perception, geography, tourism and visual technologies. Through 2004 and 2005 she was the lead researcher of  Videored: Hacia la creación colectiva de video en Internet, funded by Banco Santander. As a result of the project she built an interactive video piece located at www.javeriana.edu.co/videored/ and edited the book “Codificar / decodificar: prácticas, espacios y temporalidades del audiovisual en Internet”.

BIFF Offscreen: Stereo Nostalgia & Telematic Rides Along the Caribbean. Day 1.

A meditation on photography and memories of a city.

Hostel Buffalo-Niagara

Join us as we kick-off the 2019 festival on 10/10 from 7:30pm-9pm with a [BIFF Offscreen](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/biff-offscreen-stereo-nostalgia-telematic-rides-along-the-caribbean-day-1/) opening and our annual Night Zero gathering.

Stop by to pick up and your Bison Pass and toast the chaos to come – stay for the Stereo Nostalgia and Telematic Rides Along the Caribbean...

*Brief, behind-the-screens curator's talk @ 8pm.*

  

Night Zero Party 

Stop by to pick up and your Bison Pass and toast the chaos to come – stay for the Stereo Nostalgia & Telematic Rides Along the Caribbean...

BIFF Parties

__Malaisia__

Special Presentation

Mac Cappuccino, 126 minutes, Special Presentation, USA

Director Mac Cappuccino in attendance
 
Buffalo native Mac Cappuccino explores the intoxicating rhythms of city life through a love triangle between an artist (Sarah Baskin), musician (Leonardo Santaiti) and comedian (Josh Nuncio). 

Malaisia 

An exploration of the intoxicating rhythms of city life told through a love triangle.

__Pacarrete__

Allan Deberton (Dir.), 98 minutes, USA Premiere, Brazil

Director Allan Deberton and lead actress Marcelia Cartaxo in attendance. 

Pacarrete (legendary actress Marcelia Cartaxo) is an aging, eccentric ballet dancer who has retired to her hometown and is hellbent on giving the town the gift of one last performance on the eve of its 200th anniversary party. 

Pacarrete

An eccentric, aging ballet dancer is hellbent on giving the town she grew up in the gift of one last performance.

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

__Koi__

Lorenzo Squarcia (Dir.), 88 minutes WNY Premiere, Italy/Japan

Director Lorenzo Squarcia in attendance.

Lorenzo Squaricia’s moving portrait of two men honoring the twenty thousand victims of Japan’s 2011 tsunami features an ex-convict seeking redemption by helping the victims’ families, and a bus driver who dives into the sea in order to search for his wife.

Screening with:

__Children of Spring__

Dusan Solomun (Dir.), 43 minutes, NY Premiere, Germany

An immersive portrait of the Syrian refugee crisis as told through the perspectives of the refugees crossing the Mediterranean towards the Berlin.

Koi w/ Children of Spring

Lorenzo Squaricia’s moving portrait of two men honoring the twenty thousand victims of Japan’s 2011 tsunami.

__BIFF Shorts: Global__, 111 minutes

International narratives from Austria, Spain, Japan, Denmark, and Croatia.
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__Mama__

Simon Maria Kubiena (Dir.), 5 minutes, NY Premiere, Austria

In Simon Maria Kubiena’s tender drama Mama, a child experiences her father’s grief firsthand when dealing with a family emergency.
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__Your Last Day on Earth__

Marc Martinez Jordan (Dir.), 12 minutes, Buffalo City Premiere, Spain

A man dressed as a fox breaks the spacetime limits with only one goal: to spend some time with his wife.
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__Clay__

Leonard Raaf (Dir.), 34 minutes, NY  Premiere, Denmark


Agnes, a resourceful twentysomething, travels to a remote Icelandic town to serve as an au pair for twin girls only to find her pluck and resolve tested by the girls’ abusive, unstable mother.
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__In The Name of the Strawberry, Chocolate, and the Holy Spirit__

Karla Lulic (Dir.), 20 minutes, NY Premiere, Croatia

Father Petar’s goal is simply to eat some delicious ice cream on the first day of Spring, but his goal is thwarted by his devout Mediterranean community in this witty film. 
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__Fishing with Father__

Shigeru Hirai (Dir.), 23 minutes, NY Premiere, Japan

Bored with school, Hijime hopes to turn his passion for fishing into a profession, much to the chagrin of his father. 

BIFF Shorts: Global

International narratives from Austria, Spain, Japan, Denmark, and Croatia.

__My Summer as a Goth__

Tara Johnson-Medinger (Dir.), 98 minutes, NY Premiere, USA

Natlie Shershow stars in Tara Johnson-Medinger’s tender, coming-of-age story about the search for love and belonging.

My Summer as a Goth

A tender, coming-of-age story about the search for love and belonging.


__Frances Ferguson__

Bob Byington (Dir.), 75 minutes, NY Premiere, USA

Bob Byington returns to BIFF with Frances Ferguson – an offbeat comedy narrated by Nick Offerman. Ripped from the headlines, it’s the tale of a substitute teacher’s (Kaley Wheless) marriage and affair. Festivals: SXSW, Seattle, Montclair

Frances Ferguson

Ripped from the headlines, Frances Ferguson is the tale of a substitute teacher’s marriage and affair.

Screening

__JJ Lankes: Yankee Printmaker in Virginia__

Eduardo Montes-Bradley (Dir.), 30 minutes, World Premiere, USA

Director Eduardo Montes-Bradley in attendance.

Eduardo Montes-Bradley directs this enlightening documentary about Buffalo native, woodcut master printmaker JJ Lankes.  Exploring his life between World War I and II, as Lankes becomes a social advocate in the South during a period of heightened industrialization.

Free admission.

JJ Lankes: Yankee Printmaker in Virginia

Eduardo Montes-Bradley directs this enlightening documentary about Buffalo native, woodcut master printmaker JJ Lankes.

Archive

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BIFF Offscreen: One tree

4:15 PM Thursday October 10, 2019

Burchfield Penney Art Center

BIFF Offscreen

BIFF Offscreen: The Wind Blows Wherever it Wants

4:30 PM Thursday October 10, 2019

North Park Theatre

BIFF Offscreen

BIFF Offscreen: The Swan

4:45 PM Thursday October 10, 2019

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

BIFF Offscreen

BIFF Offscreen: Stereo Nostalgia & Telematic Rides Along the Caribbean. Day 1.

5:00 PM Thursday October 10, 2019

Hostel Buffalo-Niagara

BIFF Offscreen

Night Zero Party

7:30 PM Thursday October 10, 2019

Hostel Buffalo-Niagara

BIFF Parties

Malaisia

10:00 PM Thursday October 10, 2019

North Park Theatre

Pacarrete

12:30 PM Friday October 11, 2019

North Park Theatre

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Koi w/ Children of Spring

2:30 PM Friday October 11, 2019

North Park Theatre

BIFF Shorts: Global

5:00 PM Friday October 11, 2019

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

My Summer as a Goth

5:00 PM Friday October 11, 2019

North Park Theatre

Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Frances Ferguson

7:00 PM Friday October 11, 2019

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Screening

JJ Lankes: Yankee Printmaker in Virginia

7:00 PM Friday October 11, 2019

Burchfield Penney Art Center

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