BIFF Offscreen: Barbara Hammer’s Evidentiary Bodies
Eleven Twenty Projects
Barbara Hammer’s first and only multi-channel installation is a hauntingly beautiful piece and is not to be missed!
Barbara Hammer’s first and only multi-channel installation is a hauntingly beautiful piece and is not to be missed!
Orbital Obsessions + Art of Memory on view sunset to sunrise Oct 8–12 on The Front Lawn @ Burchfield Penney Art Center.
In the summer '73 Content Knowles runs away from an upscale New England summer camp, hitchhiking cross-country to California.
Read moreA hitman searches for redemption while on the run from a cop seeking revenge, in this apocalyptic, sci-fi tale.
Read moreCelebrating unique perspectives, voices and stories from Western New York.
Read moreHeartbroken and paranoid, wallflower Adam traverses a barren landscape.
Read moreA literal cross-border exchange of perspectives and performances.
This panel explores the life and work of video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka, and their extensive archive and storied legacy.
Using digital + analog electronics, + Harold Bode's music archive as source material, Carrier Band will perform a live audiovisual concert.
Discussion will focus on the film selections and related topics.
Panelists will discuss the film, their work, collaborative poiesis and exchange, the concept of genius, and more.
This panel takes deeper look at and discusses the films Woman Dress and K'i Tah Amongst the Birch.
This panel celebrates the behind-the-scenes talent that distributes, markets and sells films before, after and during their festival run.
Discussion will focus on the film, its unique production and related topics.
An ex-trainer at Niagara Falls, Ontario’s MarineLand exposes the park’s practices and is sued for plotting to steal a walrus.
Read moreFaced with a split custody break-up, a family’s older daughter kidnaps her hostile sister.
Read moreCovering up a heinous act leads to an opportunity to live the life he’s always wanted.
Read moreThis witty ensemble drama centers around a group of 40 somethings navigating messy secrets.
Read moreBuffalo-based experimental music ensemble Wooden Cities sets about to create their new album.
Read moreIn the summer '73 Content Knowles runs away from an upscale New England summer camp, hitchhiking cross-country to California.
Read moreThis intimate portrait explores the life and work of video art pioneers Steina and Woody Vasulka.
Read moreHoward Bloom believes he’s figured out what the universe wants from each of us – he just needs to get it all down in the time he has left.
Read moreDirector Norm Anderson follows his mother Dorset as she reunites with the Red Cross Donut Dollies 47 years later in Vietnam.
Read moreA rich observational portrait of three people in search of the American Dream.
Read moreCo-founder of the Wooster Collective Marc Schiller was working in the worlds of street art, music and film until a stroke altered reality.
Read moreWayne, a fun-loving, party animal living in the tiny town of Rhinelander, Wisconsin reconnects with his nine-year old son Tyler.
Read moreAn a cappella group flies halfway around the world to collaborate with a choir of orphans in rural Kenya.
Read moreCelebrating unique perspectives, voices and stories from Western New York.
Read moreA casual game at their former Hebrew school classmate’s funeral service turns into a sexual awakening for two teen girls.
Read moreThe story of Léonce the King of Bears, his lost son and brave clan, and their famous invasion of the land of men.
Read moreAn aging pot farmer suddenly finds her world shattered as she races to bring in what could be her final harvest.
Read moreSimultaneously a murder mystery and a RomCom, Fall Back Down is an anarchic, queer-punk romp brimming with heart and attitude.
Read moreA father of eight struggles to cope with his girlfriend's Nani’s crippling crack and heroin addiction.
Read moreWorks exploring issues of race, immigration, visibility, (in)justice and more.
Caveh Zahedi and Jacques Servin team up to teach an experimental media production class on How To Overthrow The US Government (Legally).
Read moreAnti-ethnographic works that provide windows into the lives, minds and cultures of some of N. America's most exciting Indigenous filmmakers.
A grim reaper falls in love with the women he’s sworn to take to hell in this innovative genre-bending horror romance.
Read moreFolk musician Eric Andersen dives deep into conflicts of career, ego, relationships and the unrelenting pursuit of one’s purpose.
Read moreKeren Perlmutter traces her father’s incredible life from Nazi-occupied Vienna to his daring escape to the U.S.
Read moreCuban baseball players leave their families and risk exile to train in Central America and chase their Major League dreams.
Read moreMarcus, an unstable man with a history of mental illness sets out to reconnect with his pregnant daughter.
Read moreAn introverted 14-year-old eases into a life of crime when he’s befriended by a drug trafficker.
Read moreCollege bound Melanie navigates senior year and her mother Dawn’s struggles with mental illness.
Read moreRadical artists Barbara Hammer, Eileen Myles, Black Quantum Futurism, Moor Mother, and Dynasty Handbag / Jibz Cameron on genius.
Read moreAn orphaned teenager dreams of life beyond his remote, impoverished Turkish village.
Read moreA moving tribute to the changing landscape of Toronto’s Bloor and Bathurst Streets follows the demolition of longtime neighborhood staple.
Read moreThe true story of Mieczyslaw “Mietek" Kosz, a Polish jazz pianist who died in tragic circumstances.
When Ola’s father dies on a building site in Ireland, she must travel there to bring his remains back to Poland.
Read moreThe next generation of storytellers – exciting new voices and work by filmmakers under 18.