__Symon__

Ted Sullivan (Dir), 3 minutes, USA, World Premiere

Star and Co-Writer Patrick Gallo in attendance.

A portrait of the artist Symon Provenzano –– founder of the "Destruction Movement" that flourished briefly in the early 1970s. For a period of 3 months, Symon and his German assistant allowed a film crew to document his views on inspiration, influences and language barriers.

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Screening w/ Filmmaker Q&A

Symon

A portrait of the artist Symon Provenzano – founder of the "Destruction Movement" that flourished briefly in the early 1970s.

North Park Theatre

__Saturday October 8 @ North Park Theatre__ 
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__Symon Presents Symon__, Live Performance (Length TBA), 2022

Performance by world famous artist Symon, described by the artist as –– "everything that's important."
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__About the Artist:__

Founder of the "Destruction Movement" (1973-1975), a short lived but impactful moment in contemporary art history, Symon has been reluctantly working across media and disciplines for decades. In the 1990s, Symon (formally Symon "Provenzano") shot to international fame and became a household name after being displayed inside of an opaque, black box in Alexanderplatz for over a week, although no one saw him enter and no one saw him emerge. He was quoted in Germany’s *The Art Newspaper* saying “when I was inside [the black box] I was on the interior, when I wasn’t, I was on the exterior. Now will someone bring me a blow torch?” Symon claims he was the first artist to send an NFT project to the Moon, and he plans to send the next NFT directly to his cousin Randy, who recently moved to Spain but isn’t “fully” moved in yet. Symon is considered the foremost Post-Conceptual artist of contemporary times.
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*Symon Sayz* (featured) and other promotional materials courtesy of the artist and FoMA, New York.

Our deepest gratitude to Symon for Symon's generosity.

BIFF Offscreen

BIFF Offscreen: Symon Presents Symon

Performance by world famous artist Symon.

__Bunker__

Adrian Langley (Dir), 108 minutes, USA, World Premiere

__City Centerpiece__

Director Adrian Langley, Writer Michael Huntsman, and Producers Patrick Rizzotti and James Huntsman in attendance.

Trapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other. Made in Western New York at [Buffalo FilmWorks](https://www.buffalofilmworks.com/). A Blue Fox Entertainment release.


Bunker

Trapped in a bunker during World War I, a group of soldiers are faced with an ungodly presence that slowly turns them against each other.

Free Outdoor Projection on the Silos by It Could Be Anyone (Video Art Collective) as part of BIFF's SWEET BIFFTEEN PARTY!!!

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__About the artists:__

It Could Be Anyone is an anonymous group of female and nonbinary media artists living in Western New York and Southern Ontario.

BIFF OFFSCREEN: IT COULD BE ANYONE

Free Outdoor Projection on the Silos by It Could Be Anyone (Video Art Collective)!

Duende

__Saturday October 8 @ Duende // Silo City __

Cinematic art rock pairing visuals with music. The music is a combination of post-rock, doom, experimental, and ambient. Visuals are samples from a variety of sources including educational films, Hollywood blockbusters, art house and foreign favorites. The images and music create new narratives from the filmic fragments.

__About the Artists:__

An anonymous collective of musicians and artists living in Buffalo, NY that are interested in audio visual destruction and the materiality of image and sound.

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Cult Rock will perform as part of the [Sweet Biffteen Party](https://www.buffalofilm.org/lineup/events/sweet-biffteen/).


BIFF Offscreen: Cult Mother

__Body Parts__

Kristy Guevara-Flanagan (Dir), 86 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

Tracing the evolution of "sex" on-screen from a woman’s perspective, *Body Parts* uncovers the uncomfortable realities behind some of the most iconic scenes in cinema history and celebrates the bold creators leading the way for change.

The documentary features candid interviews with actors and creators who are advocating for real change, including Jane Fonda, Rosanna
Arquette, Joey Soloway, Angela Robinson, Karyn Kusama, Rose McGowan, Alexandra Billings, Emily Meade, and David Simon. 

Produced by Helen Hood Scheer.

Body Parts

The uncomfortable realities behind some of the most iconic scenes in cinema history.

__Zupa Nic (Back Then)__

Kinga Desbka (Dir), 94 minutes, Poland, Western New York Premiere

Marta is a romantic and victim of fate. He shares a room with his sister Kasia and grandmother, who tells her granddaughters insurgent stories instead of fairy tales. In the room behind the wall, my parents - Tadek and Elzbieta - live their married life. He is a constantly humiliated intelligent by the system who silently envies his prosperous brother-in-law. She is the president of the company's "Solidarity" with the need for freedom and a dream to finally break out of Poland. However, the real emotions for the whole family will start when the dream orange toddler stands under the block. It will turn out to be an unexpected catapult to the big world - the family will go to Lake Balaton with a toddler with luggage on the roof. Ela and Tadek will discover a vocation to trade and travel abroad, and the growing up Marta will fall in love again.

In Polish with English subtitles.

Zupa Nic (Back Then)

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

They're back (the 90s + the Bills!)!! And we want to celebrate our future victory against The Steelers with you! (Steelers fans welcome, but you'll likely be razzed)

Bison Pass holders will be provided a drink ticket redeemable for beer or a Tito's signature drink only. There is a cash bar and food for sale for all other attendees, and Bison Passes will be available for sale at the party.

Party Schedule + Lineup TBA! Check back soon!

*As they say on their website – 'If you're not wearing Zubaz... you're just wearing pants' (we hope – please do – no pants, no service)...*

BIFF Parties

Zubazpalooza

Imaginative serial stories. 90 minutes.

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__Maelstrom (Pilot)__

Zachary Iqbal (Dir), 30 minutes, USA, World Premiere

Director Zachary Iqbal + Producer Jake Jasie in attendance.

After the sun has mysteriously stopped coming up, three marines, a scientist, and a civilian nurse must travel across the country in search of salvation.

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__The Cloaked Realm (Tunnel 23)__

Marisa Cohen + Peter Issac Alexander (Dir), 23 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

The crew of the A.R.E.S. space mission to Mars has assembled in the Thrace space station to prepare for their historic trip. Environmental collapse and a toxic environment have placed a great deal of attention on the mission, but something nefarious brewing aboard the Thrace and on Earth threatens its success.  A hand-drawn, animated series.

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__Gemini__

Jack Skyyler + Alex Zinzopoulos (Dir), 37 minutes, USA, US Premiere

After Hades murders two teens, his third victim, Juno, escapes, teleporting through solid steel into an open field where her body is found unconscious. Immediately after, a high-school student, Kali, awakes with a psychic link to Juno and telekinetic powers. Kali's telekinetic powers are first used against her school bully; but they make her a target for Hades who is hunting Kali and Juno as he attempts to overthrow his brother Zeus.


BIFF EPISODIC: SCI-FI & THRILLERS & FANTASIES

Burchfield Penney Art Center

__Memoria__

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Dir), 136 minutes, USA, Buffalo Premiere

__Arthouse Spotlight__

A lyrical drama exploring myth, memory and colonialism. Jessica (Tilda Swinton), a Scottish expat living in Bogotá, Colombia sets off to find the source of a mysterious sonic boom that only she can hear. With the help of a sound engineer (Elkin Diaz), Jessica explores a psychological and metaphysical world where more than just the past is excavated. A NEON release. 


Memoria

A lyrical drama exploring myth, memory and colonialism.

__Hideout__

Yen Kuang Chen (Dir),  119 minutes, Taiwan, New York State Premiere

Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make enough money so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind. One day, he is contacted by Michael, a drug broker with an offer to buy a batch of rare cocaine.

Guo-hao teams up with long-time buddy Da-wei to borrow money from local crime boss Uncle Ma to complete this deal.

On the day of the exchange, however, Michael is found dead and the drugs are already gone.

In Chinese with English subtitles.

Hideout

Drug dealer Guo-hao hopes to make enough money so that he and his girlfriend can leave their life of crime behind.

__BIFF Shorts: Experimental__

Art and language, poetry and prose – hand-drawn, in pixels, and on celluloid. 85 minutes.

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__The Crow__

Ahura Shahbazi (Dir), 9 minutes, Iran, US Premiere

A crow that has grown weary of living among other crows decides to leave them, when they see an eagle fliying high in the sky.

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__Frequencies of Deep Time__

Eric Souther (Dir), 7 minutes, USA, World Premiere

Filmmaker Eric Souther in attendance.

An experimental exploration of geological time in Western New York, including changes that form strata in the rock formations of gorges like Watkins Glen State Park. Director Eric Souther converts sound waves into an audio-visual metaphor charting changes across an incomprehensible span of time.

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__Such Complexity/Air & Wood__

Pamela Falkenberg + Jack Cochran (Dir), 5 minutes, USA, New York State Premiere

Filmmakers Pamela Falkenberg + Jack Cochran in attendance.

Sweeping landscapes, dialogical still and moving images, and text extracted from an erasure poem sourced by "The Secret Wisdom of Nature" by Peter Wohlleben, creates an uncanny synesthesia both metaphoric and concrete, A visual poem for the forest. 

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__The Tenement__

Claire Fleming (Dir), 2 minutes, UK, North East Premiere

A rainy spring evening catching a glimpse inside the red sandstone of a Glasgow Tenement.

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__Cage Match Refractions__

Barbara Lattanzi (Dir), 5 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

A MMA cage fight – Connor McGregor’s famed 13-second knockout is recasted and reframed into a maelstrom of violent maneuvers.

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__I Had A Strange Dream Last Night__

Mira Steuer (Dir), 3 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

Filmmaker Mira Steuer in attendance.

An adult reflects on her time battling a childhood illness in this hand-drawn short.

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__Identity Karma__

Olivia Ong Evans (Dir), 12 minutes, World Premiere

Filmmaker Olivia Ong Evans in attendance.

A reflection on migration, cultural loss, and identity construction; through the interplay of glitch and text (in English, Bahasa Indonesia, Simplified Chinese, Hokkien). This film explores the intergenerational connection to Hokkien and Chinese Indonesian cultural heritage, especially as shaped by the policies and political context of the “New Order” era in Indonesia, racialization in U.S. society, and participation in U.S. settler colonialism.

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__River Fork__

Vuk LK (Dir), 11 minutes, USA, New York State Premiere

A trans man recuperating from top surgery spots a painting in his hotel bathroom which takes him back to a different time.

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__En Tren__

Vav R Vavrek (Dir), 2 minutes, USA, World Premiere

Filmmaker Vav R Vavrek in attendance.

An animation composited from sequences of images created by some out of work e-waste computers, using a generative adversarial network that was parsing the lines of the poem into images.

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__Last Days of August__

Rodrigo Ojega-Beck + Robert Machoian (Dir), 13 minutes, USA, New York State Premiere

Does a town still exist if nearly everyone has died or left? Meditating on the blurred lines between still photography and cinema, this film employs a photobook aesthetic to explore the landscapes of the near-abandoned prairie towns of Nebraska.

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__Maya at 24__

Lynne Sachs (Dir), 5 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

Conscious of the strange simultaneous temporal landscape that only film can convey, filmmaker Lynne Sachs explores her daughter’s coming of age - capturing her in perpetual motion at ages 6, 16, and 24.

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__Total Disaster__

Keil Orion Troisi + Molly Gore (Dir), 12 minutes, USA, Western New York Premiere

Trickster environmental activists pretending to be oil behemoth Total stage a satirical press conference to introduce "RéHabitat," a plan to rescue animals from the East African Oil Pipeline by relocating them to “more sustainable” habitats in France. Using humor and mischief, they expose a deadly ecological and humanitarian disaster in a zany effort to help #StopEACOP.

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Symon

8:15 PM Saturday Oct 8, 2022

North Park Theatre

BIFF Offscreen: Symon Presents Symon

8:15 PM Saturday Oct 8, 2022

North Park Theatre

Bunker

9:00 PM Saturday Oct 8, 2022

North Park Theatre

BIFF OFFSCREEN: IT COULD BE ANYONE

9:30 PM Saturday Oct 8, 2022

Duende

BIFF Offscreen: Cult Mother

10:30 PM Saturday Oct 8, 2022

Duende

Body Parts

11:00 AM Sunday Oct 9, 2022

North Park Theatre

Zupa Nic (Back Then)

12:00 PM Sunday Oct 9, 2022

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

Zubazpalooza

1:00 PM Sunday Oct 9, 2022

Duende

BIFF EPISODIC: SCI-FI & THRILLERS & FANTASIES

1:15 PM Sunday Oct 9, 2022

Burchfield Penney Art Center

Memoria

1:30 PM Sunday Oct 9, 2022

North Park Theatre

Hideout

2:00 PM Sunday Oct 9, 2022

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center

BIFF Shorts: Experimental

3:15 PM Sunday Oct 9, 2022

Burchfield Penney Art Center

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