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| When Women Get Naked |
| 3/6 by laura |
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As a part of the Buffalo Film Seminars, the Market Arcade presents a night of short films made by Western New York women based around the theme of the body. The female body and the body politic theme for this year's films will follow in the tradition of challenging narrow, mainstream perceptions of women's cinema to excite, provoke, and challenge. The title of this year's show, 'Body Counts,' alludes to the complex and multidimensional ways that women across the world make their bodies matter. It also alludes to the continual rigid compartmentalization of female bodies that this year's filmmakers' challenge and break down in their films.
The films feature narrative and documentary works that frame women's embodiment in military culture, plastic surgery, popular culture, dance and poetry, pregnancy, cultural expectations, and historical intrigue. One film, AMU, was scheduled to be screened in February but will be instead shown this weekend with the other film shorts. AMU follows the life of Kaju, a twenty-one-year-old Indian American woman who returns to India to visit her family. The film takes a dark turn as Kaju stumbles against secrets and lies from her past. A horrifying genocide that took place twenty years ago turns out to hold the key to her mysterious origins.
Another film is titled, Girl Talk and produced by Swati Bandi. The autobiographical tale explores the relationship between memory and representation through interviews with three Native American Women and a culture where men sang of the perfect wife: , one who will cook and clean without objecting and who will worship her husband. Yet another, Screentest, by Bingxia Yu, is loosely based on the idea of a screen test made popular by Andy Warhol. What are people willing to say and do when the only one watching is an invisible eye? "In my 2008 version of Screen Tests, test takers were situated to look into a web camera equipped with built-in visual effects. The camera eye was no longer invisible, but a reflection of an adjustable self. Consequentially, the gaze into the self-reflection has become a process of intuitive self-examination and self-distortion," stated Bingxia Yu.
Numerous other shows are on the bill for the evening, including: Seon Hyoung Kim's Hair Floating in the Ocean, Meg Knowles & Holly Johnson's See That the World is Moving, Tatiana Koroleva's Hide, Lindsay Lohdie's Suture, and Milli Pradham's A Foot in a Pool.
"Identity, art, war, politics, humor, the body politic, the female body: The BODY COUNTS program will be a great finale to the International Women's Film Festival as we showcase the work of eight women filmmakers living in
Western New York," stated Pat Shelly, Associate Director, Gender Institute, UB. This event is curated by Swati Bandi and Ruth Goldman.
BODY COUNTS
March 6, 7 PM; $8.50
Market Arcade
639 Main
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| We Love Taggers |
| 3/7 by laura |
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The ever progressing Buffalo Arts Studio, led by Brooke Fitzpatrick, will be hanging a large-scale, graffiti style exhibit that captures the improvisational, experimentation of urban street Graffiti, named Vapor Trail. The artists participating in the exhibition come from Buffalo and Pittsburgh, and have created works specifically for this exhibition and for Buffalo Arts Studio's gallery space. Keeping with their anonymity, the artists featured for this show are TRON, REKER, ALE and HK.
In the late seventies and early eighties, Graffiti sparked significant interest from the art world and found its way from the streets and subways into many New York galleries and ultimately into art historical vernacular, eventually designating it a legitimate art movement. Graffiti art is not at all a defunct movement or one that should be relegated to the confines of art history. The "wrinkly-browed" city planners who oppose graffiti should remember that artists like Keith Herring got their start by taking spray paint to the sides of city structures, and, that it is more than likely that something found in their home has been influenced by him. It might be aesthetically beneficial to welcome the presence of graffiti, within reason, and become the first US city to urban landscape around it. The very qualities that make graffiti art what it is, art created with immediacy and the need for an artist to indelibly sign their environment, render it a continuously relevant comment on contemporary urban experience. "This exhibition, created specifically for our gallery space, is a dynamic example of the spontaneity and creativity with which Graffiti art is created," says Fitzpatrick, BAS Curator.
The exhibition will be open from March 15 -April 25, 2008 to coincide with the Buffalo Arts Studio's Trimania event held on March 29th, 2008.
2495 Main Street, 5th floor
Some good sites promoting graffiti art:
Robert Banksy
Grid Skipper
Pictures of Walls
Wallspankers Profile Reone
Style Wars
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| Exotic Entertainers Needed |
| 3/8 by laura |
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Instead of gawking at beautiful people on the boob tube all day Sunday, come and be one of the beautiful people gracing a boob tube. Besnyo's, in fact.
This is an open casting call for anyone who wishes to be in their first and latest music video to accompany the song Olympic. No nudity required, but its bound to get hot in their basement with so many sexy people in attendance. All shapes and sizes are welcome, but have the decency to RSVP and participate with a good attitude - even after the same track has been played a few times. The shindig takes place this Sunday at 4 PM.
618 Auburn Avenue!
Besnyo on Myspace
Besnyo on MySpace
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