Squeaky Wheel is excited to present the 13th edition of its annual Animation Fest! Premiering at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery during M&T First Friday, this all-ages, 52-minute program features friendly robots, a unique Hansel and Gretel adaptation, anthropomorphic fruits and veggies, and much more! Combining work by seasoned animators and exciting newcomers, this edition of the festival also features two terrific archival selections on 16mm film: quintessential animator Robert Breer's seaside romp Gulls and Buoys (1972), and Short Circuit (1963), a collection of animation experiments by then 8-year old David Wise who went on to create the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. Bring your friends, bring your family!

• Hansel and Gretel (Nia Seward, 2016, DV, 3:09 min.): "The story of Hansel and Gretel told with 3D animated dolls. Hansel and Gretel wander through the woods in order to find their way back home, but run into an evil Witch who wishes to eat them for supper."
• À Votre Goût (Lauren Flinner, 2015, DV, 1:15 min.): "Fruits and vegetables are given the movements and personalities of animals. The cook interrupts. Consumption, to your liking."
• Consume Me (William Miller, 2016, DV, 5 min.): "Joe must take on the burden of caring for his ill Sister while juggling his secret queer relationship."
• Circuit Sizzle (Marc Noworyta, 2016, DV, 3 min.): "Robot friends go on a playful adventure day until the batteries run out. My thesis for my Bfa in Animation."
• Short Circuit (David Wise, 1963, 16mm, 12 min.): "'Short Circuit is a compilation of animation experiments conducted by then 8 year-old David Wise. Wise, who went on to develop the television series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, was a prodigious talent. Son of gallerist Howard Wise, he trained under great artists of the day including Len Lye and Stan Vanderbeek. Short Circuit gained international recognition, and found its filmmaker lecturing at universities and appearing on television before his age reached into the double digits.' (Text via the San Francisco Exploratorium)"
• "The Mozart of Cinema"—Jonas Mekas (Chella Drive, Adele Han Lee, 2016, DV, 3:29 min.): "A disembodied memory of adolescence in a Southern Californian suburb. The stuck-stillness of summer is broken only by a passing El Niño."
• Street Twenty-Seven Number Ten Sixteen (Josh Weissbach, 2015, 16mm, 2:47 min.): "There is the memory of a bedroom in an apartment on the third floor of a building. There is a reverie of a melancholic love song playing on an airplane, flying towards an island, straddling an ocean and a sea. There is the soft haze of an embargo slowly lifting into the celestial blue."
• Until Dawn (Kaylee Soohyun Lee, 2016, DV, 4:44 min.): "A woman relives the horror of her lover's death until she is awoke by the stark reality of passing time."
• Gulls and Buoys (Robert Breer, 1972, 16mm, 9 min.): "'in Gulls and Buoys, a large number of Breer's ideas are compressed and crystallised into a short statement of great richness. It could function excellently as an introduction to the remarkable range of pleasures available from the films of Robert Breer.' — Scott Hammen, Afterimage Dec '74 (USA)"
• Second Sun (Leslie Supnet, 2014, DV, 3:04 min.): "The rising sound of drums emphasizes flashes of lights, images of the solar system and a post-apocalyptic imagining of the birth of our Second Sun."
• Curses (Jodie Mack, 2016, DV, 4:48 min.): "Music video for Chicago band Roommate featuring hand-marbled cut-outs and an epic rotoscope of the best dance scene in cinema history"

[source: Squeaky Wheel website, 2016-Aug-30]