Palace Screening Brochure_2

The College of William and Mary
presents in collaboration with the University at Buffalo
This Creek, an experimental documentary film
about Eighteen Mile Creek by Tanya Stadelmann
with presentations
by Dr.Tammy Milillo and Sarah Glann
Tanya Stadelmann
Filmmaker/Photographer
Lecturer of Film and Media Studies
The College of William and Mary
[email protected]
May 24, 2016 7pm
Historic Palace Theatre
2 East Avenue
Lockport, NY 14094
This Creek is an experimental documentary work-in-progress about
Eighteen Mile Creek by Tanya Stadelmann. This project was made
as an MFA thesis project for the Department of Media Study at the
University at Buffalo. She is currently working as a Lecturer of Film
and Media Studies at the College of William and Mary and collecting
more interviews and footage for her project.
During her research for the film, Tanya discovered that Eighteen
Mile Creek had been the subject of over 28 environmental studies
by federal and state agencies since 1957 yet was only declared a
National Priority Listed Superfund Site in March 2012. Many
residents are still unaware of the long term health hazards
associated with the toxic waste dumped by local industries for the
last 100+ years. Cancer rates are high in the area yet no health
studies have ever been conducted.
In This Creek, Tanya explores eco critical ideas such as slow
violence, trans-corporeality and testimonial narratives as a tool for
environmental justice using avant-garde and non-fictional film forms.
Her film interweaves underwater footage of the creek, interviews
with residents, historical footage of Lockport, data reports,
photographs, recordings of local radio and news programs as well
as original film music by some of her friends.
During her research she collaborated with Dr.Tammy Milillo and
Sarah Glann from the University at Buffalo.
Dr. Tammy M. Milillo is currently a Research Assistant Professor in
the Department of Chemistry at the University at Buffalo, a post she
has held for the last four years. Prior to this she received her PhD
under the direction of Joseph A. Gardella Jr., where her research
focus was on environmental modeling and contamination. She
received her bachelorʼs degree in chemistry in 2002 from University
at Buffalo. Her research interests focus around computational
modeling as it pertains to the environment and the study of
contaminant distributions. Her community outreach into the
environmental work has evolved over the last fourteen years,
where she has worked with many local communities such as
Seneca Babcock, 858 East Ferry, and Hickory Woods, and is
currently working on projects in the Tonawanda Coke and
Eighteenmile Creek Corridor neighborhoods. She is also involved
in ongoing work with the Mapping Waste database, which
contains environmental contamination data for three counties.
Sarah M. Glann is currently a PhD candidate in the sociology
department at the University at Buffalo. She received her
masterʼs in sociology from University at Buffalo in 2012 with a
focus on body, health, and medical decision-making and their
impacts on families. She received her bachelorʼs degree from
SUNY Geneseo in 2010. Her research focuses on the social
impact of environmental contamination on local communities and
how this is affected by the response of local, state, and federal
government agencies. She has been working in conjunction with
Dr. Milillo on the Eighteenmile Creek project for the past two
years to develop a means for evaluating this impact and also the
environmental impact on the community.