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David Witzling

  • Teaching Faculty I, Film, Video, Animation and New Genres

Education

  • MFA, Film, UW-Milwaukee
  • BA, English, UW-Madison
  • BA, Philosophy, UW-Madison

Biography

David Witzling is an artist and educator based in Milwaukee, USA. His experimental short films have screened at venues like the Ann Arbor Film Fest, London Short Film Festival, Oakland Underground Film Festival, and the Wisconsin Film Fest.  He has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for over a decade, where his studio instruction has included 16mm film production, sound design, and digital video practice; he lectures on Modernist cinema, social themes in narrative cinema, and open source culture.  His creative practices include remix, collage, abstraction, code, and generative AI.

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Recent & Selected Works

Snow-covered landscape with scattered rocks, green trees, and a house in the background under a blue sky.
People walking through a modern glass-walled airport terminal with signs and reflections visible.
Person swinging a sledgehammer to smash an upright piano in a dimly lit room with chairs and posters.
Vintage black-and-white image of a person adjusting complex industrial machinery with pipes and gauges.
A man in a suit wearing creepy clown makeup and mickey mouse ears.