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Experimental Tuesdays: Beatrice Gibson

March 4 | 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 (7–9 p.m.)UWM Union Cinema

Resolutely feminist in form and content, Gibson’s films explore the personal and the political and draw on cult figures from experimental literature and poetry – from Kathy Acker to Gertrude Stein. Collapsing fiction and documentary, and liquefying both, they range from experimental autobiography to nocturnal thriller and cast friends and influences as their characters and co-creators. Collaboration and credit are at their heart.

Gibson is twice winner of The Tiger Award for Best Short Film Rotterdam International Film Festival, (2009 and 2013). She was the winner of the 17th Baloise Art Prize,Art Basel. She has been twice shortlisted for the The Jarman Award (2013 and 2019). In 2013 she was one of four artists shortlisted for the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. 

Gibson has recently had recent solo exhibitions at Ordet, Milano (2023) Camden Arts Centre, London, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen Mercer Union, Toronto (2019) and Julia Stoschek Collection / KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, (2018). Her films have shown at film festivals around the word, including Cannes at New York Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival, Courtisane Film Festival, Punto De Vista International Documentary Film Festival and many more. A complete retrospective of Gibson’s films was screened at Fondazione Prada, in December 2023. 

Gibson is currently developing her first feature with BBC films, a love story, set during the course of one night, inspired by Kathy Acker’s Don Quixote and Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette.  

Gibson is a also founding member of the monthly cinema club The Machine that Kills Bad People at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, alongside Ben Rivers, Maria Palacios Cruz and Erika Balsom. In 2021 she founded Nuova Orfeo a collectively run, roving initiative for experimental film and performance in Palermo, Sicily. 

Gibson’s films are distributed by LUX, London. 

Experimental Tuesdays is a FREE weekly screening series that features the most celebrated work of contemporary and historical artist-made film and video. The series seeks to present films and artists that explore the creative and critical potential of moving images. This series amplifies marginalized voices by hosting artists that represent diverse populations, such as LGBT, Native American, Black and Latinx artists. Hosted by the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres, and presented in partnership with UWM’s Union Cinema, this series is a bedrock of the Milwaukee arts landscape. Experimental Tuesdays has recently hosted the work of Silvia das Fadas, Courtney Stephens, Simon Liu, Helena Wittman, Jessica Bardsley, Suneil Sanzgiri, Mary Helena Clark, Angelo Madsen Minax, and Rhayne Vermette to name a few. This screening series is free and open to the public.

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