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Experimental Tuesdays: Dani & Sheila Restack

October 21, 2025 | 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Still frame showing the bottom half of a horse and human underwater moving away from the camera.

Date & Time
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 (7–9 p.m.)

Location
UWM Union Cinema

Dani and Sheilah Restack have embarked on an artistic relationship that is formally and emotionally adjacent to their domestic lives, a quotidian zone they share with their young daughter Rose. Both artists have established careers on their own. Neither Dani’ video work or Wilson’s multimedia performance and installation work could exactly prepare us for the force of the women’s collaborative efforts. – Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope, 2017.

Dani’s work is made with an emotional logic, questioning cultural, personal and animal realities. She got her MFA in Film/Video at Bard College in 2010. She has screened at the Union Docs, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, MoMA PS1, Anthology Film Archives, Views from the Avant-Garde, and Projections. 

Sheilah uses photography, video, and text as performative and documentary tools to analyze the traces between history, story and the land. Sheilah got her MFA from Goldsmith College in London 2005. She has had exhibitions at Lennon Weinberg, The Knockdown Center, Queen Elizabeth Park, New Zealand, Antioch College and the Albuquerque Museum. 

ReStack collaborations have shown at the Camden Arts Centre, London, UK; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York, NY; Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL; Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada; Leslie Lohman Project Space, New York, NY; Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA; New York Film Festival, New York, NY; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Camden Arts Centre, London; Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand, among others. They have received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, Ohio Arts Council, UnionDocs NYC and Visual Studies Workshop. They have been residents at the Headlands, Visual Studies Workshop and MacDowell. They have created the Feral Domestic trilogy from 2017-2021 (Strangely Ordinary This Devotion, Come Coyote and Future From Inside) and published an accompanying text with Visual Studies Workshop in 2022. In 2024 the ReStack’s work will be featured in exhibitions at the Inter Media Art Institute, Düsseldorf, Germany, Curated by Nele Kazmareck; The Blue Building Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; and Western Front, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. 

The artists will be present for a Q&A after the program.

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.

UWM Union Cinema

2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53211