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Experimental Tuesdays: James N. Kienitz Wilkins

February 25 | 7:00 pm 9:00 pm

Experimental Tuesdays: James N. Kienitz Wilkins Promo Image
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Tuesday, February 25, 2025 (7–9 p.m.)UWM Union Cinema

“I have a personal interest or collision with everything I use. I’m interested in the world around me. The stuff of everyday life.” Raised in Maine and based in NYC, Wilkins creates moving image works combining conceptual rigor, uncanny observations, and bone-dry wit. From public hearings to mysterious videotapes, his work launches meditations on images, race, Hollywood, and life under late capitalism. 

A downloadable PDF of a public hearing in Alleghany, New York; a mysterious videotape that becomes the center of a detective yarn; reflections on the history of the toxic Androscoggin River; or 35mm publicity stills scoured from movie studio press kits… in Wilkins’s able hands these things act as launching pads for freewheeling, rhizomatic meditations on the photographed image, representations of race, the history of Hollywood, and American life as lived under late capitalism. A curated selection of the work to date of an enormously original and utterly unclassifiable talent. 

Filmmaker in attendance! 

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.

2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53211

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