Offering free screenings of the most recent and celebrated experimental work in 35mm, 16mm and video. A standout venue for a parade of visiting filmmakers and touring programs, this series is hosted in partnership with UWM’s Union Cinema.
Upcoming Screenings
- Jan28January 28, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
- Feb4February 4, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
- Feb11February 11, 2025, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
2024-25 Screenings
February 6, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: to sense, to animate, to enliven
Letting etymology lead, this program brings together works of animation as a kind of animating spirit: films that expand beyond the frame and films that sense and are sense. As an archival activation, we ask the films what they’ve been dreaming about in their hibernation and ask an audience to meet and mingle.
February 13, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Selina Trepp – I Work With What I Have
Join us for an evening with Selina Trepp who will be in attendance at the screening.
February 27, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Queer World Mending – Films from the Flaherty
How can we mend the wounded world if we are open wounds ourselves? Team-curated by MFA candidates and recent grads Sarah Ballard, Magdalena Bermudez, Luciana Decker, Sam Drake, and Liyan Zhao this program will feature a selection of films featured at the 2023 Flaherty Seminar.
March 5, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimentals Tuesdays: Short films by Amir George
Amir George creates spiritual stories, juxtaposing sound and image with a non-linear perception. He creates fragmented vignettes that conjure the secret life of objects both found and collected. The characters that inhabit his stories tend to dwell outside of social norms and exist in the space between and in the process of becoming.
April 9, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Short films by Shambhavi Kaul
Join us for a collection of shorts by Shambhavi Kaul and stay for a Q&A after the screening.
April 16, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: An Evening with Parastoo Anoushapour
DatesLocationApril 16, 2024 (7–9 p.m.)UWM Union Cinema Join us for an evening of short films by Parastoo Anoushahpour and stay for a Q&A after the screening. Anoushahpour is an Iranian artist based in Toronto with a moving image practice working …
April 30, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Three Films by Kevin Jerome Everson
This screening will serve as a prelude to Kevin Jerome Everson’s on-campus visit the following Friday and Saturday. The program will feature two medium-length films, Ten Five in the Grass and Company Line, as well as one short film, Undefeated.
September 10, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives (UWM Film Faculty)
To kick off the semester, the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres will be presenting a very special edition of it’s long-standing “From the Archives” series. This series presents selections from the department’s singular 16mm Cinema Arts Archive. This edition focuses on films from the archive made by faculty members past and present. Expect drama, documentary, experimentation, comedy, appropriation, and the unexpected.
September 17, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Films by Henry Hills
Join filmmaker Henry Hills in-person for a Q&A after the screening! Hills has been making dense, intensely rhythmic experimental films since 1975. A longtime resident of New York's East Village, he has ongoing working relationships with the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Poets, composer John Zorn, and choreographer Sally Silvers.
September 24, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: The Dells by Nellie Kluz
Join filmmaker Nellie Kluz in-person for a Q&A after the screening of The Dells. This film observes the clash between fantasy and reality faced by international student workers newly arrived in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin – the self-described “Waterpark Capital of the World.”
October 1, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Regrouping by Lizzie Borden
While Lizzie Borden’s features BORN IN FAMES and WORKING GIRLS have taken their place as landmarks of feminist cinema, her debut—the fascinating experimental documentary REGROUPING—has gone largely unseen. A multilayered, self-reflexive portrait of a 1970s New York City feminist collective, the film charts the rifts that form within the group and between its members and the filmmaker—a breakdown that is reflected in the film’s radical splintering of sound and image.
October 8, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Everything Everywhere Again Alive
Everything Everywhere Again Alive is a landmark work of Canadian underground cinema, a film diary with mystic and symbolic overtones. In the early 1970s, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock moved to Buck Lake, where members of the Toronto art scene were undertaking an experiment in communal living.
October 15, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Direct Action
Winner of the Grand Prize at Cinéma du Réel 2024 and Best Film of the Encounter Program at Berlinale 2024. Direct action is a tactical strategy of protest that seeks to achieve an end directly and by the most effective means.
October 22, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives
Curated by MFA candidate Tom Dixon this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department’s Cinema Arts Archive. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the UWM Film Department. For each program, the curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing.
October 29, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Short films by Lisa Truttmann
With artist Lisa Truttmann live in person for a Q&A after the screening! Lisa Truttmann is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. In her artistic practice, she combines documentary, essayistic, and poetic methods to investigate the sociologies and ecologies of landscapes and architectures. She is interested in relationships between human and non-human agents as well as in their spaces of interaction.
November 12, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Short Films by Ayanna Dozier
Join artist Ayanna Dozier live in person for a Q&A after the screening! Ayanna Dozier is a Brooklyn-based artist-writer working across film (both motion picture and still), performance, and installation.
November 19, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives
Curated by MFA candidate Tristen Ives this program will feature 16mm prints from the UWM Film Department’s Cinema Arts Archive. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the UWM Film Department. For each program, the curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing.
December 3, 2024, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives – Carriage Trade
This special edition of From the Archives is curated by series founder, esteemed Faculty Emeritus, Carl Bogner, and features a rare 16mm print of Warren Sonbert’s Carriage Trade. In Carriage Trade, Sonbert interweaves footage taken from his journeys throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the United States, together with shots he removed from the camera originals of a number of his earlier films.
January 28, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives – Of Possible Interest
Co-curated by FVANG programming committee members, this edition invokes the absent presence of our beloved colleague and series founder, Carl Bogner, through some of the core works he loved to show in class. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the UWM Film Department. The curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing from the remarkable Cinema Arts Archive collection, which contains over 400 essential works from the history of experimental cinema.
February 4, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Peter Rose
Peter Rose’s films, performances, and installations delve into the nature of time, space, and perception, drawing on his background in mathematics and structuralist cinema. With a keen interest in language as both form and concept, his work explores concrete texts, political satire, and the absurd. Exhibited globally at MoMA, the Whitney Biennial, and Centre Pompidou, Rose’s art reimagines the boundaries of media and thought.
February 11, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: James J.A. Mercer & Yifan Jiang
A screening of animated long shorts by collaborators Yifan Jiang and James J.A. Mercer to be followed by a Q&A. Yifan Jiang Chinese-Canadian, conceptually-driven, project-based artist who works across painting, animation, sculpture, and performance. Her paintings explore her experiences growing up in a world of multiple cultures and languages. Mercer is a New York based artist working with painting, drawing and animation.
February 25, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: James N. Kienitz Wilkins
“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.
March 4, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Beatrice Gibson
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.
March 11, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives – Chae Yu
Curated by MFA candidate Chae Yu. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the UWM Film Department. The curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing from the remarkable Cinema Arts Archive collection, which contains over 400 essential works from the history of experimental cinema.
March 25, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives – Matt Feldman
Curated by MFA candidate Matt Feldman. From the Archives is an ongoing series curated by MFA candidates in the UWM Film Department. The curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing from the remarkable Cinema Arts Archive collection, which contains over 400 essential works from the history of experimental cinema.
April 1, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Calum Walter
Calum Walter is an artist working in sound and moving image. His recent work has focused on human and machine error, collective anxieties, and the cultural moment as it is shaped by emerging and consumer technologies. His films have screened widely at film festivals including the Berlinale, Sundance, TIFF, the New York Film Festival, and IFF Rotterdam International Film Festival.
April 8, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Alee Peoples
Alee Peoples maintains a varied artistic practice that involves screen-printing, sewing, sculpture and film. Inspired by pedestrian histories, pop song lyrics and invested in the hand-made, Peoples has generated a collection of works on 16mm and super 8mm that are at once humorous, quietly profound, and deeply sincere. She has shown her films at venues including Edinburgh, NYFF, SFMoMA and The Pompidou Center. Filmmaker in attendance.
April 22, 7:00 pm
A poetic portrait of contemporary wildlife conservation, JUST ABOVE THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH reflects on empathy, agency, and the role of hope in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. A visceral, sensory meditation on what it means to live in a broken world. Marianna Milhorat is an American-Canadian filmmaker and artist based in Montréal.
April 29, 7:00 pm
Experimental Tuesdays: Give Chance a Chance
An experiment in cooperation, exhibition and pedagogy, Give Chance a Chance is a collaboratively-conceived and –constructed program devised by the participants in the Indeterminacy graduate seminar. Unexpect the expected.