Film Summer Camps

Film Summer Camp

Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UWM’s Peck School of the Arts welcomes young filmmakers to develop their skills at a week-long day camp this summer! This camp, with optional overnight accommodations, includes hands-on workshops and sessions led by practicing artists and professors, so participants gain knowledge from experienced professionals.

Peck School of Arts Fall Student Welcome

Theatre Building, Mainstage Theatre 2400 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Please join us in the Mainstage Theatre lobby for our annual Fall welcome event. New and returning students are invited for pizza, games, crafts and a chance to meet representatives from Milwaukee area arts organizations.

Experimental Tuesdays: Tribulation 99

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Upon its release in 1991, Tribulation 99 became an instant counter-culture classic. Craig Baldwin's "pseudo-pseudo-documentary" presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.

Experimental Tuesdays: New Red Order – Never Settle

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Born in Nagoya, Japan, Tomonari Nishikawa immigrated to the United States in 1999 to pursue filmmaking and earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He passed away in April 2025, leaving behind a profound legacy as an artist, teacher, and friend to many in the experimental film community.

Experimental Tuesdays: Tomonari Nishikawa, In Memoriam

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Born in Nagoya, Japan, Tomonari Nishikawa immigrated to the United States in 1999 to pursue filmmaking and earned his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. He passed away in April 2025, leaving behind a profound legacy as an artist, teacher, and friend to many in the experimental film community.

Film Faculty & Staff Screenings

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at UWM is home to a celebrated group of faculty and staff whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. They are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists whose films have screened at festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. This special program is a chance to experience the breadth and vitality of their work. Expect drama, documentary, comedy, experimental film, animation, appropriation, and, of course, the unexpected. Many of the artists (your teachers!) will be in attendance.

Kenilworth Open Studios

Kenilworth Square East 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Immerse yourself in creativity when Peck School of the Arts student and faculty artists open their studios to the public. From exhibitions and studio visits to live performances and family-friendly art activities, you’ll find something to excite you at Kenilworth Open Studios.

Experimental Tuesdays: TBD

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Experimental Tuesdays is a FREE weekly screening series that features the most celebrated work of contemporary and historical artist-made film and video. This week's program is TBD.

Experimental Tuesdays: TBD

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Experimental Tuesdays is a FREE weekly screening series that features the most celebrated work of contemporary and historical artist-made film and video. This week's program is TBD.

Experimental Tuesdays: Dani & Sheila Restack

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

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.

Experimental Tuesdays: Adebukola Bodunrin

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Adebukola Bodunrin is a Nigerian-Canadian film, & video artist who explores language, culture, and media. In her collage animations, she manipulates film using unorthodox manual and digital techniques to produce unexpected cinematic experiences. Bodunrin’s animation work has been featured on the television series Transparent, and in KCET’s “Lost LA” series, for which she also won an LA Area Emmy award for segment direction.

Lights, Camera, Action! A Day in the Life of Film & Animation Majors

Kenilworth Square East, 4th Floor Gallery 2155 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Are you a high school student with a passion for film or animation? Whether you’re already experimenting with movie making and animating or you’re simply a curious film or animation buff, we’re hosting an exciting event that provides a glimpse inside of our Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres! Join us for a series of hands-on workshops for a taste of what it feels like to get creative at the Peck School of the Arts.

Experimental Tuesdays: TBD

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Experimental Tuesdays is a FREE weekly screening series that features the most celebrated work of contemporary and historical artist-made film and video. This week's program is TBD.

Experimental Tuesdays: From the Archives

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Curated by MFA candidates from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, these programs feature a unique opportunity to see some of the incredible 16mm prints from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive. For each program, the curator is invited to program a selection of films around a theme of their choosing.

Experimental Tuesdays: Iva Radivojević

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

Iva Radivojević was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia, Cyprus and NYC. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between Athens and Lesbos. Her work presents itself as a collection of fragments {observations, poetry, images, sounds, melodies, languages}  which collage together to connect into a ruminating whole. The work circles around dislocation, migration and belonging, seeking to connect to the metaphysical or the magical. 

Senior Screenings

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres is proud to celebrate the Fall graduating class of 2025 and their fantastic thesis films! Seniors work for two semesters straight on their thesis films, writing, directing, producing, editing, and polishing these films. Come celebrate their hard work and watch some of the most unique and exciting films from the next generation of artists and filmmakers coming out of Milwaukee!

Senior Screenings

UWM Union Cinema 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI

The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres is proud to celebrate the graduating class of 2026 and their fantastic thesis films! Seniors work all year on their thesis films; writing, directing, producing, editing, and polishing these films. Come celebrate their hard work and watch some of the most unique and exciting films from the next generation of artists and filmmakers coming out of Milwaukee!

Convocation

Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts, Room 250 2419 E. Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid Event

You are cordially invited to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts graduation convocation for baccalaureate and master’s degree recipients.

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