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.
An art development workshop for PSOA students, faculty, staff and the greater Milwaukee community.
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.
An art development workshop for PSOA students, faculty, staff and the greater Milwaukee community.
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.
The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (MUFF) is a student run film festival devoted to showcasing independent, artist driven cinema. For two decades we have been programming filmmakers that defy convention in an attempt to amplify unheard voices. Our festival celebrates the potential of cinema to imbue a community with excitement, critical discussion, and open-mindedness through the presentation of new artistic forms.
An art development workshop for PSOA students, faculty, staff and the greater Milwaukee community.
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.
The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres presents their annual Animation Showcase featuring the latest work of prospective Animation and Film majors. Programmed by Senior Lecturer Brooke Thiele and Area Head of Animation, Laura Harrison, the selected student work demonstrates creative expression and highlights passion for animation in all forms: 2D, stop motion, cutout and 3D animation. Come and show your support for the animation area and future animator/filmmakers of today!
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.
Join us for a collection of student made short films from the class Zen and the Art of Filmmaking, which focuses on developing the artistic sensibility through the Zen art of practice and automatic principles. These films are funny, odd, thoughtful, frightening, and most of all full of Zen.
The Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres is proud to celebrate the graduating class of 2025 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!
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! Choose from two comprehensive experiences: film camp (with optional overnight accommodations) and advanced film camp. Both camps include hands-on workshops and sessions led by practicing artists and professors, so participants gain knowledge from experienced professionals.
