Peck School of Arts Fall Student Welcome

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

Please join us in the Theatre lobby (near the PSOA Student Services office) on Friday, September 8th, from noon-1:30 for our annual Fall Welcome Event. New and returning students are invited for pizza, activities, and a chance to meet representatives from many Milwaukee area arts organizations.

Experimental Tuesdays: O’er The Land

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

A meditation on the milieu of elevated threat addressing national identity, gun culture, wilderness, consumption, patriotism and the possibility of personal transcendence. Of particular interest are the ways Americans have come to understand freedom and the increasingly technological reiterations of manifest destiny. Presented on 16mm from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive.

Experimental Tuesdays: Last Things

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

Evolution and extinction from the point of view of rocks and various future others. The geo-biosphere is introduced as a place of evolutionary possibility, where humans disappear but life endures. Originating from two novellas of J.-H. Rosny, film takes up their pluralist vision of evolution, where imagining prehistory is inseparable from envisioning the future. Filmmaker Deborah Stratman in person! 

Experimental Tuesdays: Films By Ross Meckfessel

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

Ross Meckfessel is an artist and filmmaker who works primarily in Super 8 and 16mm film. His films often emphasize materiality and poetic structures while depicting the condition of modern life through an exploration of apocalyptic obsession, contemporary ennui, and the technological landscape. Filmmaker in person!

1st Annual Slovenian Film Festival

Mitchell Hall, Fine Arts Cinema Room B91 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

Announcing the 1st Annual Festival of Slovenian Films at UW-Milwaukee co-hosted by the Slovenian Arts Program and the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres at UW-Milwaukee.

Milwaukee Home Movie Day

Mitchell Hall, Fine Arts Cinema Room B91 3203 N. Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Archives Department, Film Studies Program, and the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres presents Home Movie Day. Community members from Milwaukee and surrounding cities and counties are invited to participate. The public is invited to bring in their home movies in 8mm, Super 8, 16mm, VHS, Mini-DV, or digital formats to have their materials inspected and/or repaired by UWM volunteers and screened for an audience while the owner narrates. The event is open to people who want to simply watch other people’s home movies as well.