Location, location, location. A neighborhood of experimental shorts, drawn from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive and the world at large, focusing on place. We are where we are, often here, sometimes there, always where. And the cinema too is a there, a where, a place we share to gather paradise and expand our sense of the possible.

Join archivist Shiraz Bhathena in conversation with Dick Blau to celebrate a major archiving and remastering project. Blau—a co-founder of the UWM Film Department, longtime professor and fixture of the Milwaukee art community—works across film, photography and video producing a varied body of work that includes psychological portraiture, experimental narrative, devised performance, ethnomusicology and the domestic.

TCB - The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to community empowerment. The film is structured as a series of lessons on cultural organizing, gleaned from Bambara's life and shared by her friends, colleagues and students. Join us in-person for a dialogue with the Producer/Director, Louis Messiah and Marquise Mays.

Drawing upon a background in painting and the Fine Arts, Julie Murray has made over 25 beguiling and beautiful moving image works, equally invested in metaphysics as they are in material. Murray will be present to share a program of her recent short work on 16mm and digital.