Lago Gatún, Kevin Jerome Everson’s 2021 feature, is an entrancing journey north through the Panama Canal—a juncture of commerce between two vast oceans. Abstract and spare, the film’s meditative play with light and shadow opens up reflection on the colonial trade histories that lie below the surface. (MoMA)
The UWM Youth Wind & Percussion Ensembles program (UWAY) will perform a concert to celebrate UWAY graduates, feature our annual UWAY Concert Competition Winner, and wrap-up the concert season!
This end of the term showing features works by the African Dance, Salsa/Merengue & Hip Hop classes.
UWM piano faculty Elena Abend is joined by the KAIA String Quartet (DePaul University) performing music by women composers.
Classical Guitar Studio end-of-semester Solo Recital.
With equal parts sincerity and spectacle, Halie Bahr (she/her) creates wildly vivid and visceral dances that feel like puzzles. On Saturday, she will show work-in-progress, “where do we go from here,” the third and final solo in a make-shift-trilogy that all started in 2019. Halie (BFA Dance Alumni, 2015) returns to Milwaukee as part of UWM’s Department of Dance Alumni Incubator Residency Program. Join us for a brief show-and-tell of what she has been working on all week.
Continuum 24: Where Everything Begins combines selected pieces from distinct bodies of work by Raoul Deal created both individually and in collaboration with other artists and communities in the United States and Mexico over a period of 35 years.
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.
Gan Golan's work combines grassroots community organizing with public spectacles that shift popular narratives and mobilize communities. In 2015 he was awarded a Rauschenberg Foundation “Artist As Activist” Fellowship as a member of People’s Climate Arts. He is a co-collaborator of the Climate Clock that counts down the critical time window to reach zero emissions.
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.
Jenie Gao is a full-time artist, creative director, and entrepreneur. She runs an anti-gentrification arts business, specializing in printmaking, public art, social practice, and storytelling. Jenie pulls from personal and professional experiences as a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American, woman of color, and descendant of working class immigrants.
Described by Gendai Guitar Magazine as a “poet and a painter, coloring sounds out of the guitar as if his imagination and the guitar were one”, Jack Hancher is a rising star of the classical guitar.
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.”
Brema was born in war-torn Sudan until age five, when his family fled to a Kenyan refugee camp. His family settled in Milwaukee in 2010. While still in high school, he began to experiment with photography, videography, and screen-printing. That’s where his streetwear label - Unfinished Legacy - emblazoned with bold fonts and bright colors, was born.
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.
Tuwilê Raizes uses the visual language of Hip Hop, graffiti, and stencils. His murals appear on walls throughout São Paulo. Mirella Maria’s installation applies photography, performance, the body and sewing to construct a critical and sensitive perspective on narratives that traverse the memory(ies) of the Black Brazilian population.
Announcing the 2nd Annual Slovenian Film Festival at UW-Milwaukee co-hosted by the Slovenian Arts Program and the Peck School of the Arts Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres. We will be screening a selection of Slovenian films that have all received honors in European and/or Slovenian film competitions. They will be presented in Slovenian, with English subtitles.
Join UWM’s flagship choral ensemble – the Concert Chorale – for an afternoon of choral music. They will be joined by several area high school choirs!
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.
A tale of love and redemption set in the mountains of North Carolina in the mid-20th century. Written by American icon Steve Martin and singer-songwriter Edie Brickell, Bright Star features a Tony-nominated score with a bluegrass musical style all its own. This uplifting and heart-rending story inspired by true events follows a literary editor and a young soldier just home from World War II on their transformative journey through loss and separation to grace, reconciliation and reunion.