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.

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.

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.”

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.