Past Events

Friday, November 4 2022 2:00pm - 4:30pm

Teaching Media Archives Symposium

The Teaching Media Archives Symposium will be hosted virtually by UWM on Friday, November 4th, 2:00PM - 4:30PM CST via Zoom - Register here. The Teaching Media Archives Symposium brings together film and media scholars, teachers, and archivists to exchange...

Saturday, October 15 2022 10:00am - 4:00pm

Home Movie Day

Saturday, October 15, 10:00am–4:00pm, Mitchell Hall B91
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee presents Home Movie Day. Community members are invited to bring home movies in the form of 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm, VHS, Mini-DV, or digital files, have the materials inspected/repaired by UWM volunteers, and then screened with an audience while the owner narrates.

Friday, April 8 2022 7:00 pm

Special Screening of Award-winning Documentary A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (2021)!

Please join us for a very special screening event on Friday, April 8 at 7:00pm in Mitchell Hall’s Fine Arts Cinema (Room B91)! This event marks the Milwaukee premiere of the award-winning documentary A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces (2021)....

Friday, June 4 2021 - Sunday, June 6 2021

Women and the Silent Screen Online: Entr’acte

Film Studies Professor Tami Williams is featured in Women and the Silent Screen - Entr'Acte, June 4-6, 2021, a four-part program on Women Film Pioneers in Chinese Women Directors, Early Soviet Documentary, Digital Humanities Breakthroughs, and notably, on Transatlantic French-US...

Friday, February 12 2021 12:00pm - 1:00pm

Film Studies Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece to give talk

Film Studies Professor Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece to give talk at the University of Wisconsin Center for the Humanities on February 12.

Friday, December 11 2020 3:30pm - 5:00pm

Ends of Cinema Virtual Book Release

December 11, 2020
3:30–5:00pm

Monday, November 18 2019 3:00 pm

From Digitizing Magazines to Preserving Born-Digital Media: Reflections on TV Guide, Podcasts, and Media History

Monday, November 18th, 2019, 3:00 pm
Curtin Hall, Room 118

Please join us in welcoming Eric Hoyt from the University of Wisconsin – Madison for his lecture, “From Digitizing Magazines to Preserving Born-Digital Media: Reflections on TV Guide, Podcasts, and Media History.” In this talk, Eric Hoyt plans to use the lecture series theme, “Rethinking Media Archives,” as an opportunity to share work and reflect upon two digital projects that he helps lead at UW-Madison.

Friday, October 11 2019 3:30 pm

Professor Bhaskar Sarkar Lectures on “Cosmoplastics, or, Bollywood’s Global Gesture”

Indian cinema, more specifically the Bombay-based Hindi cinema industry, is now widely referred to as Bollywood. What work has this portmanteau term been doing as the industry has “gone global”?

Saturday, September 28 2019 - Sunday, September 29 2019

Save the Archives Benefit Festival

Saturday, September 28, 7:00 pm, Mitchell B91
Sunday, September 29, 3:00 pm, Mitchell B91
Sunday, September 29, 7:00 pm, Union Cinema

Join the Moving Image Society for its second “Save the Archives” benefit festival! Over the course of two days, we will screen 32 films from 11 countries made with “obsolete media” (analog video and celluloid), found footage, and archival films.

Friday, April 19 2019 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Women Film Pioneers Symposium

Friday, April 19 2019
Join us for the Moving Image Society’s Women Film Pioneers Symposium at 1 pm. The symposium is scheduled in conjunction with three programs of films by early women directors at the Oriental Theatre on Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and Saturday night, organized by Milwaukee Film.