Milwaukee Film Festival features works by UWM alumni, faculty and students
Film & Fine Arts
Arts+Tech Night, where technology combines with creativity
On Dec. 16, students from the Peck School of the Arts will transform Kenilworth Square East into a dynamic and interactive space showcasing how technology intersects with creativity.
50 years later, Panther creator appreciates his legacy
Few alumni leave legacies as visible as Jim Cheski’s: He designed the original UWM Panther.
Artist Nicolas Lampert uses his work to fight climate change
Artist Nicolas Lampert uses his work to promote environmental and social justice movements, including protests at the Paris climate conference that runs through Dec. 11.
LGBT Film/Video Festival turns 30, offers 33 programs
As the Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival celebrates its 30th anniversary, director Carl Bogner talks about how the scope of films shown has grown broader over the landmark festival’s lifetime.
Pow wows to film fests, chronicle of culture finds audience
UWM student filmmaker Sky Hopinka explores Ho-Chunk family and heritage in his prize-winning experimental film,“Jáaji Approx.”
UWM alum gets people talking with documentary on homelessness
UWM alumna Jessica Farrell will see her documentary on homelessness, “30 Seconds Away: Breaking the Cycle,” debut Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the Milwaukee Film Festival. Her goal is to draw widespread attention to a tough problem. “It’s not an easy film, there’s not an easy way out,” she says. But, “as a community, we can stop turning the other way and come together to make change.”
Lights, camera, UWM alumni in Hollywood
The journey from Milwaukee to Hollywood is shorter than you’d think for graduates of UWM’s Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres and other Peck School of the Arts programs.
A documentary on Clarence Garrett, who returned to UWM after 50 years
“Clarence,” a documentary about Clarence Garrett, thought to be the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s oldest graduate at 87, will have its world premier
UWM prints 3-D hands for Mexican children’s hospital
Sixty-seven 3-D-printed prosthetic hands are on the way to children in Mexico thanks in part to UW-Milwaukee associate professor Frankie Flood.
Will the real Godzilla please show up?
The human issues that are embedded in the stories – war, pollution, technology – make Godzilla a global cautionary tale.