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Union Cinema

Phone 414-229-4070
Email cinema@uwm.edu
Website https://uwm.edu/union/cinema/
The Union Cinema offers first-run foreign, domestic, documentary and experimental films, as well as “cinema classics” from all over the world. The Cinema strives to help develop a broader understanding and appreciation of the universal language of film and is a vital and unique venue for film and video.
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  • Portrait of Jason

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Documentary On December 2, 1966, director Shirley Clarke and a miniscule film crew gathered in her apartment at the Hotel Chelsea. Bestowed for twelve hours with the one-and-only Jason Holliday, Clarke confronted the iconic performer about his good times and …

  • Drylongso

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/ romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying—indeed, “becoming …

  • Image from the movie "Holy Cow". Four people, three men, and a small girl, walk along a path that is bordered by grassy pastures and wooden fences. The man to the young girl's left is holding her hand.

    Vingt Dieux (Holy Cow)

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    After the tragic death of his father, 18 year-old Totone finds himself with daunting new responsibilities, looking after his younger sister and their failing family farm in the Jura region of France. He takes on yet another challenge when he …

  • A woman interviewing one of the journalists from the documentary. Her arm is stretched out with a microphone, reaching towards the elderly man.

    Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (Meeting With Pol Pot)

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Democratic Kampuchea (Cambodia) – 1978. Three journalists are invited by the Khmer Rouge to conduct an exclusive interview with the regime’s leader, Pol Pot. The country seems idyllic, but behind the Potemkin village presented to the journalists, the Khmer Rouge …

  • Still from the movie "Of Mud and Blood". A miner stands sideways but facing the camera, a large bucket in his hands. He wears a striped shirt without sleeves, he is dirtied. Behind him is a mud wall with a large shovel handle resting against it. The man's face appears tired but determined.

    Le sang et la boue (Of Mud and Blood)

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Numbi, a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo mountains, lies at the heart of our modern world. Here, workers mine the coltan that will find its way, legally or not, into much of our technology. For decades this grey …

  • Image from the film "Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo". Cartoon depiction of Dounia, she wears a green shirt and red hat with tassles on each side of her smiling, rosy cheeked face. Trees with falling snowflakes are depicted behind her

    Dounia, le grand pays blanc (Dounia, the Great White North)

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Now settled in Canada after fleeing Syria in Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo (FFF2024), Dounia and her grandparents slowly get to know the new home that has welcomed them: its intense seasons, its special foods, its languages. Dounia’s grandparents keep their …

  • Still from the movie "Breathless". The photo is black and white, a man stands against a wall looking at a book. His shadow is casted over the wall, with a ray of light coming from an open doorway to his right. He stands right next to three small steps that lead to the doorway

    Godard, seul le cinéma (Godard Cinema)

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and a symbol for the era’s progressive and anti-war youth. One of the founders of the French New Wave, a political …

  • Experimental Tuesdays Presents: From the Archive

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Curated by MFA candidates from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, these programs feature a unique opportunity to see some of the incredible 16mm prints from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive. The Cinema Arts Archive now contains over 400 essential works on 16mm film, and a handful on 35mm, from a range of historic and contemporary cinema. This unique and expansive archive continues to preserve, grow, and reflect the ever-evolving landscape of avant-garde film—representing a commitment to the past, present, and future of the medium. Alongside giants like Hollis Frampton, Bruce Baillie, Deborah Stratman, and Jennifer Reeves lie many lesser-known gems ready to ignite curiosity and expand minds.

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    Experimental Tuesdays Presents: From the Archive

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Free For Everyone! Curated by MFA candidates from the Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres, these programs feature a unique opportunity to see some of the incredible 16mm prints from the UWM Cinema Arts Archive. The Cinema Arts …

  • Babylon

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    UK Classics Franco Rosso's incendiary Babylon had its world premiere at Cannes in 1980 but went unreleased in the U.S. for "being too controversial, and likely to incite racial tension" (Vivien Goldman, Time Out). Raw and smoldering, it follows a …

  • Soulemayne’s Story

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    New Releases Racing through the streets of Paris making food deliveries on his bicycle, Guinean immigrant Souleymane is struggling to stay afloat. In two days, he has to report for an asylum application interview, where he must plead his case …

  • Compensation

    Compensation

    UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    New Restoration A landmark of independent cinema, Compensation is Zeinabu irene Davis’s moving, ambitious portrait of the struggles of Deaf African Americans and the complexities of loving relationships at the bookends of the twentieth century. In extraordinary dual performances, Michelle …