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  • A view from the bow of a yellow kayak paddling across open water toward a large tied-arch bridge under a clear blue sky.

    Kayaking Lake Michigan

    Kayaking Lake Michigan
    Klotsche Center (KC) 3409 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Outdoor Pursuits has brand new sea kayaks equipped to paddle on Lake Michigan! Join us as we launch from UWM's School of Freshwater Science public boat landing on the Kinnickinnic River and paddle out on to Lake Michigan. We'll have …

  • A narrow blue waterway winding through a vast, flat expanse of green wetlands under a bright blue sky with a large, fluffy white cloud.

    River of Grass

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

    Experimental Documentary New Release! River of Grass is a present-day reimagining of environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas’s celebrated book, The Everglades: River of Grass (1947), which forever changed the public understanding of the region from a worthless swamp to an essential …

  • **Alt text:** A wide, cropped image showing a film crew gathered inside a sunlit room next to a large grid window, operating a camera set up on a tripod.

    Faculty Showcase

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

    Free for everyone! UWM’s department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres is home to a faculty and staff who are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists, whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. Expect …

  • A hiker viewed from behind wearing a green backpack with a rolled-up blue sleeping pad strapped to the bottom, looking out toward distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

    Door County Camping Weekend

    Klotsche Center (KC) 3409 North Downer Ave., Milwaukee, WI, United States

    Experience Wisconsin’s famous peninsula, Door County! We will be camping and exploring at Peninsula State Park known for its overlooks, beaches, and trails. Expect to hike, relax on the beach, and spend down time cooking and relaxing at camp. All …

  • A split-screen visual with high contrast and overexposed color saturations, featuring vertical beams of pink and yellow light piercing down into open landscape fields against a dark sky.

    Debut, or, Objects of the Field of Debris as Currently Catalogued

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

    Filmmaker in person! A young filmmaker stumbles on a hidden book tied to a vanished art forger and the perfect mystery for his next film pitch. But as coincidences mount, he begins to question what’s real, who’s watching him, and …

  • A person sits at a dimly lit desk, speaking on a landline phone while lit by the warm yellow glow of a banker's lamp amidst stacks of books.

    Chronovisor | Milwaukee Premiere!

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

    While writing a monograph on historical theories of memory, a respected academic becomes entranced by the allegedly true story of the Chronovisor, an occult device said to reproduce images from any point in history on a television screen. Her obsession …

  • A black-and-white image from the film Araya showing numerous workers shoveling and carrying heavy loads across large mounds of white salt at a salt mine under a bright sky.

    Araya

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

    New restoration! In the days when salt was worth its weight in gold, Spanish colonists in the Araya peninsula of northeast Venezuela built a fortress to guard against pirates; now only ruins lie at the center of Margot Benacerraf’s lyrical …

  • A scene from the film Sholay showing a man seated inside a horse-drawn carriage or carousel while a woman in traditional pink attire dances nearby.

    Sholay

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

    4K restoration! Once voted the greatest Indian film ever made, Sholay opened in Mumbai in 1975 and ran continuously for the next five years. A grand tapestry of genres–action-thriller, revenge Western, comedy, tragedy, musical–is India’s first 70mm film and the …

  • A hand holding out a small purple awareness ribbon towards the camera, with a blurred person in a light-colored shirt in the background.

    Crafts of Courage

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

    Join UWMPD, K9 Ezmae, and SHAW staff for ribbon making and the opportunity to write notes of courage for survivors of domestic violence.