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Narrative | Milwaukee premiere!
Anocha Suwichakornpong’s latest shape-shifting excavation of Thai history examines the still-palpable events of the military crackdown that left ninety dead and thousands injured during Bangkok's 2010 pro-democracy protests.
The Holy Mountain | 35mm print!
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesScandal of Cannes 1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) recruits a group of people from all walks of life to divest themselves of their worldly baggage and embark on a journey to ascend the Holy Mountain and displace the gods who rule from its terrible shadow. Preceded each night by a surprise short by the Mexican experimental film collective, Colectivo los Ingrávidos.
Come Here | Milwaukee premiere!
The continual restaging and reformatting of the past is the theme of Suwichakornpong’s Come Here, which follows four young actors on an oneiric trip to the site of Thailand's infamous Death Railway built by conscripted workers and Allied prisoners during the Second World War. Meanwhile, a woman alone in the jungle changes form, and history folds itself back on top of the present.
The Holy Mountain | 35mm print!
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesScandal of Cannes 1973, Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) recruits a group of people from all walks of life to divest themselves of their worldly baggage and embark on a journey to ascend the Holy Mountain and displace the gods who rule from its terrible shadow. Preceded each night by a surprise short by the Mexican experimental film collective, Colectivo los Ingrávidos.
From the Archives | 16mm prints!
From the Archives offers an opportunity for Cinematic Arts MFA candidates to select a program of films from the incredible collection of the Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres Department's Cinema Arts Archive, constituting over 400 essential works on film from a range of historic and contemporary cinematic traditions, including giants of the avant-garde alongside lesser-known gems eager to ignite curious minds. The series maps the ever-expanding landscape of experimental film, representing an emergent commitment to the medium's past, present, and yet-to-come.
Faculty Showcase
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 drama, documentary, comedy, experimentations, animations, appropriations, and, of course, the unexpected. Many of the artists (your teachers!) will be in attendance.
Screamplay
An aspiring screenwriter comes to Hollywood to make it in the movies... only to wind up as janitor of a fleabag apartment run by a greasy ex-boxer (George Kuchar). When the writer channels frustrations with his kooky neighbors into fodder for a new screenplay, the vivid murders he imagines start to happen for real, and the line between fiction and fantasy begins to smear. A singularly charming tribute to Old Hollywood and a marvel of low-budget, high-concept filmmaking.
Killer Condom | Staff Picks
In the seedy underbelly of midtown Manhattan, the male patrons of the Hotel Quickie are getting their genitals bitten off by a carnivorous condom. Ace detective Luigi Mackeroni, assigned to the case, is skeptical–until he finds himself maimed by one of the man-eating prophylactics. As an army of ravenous rubbers besieges the Big Apple, Mackeroni must find a way to contracept the escalating emasculation epidemic.
We Can’t Go Home Again
Made with his students in upstate New York, Nicholas Ray's experimental masterpiece embodies the director’s practice of filmmaking as a communal way of life, featuring Ray variously as mentor, friend, and index to his students' stories of love, rebellion, and lost innocence. Reconstructed and restored from its 1973 release, the film's unique, almost anthropological approach to multiple-image storytelling, records the history, progress, manners, and mores of everyday life at a critical moment in 1970s America.
In a Lonely Place | 35mm print!
When a washed-up screenwriter with a hair-trigger temper (Humphrey Bogart) becomes prime suspect in a Tinseltown murder, his only alibi is a seductive neighbor (Gloria Grahame) with her own troubled past. Nicholas Ray's emotionally charged thriller is a turbulent mix of suspense-wracked noir and devastating melodrama. An uncompromising tale of two people desperate to love in spite of their demons, one of the greatest films of the 1950s and a benchmark in the career of the legendary Hollywood auteur.
Minamata Mandala
Filmed over fifteen years, this six-hour epic by documentarian Kazuo Hara chronicles the history of struggle for a fishing community suffering from a debilitating neurological disease caused by industrial methylmercury contamination of fish as they wage a decades-long battle for legal recognition and government reparations. A deeply humanizing portrait of the survivors, care providers, researchers, and their supporters, and a comprehensive chronicle of one of the worst environmental tragedies in human history.
Alisi Telengut | Experimental Tuesdays
Alisi Telengut is a Canadian animator and academic of Mongolian roots living between Berlin and Montréal/Tiohtià:ke who uses mixed media, oil pastels, sand, stones, crystals, and found materials in her research into human-nature relationships, animistic worldviews, materiality, and the knowledge-ways of indigenous Mongolians.