Student Affairs Events and Activities

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • 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 …

  • The Falling Sky | Milwaukee Premiere

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

    The Yanomami people, relatively isolated in the Brazilian Amazon until the 1970s dictatorship opened their lands to extraction, hold a time-worn funeral rite said to hold up the sky against those who would tear it down, and to galvanize themselves …

  • Obsession | New Release!

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

    After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic learns that desire’s fulfillment comes at the highest price. (Curry Barker, 2026, USA, 108 mins, Blu-ray)

  • Trainspotting | 30th Anniversary Restoration

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

    An adrenaline shot to the heart of British cinema, Danny Boyle’s darkly comic breakthrough relates the life and times of live-wire Scottish heroin addict Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor) and his misfit mates, who get high, get in trouble, get clean, and get high again, all in a heroic bid to outrun the banality of modern existence. Cut to an iconic soundtrack of Nineties techno, rock, and Brit-pop, the restoration of this cult classic chooses life again in all its ugly, beautiful, terrifying exultation.

  • Eight Bridges | Milwaukee Premiere

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

    “It seems to be the time to consider bridges.” James Benning’s latest exercise in looking and listening centers on meeting points between built and natural worlds, ranging from the cinematic (San Francisco’s Golden Gate) to the historical (Selma’s Edmund Pettus) to the self-referential (North Dakota’s Hi-Line Railroad). Its rich sound and painterly compositions seize variously on the passing of clouds, the flowing of water, and the churn of commuters to link physical manifestations of the American project with contemporary flows of people and capital.

  • The Ceremonial Technologies of Karthik Pandian

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

    Born on the ancestral territory of Tongva peoples in what is now known as Southern California in 1981, Karthik Pandian is a conductor of energy, son of healers who landed in the Bronx region of Turtle Island in 1972, and grandson of Tamil Nadars who survived invasion, migration, and caste discrimination to see the end of British imperialism in India.

  • Surrendur

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

    Surrendur transmits the stories of Mike Forcia (Bad River Anishinaabe), who orchestrated the 2020 toppling of a Christopher Columbus monument in Minnesota, and Ta Pe'juta Wičháȟpi Win (Hunkpati Dakota Oyate), whose political consciousness was awakened while dancing around the fallen statue with her daughter.

  • 16mm Student Showcase

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

    Join us for a showcase of exemplary student-made films born out of the various 16mm classes in the Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres: a celebration of the diverse creative approaches, from experimental photochemistry to sync-sound narrative, of the talented young filmmakers working to keep celluloid alive.

  • Narrative | Milwaukee premiere!

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

    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.