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Milwaukee Premiere! In the wake of a scandal involving several of her students, Jeonim, an artist and lecturer at a women's university, asks her actor-director uncle, recently blacklisted after a scandal of his own, to step in to direct a …
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Milwaukee Premiere! A famous actress, having stepped back from her career after marriage and a subsequent divorce, returns to the profession with a role in an independent film. As the film’s release approaches, she takes part in a series of … |
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If you are curious about screen printing but not sure where to begin, or want to perfect your technique, this class is for you! Participants will first learn how to create a suitable design, then create their screen. Finally, participants … |
3 events,
Are you curious to try out the pottery wheel? Join us for five weeks to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of wheel throwing and clay! Between classes, participants will have access to the studio space to practice and work through … 
Step back in time and discover a vintage photography technique from the 1840s! In this workshop, you’ll work with a light-sensitive solution to create stunning, blue-toned images. By arranging objects on the surface and exposing them to light, you’ll craft unique, one-of-a-kind prints that …
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Free For Everyone! Director in Attendance! TCB: The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing is a biography of the influential writer, filmmaker, and cultural worker, who with humor and deep insight, inspired a generation of artists to dedicate themselves to … |
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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 … |
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Learn basic techniques of surface decoration on ceramic forms! This course will cover underglaze techniques such as stenciling, shaving cream swirl, and Mishima inlay, as well as overglazing processes such as dripping, brushing, and marbling. We will dive right in, …
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Are you stuck in the middle of a knitting or crochet project and need some help with technique or pattern reading? Bring your questions to the help desk and consult our knitting and crochet teacher, Jeannie Baker (an actual old lady who has knitted and crocheted … |
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Interested in learning the foundations of crochet? Granny squares are a great place to build or hone skills in fiber art! Individual squares can be displayed or combined to create larger objects like scarves, blankets, or clothing pieces! Join us for …
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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 …
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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 … |
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Join UWMPD, K9 Ezmae, and SHAW staff for ribbon making and the opportunity to write notes of courage for survivors of domestic violence.
If you are curious about screen printing but not sure where to begin, or want to perfect your technique, this class is for you! Participants will first learn how to create a suitable design, then create their screen. Finally, participants … |
5 events,
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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 …
Are you curious to try out the pottery wheel? Join us for five weeks to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of wheel throwing and clay! Between classes, participants will have access to the studio space to practice and work through …
Step back in time and discover a vintage photography technique from the 1840s! In this workshop, you’ll work with a light-sensitive solution to create stunning, blue-toned images. By arranging objects on the surface and exposing them to light, you’ll craft unique, one-of-a-kind prints that … |
4 events,
Common Ground explores the possibilities of working with natural materials, bringing together artists whose practices engage with these mediums. The featured works demonstrate the diverse ways artists transform raw materials into objects of beauty, meaning, and innovation. Each work reflects …
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Celebrate the Fall season by making some autumn crafts and relaxing alongside our dog friends from Wag More Wednesday. 
Gain or expand your sewing skills in this introduction course! Our sewing specialist Beth will break down the basics, guiding you step-by-step through operating a sewing machine. Students will walk away with a complete patchwork piece, and confidence with techniques and terminology to continue their sewing journey with ease!
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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 … |
3 events,
Learn basic techniques of surface decoration on ceramic forms! This course will cover underglaze techniques such as stenciling, shaving cream swirl, and Mishima inlay, as well as overglazing processes such as dripping, brushing, and marbling. We will dive right in, …
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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) |
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Common Ground explores the possibilities of working with natural materials, bringing together artists whose practices engage with these mediums. The featured works demonstrate the diverse ways artists transform raw materials into objects of beauty, meaning, and innovation.
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Winner of Sundance's Grand Jury Prize, Tom Noonan’s directorial debut is a darkly humorous take on the dread of dating. Featuring powerhouse performances by Noonan and Karen Sillas as two lonely hearts spending one claustrophobic Friday night together, the film exposes with startling clarity the ways in which people struggle to connect, as relevant now as ever.
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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. |
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Milwaukee-born filmmaker James Benning's austere personal history of the USA from 1954 to 1976, told through an amalgamation of his Hank Aaron card collection with the scrolling scrawl of would-be Nixon assassin Arthur Bremer's diaries. Benning describes the film as an homage to his own coming-of-age, combining his love of baseball with interests in American history, politics, and popular culture to achieve a formally complex and aesthetically challenging take on the American Dream.
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“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. |
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Please join us in the Student Union Concourse for our Artist Fair. Individual students, Student Orgs, and local artists will be showing their wares like pottery, jewelry, prints, greeting cards, and so much more. Please contact us at the Craft Centre if you’re interested in vending.
If you are curious about screen printing but not sure where to begin, or want to perfect your technique, this class is for you! Participants will first learn how to create a suitable design, then create their screen. Finally, participants … |
3 events,
In this 5-week course, you'll explore the essentials of three fundamental hand-building techniques: pinch, slab, and coil. Throughout the class, you'll create multiple functional and decorative pieces: rustic mugs, jewelry dishes, textured coasters, trinket boxes, and large fruit bowls. This course is perfect for all experience levels, whether you're a beginner or looking to expand your ceramic skills!
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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. |
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Gain or expand your sewing skills in this introduction course! Our sewing specialist Beth will break down the basics, guiding you step-by-step through operating a sewing machine. Students will walk away with a complete patchwork piece, and confidence with techniques and terminology to continue their sewing journey with ease! 
In this workshop, you will learn how to score, cut, foil, solder, and assemble your own stained-glass motif. Class participants will choose their own colors for a sunrise pattern which they will be able to then assemble to make a hanging piece.
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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. |
5 events,
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Interested in learning the foundations of crochet? Granny squares are a great place to build or hone skills in fiber art! Individual squares can be displayed or combined to create larger objects like scarves, blankets, or clothing pieces! Join us for this one-night course, to learn the basics, including successfully selecting yarn, reading a pattern, planning your project, and creating foundation stitches! Fiber arts like crochet and knitting are a great tool to manage stress and anxiety and an even greater way to meet people while engaging in a fun communal activity. 
Explore the creative possibilities of collagraph printmaking by building a textured printing plate from everyday materials such as cardboard, fabric, lace, leaves, and other found objects. Over two sessions, participants will design, ink, and print their unique plates while experimenting with this sustainable and versatile printmaking technique. Whether creating abstract or representational imagery, everyone will leave with a collection of original prints ready to display and share.
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Interested in learning the foundations of crochet? Granny squares are a great place to build or hone skills in fiber art! Individual squares can be displayed or combined to create larger objects like scarves, blankets, or clothing pieces! Join us for this one-night course, to learn the basics, including successfully selecting yarn, reading a pattern, planning your project, and creating foundation stitches! Fiber arts like crochet and knitting are a great tool to manage stress and anxiety and an even greater way to meet people while engaging in a fun communal activity. |
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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. 
Scandal 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. |
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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.
Scandal 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. |
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2 events,
If you are curious about screen printing but not sure where to begin, or want to perfect your technique, this class is for you! Participants will first learn how to create a suitable design, then create their screen. Finally, participants … |
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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. |
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Touching of Process gives students the opportunity to touch and work with natural materials such as wood, clay, handmade paper, and fibers. Working together with artists featured in our current exhibit, Common Ground, participants will complete hands on activities with some take home elements....
Gain or expand your sewing skills in this introduction course! Our sewing specialist Beth will break down the basics, guiding you step-by-step through operating a sewing machine. Students will walk away with a complete patchwork piece, and confidence with techniques and terminology to continue their sewing journey with ease!
In this workshop, you will learn how to score, cut, foil, solder, and assemble your own stained-glass motif. Class participants will choose their own colors for a sunrise pattern which they will be able to then assemble to make a hanging piece. |
4 events,
This two-night class provides a great introduction for the brand-new knitter, or an opportunity to get back into the groove after a hiatus! We'll focus on foundational technical skills and how to read a pattern. Learning from an experienced teacher in a community setting offers many benefits: the chance to ask questions in real time, receive feedback, and see your peers' work! Skills gained in this short course can accelerate progress towards more complex fiber projects!
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Join our moonlit night of magic and charm at Sapphic Sadie Hawkins. This event celebrates queer women, lesbians, nonbinary sapphics, and anyone who finds community in sapphic spaces. Enjoy a night of dancing, snacks, and tarot card reading!
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
4 events,
Do you need help with last minute costume alterations? Come on down to the Studio Arts and Craft Centre to get some help from our friendly SACC staff! Feel free to drop in throughout the week, or schedule an appointment for more detailed help by emailing craftctr@uwm.edu...
Are you curious to try out the pottery wheel? Join us for five weeks to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of wheel throwing and clay! Between classes, participants will have access to the studio space to practice and work through their 25-pound bag of clay. We’ll cover the basics: centering, pulling walls, trimming, and glazing!
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Looking for something to do this Halloweek? Join Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. for an evening of film, fellowship, and Halloween entertainment featuring Jordan Peele’s psychological horror film, Get Out. Take a break from classes and come enjoy a movie night with fellow UWM students as we experience one of the most memorable horror films of recent years. Get Out combines suspense, mystery, social commentary, and unexpected twists to create a movie experience that will keep you engaged from beginning to end. Whether you’ve seen Get Out before or you’re watching it for the first time, this is an opportunity... |
5 events,
Are you curious to try out the pottery wheel? Join us for five weeks to familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of wheel throwing and clay! Between classes, participants will have access to the studio space to practice and work through their 25-pound bag of clay. We’ll cover the basics: centering, pulling walls, trimming, and glazing! 
Are you interested in film photography? All skill levels are welcome for this hands-on black and white film photography workshop! We will cover the entire process from how to use a camera all the way to film development and printing! Participants will be provided with the materials needed, including cameras, film, paper, etc. and get full access to the studio space and step-by-step instruction!
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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. |
3 events,
Gain or expand your sewing skills in this introduction course! Our sewing specialist Beth will break down the basics, guiding you step-by-step through operating a sewing machine. Students will walk away with a complete patchwork piece, and confidence with techniques and terminology to continue their sewing journey with ease! |
5 events,
This two-night class provides a great introduction for the brand-new knitter, or an opportunity to get back into the groove after a hiatus! We'll focus on foundational technical skills and how to read a pattern. Learning from an experienced teacher in a community setting offers many benefits: the chance to ask questions in real time, receive feedback, and see your peers' work! Skills gained in this short course can accelerate progress towards more complex fiber projects!
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Stop by for short demos, individualized advice from our Ceramics Technicians, or to chat with other Craft Centre ceramicists! RSVP in advance through our website or just drop in!
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Two sisters embark on an epic quest for revenge, confronting a charged family history that will push them to extraordinary lengths. |
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Matsuoka, a culinary instructor, witnesses the suicide of a student driven to insanity by what he claims is a chiming sound that controls his mind. Soon, Matsuoka begins hearing it, too, descending into a mental abyss that warps his perception and gives vent to his darkest impulses. Expertly blending psychological portraiture and hallucinatory mystery, Kiyoshi Kurosawa interrogates the stability of everyday existence in a signature cinematic exegesis of escalating dread.
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At the end of the Second World War, Grace Stewart (Nicole Kidman) and her two children live an isolated existence behind the locked doors and drawn curtains of a secluded mansion in the Channel Islands. The sudden arrival of her apparently shell-shocked husband and a coterie of mysterious new servants raise Grace’s suspicions that there is more to the house than meets the eye. |
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Czech animator Jan Švankmajer's masterpiece, ingeniously combining animation with live action, remains true to the absurdity of Lewis Carroll's book but bears the distinctive stamp of Švankmajer's obsessions, bringing a Cold War strangeness to bear on this timeless tale of children and their far-from-canny daydreams.
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Jozef boards a ghostly train via a forgotten branch line to visit his dying father at a remote Galician sanatorium. Upon arrival, he finds the hospital under the dubious helm of Doctor Gotard, who claims his father’s death has not yet occurred because the the sanatorium lags indeterminately behind the world outside. The imagination of the Brothers Quay floats between sleep and waking; time and events here cannot be measured by daylight means. Followed by Christopher Nolan's 2015 behind-the-scenes documentary, Quay, on 35mm! |
