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Portia Cobb & The Community Media Project
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin us for two nights celebrating the legendary Portia Cobb, for whom spring 2026 marked the end of a long tenure as Professor at the Peck School of the Arts Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres. Cobb's interdisciplinary practice as an artist and filmmaker is rooted in stories that reflect the double-consciousness of African American history, identity, memory, and forced forgetting, finding form in video, photographic essay, field recording, ephemeral installation, and site-specific performance. Tuesday evening's screening will focus on Professor Cobb's radical work, while Wednesday's will feature an in-depth archival look, in discussion with UWM archivist Shiraz...
Portia Cobb & The Community Media Project
UWM Student Union (UN) 2200 East Kenwood Blvd., Milwaukee, WI, United StatesJoin us for two nights celebrating the legendary Portia Cobb, for whom spring 2026 marked the end of a long tenure as Professor at the Peck School of the Arts Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres. Cobb's interdisciplinary practice as an artist and filmmaker is rooted in stories that reflect the double-consciousness of African American history, identity, memory, and forced forgetting, finding form in video, photographic essay, field recording, ephemeral installation, and site-specific performance. Tuesday evening's screening will focus on Professor Cobb's radical work, while Wednesday's will feature an in-depth archival look, in discussion with UWM archivist Shiraz...
Clue
Here is the murderously funny movie based on the world-famous Clue board game. Was it Colonel Mustard in the study with a gun? Miss Scarlet in the billiard room with the rope? Or was it Wadsworth the butler? Meet all the notorious suspects and discover all their foul play things. You'll love their dastardly doings as the bodies and the laughs pile up before your eyes. Co-sponsored Campus Activities Board...
Get Out
When a young Black man (Daniel Kaluuya) visits his white girlfriend’s family estate in upstate New York in Jordan Peele's contemporary classic horror-thriller, he becomes ensnared in the true, more sinister reason for his invitation....
Batang West Side
New restoration! Investigating the murder of the young Hanzel, Jersey City police detective Juan Mijares plumbs the depths of the Filipino youth gangs who trade in shabu (crystal meth). Talking to Hanzel's mother, remarried to an American; his grandfather, an ex-soldier; and his American-born girlfriend, bigger questions emerge: what dark history has pushed so many Filipinos to migrate to this wintry land? Lav Diaz’s sole film shot in the U.S. does not shy away from the power of cumulative answers, revealed intricately over the course of an epic runtime and the Dostoyevskian hallmarks of the Filipino master....
Senior Screenings
sJoin us in celebrating the class of fall 2026 and their fantastic films! Seniors work all year writing, producing, editing, and polishing short films of their own design. Join the Union Cinema and Student Involvement an hour and a half before the screenings for drinks, snacks, and gold carpet photos. Dress up, schmooze a little, and enjoy the amazing creative work of UWM’s student filmmakers from our nationally recognized Department of Film, Video, Animation, and New Genres. For full schedule please visit: https://uwm.edu/arts/event/senior-screenings/...