Join us at the Union Cinema on Thursday, October 2nd at 7pm. This film is the earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili. The Sealed Soil chronicles a young woman’s resistance to her forced marriage, …
The Department of Film, Video, Animation and New Genres at UWM is home to a celebrated group of faculty and staff whose creative work spans disciplines, genres, and modes of production. They are not only exceptional educators but also accomplished artists whose films have screened at festivals, museums, and galleries around the world. This special program is a chance to experience the breadth and vitality of their work. Expect drama, documentary, comedy, experimental film, animation, appropriation, and, of course, the unexpected. Many of the artists (your teachers!) will be in attendance.
Join us at the Union Cinema on Friday, October 3rd at 6:00pm and Saturday, October 4th at 7:00pm for a screening of Cloud! This film is a stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa, concerning Yoshii, an ambitious, yet directionless, …
From director Jessica Sarah Rinland, Collective Monologue follows a community of zoos and animal rescue centers across Argentina. Beyond its fascinating portrayal of interspecies care, this film features remarkable 16mm footage that examines social and historical issues like labor, gender, and colonial conquest over the natural world. Be sure to pick up a Union Cinema calendar to see what films we’re showing this month!
On 35mm!! Join us at the Union Cinema on Friday, October 3rd at 8:30pm and Saturday, October 4th at 5pm to see a screening of The Hidden! This film follows an L.A. cop who teams up with an FBI agent. …
Spectres of the Spectrum is a feature-length 16mm film utilizing old ‘kinescopes’ (filmed records of early TV broadcasts before the advent of videotape, mostly from the late Fifties’ educational show called ‘Science in Action’) to create an eerie, haunted “media-archaeology” zone for a sci-fi time-travel tale, wherein live-action actors search for a hidden electromagnetic secret to save the planet from a futuristic war-machine, inspired by HAARP the High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.
Albert Serra’s Afternoons of Solitude is a spellbinding documentary that turns its gaze on the ceremonial splendor and devastating brutality of bullfighting in Spain. With quiet intensity, Serra follows famed matador Andrés Roca Rey, from the solitude of his hotel …
Staff Picks!! A teen discovers his neighbor is a vampire, and when all of his friends and family disregard his claims out of hand, he’s forced to hire an actor who appeared in numerous horror films to help him protect …
Craig Baldwin’s “pseudo-pseudo-documentary” presents a factual chronicle of US intervention in Latin America in the form of the ultimate far-right conspiracy theory, combining covert action, environmental catastrophe, space aliens, cattle mutilations, killer bees, religious prophecy, doomsday diatribes, and just about every other crackpot theory broadcast through the dentures of the modern paranoiac.
Staff Picks!! Four people go ghost hunting in an old mansion that is supposedly haunted, and they slowly begin to discover the horrific tales about the place may hold more truth than skeptics thought. Robert Wise, USA, 1963, English, 112 …
